Health care reform: Scarier than terrorism?

"We have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country," said Rep. Virginia Foxx, a Republican congresswoman from North Carolina, in a speech on the House floor today (article here).

It seems that the Republicans are getting crazier and crazier. I don't think Rep. Foxx fully understands the situation. Has she forgotten that on September 11, 2001, almost 3,000 people were killed by terrorists? After all, it was her own party (via the Bush administration) that installed the "terror threat level" meter.

But, perhaps her sentiments are just an extension of the fear mongering that her party has been involved in for years. The "terror threat level" meter mentioned above is one example under the Bush administration. Now, our Republican representatives in Congress are trying to scare us in to rejecting health care reform that everyone agrees is needed.

As a conservative-leaning moderate, I say that this has to stop. I, for one, can't say that I completely agree with any of the current health care bills in Congress. But, if I were a member of Congress, I would do things a bit differently. Instead of trying to scare the public into believing in "death panels" that will be created by the health care bills, why don't Republicans try to become part of the process for creating and revising these health care bills? Most Republicans representatives would probably agree that health care reform is needed, but not many have been willing put up any proposals for reform.

If Republicans don't stop being the party of fear, they are looking at letting the Democrats reign in congress for a while.