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Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names
17.01.2011 - 14:26

Will RepubliCONS stop lying? Well, at least, will they stop lying about 2 or 3 things???? I know it's impossible for them to stop completely.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/16/AR2011011603150.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

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May I suggest in the warmest way possible that it would be an
excellent start to a new era if opponents of the law would acknowledge
that at no point did any version of the proposed reform include "death
panels"?

The sensible idea on which this incendiary phrase was falsely based
once had Republican as well as Democratic support and sought only to
make it possible for those with life-threatening illnesses to get good
information from their doctors - if patients wanted it - on the
various treatment paths open to them. Really, nothing in the
health-care debate was more destructive to honest discussion than the
"death panels" charge. Can we at least put that behind us?

As The Post reported, the Republicans plan to argue "that Obama's
health-care promises - including that the legislation would lower
insurance costs and help spur job creation - have not materialized."
Could they at least acknowledge that the law isn't even fully in
effect yet?

And perhaps they should explain why it's fair to hold the 10-month-old
health-care law to this standard while they insist on continuing the
Bush tax cuts, which, after a decade, still haven't produced the jobs
they were supposed to create. Please note that I could have described
the impact of the Bush tax cuts less charitably.
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