The most stupid political observation I've read this campaign season belongs to Nashville City Paper editor Clint Brewer. He actually believes Gov. Bredesen -- the man who has gutted TennCare -- could be considered by an Obama White House as a health care czar.
That's like saying Britney Spears and her sister would be perfect to head the Y's abstinence program.
Obama has been campaigning on bringing health care to more people, not take it away and cause deaths as Bredesen did in the summer and fall of 2005 with his unnecessary TennCare cuts on the most vulnerable.
Yet Bredesen at the same time did make TennCare coverage available to Hurricane Katrina victims to show he knew where he could score political points. I wrote about a Memphis woman -- a good, senior-citizen church elder -- who had cooked one afternoon for the victims.
She collapsed and died the next morning from heart failure. Bredesen had cut her and others off from getting affordable prescriptions. Because she could not afford the refill immediately and her pharmacy was across town, she was not taking her heart medicine. So for Brewer, such is the stuff of a health care czar in an Obama administration.
Brewer is part of a league of Midstate people, particularly journalists with columns, who continue to ignore the truth that Emperor Phil the First has no clothes. He has no record whatsoever to be considered as Obama's health czar or in any standing nationally with Democrats. His record and disregard for the most vulnerable are well known.
Just because Bredesen can make big-project deals easily with other millionaires and billionaires -- to the detriment of the taxpayers -- does not make him smart. It just makes him generous to his own kind, which he prefers particularly over people who are hurting.
It's a shame that people such as Brewer have a forum to spread their gross ignorance. If Bredesen should be Obama's health czar, then Brewer should win the Pulitzer Prize.
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