Health Care Summit: The Attack of the Lame Anecdotes!!!

By: Swamp_Yankee (Diary)  |  February 25th at 05:12 PM  | 

Who needs statistics, empirical evidence, actuarial data, logic or reason, when you have anecdotes? I once knew a lady who had to use her dead sister’s dentures. That should never happen in America!!! I watched the whole health care summit and that pretty much sums up the Democratic argument; sentimental anecdote, after sentimental anecdote, after sentimental anecdote and some talk about closing donut holes with | Read More »

Process and Appearence; The GOP Must Go to the Health Care Summit

By: Swamp_Yankee (Diary)  |  February 20th at 04:51 PM  | 

While the Democrats in Congress prepare for reconciliation, the GOP is measuring the value of Obama’s health care summit. Let’s not get mixed up here. The health care summit is a public relations stunt, nothing more. It is being used to provide the Democrats in Congress some leverage to pursue reconciliation. That is the real battleground. The GOP has the higher ground on two crucial | Read More »