It's All So Surreal ...

Aug 27, 2009 23:29

Michael Steele, Republican National Committee Chairman, ties himself into knots during an incoherent interview on NPR where he simultaneously vows to serve as the protector of Medicare and lambasts Government-run health care. That interview speaks for itself, but where I really boggled was at the part where he says: "[l]ook, no one's trying to ( Read more... )

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jeffpalmatier August 28 2009, 05:32:09 UTC
It has been suggested that the government could use voter registration to determine a person's political affiliation, prompting fears that GOP voters might be discriminated against for medical treatment in a Democrat-imposed health care rationing system. Does this possibility concern you?" (Answers: Yes, no or maybe)

Gah!

That damn passive voice: who suggested it?!

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. There are arguably many elements of the Obama health care plan to be concerned with and debate without bringing up some goofy-sounding possibility that only makes you look foolish.

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kmg_365 August 28 2009, 12:22:59 UTC
This is the kind of crap that has driven a lot of Republicans that I know to despair. I mean, they're not even TRYING to have a debate, and they're not really trying to hide it.

Kind of reminds me of the "debates" around social security reform.

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