How Much Lying Will It Take To Break Your Confidence?

[Orwellian_Ghost]

How Much Lying Will It Take To Break Your Confidence?


By Donna Smith
November 7, 2009

So, I wake this morning to see that Speaker Pelosi lied again about why she just could not allow a single-payer amendment to survive the legislative effort in the House on healthcare reform.

Early in the week she said that she couldn’t let the Kucinich amendment survive because it broke the President’s promise that “you can keep what you have if you like it.” See my blog on Michael Moore’s Mike & Me blog for my remarks on that subject.

So, out went the amendment voted into the bill with those ever-prized bi-partisan votes that would have allowed states whose voters and lawmakers pass single-payer plans to be granted necessary federal waivers to do so (read that again, folks, lest you miss the House’s direct squelching of the right you have in our own states to determine the best policy).

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Tell the truth, at least. This is all about protecting power and re-election and the money that fuels that process. Damn the people. They’ll just plan to buy us back to the polls with the crappy campaign ads that will commence shortly after the last chorus of “Jingle Bells” in December. And the insurance companies are going to have a very happy holiday season indeed.

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/how_much_lying_will_.php

[Double T]

1. What confidence.

I knew long ago that this do nothing congress and bullshitting WH would serve the corporations well.

Look what they did with credit card reform; higher rates, higher fees and more criminal corruption. Hope and change are null and void. The pelosi, dodd and reid of the world need to be gone.

[TornadoTN]

2. A year ago, I was hopeful and inspired. Today, not so much

I hate to say that I agree with you, perhaps because I don't want to admit my own overconfidence, but here we are.

[Captain Hilts]

3. Ted Kennedy, then the Prez via Baucus took it out of the senate bill. It's a party effort. nt

[blindpig]

6. Yes, it is.

Speaks volumes, eh?

k&r

[BeFree]

4. Jingle bells?

Our whole society is based on hearing jingle bells.

What makes anyone think they'll ever stop jingling our bells?

[LWolf]

5. I haven't had any confidence

since the IWR.