Fighting the Distortions

by Charles Lemos, Mon Aug 10, 2009 at 11:14:04 AM EDT


As part of the White House's reality check, Melody Barnes, the President's Director of the Domestic Policy Council, debunks the malicious myth that reform would encourage or even require euthanasia for seniors.

And shame on you Virginia Foxx, shame on you.

That I even have to post a rebuttal of this nature this is frankly surreal. For those interested, the progressive blog A Candid World has the best summation of this sorry affair finding that the word “palliative” as in palliative care is the source for this round of GOP distortions. You can also read the full text of § 1233 at Open Congress and while there please take a moment to express your support for the bill.

I'll close that I remain hopeful that we will yet one day find a cure for Republican mendacity but I am not optimistic on that front.

Tags: Health Care Distortions, US Health Care Reform (all tags)

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they are so detached

from reality. A bunch of conservative Republicans in Iowa are convinced that Chuck Grassley is trying to help Obama implement socialized medicine. They don't even get that Grassley is trying to delay passage of a bill and make sure there's no public option.

by desmoinesdem 2009-08-10 11:53AM | 0 recs
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I hate to say this ...

...  but this type of response is likely to do more harm than good. In saying "There's nothing mandatory about it," Ms. Barnes is playing the wingnut's game, by their rules.

What the White House needs to do is go on the attack, and call out the "deathers" as irresponsible, shameful, and un-American liars grasping at straws to derail good policy at any cost, regardless of who it hurts.

The reason this is getting any traction at all is the wingnuts are controlling the framing.

by lucky monkey 2009-08-10 04:40PM | 0 recs

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