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Category Archives: Dumb BS

DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (XI)

This week’s winner is Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown for this post, in which she insinuates that Republicans deliberately misconstrued what they heard from the Senate parliamentarian on Thursday:
Senate Republicans caused a major stir Thursday when they told reporters that the parliamentarian had informed them that the Senate bill needed to be signed into law before lawmakers took […]

Posted 14 March 2010 † Catron § Obamacare BS § Political BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (1)

PELOSI: OBAMACARE MUST BE PASSED “SO THAT YOU CAN FIND OUT WHAT’S IN IT”

During a speech to the 2010 Legislative Conference for National Association of Counties, Nancy Pelosi provided what started off as the usual talking points about Obamacare:
You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for […]

Posted 09 March 2010 † Catron § Obamacare BS § Political BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (1)

THE LATEST RUBE GOLDBERG SCHEME FOR PASSING OBAMACARE

Just when you think the Dems have exhausted their supply of lame ideas to circumvent the will of the voters, they have another brainstorm. Their latest has the House passing the Senate bill, then holding it hostage until the Senate fixes it:
Call it a ‘hold-plus-reconciliation’ strategy … The House could pass the Senate bill as is, then hold […]

Posted 06 March 2010 † Catron § Obamacare BS § Political BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (0)

DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (X)

This week, Matt Miller takes the biscuit with this idiotic post about Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak. A typical faux-progressive poseur, Miller doesn’t recognize actual principles when he sees them and thus has difficulty understanding how Stupak could allow his abortion scruples to get in the way of Obamacare. So he decides it’s just TOO ridiculous:
This entire debate is ridiculous, because the feds already […]

Posted 06 March 2010 † Catron § Journalistic BS § Obamacare BS § Political BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (0)

DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (IX)

The easy winner of this week’s prize is Joe Klein’s latest contribution to the Swampland blog, in which he avers that Obama got the best of the GOP at yesterday’s summit:
Obama came out well ahead of the Republicans …the Republicans had nothing very interesting, or clever, to say … the President was his usual, unflappable, well-informed self.
If you watched the summit, […]

Posted 26 February 2010 † Catron § Obama BS § Obamacare BS § Political BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (0)

DUMBEST WH PRESS BRIEFING OF THE MONTH

I know the month isn’t quite over, but it’s hard to believe that even Robert Gibbs can say anything dumber than this during the next several days. Yesterday, during the White House press briefing, Gibbs claimed the GOP has offered no ideas on reform:
The president posted ideas of his on the White House website today. We […]

Posted 23 February 2010 † Catron § Obamacare BS § Political BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (1)

DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (VIII)

This week’s winner isn’t technically a “post.” There were a number of serious contenders in the blogosphere for this week’s prize, but none were quite as clueless as this NYT column by Nicholas Kristof.
His basic theme revolves around a false dichotomy frequently peddled by Obamacare advocates: Anyone not for a government takeover of the U.S. health care […]

Posted 20 February 2010 † Catron § Journalistic BS § Obamacare BS § Reform BS § Statistical BS ‡ Comments (1)

DUMBEST PALIN-BASHING POST OF THE WEEK

It’s sometimes difficult to escape the impression that most journalists are … ah … I’m trying to avoid Rahm Emanuel’s favorite epithet … er … kinda slow. A case in point is Bonnie Erbe, who posted the following at U.S. News & World Report:
I ask you, dear readers, is this the end of Sarah Palin’s presidential quest … The so-called […]

Posted 11 February 2010 † Catron § Palin BS § Statistical BS ‡ Comments (5)

VIDEO: SHEA-PORTER SAYS TESTOSTERONE IS THE MAIN OBSTACLE TO REFORM

You may have been under the impression that Obamacare’s troubles emanate from the public option or the Cadillac tax, but it turns out to be a Y chromosome problem. New Hampshire Democrat Carol Shea-Porter says the biggest obstacle to health care reform is men. She says that Congress could get Obamacare done if the […]

Posted 25 January 2010 † Catron § Obamacare BS § Political BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (2)

DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (VII)

Since the voters of Massachusetts gave Scott Brown ”the 41st vote” against Obamacare, we have been subjected to a virtual tsunami of clueless articles and blog posts about the future of “reform.”
So, once again, it was hard to decide whose effusions were the dumbest. Nonetheless, having read who knows how much banal progressive prose on Brown’s victory, I think the prize goes to […]

Posted 24 January 2010 † Catron § Journalistic BS § Obamacare BS § Reform BS ‡ Comments (5)