Just in case anyone has also noticed the memory hole
Obama’s 700 billion plus cuts to medicare have disapeared down, Ace of Spades has the linkage and the explanation.
All the media has been yelling ‘That’s a lie!”
No, it’s not.
he links to a Reuters article you should read that says it’s a myth that Obamacare has taken 700 billion from medicare.
And the explanation of that myth includes the line:
“Obamacare does cut $700 billion in Medicare spending over a 10-year period.”
Huh?
it explains this by saying:
“the cuts are adjustments in payments to Medicare providers, which are mostly meaningless to patients.”
yep. because those providers don’t care if they get paid. They’ll keep doing what they do, for free!! The patients will not be affected at ALL.
This all reminds me of the post I did back here in 2010. Barney Frank was incensed that anyone would question the integrity of Fannie and Freddie and vociferously declaimed that they were sound.
And then eventually, after their little clusterfuck had done it’s part in the Won’s plan to destabilize the US Financial system, he “Came to his senses”.
The ignorance of the left on this is not accidental. They have no intent but to damage the integrity of our nation, and that’s that. And each time they inflict some other evil its all “that’s a lie! That’s not true! That’s a myth!”
Well, who are you going to believe, them or your lying eyes?
For those under 50, who might not remember the movie, her’es a great synopsis of the scene in question by Larry Elder:
In the 1967 comedy “A Guide for the Married Man,” Joey Bishop’s wife catches him in bed with another woman. As his wife stands at the bedroom door screaming at the sight, Bishop and the mistress calmly get up, make the bed and get dressed. The mistress leaves. Bishop nonchalantly sits down in the living room, lights up a pipe, picks up the newspaper and casually leafs through it. “What bed? What girl?” Bishop says. The wife begins to doubt her own eyes, even her sanity. Finally, she turns to Bishop and meekly asks what he wants for dinner. The culprit convinced the victim that she must be nuts.
Now, I give you the Theme Song for the Democratic party:
ETA: I have always liked Orville Burrell or ‘Shaggy” as he is more commonly known, his voice is distinctive and amusing, but I had no idea he was a redleg, having served in Desert Storm as a canon crewman in Field Artillery. Ooorah!
Edited to add further: Pascal, did you say something about a Backhoe?
For a Film reference, it’s also kinda like when Dorothy and the Gang return to Oz after killing the Wicked Witch of the West. When Toto pulls back the Curtain, and the Wizard says “Pay No Attention to that man in the Corner,” what would happen if Dorothy shrugged and said “Okay” and they walked out?
And that’s what the Anointed One’s Campaign is Hoping for.
Sadly, about 1/3 of the Voters would just leave the room also.
Heh.
Check this out too: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/08/19/niall-ferguson-on-why-barack-obama-needs-to-go.html
Jenny
Yeah, fairly frightening when Newsweek is jumping on the bandwagon. they may only want to be on the side that’s winning, though.
All true, but, when faced with the following:
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1186.html
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1187.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/the_government_is_bankrupt_and_will_destroy_the_economy.html
I’m thinking that maybe the Liberals, helped along mightily by the Neo-Cons, have already achieved their goal and all that’s left is for the Fat Lady to sing. I hope I’m wrong but don’t exactly see how.
That’s a SERIOUS fkn abyss we’re staring into the maw of.
Could you please add something else to this package of facts?
Include a backhoe in the package.
We’ll need one to carry away the sand faster than our listeners can bury their heads in it.
Well said Og…
I started paying 12% of my car insurance premium and received a nice email from my provider: “Way to bend that cost curve, son! Now piss off.”
It is amazing that politicians seem to not understand that every word they are saying is being recorded and placed into teh hands of their political rivals for safe keeping. The Left is particularly bad at this. They seem to have been molded by decades of getting away with it and not understand that technology has caused the rules to change.