We need to keep reminding voters why Republicans are against reform. They value the windfall profits of the insurance industry over the lives of actual human beings. I know Alan Grayson got into trouble with the MSM for stating as much, but these are the ethical bookends of this debate - profts vs human beings. I'm not sure what the hesitation is in framing the issue this starkly.

The Republicans can say anything they want. No facts are needed as the media does not challenge their inaccuracte statements. How will people know the truth? The one's that read the blogs only.

Am I the only one wondering why the lead WH spokesman wasn't able to counter Sen. Graham immediately after he made the statement? I thought it was Gregory's job to allow baseless spiu to go unchallenged, not the guy defending the administration's policies.

Add this to the ever-growing list of PR failures the Dems are responsible for .

Beat me to it Sharon!

"Am I the only one wondering why the lead WH spokesman wasn't able to counter Sen. Graham immediately after he made the statement?" Axelrod was no longer there. So Graham could say whatever he wanted without fear of contradiction.

Well, now that we know the bill is the same bill that a Republican passed in MA, can we talk about how to make it a lot better? If you ask anybody in MA about it, they will give you plenty of ideas to make it better.

To be fair in setting context about this issues themselves: there is a matter of principle that perhaps States should be doing such things instead of the Federal government. Hence one could argue that each State could try such things and still be against the Federal plan. This means "there exists" this argument as a game point, which is of course separate from either how good it is, or how sincere proponent X happens to be.

I support the health reform bill. But you edited out the part of Graham's statement where he seemed to complain about $500 billion in taxes.

Public statements never make sense if we simply omit the parts that make sense.

"Am I the only one wondering why the lead WH spokesman wasn't able to counter Sen. Graham immediately after he made the statement?"

Sure. Go on record that a supposed "historic progressive achievement" is really Romneycare. That'll work.

"Sure. Go on record that a supposed "historic progressive achievement" is really Romneycare. That'll work." - TJ

Yeah, except that he's now disavowing the program he helped create, so he's lost ownership rights on that one. That happens when you have no principles.

There is little doubt that omitting language from a statement changes the statment . If we omit patent nonsense from a statement it presumably becomes less sensless .
Republicans have been remarkably irresponsible as stewards of the public trust . When this jaded ear hears a familiar republican refrain fear mongering tax inceases in a bill that offers only , as I understand it , modest tax burdens upon wealthier citizens , editing of standard republican knee jerk tax mongering may be comparable to removing double negatives to improving the meaning of larded talking points .

The mainstream media won't touch this story, you watch, because it would make the Republicans look like hypocritical fools (which, of course, they are). Only Democrats are allowed to be publicly humiliated in the mainstream press. That is why they carried stories about the curvature of Bill Clinton's penis during Monicagate but never once mentioned the fact that George W. Bush had the longest criminal rap sheet of any American president!

They didn’t raise $500 billion on the American people when they passed the bill in Massachusetts. To suggest that Scott Brown is basically campaigning against the bill in Washington that is like the one in Massachusetts is complete spin .
This is the missing language , how is relevant implying that Massachusetts taxes Americans or that the commensurate taxes in Massachusetts are not comparable ?
I am afraid that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is a bit confusing , or confused here . I find that not having to suss through his tedious , or mendacious , language only increases my understanding .
Brown is basically campaigning against a bill that is more exactly like the present legislation up for consideration than it is even marginally different from . Not including Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) confusing language , which is distracting , to issue some boilerplate is increasing what little sense the poor senator is trying to make by removing the most porous peripheral piffle .

Confucius say: "Man who listen with half an ear will believe a half truth. . ."

Senator, I served with Confucius , I knew Confucius , Confucius was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Confucius .

"But dismissing reality altogether doesn't make the problem go away. That's not spin; that's just the facts."

Correction: That's just lying

And by the way, Senator Brown, your 15 minutes are just about up.

It arguable that MA did in fact "cut Medicare" to finance RomneyCare. What they did was negotiate with the Feds to redirect Medicaid funds toward the subsidies for low-income insurance buyers.

It is actually a rather complicated story. The gist of it is well told in a report published in May of last year by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation entitled Massachusetts Health Reform: The Myth of Uncontrolled Costs [Link to page where you can download a PDF.]

A good Republican cloth coat of a plan. Too bad Republicans have given up on cloth coats.

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