Just this past week The Community Organizer told Republicans that they needed to stop frightening the American people. Yeah .. it's those evil Republicans who are trying to scare people. But wait! Who was it attacking Joe Lieberman yesterday? Lieberman, you see, will not support a health care bill with an early buy-in for Medicare or the government option. The early Medicare buy-in is, of course, the ultimate government option. So ... the reaction of the left? Yesterday Ezra Klein in the Washington Post said that Joe Lieberman was willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people to settle an old political score. Yup .. Joe Lieberman is a killer.

The left is getting desperate. This "hundreds of thousands of people" dying shows just how desperate. How did the statists come up with that number? Glad you asked. I just happen to have the answer. Well .. .Michelle Malkin actually did the work here, I'm just going to summarize it for you:

1. A health survey is conducted between 1988 and 1994. A questionnaire is given to 9000 people. They are asked if they were insured and then asked to rate the state of their own health.
2. The Centers for Disease Control tracks the deaths of any of these 9000 people through the year 2000.
3. Along come two Doctors names Himmelstein and Woolhandler. These two are strong proponents of a single-payer government health insurance program. Himmelstein is the co-founder of a group called "Physicians for a National Health Program." Woolhandler is also a co-founder. The group is dedicated to "implementing a single-payer national health program.
4. Himmelstein and Woolhandler decide to take the data from the CDC study and use it to write a study for the American Journal of Public Health. That study was published last December.
5. When writing their article for the AJPH Himmelstein and Woolhandler decide that every single person in the study group that initially reported that they did not have health insurance did, in fact, die because they weren't insured.
6. No verification was ever made that the study who said they weren't insured were not, in fact, insured.
7. No attempt was made to discover whether or not these people actually got health insurance before they died.
8. No attempt was made to determine whether or not the deaths of these people could be attributed to a lack of treatment due to their uninsured status.
9. To make this simple ... Himmelstein and Woolhandler just assumed that if one of these people reported between 1988 and 1994 that they were uninsured, and if they then died by the end of 2000, the only reason they could have died was because they were uninsured.

This, my friends, is the "science" that these power-mad Democrats use to justify their desperate attempts to take over our health care system. The real problem here is that there is no way in hell the ObamaMedia is going to tell their readers what the health care takeover proponents are doing. You won't see this explanation in the pages of the Washington Post or the New York Times. You won't see this shoddy research exposed on any of the broadcast news networks. What you did see was Michelle Malkin discussing this on the hated Fox News Channel.

And you wonder why the looters and moochers hate Fox?