Greg Sargent reports:
So the Republican message resonates with voters — people fear that health care reform will further bankrupt the country and that the effect of the reform will be to put bureaucrats and politicians, rather than doctors, in charge of health care decisions. On the other hand, people also hate insurance companies. So the Democrats have decided that rather than address the fears of voters, perhaps by explaining why those fears are unfounded (would if they could?), they will simply stoke populist resentment toward insurance companies. It’s the kind of strategy that liberals and reporters go bananas about when exploited by Republicans. Salon has a piece today comparing Sarah Palin and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who “both are populists who claim to represent the little people against wily and unscrupulous elites.” Yet when Nancy Pelosi send her caucus home to tell voters that insurance companies are the “villains” — well, don’t expect a piece in Salon comparing Pelosi to Hugo Chavez.
