According to liberals, conservatives’ desire to repeal Obamacare constitutes a mental disorder, not a legitimate policy disagreement.
It doesn’t help that the media points it out every single opportunity it gets, either.
The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent claimed in a recent article that the Congressional Republicans’ threat to oppose a continuing budget resolution that includes Obamacare funding is “driven by pathological anti-Obamacare animus.”
His colleague Ezra Klein believes that the GOP is on a “kamikaze” mission to stop Obamacare and “have taken themselves hostage. They’re threatening to hurt themselves and their states and their voters and their most committed activists.”
The Atlantic’s Garance Franke-Ruta takes President Obama’s phrase “ideological fixation,” wrestles the GOP onto her psychoanalyst’s couch, and lectures, “In 19th-century psychology, the idée fixe was understood as a close relative of monomania and obsessive-compulsion, often accompanied by symptoms of hysteria such as amnesia or anesthesia, the inability to feel… The idée fixe, as such, was a neurotic symptom.”
If opposition to Obamacare is an actual disorder, will Obamacare pay to treat it?
Meanwhile, Washington Post reporters David Fahrenthold and Ed O’Keefe wrote “Doing the same thing over and over again — and expecting a different result — is supposed to be the definition of insanity,” in reference to the House’s numerous votes to repeal or defund the law. Forward Progressives huffed, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That about sums up House Republicans.” PJ Media’s Rick Moran also labeled those interested in defunding Obamacare “nutty” and “crazy” and their quest “madness.”
At least liberals have moved on from claiming Obamacare opposition is driven by racism! That constitutes some sort of psychological progress, I guess.
Since we’re playing armchair psychiatrist, how about the following diagnoses of prominent left-wingers?
Compulsive lying – President Barack Obama: “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period.”
Avoidant personality disorder – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), when asked where the Constitution authorizes Obamacare’s individual mandate: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”
Delusional jealousy – Montana Sen. Max Baucus (D): “[T]he wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy… This legislation will have the effect of addressing that mal-distribution of income.”
Paranoid personality disorder – Obama: “There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform… If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to [email protected].”
Narcissistic personality disorder – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.): “Now that the legislation passed… people are so nice to me… We have people coming, sending me notes in church. ‘I have a disabled daughter. Thank you very much for taking care of her.’”
ADHD – Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D) on Obamacare repeal: “Can you tell me what’s more unconstitutional than taking away from the people of America their Fifth Amendment rights, their Fourteenth Amendment rights, and the right to equal protection under the law?”
The ideological home of Occupy Wall Street, the Weather Underground, Obama cell phone woman and Anthony Weiner are lecturing us on which party suffers from greater mental unbalance. Is that really a direction liberals want the national conversation to go in?
