rssRNC: Our Survey Was ‘Inartfully Worded’
Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 1:17 pm
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Glenn Thrush gets the Republican National Committee, via spokeswoman Katie Wright, to walk a few steps back from the health care survey that suggested Democrats might deny care to registered Republicans.
Although the question was inartfully worded, Americans have reason to be concerned about the failure of the Democrats’ health care experiment to adequately protect the privacy of Americans’ personal information. From bank accounts to tax payments to personal medical care data, the bill gives government bureaucrats access to a range of Americans’ personal information but does little if anything to protect that data from misuse and abuse. This is one of the many reasons we have called on President Obama to slow this bill down so that we can get health care reform right.
I’ll just quote Thrush: “Nowhere in the proposed bill is any reference to tapping voter registration information.”
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Comment posted August 27, 2009 @ 7:43 pm
It seems like the Republican strategy is the following:
1. Make continuous ridiculous claims, understanding that muddying the waters makes everyone less likely to want a drink.
2. If any specific ridiculous claim is ever questioned, issue a non-denial denial, then unleash a flood of new misinformation and disinformation.
3. Eventually, enough people will believe the lies you tell and, perversely, start doubting the truth coming from your political opponents.
It's Machiavellian. And it's why I don't respect Republican politicians.
Comment posted August 28, 2009 @ 8:11 am
“health care survey that suggested Democrats might deny care to registered Republicans.”
If only….actually, are there any left?
If there are, would they admit it?
Now their shit is defined as “unartfully worded”…
Too many questions, not enough answers.
Comment posted August 29, 2009 @ 4:02 am
I called the RNC today to find out who authorized this mailing. I spoke to the Communications Dept. and they told me they had no idea who could have authorized this. Now, my husband was a communications director for many years and he could have easily told you who authorized the mailings sent from his organization. I told them they were either lying or deeply incompetent.
The other tactic they tried was to ask me if I trusted the government because they sure didn't. I asked them why then, were they working for the Republican party. I went on to add that it was odd they trusted the Republican party after we were lied to about WMD and forced by the Republican party into a wasteful war. The guy didn't answer and instead hung up on me. I called them back, but they still couldn't answer any of my questions.
That's the Republican party — liars or incompetent boobs.
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