A blogger for liberal activist group Campaign for America's
Future has equated those opposed to passing health care
legislation that includes a government-run plan to Holocaust
deniers.
In a long, rambling post titled "Birthers = Health Care Deniers,"
blogger Brian Dockstader
writes:
Let me preface this by explaining my rationale for labeling
opponents of health care reform "health care deniers". I call
them deniers, in much the same vein as global warming deniers
and Holocaust deniers, and for the very same reason. These
people deny that we have a health care problem. They deny this
in the face of all facts. They choose blindness, they deny, to
further their own self-interested agenda. And to add a second
definition of denier--these people not only deny the problem,
but in doing so they also seek to deny us a
solution. Their denial is pathological, and it
is toxic to having an intellectually honest debate about health
care reform.
During the rest of his rant, Dockstader makes a desperate attempt
to connect those opposed to liberal health care policies to
people who don't believe Obama is a U.S. citizen.
Campaign for America's Future has played a key role in pushing
Congress to pass a health care bill that includes a
government-run plan modeled after Medicare, and it is a founding
member of the liberal Health
Care for America Now coalition.
