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A rose by any other name still smells foul http://bit.ly/k8Pe3 #tcot #gop #hhrs #hcr 10/27/2009 |
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Nancy: Hey, people hate our plan, so let's change the name again http://tinyurl.com/yznyqeh 10/26/2009 |
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"competitive option" ohhhhhh now that makes it all better http://bit.ly/k8Pe3 10/26/2009 |
Meredith Jessup: Pelosi: Public Option Needs a New Name
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
Apparently Nancy Pelosi feels that if they rename the public option, more people would be likely to support it. From the AP : In an appearance at a Florida senior center, the Democratic leader referred to the so-called public option as "the consumer option." Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., appeared by Pelosi's side and used the term "competitive option." Both suggested new terminology might get them past any lingering doubts among the public—or consumers or competitors. "You'll hear everyone say, 'There's got to be a better name for this,'" Pelosi said. "When people think of the public option, public is being misrepresented, that this is ...
How About We Go With Truth In Advertising?
Blue Crab Boulevard —
How About We Go With Truth In Advertising? Nancy Pelosi wants to re-brand and re-frame the “public option : A government-sponsored “public option” for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday. In an appearance at a Florida senior center, the Democratic leader referred to the so-called public option as “the consumer option.” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., appeared by Pelosi’s side and used the term “competitive option.” Both suggested new terminology might get them past any lingering doubts among the public—or consumers or competitors. ...
News: Democrats & The Health Care Debate
Booker Rising —
Senator Reid Announces ‘Opt-Out’ Public Plan Hat tip to reader Nanakwame for this one. The Senate health care legislation will include a government-run insurance plan, but states would be allowed to “opt out” of it, the majority leader, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada), announced this afternoon. The question of whether to include a government-run plan has been the most controversial topic in the effort by Sen. Reid and other Democratic leaders to meld two competing versions of the Senate health care legislation. Democrats have been deeply divided. Supporters of the government plan, or public option, have been ...
Nancy Pelosi: You’re Now To Refer To The “Public Option” As The “Competitive Option”
Say Anything —
Problem solved.
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - A government-sponsored “public option” for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday.
In an appearance at a Florida senior center, the Democratic leader referred to the so-called public option as “the consumer option.” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., appeared by Pelosi’s side and used the term “competitive option.”
Both suggested new terminology might get them past any lingering doubts among the public—or consumers or ...
links for 2009-10-26
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
Carly Fiorina watch: Former HP CEO heading to Coach Madden's turf for her first play
he's got Hall of Famer former coach John Madden's fancy Goal Line Productions in Pleasanton lined up, the invitations are out, and you can mark the date: almost exactly a year until the 2010 election, and former Hewlett-Packard CEO ...
“Socialism Is The Market, Winston!”
Shot in the Dark —
The American people are turning on socialized healthcare. Indeed, the push to socialize healthcare and use it as a vehicle to put the American people in eternal debt has done the impossible – brought the conservative movement from near-death back to national political viability and power, inside of a year. Healthcare may or may not turn out to be the epic miscalculation that it was for Bill Clinton, when it sparked the conservative onslaught in 1994. I’m gonna hold out for “may”, of course, and do my best to make it a “will”. And we had a good sign in that direction yesterday; the Dems are P trying to snooker the American people ...
The Public Option - So Popular They Have To Rename It
JustOneMinute —
The public wants the public option, or at least, maybe they will after Nancy Pelosi re-brands it: SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - A government-sponsored "public option" for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday. In an appearance at a Florida senior center, the Democratic leader referred to the so-called public option as "the consumer option." Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., appeared by Pelosi's side and used the term "competitive option." Both suggested new terminology might get them past any lingering doubts among the public—or ...
The Daily Grind
Weekly Standard Blog —
Focus group alert: Pelosi picks new name for deceiving voters about the "public option."
Yep, this "taxing the rich for everything" scheme is gonna work great.
What do they say about a gaffe? It's when a politician accidentally speaks the truth.
"Treasury Department's failure to implement anti-fraud measures, or even to require TARP recipients to report how they used the billions Congress and the Treasury Department gave them, makes it highly unlikely that the $317 billion outstanding -- nearly half the TARP total -- ...
