Just when you thought the loons couldn't get any loonier:
Transcript:
CAVUTO: Chinese using [President Obama’s] visit today, asking the President how he plans to pay for this trillion dollar health care plan. They own eight hundred billion bucks of our debt, which conveniently would be about the cost of the plan. Should that have the president thinking twice about rushing into this if it’s ticking off our biggest investors. With us now, the chairwoman of keepamericasafe.com, Liz Cheney. Liz, what do you make of this lecture from the Chinese?
CHENEY: Well, I think on this issue they have a legitimate concern. I think that many Americans have the same concern, which is that at a time when our economy is clearly struggling for the President to be putting in place massive new spending programs including this massive health reform program he’s proposed is really irresponsible.
Cavuto’s question was based on this completely unsourced blog entry by Reuters, so it’s not clear that China actually raised the concerns that he claimed. But even if they did, why in the world would Liz Cheney think we should listen to what China has to say about health care reform?
Since when did "listen to China" become a neocon talking point? Who in the world would imagine conservatives would tell us to let Chinese communists dictate how we should run our health care system. Sure, China’s abysmal track record on worker safety is the envy of coal mine owners everywhere, but isn’t "let China decide" a bridge too far even for Liz Cheney?
And aren’t these the same people who just yesterday were freaking out about Obama bowing while meeting the Emperor of Japan? So that’s a problem, but giving China the keys to our health care policy is A-OK? Aren’t these the guys that are supposed to be concerned about national sovereignty? Seriously, what the hell is going on here?
They’ve lost their minds, that’s what.