Here's Some Stupid For Lunch

Nutball neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson is still out there on the Great Grift Trail, pitching his book, flirting with running for president, and flirting even more vigorously with the very fringes of sanity. Dr. Ben would like to revise and extend his remarks concerning the Affordable Care Act.

The conservative darling was promoting his new book One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future when he agreed to speak to the Beast's Evan Gahr, who asked, "You said Obamacare was the worst thing since slavery. Why do you think it was worse than 9/11?" "Because 9/11 is an isolated incident," Carson replied.

It gets better. You knew it would.

Carson: "Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift." Me: "Right. But what do you think caused specific families more pain-Obamacare or Osama?" Carson: "You have to take a long term." Me: "You're not answering the question." Carson: "Will you listen? You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America. You have to be someone who reads. Who is well-read. I want you to go back tonight and pull out what Saul Alinsky says about health care under the control of the government."

(You will note the sudden reappearance in Our National Dialogue of Armstrong Williams, the disgraced public-relations 'ho for the previous administration. It is impossible to get fired from the job of Being A Wingnut.)

Actually, I would maintain that an awful lot of the changes wrought in the aftermath of 9/11 -- torture, warrantless wiretapping, the Patriot Act, a pre-emptive war in Iraq based on obvious lies and run off the books, 4000-odd American dead -- "fundamentally changed the power structure of America" a helluva lot more than the Medicaid expansion has. Please run, Dr. Ben. Baby Jeebus is my amigo and he says it's OK by him.

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