Painful to See

As a long term C-Span junkie I am overdosing-- I have watched hours and hours of the first sessions (oops) of the House of Representatives with the R's spinning their frame rhetoric and acquiring what should be a red face over the failure of two representatives to comply with the Constitutional stipulations that require the oath of office to be taken on the floor of the chamber and not while attending a fundraiser in another section of the Capitol. Laughfable after the grandstanding reading of the document shortly before. A big foot- in- mouth mental cartoon makes me smile.

Let's see how many Luntz-sounding phrases have been repeated so often in these sessions that one is already sick of them. For instance tabbing the health care reform act as a "Job Killer"--which there is no factual basis.

Then there is the constant uttering of "Obama health care plan" This carrys nasty pejorative meanings........and is aimed at the 2012 presidential candidacy expected by the present office holder.

Even more than repealing the affordable health care reform act, the goal is to prevent President Obama from achieving a second term, which they must greatly fear - given how much effort they have directed toward smearing every accomplishment with such adjectives as socialist, marxist, etc, which to those that listen to the cable propaganda station named in the University of Maryland study as producing voters that are dangerously misinformed and leads one to conclude they have no idea of what those labels would actually mean and they don't have the curiosity necessary to do any fact checking or to learn exactly what such terms mean.

So between now and the elections coming on 2012 -- expect to see and hear more along these lines. R's have practiced these tactics for so long they come as second nature now to them. Rarely do we see an independent thinker offer new ideas backed by factual research and a balanced view of the results of their behaviors.

graysmoke