Broder Parrots the Obama Straw Man

I've written in this blog many times before about my irritation with the President's use of straw man arguments--as in "we need health care reform, and we need it now, not like those Republicans who say we shouldn't do anything". Who are these Republicans that want no reform of the health care system? He doesn't identify them. Because no prominent Republican was saying that.

So now we have Bill Frist, Ahhhnold, and Tommy Thompson---Republicans all (well, sort of) --quoted by the President's supporters as being in favor of "health care reform". What form this reform takes is left unspecified, yet Broder assures us that, "...all have urged their party to back reform, rather than settle for the status quo."

Again--no Republican of note wants the status quo. They want market based reforms. They want to end the tie between work and healthcare. They want to bring the patient and doctor back into the healthcare equation. But they don't want to do "nothing".