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Partisanship and Obamacare

With a side dish of what to look forward to down the road a bit. From I Own The World:

Repeated Lies
We heard the words spill out of Pelosi�s botoxed head, �No major piece of major social legislation has ever been passed without the vote being partisan.�

Well, she�s either stupid or a liar. Wait, what am I saying? She�s stupid and a liar.

A site called Political Math has created some visuals to highlight Pelosi�s, and other parroting progressive�s, damn lies.

Hat tip to Gerard's KA-CHING! page And that side dish? From the UK Telegraph:

Hospital wards to shut in secret NHS cuts
The sick would be urged to stay at home and email doctors rather than visit surgeries, while procedures such as hip replacements could be scrapped.

The plans have emerged as health chiefs draw up emergency budgets that cast doubt on pledges by Gordon Brown to protect �front line services� in the NHS.

Documents show that health chiefs are considering plans to begin sacking workers, cutting treatments and shutting wards across the country.

The proposals could lead to:

10 per cent of NHS staff being sacked in some areas.
The loss of thousands of hospital beds.
A reduction in the number of ambulance call-outs.
Medical professionals being replaced by less qualified assistants.

The plans are contained in a series of internal NHS documents uncovered by The Daily Telegraph.

The final details of the plans are not due to be announced until the autumn, well after the country has gone to the polls for the general election.

Two quotes -- for the main course:

The Big Lie
All this was inspired by the principle--which is quite true within itself--that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.
--Adolf Hitler , Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X

And for the side dish:

They�ve got the usual Socialist disease � they�ve run out of other people�s money...
--Margaret Thatcher

Posted by DaveH at March 26, 2010 8:30 PM