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Pataki, Meet Kettle

by: Dean Barker

Sat Jun 11, 2011 at 11:46:42 AM EDT


Watch out, candidates! The Last Honest Man, Very Serious George Pataki has taken to the totally unbiased pages of the Union Leader to scold and wag his finger at you:
Monday night, I'll be watching to see which candidates have the courage to go beyond focus group-tested sound bites and the fortitude to address the debt in something other than politically safe rhetoric. I'll be listening for specifics.

No American Debt, the organization I launched recently to confront America's debt crisis and hold this President and the candidates accountable, will be comparing debt reduction plans to see who is serious and willing to lead.

...Merely attacking the other candidates won't do either. Unfortunately, early attempts to tackle the debt have been met with hostility and trivial political attacks.

The Last Honest Man, Very Serious George Pataki's previous footprint on New Hampshire politics was behind the most dishonest attack of all on the deficit reducing health care legislation:
A conservative group led by former New York Gov. George Pataki has launched two nearly identical ads criticizing Democratic Reps. Carol Shea-Porter of New Hampshire and John Hall of New York for voting for the new health care law. Pataki said the group, called Revere America, would target 10 other Democrats. The ad makes several false and unsubstantiated claims:

       * It claims that the law creates "longer waits in doctors' offices" and that "your right to keep your own doctor may be taken away." The group says those claims are about a Medicare payment program that the law calls for establishing. But it points to an opinion piece that doesn't make those claims at all. The author tells us it's "bogus" to cite his article as support for the ad.

       * The ad falsely calls the health care law "government-run health care." The truth is that - while the legislation will expand regulation of the insurance industry - it builds on our current private health care system and expands business for private insurers.

       * The ad claims "costs will go up," when, in fact, premium costs for most Americans are predicted to stay the same or decrease slightly from where they normally would be. And for many others, federal subsidies will offset premium increases.

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Pataki, Meet Kettle | 2 comments
The national debt is a bogus issue. However, it is meaningful to (0.00 / 0)
conservatives because they strongly resent that our agents of government have obligations and are expected to carry them out. Even more, they resent the notion that citizenship implies obligations.  What they want is power, pure and simple -- sovereign rulers elected for limited terms so more of the "select" have an opportunity to take up the scepter.  Hereditary rulers are such a drag, especially when modern medicine lets them live to a ripe old age.

I guess we have to accept (0.00 / 0)
the fact that these people are going to blatantly lie repeatedly.  

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