Bob Dole Helps Promote Socialist Health Care Reform

Jonathan Cohn of The New Republic reports:

The last time most of us saw Bob Dole talking about health care was 1994, when he was burying the Clinton health care plan on behalf of his fellow Republican Senators. On Thursday, Dole came back to the Senate and back to the health care debate. But this time his agenda was different.

Dole was there to introduce Tom Daschle, whom President-Elect Barack Obama has tapped as his Secretary of Health and Human Services. Assuming the Senate confirms Daschle as expected, his number-one job will be to spearhead the Obama administration's own reform effort--an initiative that, much like Clinton's more than a decade ago, seeks to transform medical care and make insurance affordable for all. Far from attacking this effort, Dole lavished praise upon it--and upon the man Obama tapped to lead it. "I can testify to the American people ... about Tom's integrity and fairness," Dole said, adding that Daschle's appointment suggested a real opportunity for "constructive, bipartisan action on health care."

Great moments in socialism.