When the fox advises the chickens to unlock the hen house, no one really blames the fox. He’s hungry and they’re plump and juicy. If they’re also gullible, he’ll enjoy some nice poultry.
But while one hesitates to blame the victims, it would raise questions about the chickens’ judgment if they accepted the fox’s advice and invited him up for coffee.
Such were my thoughts when I read some remarks by Democrat Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia. He scolded Republicans who may not rush to back new legislation by Democrats seeking areas of ObamaCare where costs might be trimmed.
“I think there is going to be a debate in the Republican Party on whether they should waste all their energy on repeal or make an effort to do something on cost containment,” Sen. Warner told The Associated Press. The AP article itself had this now-they-tell-us headline: “Health care law’s unfinished business: curb costs.”
But wait a second! That was supposed to be the business of ObamaCare. We were sold this Martian real estate on the promise that lower cost is exactly what it would achieve. Now it’s on the books and we’re told that bending the cost curve remains “unfinished business”? That’s like a statute against armed robbery never quite getting around to the part about armed robbery.