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Can You Spot The Partisan Legislation?

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It was only partican legislation because the Republicans refused to make it bipartisan, instead as a matter of strategy decided to kill it, and failed.

Can you spot the partisan blogger?

Seriously, the guy links to newsbusters. Really the only thing his graphics show is just how good the Republican party has gotten at forcing their members to toe the party line.

Elections have consequences.

The point was that the people saying that republicans always vote against social reform, or that major social reform bills are always starkly partisan, are lying.

I think we can be sure that they are wrong, but not that they are lying.

> I think we can be sure that they are wrong, but not that they are lying.

Reckless disregard for the truth only works a couple of times. (Since journalists claim to fact-check things, they get even less of a pass.)

We mistrust known liars for obvious reasons. Those reasons also apply to folks who don't care whether they get it right.

BTW - The author missed another one. Congressional Republicans voted overwhelmingly for Social Security when it was enacted during FDR's term.

Non sequitur

Actually the vote tallies just demonstrate how wingnutty the Republican Party has become in the last few years.

The legislation at hand is, literally and without exaggeration, almost entirely Republican in nature. It's nearly identical to proposals made by Republican presidential candidates. It's nearly identical to what Mitt Romney pushed for and got in Massachusetts. It is an unexciting law that contains massive giveaways to favored Republican industries like the drug companies.

And yet, not a single Republican in 2010 could manage to vote for it. And Republican columnists and Republican think-tank members who pointed out the law is exactly what Republicans say they want... they got fired for violating Party orthodoxy. That speaks volumes about the modern Republican Party, and says very little about the healthcare law.

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