Democrats block ‘misleading, false’ GOP health care mailing
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A “colorful” chart that also appears to be colorful in the facts department has been blocked from voter’s mailboxes by Democrats, a Capital Hill newspaper reports.Roll Call reports, “Democrats are preventing Republican House Members from sending their constituents a mailing that is critical of the majority’s health care reform plan, blocking the mailing by alleging that it is inaccurate. House Republicans are crying foul and claiming that the Democrats are using their majority to prevent GOP Members from communicating with their constituents.”
"In their eight-point memo, which was obtained by Roll Call, Democrats identify a litany of areas where they believe the chart is incorrect.
For example, Democrats argue that the chart depicts a “Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund” that is “simply a recipient of IRS funds, with no outflow. … This is false.”
The chart’s illustration of low-income subsidies is also “misleading and false,” Democrats argue.
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The dispute over Brady’s chart is being reviewed by the franking commission, which must approve any mail before it can be sent. No decision had been made on the matter by press time.
Brady adamantly denied that the chart was misleading and said Democrats are simply threatened by the content of the graphic. “I think their review was laughable,” Brady said. “It’s … downright false in most of the cases. The chart depicts their health care plan as their committees developed it.”
Media Matters created a mock “colorful” chart in response called the “Organizational Chart of Conservative Media’s Misinformation Plan” after documenting how conservative media outlets were spreading it.
“The conservative media’s promotion of the House Republican chart recalls the media attention devoted in 1994 to a misleading chart — distributed by the office of Sen. Arlen Specter — that then-Senate Republican leader Bob Dole claimed illustrated ‘what the health care bureaucracy would look like under’ President Clinton’s health care reform plan,” Media Matters noted.
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artemis6
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Very refreshing . What else can be done ? You have to keep at them , they are like pit bulls .
- 8 months ago
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artemis6
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neocongo
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Damn it's good to see the Democrats have some spine in stopping at least a part of the phenomenal amount of misinformation the GOP, Insurance, and other industries are propagating. It's not censorship, it is responsible leadership. There really needs to be more penalties for spreading utterly false information with the intention to benefit yourself or your political agenda.
- 8 months ago
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neocongo
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WakeUpPeople
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Here is a link to the intended GOP mailout.
- 8 months ago
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WakeUpPeople
