Rove Rises to Lie Again

And you thought that you were rid of Karl Rove.

The architect of the most disastrous presidency in modern American history offered his analysis of Sen. Hillary Clinton's health care plan on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal this morning. It's just one more example of his Goebbels-like tendencies:

As the latest government-heavy plan announced by Hillary Clinton yesterday once again shows, the answers politicians offer on health care highlight the deep differences between liberals and conservatives. . . Liberals see the concerns of families as a failure of private insurance, and want the U.S. to move toward a government-run, single-payer model. This is a recipe for making problems worse. Socialized medicine inevitably leads to poor quality, inefficiency, rising taxes and rationing. The waiting lines and poor care that cause people from other countries to come here for treatment are not the answer.

Did you see a single line in her proposal -- not to mention the proposals of the other leading Democratic candidates -- that endorses a single-payer health care plan (not that some of us wouldn't want it to)? Highlights: tax credits for low-income individuals to buy private plans; tax credits for small businesses to provide private plans; relying primarily on private plans to cover the uninsured; and, yes, more government regulation, but only to make sure that, uh-huh, private plans don't engage in so-called adverse selection, where they refuse to cover people with pre-existing conditions or who are clearly marked for long-term ill-health (smokes or the obese, for instance).

I noted that the quotes from Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani also attacked her plan as "government-run."

With so many thoughtful conservatives engaged in the health care debate (Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation, for instance), why does precious space get allocated to the failed Mayberry Machiavelli?