In fairness, that’s not what he does at all. There are some people (on both sides) who do that. Bricker at no point either defended the job killing health care bill title or said that Democrats had proposed bills with equally idiotic titles. Instead he did something more subtle, which is that he asked if the OPer would be equally outraged if a Democrat proposed such a bill. This does several clever things:
(a) it strongly implies that Democrats do and have proposed such bills without having to actually outright state such (which would of course open him up to being called on it)
(b) it puts the OPer on the defensive… now for your thread to continue you have to prove that you’re not a hypocrite. Which is very hard to do
(c) it tends to totally derail the thread entirely, until the original complaint is lost and forgotten
Absolutely agreed.
Perhaps we should move this thread from the BBQ pit to the Huggie-love-fest-pit.