Yesterday, Carl Paladino, a Buffalo millionaire who would like to be governor, raised some eyebrows yesterday when he basically compared health care reform to 9/11, saying, "The day that bill was passed will be remembered just as 9/11 was remembered in history" and "I fear the results of Obamacare will be so horrific that it will kill more Americans through deteriorating health care than were lost on 9-11." But Paladino wants you to know, "I didn't compare [the bill to 9/11]. I said we'll remember like we remember other days that are significant days in our lives and that's the game they'll play. They'll try to pull that stuff out. If they think that's outrageous, wait until they hear the rest of me."
Okay, here's the rest: After Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-Manhattan) criticized the remarks—"Every decent person should be disgusted by Carl Paladino’s comparison of the recently enacted health care reform bill with the attacks of 9/11"— the Republican fired off a letter to him, "Your statement drips with the pomposity and arrogance we have come to expect from our rotten ruling class, so busy clawing for campaign contributions they can’t find the time to understand the bill. I am not impressed that you kissed enough asses to chair a committee of politicians in the Congress, and the fact that you are Chairman of a House Judiciary subcommittee hardly means you are an authority on the Constitutionality of the Obamacare law."
Paladino also said of powerful Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan), "I'm gonna try like hell to send Sheldon Silver to Attica and on the way, we're gonna have him stop in all those little communities on the thruway and let those people beat him up."
