It's just shocking that it's happening so soon. Sen. Chuck Grassley is sending e-mails trumpeting a component of the health-care reform bill he ultimately voted against.
'The health-care legislation signed into law yesterday includes provisions Grassley co-authored to impose standards for the tax exemption of charitable hospitals for the first time,' he said. 'The provisions enacted in the new health-care law are the result of Grassley's leadership on tax-exempt organizations' accountability and transparency, including hospitals.'
Yes, that's Grassley taking credit for the health-care bill. The same bill that some of his Republican colleagues say they want to repeal. The same bill that 13 Republican attorneys general say is unconstitutional.
So, while Sen. John Ensign is busy showing cartoons of Trojan horses on the Senate floor during the vote-o-rama on the health-care bill's fixes, the rest are secretly gearing up to take credit for the reform they know will ultimately be popular. The annoying part is the extent to which angry voters scared of change believe the nonsense.
-- Monica Potts
