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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (11663)11/22/2009 2:07:51 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
The R's might have lost something long term because the whole party ends up looking as stupid and classless as the base.

Maybe. But it was an important issue and as you say, they were NOT going to be heard unless they they said something that got peoples' attention.

There has been far more lying by the Democrats than there has by the Republicans. Not that ANY lying serves to improve the debate, but the litany of lies that have been spewed by the Left during this debate is staggering.

The Death Panels distortion is bad perhaps. But it does have a basis in fact (as was pointed out on ABC's Sunday program, the Senate bill from last night DOES provide for government control of certain procedures). So, how far is THAT from "death panels" by another name? It may not be that far.

But when the Left comes claiming the bill won't cost money (or worse, that it save money), that it will be paid for by magically cutting costs they've never been able to cut before, that it will foster "competition" when in fact it will eliminate it, that medicare isn't being cut when it is, the list goes on.

It may be the Rs didn't appear to lie as much because they couldn't get their voice heard, I don't know. But it is disingenuous for anyone to claim the Ds weren't more outrageous in the misrepresentation.

From the outset all I wanted was an honest debate. The Ds are, IMO, responsible for that not happening.
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