Friday, June 29, 2012

Health Care Dissent: Here's What The Conservative Wing Wanted To Happen


This quote from Frum's "Did Scalia Scare Off Roberts?" The Daily Beast piece distills the thought process of Right Wing Ideologues to its essence:



"What was written was not measured judicial analysis, but rather an opinion that started with a goal --- throw the bill out --- and then figured out how to get there, blowing by any precedent in its path."



This in particular:



"..an opinion that started with a goal --- throw the bill out --- and then figured out how to get there ..."



What Right Wing Ideologues engage in is Sophistry. They come up with the conclusion they wish ... i.e. to Repeal Obamacare ... and then they fabricate dubious arguments out of whole-cloth to reach their conclusion. We see Sophistry employed by the Right Wing Ideologues all the time. When they manufacture myths like President Obama being born in Kenya, it is through Sophistry that they support their opinion ... not fact.



The Supreme Court should be the one place in the US Government where Sophistry is barred, but as the four Conservative dissenters to the ACA ruling shows ... Sophistry seems to define their reasoning process.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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