Thursday, Congressman Chris Murphy, sensing that the people of the Fifth District want no part of his nationalized health care plan, offered to dump his gold-plated taxpayer financed medical coverageif Obamacare is passed. He made this grand gesture before a scrubbed crowd of AFSME Council 4 retirees – hardly a group in danger of losing its health care or to offer a critical word.

It’s a nice side step for Murphy, but it is merely a distraction. Following his  condescending op-ed in the Hartford Courant, where he implored order at town hall meetings and a refrain from emotional outbursts, the voters see a slippery one.

Murphy is big on issuing half-baked polemics with pedestrian hyperbole. He speaks in broad strokes to not offend. Murphy is one of those very skilled politicians that throws out lines like “something needs to be done,” or “we need to come together,” or “our country can’t sustain these skyrocketing costs.” 

Thursday, he offered a new one, “everyone should have some scratch in the game.”  Murphy also took the Left’s populist line about how the insurance industry, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies are the real problems, by “over-charging” for their goods and services. Tell that to some from The Hartford who has a 6,000-square-foot home in Farmington and has lost a job.

Now that the facts are catching up with President Obama and the Pelosi’s legions, better for Murphy to look magnanimous by opting out of the Congressional plan. But that is only if Obamacare passes! For the moment, he enjoys the best health care taxpayers can buy.

Give Congressman Joe Courtney, CT-2, credit. he never took the Congressional coverage until universal coverage was the law. Courtney is wrong on the issue, by sincere in his beliefs.