March 20, 2010
House Dems Claim Memo that Accurately Reflects Their Plot Is a Fake
Yesterday blogs and other news outlets posted a memo provided by Republicans that was said to have been circulated by Democrats. The memo outlined a scheme to lie about (or direct attention away from) the true cost of Obamacare, and then pass separate laws later in the year that would drive the overall cost of the plan even higher.
Talking Points Memo is being very careful handling this, and they should; whether or not the memo originated from a Democratic staffer or strategist or was a dirty trick is utterly irrelevant. The source isn't what matters. The memo accurately reflects known positions of previous iterations of Obamacare that Democrats were begrudgingly forced to temporarily drop to get enough votes to make the bill passable.
It is entirely credible—and in fact likely—that Nancy Pelosi's House leadership are plotting to do precisely what the memo outlines.
Interestingly enough, Republicans won't cite the source for the memo. Democrats are claiming that it is a fake generated by Republicans.
It is more likely that the memo is a sanitized version of actual Democratic plans, passed along to Republicans by House Democrats opposed to the costs, plots, and rationing associated with the dishonest socialist attempt to grab for themselves power that rightfully belongs to the people.
Let's see if "fake but accurate" works as well for the GOP as it did for the Dems.
Posted by: MichigammeDave at March 20, 2010 08:17 AMWell, the nice thing about this memo is that it is actually accurate, regardless of its veracity as an actual document.
The Bush ANG papers, in actuality, were fake and inaccurate.
Posted by: ECM at March 20, 2010 11:49 AMThe memo is almost certainly accurate and reflects the political calculus of the Democrats. Once Obamacare is passed, then restoring the $520 billion in Medicare cuts will rammed down the GOP's throat by demonizing the GOP as being "for drastic Medicare cuts" in the Democrat media. This is an obvious strategy to prevent the seniors from voting out every Democrat in federal office next fall.
Expansion of government, greater opportunities for graft and control, and greater control over individuals. As far as Democrats are concerned what's not to like? And as long as they have much of the press in their pockets, who is going to call them on it?
Posted by: iconoclast at March 20, 2010 02:25 PMAnd anyone from Michigan knows how bad Democrat/liberal policies will damage the economy. Promoting those policies for the rest of the nation is ethically the same as sending individuals with infectious diseases into the general population to get people sick.
Posted by: iconoclast at March 20, 2010 02:27 PMPolitico has pulled the memo, but TPM has it here - http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2010/03/disputed-memo-purporting-to-be-dem-plan-for-medicare-change.php?page=1
Posted by: Gray Wolf at March 20, 2010 11:23 PM
