Fox's Chris Wallace Crushes Mitch McConnell On Health Care Reform (With Update)

I'll bet you McConnell didn't see this coming:
 

Excellent interview. It demonstrates beyond any doubt that the GOP has no interest in providing health insurance to the 30 million Americans currently uninsured, and that is why the radical right is so pissed off at Obama right now.

ObamaCare, although not perfect, is a step toward providing universal coverage, and the Republicans hate that.  Christ, they are still pissed off that we have such things as Social Security and Medicare in this country.

And speaking of FoxNews, Bill O'Reilly finally apologizes for being an idiot.  Better late than never, I guess.

UPDATE:  Hunter at Daily Kos makes this point better than I ever could, so here it is:

It is not Chief Justice John Roberts' fault that he did not get the memo that government forcing people to hand over money to private insurance companies or pay a tax penalty for not doing so is now not a conservative idea, but a fount of liberalism and evil. When he was nominated, that idea was the conservative stance on healthcare. Hell, it was considered the "conservative" approach even by the likes of Newt Gingrich, and was eventually put into practice by none other than the severely conservative Mitt Romney. Choosing the devoutly corporatist approach would seem a perfectly reasonable conservative opinion, in any other circumstance but this one; you can forgive Roberts for being a bit flummoxed as to what is being expected of him. * * *

So fine, Roberts is now getting plastered for ostentatious liberalism, and all because he didn't realize that conservatism dictates that even deeply conservative ideas are bad if there's a bit of partisan gain to be had in saying so. In every other case, he toed the conservative line, but this one was the important one, so now he's a pariah. Now he's even a liberal.

It demonstrates quite a few things, I think. It demonstrates how yesterday's conservatives can become tomorrow's supposed "liberals," in the eyes of the conservative movement. It demonstrates the flip-flopping required of conservative intellectuals in order to retain favor with a party for whom consistency is readily tossed aside according to whatever election-year needs might gain more advantage.* * *

I oftentimes wonder what would have happened had Mitt Romney won the 2008 Republican nomination and then won the presidency. He obviously would have advocated that RomneyCare be enacted on the national level, but would the Republican Party have backed him up on that?

I think he would have had universal GOP backing because (1) he's a Republican, (2) he's a white guy, and (3) the Individual Mandate is a fucking Republican idea.  And the Republican Party would have done a much better job at selling it.