Great post.
First, I wasn’t aware that Hillary had a bus she calls “the Middle Class Express” - that’s amusing. Hillary seems to excel at patronizing the “little people”.
IMHO, if a family promotes itself as the dem poster child for government handouts, be prepared for scrutiny. The Baltimore Sun did originally ask for a copy of a tax return, but the Frosts’ refused. The Sun then dropped that part of the ongoing storyline, and as you’ve pointed out, did not provide documentation about some of the other statements made by the Frost family. Everyone makes choices, and to pretend that these choices are somehow limited or nonexistent is the true lie and manipulation.
What can I say, Baltimore is a democratic, corrupt city. Pelosi is from Baltimore. Her brother and father were both Mayor of Baltimore. The D’Allesandro family goes waaaay back.
Some of the pro-national healthcare bloggers get it a little bit, though.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/beta-testing-their-product-by-digby.html
One of the commenters on that thread said that for all the quoting of polls supporting SCHIP (the deceitful phrasing of the story that the issue is about getting rid of the program) “as long as the campaign (here on FR, MichelleMalkin, Rush) got people for a moment to focus on people at the higher end of the SCHIP support spectrum, it might have actually been an overall success.” This is true. I never thought about the SCHIP program before but now it bothers me. The Frosts make chumps of a lot of people who are out there working and being responsible.
One thing I don’t get about the reporting is how come the Frosts aren’t pressed on why they are still uninsured themselves. Having had the experience of high medical costs from an accident, why are they still leaving themselves unprotected? Walmart runs commercials that every one of their associates can get health insurance for something like a dollar a day. Get a job at Walmart. Both of them could get Walmart jobs.