Another round of GOP healthcare spin

A letter to the editor of The Marietta Times somehow got past what passes for an editor in that quaint little town Ohio-West Virginia border. In this mediocre example of sophomoric writing Mr. Ross passionately starts off with the following paragraph:

The Speaker of the House said recently "You've heard about the (health care) bill ... we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." That has to be the stupidest political statement ever. Congress is being asked to pass one of the most significant changes in American domestic policy without knowing what is in it while they are hoodwinked.

Now I'm totally with him in that Nancy Pelosi was a real idiot to use that specific language, though obviously for a different reason. My problem is that her quote allows the bat-shit partisans on the right to use it as more fuel for their accusations of a lack of transparency.

Anyone who reads her words as an admission of some evil government plot to "take over healthcare" has simply deluded themselves to the point of automatically believing all the nonsensical political spin, propaganda, and conspiracy theories. Sadly, these abound everywhere political discourse is found these days, and due to the fervor into which asshats in conservative radio whip such imbecils, spreads over into non-political discussion.

Weapon stockpilers, xenophobes and tax evaders, please remember! The first rule of conspiracy theories is that the truth must be decoded from non-obvious documentation stored on unlikely historical artifacts, not seen unencrypted C-SPAN. The second rule is that the secret group running the world does not make silly mistakes, which is exactly what the Speaker clearly recently did.