Health Care Reform: White House Needs to Report Itself

This is the advice on the official White House blog, contained in a post entitled “Facts are Stubborn Things.” And, as the White House is no doubt finding out, so is ill-considered, foolish advice.

My guess is that flag@whitehouse.gov is already choked with countless reports of “fishiness” related to the proposed health reform package. But I’ll bet many of those reports aren’t exactly what the White House had in mind when it came up with this boneheaded idea (I’m talking about the email forwarding request, not the health reform bill, but only because “boneheaded” isn’t adequate to describe the mess of the latter).

If I was thinking about reporting “fishiness” to the White House, I’d probably email them the text of the bill itself, because no opinions or rumors or exaggerations could possibly match the scary reality of the bill itself.

Of course, now that you’ve read this, I suppose you’re obligated to report The Gazette’s “fishiness” to the White House. All I ask is that you please spell the name correctly.