MSNBC: UK loves the royal baby because GOP economic policy has failed

If you're a citizen of the United Kingdom, the odds are you're excited about the birth of His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge. Not content to simply let the UK be a happy, proud nation, MSNBC wants you to know that the patriotism you're experiencing is the fault of Republicans in the United States. Specifically, it can be attributed to the "failed economic policies" of Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy.

If you don't see the oh-so-obvious connection, we'll explain. MSNBC's Martin Bashir thinks that Brits are far more wrapped up in the royal birth than they normally would be. This is because the UK government has embarked on a supposedly destructive austerity program that - in Bahsir's mind - is ripped directly from the Ryan/McCarthy playbook. In short, GOP-esque policies have made the British people so miserable that they're looking for anything to lift their spirits. As Bashir puts it:

"Everything that they espouse about economic theory applied in a recession has been applied in the United Kingdom. And what we've had in the United Kingdom is a near triple-dip recession. Part of the fascination with the royal baby has been because people have been so depressed by the economic circumstances in the United Kingdom that they've been looking up for some light relief."

Bashir went on to complain that America's economic woes would have been solved long ago, if only the GOP would let Barack Obama do what "he would have liked to have done." the MSNBC host failed to mention what, exactly, Obama wants to accomplish that he couldn't achieve when Democrats controlled the White House and both Houses of Congress. Bashir also managed to tie the miniscule US budget sequester into his rant, before insinuating that, had Prince George been born in America, he'd probably be dead.

"In this country, we've had such a contentious fight over the Affordable Care Act and I was interested in looking at the facts about infant mortality in this country. The United States has one of the worst levels of infant mortality in the developed world. And to a large extent, that's because women don't have sufficient maternity care cover."

Of course, he neglected to mention that the Royal infant was born in a pricy private section of one of England's best hospitals. There, the royals received care that was far superior to the standard, sub-standard, HHS care afforded to the nation's "normal" populace. That's good news for the royal family, since a June 15th edition of the Telegraph indicated that HHS childbirth can be quite the nightmare. Many hospitals are over-capacity, maternity wards are turning women away, and laboring mothers have been forced to travel as much as 65 miles in order to find a facility with a vacancy.

Units in some trusts are closing every other day as staff shortages and a lack of available beds prevent them from admitting new patients. With wards closing for periods of up to three days at a time, data obtained by The Telegraph suggests more than 1,700 women have been turned away over the past two years. Patients who went into labour faced the daunting decision of travelling up to 65 miles to the nearest ward with an available bed, or giving birth at home.

We're sure none of the facts actually matter to anyone at MSNBC, but it's still amazing to see just how far the left will go to politicize virtually anything if it believes it can be used to attack a Republican. As for England, you've been placed on notice. MSNBC says your jubilation is an unwarranted side-effect of GOP policy. So knock it off.

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