So, we've gone from the spread of disinformation to lying? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: LAST CHANCE DEMOCRACY CAFE Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:18:49 -0700 (PDT) From: mike532 <littlemike532@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: politics-current-events@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: Politics & Current Events <politics-current-events@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> LAST CHANCE DEMOCRACY CAFE By Stephen Day http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/9175 As Steven Pearlstein recently demonstrated in the Washington Post, Republicans have been spreading blatant lies in their opposition to health care reform. And as Paul Krugman noted in response in his blog at The New York Times, this is hardly a surprising development, given that lying about important public policy issues has been the GOP's consistent modus operandi for well over a decade. So let's stop to consider this for a moment: our nation faces huge challenges — challenges we stand little chance of successfully addressing without an open and honest public dialogue toward that end. Yet, one of the nation's two "great" political parties has adopted, as its primary operating strategy, a policy of consistently thwarting all attempts at achieving such a dialogue. Is it just me, or is it hard not to call that evil? And if that's true, wouldn't rewarding such practices, by meeting their sponsors halfway in the name of bipartisanship, constitute not only bad policy, but also something akin to sin? It sure seems that way to me. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Politics & Current Events" group. To post to this group, send email to politics-current-events@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this group, send email to politics-current-events+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/politics-current-events?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- Posted By Nimer Jaber to Nimer's Political Blog at 8/10/2009 06:42:00 AM