Barney Frank and the healthcare debate

My friend Stessa sent me a link to part of this town hall meeting. I hadn't seen the full video before - his response to a woman who asked why he was supporting this Nazi style healthcare plan is all over the news, but it's only the first part (where he asks what planet she lives on) and the last part (where he talks about a dining room table), but they never show the part in the middle where he notes how offensive and uninformed she is. It comes across very differently when you see the whole thing.

This debate is infuriating and bizarre. I saw CNBC's Maria Bartiromo on Morning Joe this morning say something like "The American people have made it clear that they don't want the government taking over healthcare." And I thought, "Huh?" She's a respected business journalist, but what the hell? We haven't even had a conversation about that. We've talked about a lot of things that aren't a part of this legislation, like euthanasia, and "the American people" seem pretty opposed to that. But we sure haven't had any rational discussion of the pros and cons of the actual proposed reforms. Every day it just gets more surreal.