Introducing the anti-health care SpokesModel

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Katy Abram.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and my opinion is that Ms. Abram is a bobblehead who has no grasp of what is really happening here, and is simply vomiting up whatever limited information she's managed to absorb from those around her, who are simply vomiting up whatever limited information they've managed to absorb from FauxNews.

She's tired of all these programs being funded by her and her family. Which programs, Katy? Things like, you know...education? Immunizations? Medicare? Social security? City, state, and national parks? Infrastructure maintenance? Snow removal? County and state health departments? The CDC? The FDA? The NIH? The DOD? Are those the programs you're talking about?

When asked if her family's income is above that $250,000 per year level, the level at which the President says he'll raise taxes, she laughs and says, "I don't even know," that her husband pays all the bills. Ken pays our bills, too, but I still have a pretty good idea of what we're taking in.

She says that their health care plan is their choice, and they have a $5000 deductible. It's really great that you and your family have that choice, Katy, and I'm betting that there are people out there that would dearly love to be able to afford such health care. But they can't. Our friend Raquel had a neat idea: let's limit attendance at these town hall meetings to those who don't have insurance because they can’t afford it. I suspect that would change the game a little, wouldn't it?

When asked if her parents are on Medicare, she says not yet, but they soon will be. She says, "We don't talk politics." That isn't about politics, Katy. That's about the difficult choices that everyone has to make as they get older. I do talk politics with my parents, and we've also talked about health care. I know that they don't have to worry about it, because Dad was in the military for 35 years, and has great coverage because of that. He and Mom get health care via (dare I say it?) TriCare and the Veteran's Administration. Those are programs run by the government, Katy. Would you like my parents to be denied that care? Would you like your parents to be denied Medicare? They are all government programs, after all, ones not laid out by our founding fathers. You seem to be against anything that wasn't specified in the original documents that established our country. I wonder if you or anyone you know might be adversely affected by such actions?

When asked about her lack of interest in politics prior to this, Katy laughs and says, "Honestly, I didn't really care." She then goes on a nonsensical ramble about war, and about how it seems like it's a constant thing, and maybe it was going on before the first Gulf War, but she doesn't really know. Huh?

When faced with hard questions about Medicare and Social Security, and whether or not those should be discontinued because they are socialist in nature (and they are), as well as not in line with what was written in the initial documents that defined our country and set our policy, she is like a deer caught in the headlights.

For anyone who thinks I'm a big meanie for picking on Ms. Abram, or that Lawrence O'Donnell is a big meanie for picking on her, all I can say is that Ms. Abram made a choice to go on the show. If she watched a little more news, she might have realized what a stupid mistake it was to accept an offer to appear on "Hardball." If this is the opposition, I think they need to do some homework. Her arguments are inchoate and obviously not well thought out. She seems to have fallen prey to that “government is bad” mentality, all the while ignoring the numerous taxpayer-funded agencies that defend us, care for us, do their best to keep us healthy, and try to keep us moving, whether we're driving on an interstate highway (preferably a back road) or hiking the Appalachian trail, and I'm not talking about the way Mark Sanford does it!

For the most part, I'm seeing nebulous opposition, a sort of generic I-hate-the-government attitude. I will leave it to others to speculate as to why this is happening, and they already are. In the meantime, if someone like Katy Abram is the voice of those who are "ticked off," as she put it, they need to find a new SpokesModel. This one is not very convincing, and is certainly not eloquent.