Rewrite!
 This
GOP-led cry for the defunding/repealing of Obamacare
has resulted in such an excessive application of human
dentata to
the
gluteus maximii of Republican Congressman by the American
public that Conservative's are now
busying
rewriting history as fast as they can tweet.
Did you know, for instance, that they never actually
called for the repeal/defunding of the ACA? It's true,
because Raul Labrador (R-ID) just stated the following:
"It's absolutely false that the
GOP sought Obamacare repeal. We have never asked
for a full repeal of Obamacare. And any reporters
saying GOP wanted full Obamacare repeal were lying
to the American people."
Yeah, well, except for this press release on
his very own web site:
Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-ID) announced today
that he is a cosponsor of a resolution introduced
by Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA) to fund the government for Fiscal
Year 2014 while fully delaying and defunding
ObamaCare until 2015.
"If there’s any single issue that can unite
House Republicans and has the strong support of the
American
people, it’s getting rid of ObamaCare," said
Rep. Labrador.
Evidently Mr. Labrador wants us to believe he
has an evil twin out there somewhere.
As for those who really shut the government down,
here's
a rogue's gallery of those particular hard-line
Conservatives and their salient feelings on
the subject.
But let's not forget the uber-wealthy Katzenjammer
kids, the Koch
brothers, who donated
$200 million dollars last year to nonprofit organizations
fighting the good fight against the spectre of socialist
health care. Their current stance is "Who? Us? Obama-what?
Never heard of it."
No doubt the chorus of "Not Me's!" will be heard all
the way through to the 2014 mid-terms and beyond. But
you know who they're fooling? Not us.
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(The following is shamelessly pilferedfrom Kevin
Drum at motherjones.com.)
At its core, the dispute over the budget and the
debt ceiling isn't complicated at all. But it is
full of
misconceptions and urban myths. Here are the 10
facts worth remembering past all the obfuscation:
1. Democrats have already agreed to fund the government
at Republican levels.
2. Despite what you might have heard, there have
only been two serious government shutdowns in recent
history,
and both were the result of Republican ultimatums.
3. Democrats in the Senate have been begging the
House to negotiate over the budget for the past
six months,
but Republicans have refused.
4. That's because Republicans wanted to wait until
they had either a government shutdown or a debt
ceiling breach as leverage, something they've been
very clear
about all along.
5. Republicans keep talking about compromise,
but they've offered nothing in return for agreeing
to their demands—except
to keep the government intact if they get their
way.
6. The public is very strongly opposed to using
a government shutdown to stop Obamacare.
7. Contrary to Republican claims, the deficit
is not increasing—it peaked in 2009 and
has been dropping ever since, declining by $200
billion last year with
another $450 billion drop projected this year.
8. A long government shutdown is likely to seriously
hurt economic growth, with a monthlong shutdown
projected to slash GDP in the fourth quarter by
1 percentage
point and reduce employment by over a million jobs.
9. No, Democrats have not used debt ceiling hostage
taking in the past to force presidents to accept
their political agenda.
10. This whole dispute is about the Republican
Party fighting to make sure the working poor don't
have
access to affordable health care.
=Lefty=
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