Every last Republican politician should be asked the following questions:

Question: Do you oppose socialized medicine?

Probable Answer: Yes.

Question: Then you favor shutting down Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veterans Health Administration.

Probable Answer: No!

Question: You can’t have it both ways. Medicare, Medicaid, and the VHA are all socialized medicine. If you oppose socialized medicine, then you oppose those three programs. So, you either support government-run health care–in which you should support the “Public Option”–or you oppose it–in which case you must state your opposition to Medicare, Medicaid, and the VHA.

Probable Answer: [any number of variations on bald-faced lies, squirming out of answering, changing the subject, etc.]

Any self-respecting journalist would have to ask this question. Too bad we have a Liberal Media™ in which Republican politicians are allowed this flagrant, hypocritical inconsistency, while Democrats are grilled on “euthanizing grandma.”

Damn Liberal Media™!