Sarah Palin and several dozen super-patriots, all of whom show a lack of knowledge about American laws, culture, and history, declared that Obamacare was just like slavery.
Former Pa. Sen. Rick Santorum suggested there were parallels between Nelson Mandela fighting apartheid and he and the Tea Party fighting against Obamacare.
Maybe if politicians would stop trying to sound like some celebrities and act like the representatives of the people who elected them, they could raise their popularity to a level higher than a dead end on a muddy road.
[Walter Brasch is an award-winning journalist and the author of 18 books. His latest is Fracking Pennsylvania, an in-depth investigation of the economic, health, and environmental effects of fracking.]
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