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Nurse Pelosi Comes To Ground Zero
By Dan McLaughlin Posted in Democrats — Comments (3) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Nancy Pelosi is visiting Ground Zero today to promote...a health care bill. No, you couldn't make this up if you tried:
The speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, will meet with Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Spitzer today and tour the World Trade Center site on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The trip coincides with a new proposal, the 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, a bill to be introduced tomorrow in Congress that would provide comprehensive medical coverage and financial compensation to those who became ill after being exposed to dust at ground zero.
Now, I'm not necessarily opposed to compensating people, especially those who worked (formally or informally) for the government in clearing the site and got sick as a result. Although of course with any such bill creating a new spending entitlement there will be issues of how exactly the government will decide what sort of proof is required to tie illnesses or claimed illnesses to the site.
But it's so typical of the Democrats that they are most comfortable dealing with soldiers, cops, firemen, etc. when they can get away from endorsing anything they actually do and treat them solely as passive victims to be nursed by the federal government.
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The fact that Pelosi can go there and think to talk about anything but winning the war, shows she's still focused on domestic politics as usual.
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Your argument would sound better if she was pushing universal health care at GZ.
Providing care to those who got sick while helping with the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks is not an example of "pre-9/11" thinking, by definition.