It’s Incredible
When you knowingly pay someone to lie to you, we call the deceiver an illusionist or a magician. When you unwittingly pay someone to do the same thing, I call him a politician.
President Obama insists that health care “reform” not “add a dime” to the budget deficit, which daily grows to ever more frightening levels. So the House-passed bill and the one the Senate now deliberates both claim to cost less than $900 billion. Somehow “$900 billion over 10 years” has been decreed to be a magical figure that will not increase the deficit.
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I happily suspend disbelief when a magician says he’ll saw a woman in half. That’s entertainment. But when Harry Reid says he’ll give 30 million additional people health coverage while cutting the deficit, improving health care and reducing its cost, it’s not entertaining. It’s incredible.
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“When you unwittingly pay someone to do the same thing, I call him a politician.”
Hmm, isn’t that a step up? Didn’t we used to call that person a con-artist?
Comment by Andrew — 11/30/2009 @ 8:50 am
Uh, no, actually it’s a step down.
Comment by Maria — 11/30/2009 @ 3:22 pm