Senator Lindsey Graham admits — that his passion for the Graham-Cassidy health-murder bill was based on ignorance — and now he laughs about it — WTF?

© 2017 Peter Free

 

28 September 2017

 

 

Demonstrating how moronically callous these Republican Party enemies of humanity are

 

. . . comes this (about Senator Lindsey Graham) from The Intercept:

 

 

Now that it has fizzled out, the lead author of the measure, known as the Graham-Cassidy bill [see here], has an admission to make: He had no clue what he was doing.

 

But now that it’s over, the old Graham is back and more than willing to laugh at how improbable it was that a national-security expert briefly held the national limelight as a supposed health-policy wonk.

 

A reporter pointed out that such ignorance at this late stage is itself hard to understand. “You’ve been working to overhaul this for seven years. Why is this so hard?” she asked.

 

“Well, I’ve been doing it for about a month. I thought everybody else knew what the hell they were talking about, but apparently not,” Graham clarified, adding he had assumed “these really smart people will figure it out.”

 

The crash-course in health policy has been a romp, Graham said. “I’ve enjoyed this more than anything."

 

© 2017 Ryan Grim and Aída Chávez, Lindsey Graham on ObamaCare Repeal: I had no idea what I was doing, The Intercept (27 September 2017) (excerpts)

 

 

The moral? — That's American government for you

 

A bunch of pillaging narcissists feeding on the public's aching flesh.

 

Who could have known that competent governance requires a combination of substantive knowledge and analytically principled thinking?