McCain and Alexander Continue to Lie About the Filibuster
What do you know... John McCain doesn't have to be on a one of his hundreds of appearances on the cable talking head shows to lie through his teeth. McCain with some help from Lamar Alexander conflates the Senate's filibuster rule with using reconciliation for the fixes in the health care bill that already passed with sixty votes.
As Think Progress pointed out, Senator Byrd refuted this talking point from McCain and Alexander last week -- Sen. Byrd Undermines GOP Talking Point That He Opposes Reconciliation:
Over the last few days, Republicans have repeatedly cited Sen. Robert Byrd’s (D-WV) opposition to passing comprehensive health care reform through the reconciliation process as proof that Democrats are skirting Senate rules to “ram through” unpopular legislation. [...]
But as it turns out, Byrd doesn’t oppose using the reconciliation process to pass a small package of fixes to the Senate health care bill. In a letter to the editor published in Thursday’s Charleston Daily Mail, Byrd writes that it’s appropriate to use reconciliation on a package that reduces the deficit.
“I believed then, as now, that the Senate should debate the health reform bill under regular rules, which it did,” Byrd wrote. “The entire Senate- or House- passed health care bill could not and would not pass muster under the current reconciliation rules, which were established under my watch.” “Yet a bill structured to reduce deficits by, for example, finding savings in Medicare or lowering health care costs, may be consistent with the Budget Act, and appropriately considered under reconciliation.”
So now that “the longest-serving member of the Senate” has endorsed the Democrats’ strategy, will Republicans abandon their campaign against majority rule? It’s unlikely.
Well it's a week later and they're still doing it, so not likely indeed.
Facts be damned if HCR passes the D's will be killing puppies and kittens.
It is really that simple.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
I have reworked my web page to allow you to send emails to conservative contributors to congress and demand from them to stop the filibuster and get the health care and other legislation you want.
Go here
http://liberal.posterous.com/help-me-change-a...
You don't need to sign a petition.
Just click on the links to set up the email that you will send.
I know:
Soviet and reform have the same number of letters, therefore health care reform is a sinister plot by undetected Soviet agents and their left wing dupes designed to undermine America, and the flag and one nation under God for which it stands.
Give it up, you senile geezer. Or get some stronger meds to control your compulsive lying and intractible paranoia.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
All these guys do is lie , if it weren't for the lie the Repugs would not stand a chance , if they told the truth they would be rejected even by their dim witted supporters .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
if a republican congressperson's lips are moving, he/she is lying.
What's amazing is that some people actually believe these god damn traitors. There's probably still some 17% of the American populace who believe these lies.
I've had so many people...decent, intelligent people repeating the lies that they hear on the airwaves and on television.
The lies are working.
Lie often and with conviction into the echochamber and over time it will appear to be truth.
Soon time for McLame to be standing on the porch in one of his wife's many homes, yelling at the local kids for stepping on his lawn.
Reconciliation has been used to pass every Medicare bill but two, and was used to pass Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage part D.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
We're still posting stories about Republicans lying, really! The story would be when they're not lying. I don't know about anyone else, but I make the assumption that every time a Republican or Conservative opens their mouth, they're lying. The day one of these cretons tells the truth just might be the day the earth ends. Is there not a bigger oxymoron than an honest conservative; well maybe an intellectual conservative.
Unfortunately, McCain and lying are old friends. Very old friend.
Let Uncle McMansion fester all he wants to. The rest of us are going to get healthy.
Hey! Uncle Fester! Which mansion are you sleeping in tonight?
bla. bla. bla. When he puts his teeth to bed at night i bet they keep talking.
The Republican has nothing.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
"That one"
Just another chance to be ever so thankful this "war hero" (although I am a loss to see how someone who habitually crashed USAF planes can be called hero) got his ass handed to him in the 2008 election.
It's not all or nothing.
Big surprise, Reslugs are born liars.
Great portentous CBC doc series:
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/lovehatepropa...
The fact that a war criminal who's only claim to fame is that he was a P.O.W. who got there totally due to his own ineptitude as a pilot. A "man" who aided and abetted the enemy for extra cigarettes and coffee. A "man" who released a bomb on his own ship and was immediately whisked away by helicopter, not even offering a second thought to assistance in the conflagration HE caused, by his Admiral Daddy's minions so the cover up could begin and save Mr. Johnnie McSenile from a court martial. A "man" who entered the U.S. Naval Academy with the intention of breaking every rule in the book, which he came only 2 or 3 away from doing. He was reprimanded time and time again but his "daddy" always got him off the hook. He was personally responsible for the worst Naval disaster in history except for Pearl Harbor.
Go here to see one example of his "Legacy of Disaster, self interest and ineptitude, show boating that caused the deaths of 168 and more wounded as he slithered off the ship after hiding in the bowels of the ship waiting for his escape.
JOHN MCCAIN'S ROLE IN THE USS FORRESTAL FIRE THAT LEFT 168 DEAD
His final insult and self interest put a stop to thousands of MIA/POW families finding out what happened to THEIR lost loved ones to protect the false reputation of McSenile HIMSELF.
It is an insult and an outrage that THIS man could have been touted as a HERO for the last 50 years.
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