The Denver Post today endorsed Willard M. Romeny for Republicans and Hillary Clinton for Democrats. Saying that Clinton is "better prepared and the most qualified candidate to lead America" this Diary isn't about HRC.
It's about the Plastic Man and how the Denver Post (a notoriously right wing paper) doesn't even read its' own paper.
Here are some excerpts from the Post's endorsement of St Willard.
Republicans have weeded a diverse and talented field of presidential candidates down to two finalists and a beguiling but quirky pair of also-rans, Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul.
Talented field? See, I told you the Post was right wing. Beguiling and quirky also rans? One wants to create a theological government and the other wants no government. What's so beguiling about that?
As a governor of Massachusetts, a skilled businessman and the savior of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Romney possesses the executive acumen necessary to implement policies that produce results. Wouldn't that be a strange change in Washington?
Oh, a slam on President Mini-me. After seven years of criminality, how courageous of the Post.
Washington Republicans have strayed far from the fiscal conservatism their party has traditionally championed. So while we applaud McCain's stand against wasteful spending, we're even more impressed with Romney's real-world experience in running lean budgets and bringing financial competency to companies.
Um, guys, what part of Romney's business "experience" did you fail to understand? He wasn't a businessman, he was head of an arbitrage firm, Bain Capital, whose only interest was in finding ways to increase stock prices. In order to do so, Plastic Fantastic Man destroyed businesses and shipped jobs overseas, in addition to firing the entire work force of companies, only to hire them back at lower wages.
But the best is yet to come.
But the best example of Romney's ability to create the type of bipartisan solutions so desperately needed inside the Beltway is his health care record. Romney forged a plan with Democrats in the Massachusetts legislature to help insure as many as 400,000 citizens while still preserving market competition and choice.
Um, excuse me again, but don't the editors of the Denver Post READ THEIR OWN FREAKIN' NEWSPAPER? Well, obviously not.
From Page 1, Section C of the Post, from the same day the Post endorsed St Willard.
Massachusetts instituted an individual mandate a year ago, and health-policy experts there are still arguing about the effectiveness of a program that has served as a model for reform in other states.
Nearly 300,000 previously uninsured people signed up for a coverage plan in Massachusetts - more than half of the state's uninsured in 2006, according to state data.
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Still, health insurers in Massachusetts are poised to increase the cost of plans by an average of 10 percent next year - several times higher than the rate of inflation of about 2.6 percent.
It already costs $680 to $1,600 per month for a family of four to purchase health insurance through the state's new "Commonwealth Connector..."
David Himmelstein, a doctor at Cambridge Hospital and a Harvard Medical School associate professor, said the price of insurance is becoming unaffordable.
Massachusett's reform plan "is beginning to fall apart already," said Himmelstein...
Would that be because the state's plan left for-profit insurance companies, with their approximately 31% overhead expense, in charge?
The state is $147 million in the hole on the program, and to balance the budget, there's talk of cutting coverage for people on the low-cost plans, or doubling or even tripling co-payments...
So, let's see, there were about 600,000 uninsured in Massachusetts, St Willards' plan covered about half of those and, after only one year, it is already $147 million in the hole. There are approximately 47 million uninsured in the US. You do the math, my calculator doesn't have that many places.
Most of the state's once-uninsured people who are now covered were already eligible for state help, he said. "Basically, it's been a big expansion of Medicaid" Himmelstein said. "For the rest, it's not working at all."
So the idiots at the Denver Post endorse the phoniest of the phonies of Republicans, and the most important point they make about his "Executive Experience" is a Massachusetts health care plan that is failing.
Way to go guys, I'm really impressed.