Goose, meet gander.

Pravda on the Hudson weighs in.

But Michelle Malkin, one of the bloggers who have strongly criticized the Frosts, insisted Republicans should hold their ground and not pull punches. “The bottom line here is that this family has considerable assets,” Ms. Malkin wrote in an e-mail message. “Maryland’s S-chip program does not means-test. The refusal to do assets tests on federal health insurance programs is why federal entitlements are exploding and government keeps expanding. If Republicans don’t have the guts to hold the line, they deserve to lose their seats.” As for accusations that bloggers were unfairly attacking a 12-year-old, Ms. Malkin wrote on her blog, “If you don’t want questions, don’t foist these children onto the public stage.”

Tim Grieve, over at Salon, asks the Malkin Brigade to answer this question:  If the Frosts, with their income of $44.5K are so rich that they could afford private health insurance, why did Tony Snow have to quit the White House, on his salary of $168K per year?

When Snow announced in August that he was leaving his job as White House press secretary, he said he was doing so because he "ran out of money." Snow made $168,000 at the White House and presumably received health insurance as a federal employee. Snow said that he'd made "more money" in his "previous career" working for Fox News, and that he didn't want to dip into what he'd managed to put away before coming to the White House just so that he could keep working there. "I made the decision not to say to my wife and kids, 'You know, we've finally saved up all this money and done these things, and you're just going to have to give them away so Daddy can work at the White House,'" Snow explained. "We took out a loan when I came to the White House, and that loan is now gone. So I'm going to have to pay the bills."

So Michelle, what's your recommendation to Tony Snow?  Sell the McMansion, put the kids in public schools?  Downsize from the Mercedes SUV to a used Chevy Blazer?  Liquidate all of your assets so you can finish your chemotherapy regimen?

Keep talkin', Malkin.  Here's to hoping that you and your army of the undead will bury yourselves for good with this one. 

Attacking a 12 year-old kid.  Unfuckingbelievable.

UPDATE:  Oh, they do love them some evil, don't they?  From the Baltimore Sun, quoting a RedState commenter:

"Hang 'em. Publically," the contributor wrote. "Let 'em twist in the wind and be eaten by ravens. Then maybe the bunch of socialist patsies will think twice."

How much you want to bet this fuckwit is suckling on the government teat?  Or better yet, still living at home, a family "dependent." 

[h/t Eschaton commenter Steve LG for the Grieve quote; attaturk for the Baltimore Sun tip]

Comments

[geor3ge]

I heart watertiger snark.

[shrimplate]

What Malkin and others are really saying is "fuck the middle class."

A lot of us might take that personally.

[Gummo]

Is there such a thing as a national illness?

'Cause I've run out of explanations for the hate oozing from these people.

[Whispers]

Yes, hang 'em. Then they'll think twice!

The second thought will be "I cannot believe I am being hanged by a mob of fascist nutcases", but it will be a second thought.

[queek]

There's a gallows pole in hell with Michelle Malkin's name on it. Hopefully she'll be claiming it before she does much more damage!

[four legs good]

Hang'em, eh?

Nice.

Guess it'll be okay if we do the same to them, right? Maybe they'll think twice before being such assholes.

[sister of ye]

Michelle Malkin - someone with all the compassion of Lady Macbeth, without the charm.

[PaleoPat]

The cute part is how I was attacked... I said it on my blog and I'll say it here. I wasn't defending SCHIP, not at all, I was defending that families right to privacy. That's why I put malkin's real address, Phone number and Arial picture of her house on my blog. I removed it after a reporter for the Baltimore Sun asked me to kill it, because they were doing a story on Malkin.

If Malkin wants to try painting me as moonbat, fine. I'll just paint her as the right wing fascist that she is.

[leslie]

What kind of people are so filled with such hatred of fellow human beings that they would wish them to be denied either health or shelter - or both.

There are no words to describe the evil in Malkin and her followers.

Burning them at the stake would insult the stakes.

[wa ching]

Unforgivable.

[raceynora]

"Hang 'em. Publically," the contributor wrote." Clearly a graduate of a nice public school funded by OUR tax $!

[pansypoo]

snow didn't get guvt insurance?

[markg8]

Back to the Issue: President Bush encouraged 9 states to cover not only kids but poor adults too, mostly poor parents under SCHIP when Republicans controlled congress. Now he’s cynically playing politics trying to look fiscally “responsible” by scuttling the whole program now that Dems are in charge. That won’t happen but it will cost Illinois alone an extra $75 million to push these adults into Medicaid according to the Chicago Tribune, by far a more expensive program to both Illinois and federal taxpayers than SCHIP.

That makes no financial sense at all. But then our whole hodge podge healthcare system which is twice as expensive as most other countries in the world doesn't either. Hopefully it will make no political sense either when the American people kick the Republican party to the curb next year.

[kate]

This whole thing reminds me of when I had to quit my job and go on welfare in the 90's. I was a mother of three children. I had divorced a deadbeat asshat who abused my kids to boot before I got control of the situation. At that time, the Rethuglicans were beating the same drum about welfare reform. Although my low-wage job didn't offer health insurance and didn't cover basic living costs (I was borrowing left and right to survive), somehow I was supposed to hang onto that, let my kids suffer (one with a hernia, another needing glasses and all three needing some serious mental health services) and let them roam the streets while I gave my life to corporate America.

Fuck them I said. I quit, got my kids fixed, put myself through school and now all three are good kids, tax payers and also enrollees in higher ed (grants and financial aid for which the screamers want to defund as well). I also run a small business, albeit with no health insurance.

I used to lobby for more support for families in need. My biggest premise? Do you want to pay say, $15,000 per family now, or $40,000 per family member later when the kids end up in prison, with minimal education, more teen pregnancies and drug addiction due to lack of family supervision? What's cheaper? Do the math you idiots!

I have concluded that they will only be happy until the majority in this country are starving, desperate, ignorant slaves to the corpotacracy, with no union representation, no worker's rights, no minimum wage, no OSHA, NOTHING.

They are theocratic fascists in need of a submissive, beaten population from which to feed.

[kate]

Also might I add that the gov. vigorously pursued my ex for child support (only after I had gotten on the dole mind you -- even though such enforcement might have kept me solvent prior) and took every dime for "payback" for services. They took from my kids while still in need because the beast had to be fed.

Do we get to have Boeing, Raytheon, Blackwater and others payback our tax dollars when all is finished?