It Took the Republicunts 8 Years To Come Up With This?

[Thumpalumpacus]

it's because this particular brand of foolishness will cost the lives of people.

So did the Iraq war but conservatards get a boner when the flag is waving.

You're right about their priorities -- if the life lost allows them to wrap themselves in the flag, it's noble. if the life lost is some nameless peon, meh, who cares?

Myself, I see Medicare as the doorway by which we might reach universal coverage, sharing the cost-burden. That's probably why the right is so dead-set against it.