Harrumph from Harrop

Froma Harrop is my all time favorite liberal columnist. She writes well, but it seems to me that she never has any understanding of the subject she is discussing. Her columns are like living talking points from the DNC; they never fail to make me laugh. Her latest effort is no exception. According to Harrop, the Democrats are too busy listening to Republican criticisms of Democratic accomplishments; they are being cowed into silence about their major successes. Harrop points to the silence on Obamacare from the Democrat candidates. She says that the “health care reforms guarantee access to medical care, will slow spending that is bankrupting the nation and should reduce future deficits, to boot.” Apparently, Harrop did not get the memo which reveals that Obamacare will actually cost close to a net of half a trillion dollars in the first decade even if one ignores the slowing effect of the law on the economy. She also seems to have missed the dramatic rise in health insurance premiums that is driving many people to give up their now unaffordable coverage—all due to Obamacare. Indeed, it is giving rise to a new statistic for obamacare: uninsured saved or created.

Harrop wants the Democrats to get energized and go out on the hustings to promote all of the great legislation that they have passed. My guess is that even in Providence, that campaign strategy would insure defeat. The last thing that Democrats should be doing is reminding people of the disaster that they have wrought during the last two years.

I do take my hat off to Froma for her ideological consistency. She has never met a leftist position that she does not like, and she seems sure that the whole country likes them as well. Keep up the good work Froma.