If you’ve been following all this, you know that Joe made a “for want of a nail a kingdom was lost” argument alleging that when Mitt’s company, Bain Capital, shut down the steelmill that employed him, it set off a chain of events that led to his wife dying of cancer because she had no health insurance.
If you think that’s a bad argument for holding Mitt responsible for murder, well, I’d agree with you. But if you think it’s a good argument for universal health care, well, I’d agree with you again. Apparently, the Romney campaign agreed with me, and defended Mitt by pointing out that he had implemented universal health care in Massachusetts as governor.
Well, that is true, but it also conflicts, just a little, with Mitt’s “what’s good for Massachusetts is terrible for the rest of America” argument regarding the evils of ObamaCare. And it conflicts, a lot, with the recent right-wing discovery that universal health care is the work of Satan. Apparently, the juggernaut of free enterprise runs more smoothly when an occasional innocent victim is crushed beneath its wheels. Who knew?
