I just turned on CSPAN's coverage of the health care debate. California's Buck McKeon (R) rumbled up to the podium and "quoted" Abraham Lincoln:"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong..."And so on. As we have discussed previously, the quote is a fake.
Let me remind you of some things that Lincoln actually did say (links provided in my previous post):
“Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
"The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities."Again I say: Sure sounds to me as though Lincoln would have supported single-payer.
Why do conservatives insist on living within a fake world consisting of fake quotes (Kaminsky's The Hoaxers cites plenty of examples), fake news (Fox), fake science (creationism, anti-global warming), fake fears (the Illuminati myth, the myth of Soviet aggression) and fake history (e.g., the "fundamentalist Founding Fathers" myth)?
It was also real, real cute to see Buck score Pelosi for not being bipartisan. After the experience of 2001-2006, no Republican will ever again have the right to complain about insufficient bipartisanship.
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You don't have to be an ignorant fool or a pathological liar to be a republican ... just a republican politician.
Earlier in the "debate" John Shadegg (R-Arizona) pulled out an infant as a prop and started telling the camera why this baby doesn't like health care reform. I thought it was an embarrassing moment for our species but his performance got cheers and an ovation.
As you have argued, the Republicans are great at fighting the meme wars, but cannot govern. What does the "right" to complain about bi-partisan ship have to do with reality? It doesn't matter if it's ridiculous; it matters if the masses will BELIEVE it. Do you think they paid attention to the Democrats being shut-out of the legislative process during the GOP controlled years, and now judge Republican "lack of bipartisanship" complaints against it? Puh-leeze.
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