The challenge is picking just one per day.

Finally! Somebody who has it all figured out!  All those extreme right wingers (59% of the country must be extreme right, according to some polls) oppose health care reform because they don’t like women, gays, Jews, and black people.

Well, Charles Blow, you can add name-calling to your sham list intended to distract people from the real issues* that have 59% of Americans opposed to health care reform as passed by Washington.  You are today’s Idiot of the Day.

*Real issues included below as a footnote, to keep the Chuck Blow’s of the world from losing focus on the bigotry, racism, and misogyny that they would prefer to debate, since most Americans (of all political parties) can agree with them that these things are wrong.

1. Our broken national budget, which this reform will only serve to further impair
2. The law forces all Americans to purchase a product, which is a chilling precedent.  Maybe the government won’t require everyone to buy GM cars at some point, but what’s to say they couldn’t, if this bill is legitimate?
3. The back room deals and partisanship required to make this happen.  There’s a reason the bill is 2000+ pages long, and it’s not because health care reform is a complex issue.  It’s because when you are picking winners and losers, it takes a lot of paper to make clear exactly who you are going to screw, and who you will give their money to.
4. Why did we have to “pass the bill so that [we] can find out what is in it“?  Congressional roulette?  Was the bill so long and difficult to read that even the members of Congress couldn’t make sense of it, so they decided to let everyone else sort it out?
5. The inevitable government imposed limitations on who and what will be covered in order to control costs and benefit political agendas.  Abortion coverage – out; tanning taxes – in.  Smoking?  Give it some time.  Maybe once our President isn’t a smoker, we can ban that too.  It’s got to be at least as bad for you as tanning.