Lou Dobbs on the O'Reilly factor

After watching three minutes of Lou Dobbs on the O'Reilly Factor tonight it became painfully obvious why so many Republicans hate Obama. The disdain and condescending tone with which Mr. Dobbs spoke of the President of the United States was shocking. If Fox News is your only news source be warned, not are you only not getting the whole story but many of the opinions you are being presented with as facts are inaccurate.

As an example Lou Dobbs blamed President Obama and the Health Care reform for the high cost of prescription drugs. Yes, the same bill that Eric Cantor railed against because it taxes for ten years while increasing coverage for six. The only problem is those six years of benefits have not started yet so any costs of drugs are thanks to the free market. Oddly enough there is a government program that is responsible for the high cost of drugs and that is patents. Thanks to patents the company that comes up with the drug can operate competition free which increases costs. Ask any Republican and they will tell you that competition controls costs. When challenged on this point Mr. Dobbs had the audacity to say "They are expensive to make". They are expensive to research and develop but they are NOT expensive to make.

So given that the Health Care reform bill is the reason for the high cost of medicine, what is Lou Dobbs' solution? A Conversation. He wants to repeal the bill and have a conversation between Americans to figure things out. Apparently when Lou was fired, he went into a comma, because in all of my life, there has never been a bill that had more conversation before passage, than the Health Care reform bill.

Also in case you were not aware, according to Lou, the US Government pays more for medical care than private insurance. I've never seen that information. But for the sake of argument lets say Lou is correct, well the Health Care reform bill has cost controls. Republicans acknowledge them, only, when it is Democrats that try to control the costs, Republicans yell "keep the government out of my Medicare" and then turn the cost controls into "rationing", "job killers", and "death panels".

Lou. Do me a favor. Next time you have an idea you would like to share with the class, make sure that you don't completely contradict yourself with each of your talking points.