PAUL KRUGMAN: Gold-Plated Indifference

George Bush is a goddamned idiot of the first degree, and if Congress falls for this stunt, they should all be run out of town on a rail!

Welcome to Pottersville: PAUL KRUGMAN: Gold-Plated Indifference:

President Bush’s Saturday radio address was devoted to health care, and officials have put out the word that the subject will be a major theme in tomorrow’s State of the Union address. Mr. Bush’s proposal won’t go anywhere. But it’s still worth looking at his remarks, because of what they say about him and his advisers.

On the radio, Mr. Bush suggested that we should “treat health insurance more like home ownership.” He went on to say that “the current tax code encourages home ownership by allowing you to deduct the interest on your mortgage from your taxes. We can reform the tax code, so that it provides a similar incentive for you to buy health insurance.”

Wow. Those are the words of someone with no sense of what it’s like to be uninsured.