GOP hypocrisy dulls appetite

It’s hard to stomach Republican hypocrisy lately as they trumpet about “fiscal responsibility” and deficits.

Right-wing hysteria over a public option in health care for those who cannot afford the high cost of profit-driven insurance is sickening and mean spirited.

What do they think people should do? Go without care? Go into debt? Go bankrupt? Die?

Republicans howl about those who would “send Granny to the government glue factory.” Yet it is their heartless policies that bankrupt families and cause thousands of unnecessary deaths each year.

Where were all the noisy “tea parties” when Bush plunged us into war in Iraq – a war that has drained both blood and treasure from the nation and left Iraq destroyed, with a million dead and 2 million refugees?

Evidently, going into debt for this sort of carnage is OK with Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and other “fiscal conservatives.” Spending for health care is not.

Over 70 percent of Americans favor a public option for affordable health care. It is the crassest, most cynical form of politics that drives Republicans on this issue: They don’t care about your health or mine; they simply want Obama to fail.

It’s enough to make a person, literally, sick.

Lynn Schott

Kettle Falls