The Latest Fiasco of the Repugnant Conservative

Today, the John McCain campaign has to throw another conservative under the bus. This time it was John Goodman, a guy who seemed to have served as an adviser on his health care proposal. Goodman's clever idea is that everybody "effectively" has health insurance because they have access to the emergency room.

Here's Goodman's "solution" to the problem of those who don't have health insurance (via Talking Points Memo)

"So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime," Mr. Goodman said. "The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American -- even illegal aliens -- as uninsured. Instead, the bureau should categorize people according to the likely source of payment should they need care. "So, there you have it. Voila! Problem solved."

What goes unstated in relation to these kinds of conservatives is just how repugnant and inhuman they are--the lack of concern for human suffering of any kind, the eagerness to cover up inconvenient facts, the smugness with which it's all done.

It's just disgusting.