Pillory Post

You can't make this stuff up.

   This blog doesn't have the space or the desire to document all the daily rantings and the loose relationship to fact -- alternative or otherwise -- coming out of the White House.
   The term "revisionist history" has taken on towering new dimensions in comments made by the current president. Whenever something goes amiss, his attack mode is to transfer blame to others, especially Democrats and his predecessor in the Oval Office.
   The most recent example is his attack on his predecessor for not doing something about the alleged Russian hacking of the U.S. election process, now that it has become a threat to his own presidency.
   Moreover, his evaluations of projects such as the new health care bill are bipolar daily, from high praise for the House version passed recently, to its meanness compared to the Senate attempt.
   Next will be an attack on the Congressional Budget Office, whose analysis of the Senate bill notes that an additional 22 million people will lose health insurance, bringing the total of uninsured Americans to 49 million in ten years.
   And rather than mandate that everyone get health insurance, with a subsidy to those who can't afford it, the Senate bill would "punish" those who don't sign up by banning them from the market for six months.
   Where's the sense in that? Those who are young and healthy often don't sign up anyway, figuring they don't need it, so why spend the money. Or is the new rule a threat -- sign up now or else we won't let you sign up later, and if you get sick in the meantime, that's just your tough luck.
   And after his repeated campaign promise that there will be no reduction in Medicaid, the health care assistance plan for those who need help, the proposed new plan would make sharp cuts in government subsidies to Medicaid, all the better to enable massive tax reductions for the wealthy.