Politics and Money

[Alex G]

Ear, nose and throat disorder
By Tom Toles

So Romney was off on his Pander Tour to show how ineptitude beats apologies every time. No wonder Mitt never apologies. If he ever started apologizing for every stupid thing he’s ever said, he’d never have time for anything else, like insulting people’s intelligence.

Speaking of which. In Israel, he fawns over how their Health Care system delivers better care at lower prices. He giggles like a middle school student who stumbles on the answer to the project the teacher assigned him. Ooooh! Lower prices and better care! Let me write that down! How do they do it? Health care is supposed to be a Romney specialty. One of his signature issues. And on and on he prattles about what in fact is a SOCIALIZED MEDICAL SYSTEM! Without, apparently even knowing! Or even being aware that this just might be, you know, a political boobytrap? Booby caught.

This reveals a man who is no longer serious. He didn’t bother to find out about the Israeli medical system because he doesn’t care. If he cared, he’d find out, and start advocating for national health care in the US along the lines of the system he was so blindly praising. But he won’t. Because he doesn’t consider it to be in his political interest to talk seriously about heath care policy. This is an illness in the US political system for which the seems to be no apparent cure.