SPEAKER PELOSI REBUTS SEN. MITCH MC CONNELL IN DEFAMING HEALTH CARE REFORM

I want to commend Speaker Nancy Pelosi for objecting to Sen. Mitch Mc Connell's silly but low arguments against the Democrats' health care reform bill.

James Rowley and Lorraine Woellert write in today's Bloomberg web page:

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ridiculed criticism by Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell of Democrats’ health-care plans, saying he’s echoing an insurance industry which makes “exorbitant profits” at the expense of Americans’ well being.

"The speaker said McConnell’s comment yesterday that the Democrats’ plan “means sticking it to seniors with cuts to Medicare” isn’t true."

It's really amazing to see what the Republicans like McConnell will do or say in their effort to stop a health care reform bill.

But remember, the Republicans have been trying to thwart important social legislation for at least the last 80 years. The Republicans called Social Security retirement income "socialistic," they said that Medicare was "socialized medicine," and now the Republicans call the health care reform bill that tries to extend health insurance to the 40+ million uninsured Americans an example of "socialism."