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Along with the Pulitzer Prize-successful PolitiFact and their new challenge, PunditFact, Mediaite will now be reality-checking a number of visitors on the Sunday political shows. See below for Nancy Pelosi’s turn.
American political discourse has a weak spot for grabbing at no matter analogy effectively gifts itself—a fallacy known to the wonk on your dorm as “availability bias”—which explains why each political figure up to now week has called the incompetent rollout of the Affordable Care Act federal exchange website online “Obama’s Katrina.” Howevs! Every every now and then, we as a nation can muster our considerable energies and overcome a in particular facile analogical misalignment. It’s the political an identical of standing as much as alternate the channel.
So we gathered on Sunday morn ’round ABC’s mock-Endeavor desk and watched former George W. Bush advisor Matthew Dowd pluck the following wisdom flower from his brain-meadow:
“There’s a qualitative distinction between folks demise in New Orleans and folks not ready to get well being care.”
We did it!
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(Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiterally three seconds later:
“However from a political standpoint it’s eerily just like President Bush within the fall of 2005.”
Ah, smartly. Not the primary time political self-awareness has had a lifespan that makes a housefly appear everlasting.
Hi there, who showed up Sunday morning with their Valiant Effort-model Turd Polish, highest within the industry? Looking at you, Nancy Pelosi:
“Thirty-9 voted for this resolution the opposite day,” Pelosi said, referring to Consultant Fred Upton’s (R-MI) invoice permitting shoppers to care for cancelled medical health insurance polices. “The number has been in the thirties when it was once to agree with them with the mandate for companies, the mandate for individuals. So that is roughly the same quantity…The experience in states the place it’s working, in Kentucky, California, the rest the place we’ve our personal state market, it’s working very well. I have full confidence, as do my contributors, on the other hand they voted on this—this was political, they replied politically.”
“This was once never thought to be easy,” Pelosi endured. “It doesn’t subject what we’re saying right here. What issues is what occurs on the kitchen table of the American individuals, and how they will more affordability, extra accessibility, better high quality care, prevention, well-being, and a more fit nation.”
Shiny! PolitiFact was lower than impressed, zinging her with a largely false for blaming the insurance coverage firms for canceling insurance policies (to agree to ACA rules), and 1/2-proper for pronouncing that the thirty-nine Democrats used to be much like earlier anti-Obamacare votes.
How do you apply that? It seems that with the Kelly Ayotte Phrase Generator, which has only three inputs: planning stage, timeout, bipartisan.
“It’s time for a timeout, so that we are able to go back to the drafting board and talk about bipartisan options.”
“We would like to get to a few bipartisan options.”
“Rising costs for health care—that’s a timeout for this factor. It’s time to return to the drawing board.”
“There are various concepts Republicans are prepared to work on a bipartisan basis on.”
“Let’s get to the desk on a bipartisan basis.”
In equity, the Kelly Ayotte Phrase Generator is working better than Healthcare.gov.
Speaking of issues not working, Bill O’Reilly was no longer working very arduous at answering what used to be (ultimately) a tight question from Howard Kurtz about whether Fox Information left out 60 Minutes’ inaccurate Benghazi file as a result of, you realize, Benghazi:
“Possibly that’s a sound criticism against Fox Information. I don’t run Fox News….Every person makes [mistakes]. And it doesn’t in point of fact have anything to do with individuals’s lives. Folks’s notion of Benghazi wasn’t modified via Lara Logan’s record. They introduced in a man who was a charlatan. He faked them out, he wanted to promote a book, he needed money. Happens. I feel sorry for 60 Minutes. I feel they’re a noble endeavor. If I assumed they weren’t I’d go after them. However I’ll lower ‘em some slack on the error.”
Huh? Where am I? How’d I get right here? What’s a Benghazi? Particularly galling about that remark: the claim that 60 Minutes’ file didn’t have an effect on anybody’s life. As far as this humble scribe knows, Senator Beauregard (D-SC) is still hanging a cling on all Senate nominations until someone fluffs his Benghazi pillow, all because of that 60 Minutes file. But Bill just works there.
But in all of this sludge, for pure, unadulterated cynicism, you gotta go Huntin’ With the Cheneys.
Père Cheney has already thrown his “fishing chum” beneath the bus. Liz topped him on Sunday, blaming Mike Enzi for Obamacare because he’d participated in a bipartisan committee to reform health care that had folded sooner than “Obamacare” was once a phrase; attempting and failing to speak as if she have been in an Annie Proulx novel to cover the fact that she couldn’t to find Wyoming on a map; and once again telling her gay sister to get misplaced.
Oh, and she or he mentioned it was once time for a “new technology” of Republicans, which is sort of like a Bush operating against a Kennedy as a result of he’s “ill of dynasties.” Yeesh with these people.
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