Suppose that, a week before the Congress voted on whether or not to authorize military force, a document had been generated that showed there were no WMD in Iraq. Suppose further that it was reported that the Pentagon had sat on it, and not released it until weeks after the vote. And when asked why, the explanation was “we didn’t want to influence the vote.” Then, a Pentagon official comes out and denies that it was deliberately withheld, though the record clearly shows that the information was known by the defense secretary prior to the vote.
Imagine the howls from the Democrats and the press, and calls for firings and impeachment, and demands for a new vote.
Substitute health care reform for Iraq, HHS for Pentagon, and “will cost much more than advertised” for “no WMD,” and that’s exactly what has happened.
[crickets chirping…]
I’ve heard there’s a double standard. But getting the MSM to focus on the double standard when it’s not in their interest is difficult. Does that make it a quadruple standard?
in 2004, during the debate leading up to the Medicare Part D debate, the
DHHS actuary put together an estimate for the cost of the plan
as proposed by the Bush Adinistration, which was about 3 times the cost the White House was proposing. He was ordered to sequester the report
and threatened with firing if it leaked.
Apparently HHS is used to cooperating with the White House.
Wow, is Jack predictable, or what?
[Post about what just happened]
[jack: BUSH DID IT TOO!]
We know that Bush did it too, you idiot. We complained about it then. But it was a program that the press loved (as long as they didn’t have to credit BUSH). But you think that it’s only bad when the BUSHITLER DID IT. Do you really fantasize that anyone here supported Medicare D? If so, you only reiterate the proof of your idiocy.
The most transparent administration in history!
Most open and honest Congress evar.
jack, I feel a bit of pity for anyone who apparently despises Bush as much as you do, yet at the same time uses him repeatedly as their moral compass. Some day I imagine you’ll figure out that just because Bush did it too, doesn’t make it right.
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.
Rand, you forgot the dollar sign in “Bu$hitler”. It’s important, because the dollar sign cleverly emphasizes how the despotic reign of Chimpy McBu$hitler and his Rasputin, Dick Cheney, was all about about enriching themselves and their fat-cat pals. Unlike the saintly, self-sacrificing administration of the Smartest President Ever(tm) Barack (don’t add the “Hussein” or you’re a racist) Obama.
Bush was a Brown Diaper Baby who hung out with Timothy McVeigh, attended a church for twenty years that preached White Supremacy and fascist economics, and then sneakily ran as a “moderate” when all the time he was planning to bring a planned economy to America under the name “compassionate conservatism!! Thank God we got rid of that guy will never again elect anyone like him president!
Aha; politics, power, money and corruption – business as usual! Is it to late to start over?
Bilwick1 wins the thread.
Where’s da change?
As the linked article notes, “the report didn’t actually indicate much that’s genuinely new: A similar report by the CMS actuary on a prior version of the bill was released in November, and it, too, noted that health care costs would go up under the bill, ….”
So the evil HHS delayed a report that restated something that it had previously reported, which (by the way) had nothing to do with the fiscal impact of the bill. And you’re outraged by the lack of outrage?
Crickets are seldom outraged, even when they are being devoured.
And if they were, how would anyone be able to tell?