Sunday, August 30, 2009

Told you so.

A couple of days ago, I wrote about the latest in Republican scare tactics on health insurance reform - namely a fundraising solicitation by the Republican National Committee. In said fundraising piece, phrased as a survey, the RNC states that under the Democratic plan for health insurance reform:
GOP voters might be discriminated against for medical treatment in a Democrat-imposed health-care rationing system.

Today, the AP has ahold of it, and the RNC's answers are less than forthcoming. In fact, they're downright shady. Go read it for yourself. I'd quote from it, but the AP hasn't quite adjusted to the world of blogs, and they get grumpy about quoting their content. (I promised JMac I'd try not to get us sued this week.)

Anyway, this is important. The distortions (and that's putting it politely) being spewed out about health insurance reform are well-established (death panels, anyone?), but usually they're limited to random crazies at town halls, or television talking heads like Rush, Hannity, or Glenn Beck.

Now however, you have a lie that can be instantly proven false, being pushed by a much more credible source - the Republican National Committee - i.e. the national Republican Party.

Is this a sign of desperation? Or is Michael Steele truly just that insane? In any event, the RNC has been politicizing this event from day one - it's all they've got. Remember, these are the same guys who brought you a budget with no actual numbers in it.

Now they're bringing you health care pushback with no real truth to it.