How do you know that? Do you listen to all of those "right-wing" talk radio shows? Or do you just rely on someone to package together the clips in a way that supports their own viewpoint? Did you read the entire bill?
Before you go and "vomit" be really sure that you aren't lapping up propoganda the way you accuse others of doing. Your generalities about the "other side" in this thread are a bit surprising to me as you usually don't resort to that kind of thing.
Both sides paint their arguments in the light that most favors their own. Radical liberals practically wrote the book on disruptive demonstration and now seeing them bellyache about "fair discourse" and "misrepresenting the facts" makes me want to vomit.
Do I listen to all of them? Most certainly not. I do, however, get a daily dose of Hannity on the commute home (it is an unfortunate fact that the best traffic reports in this city, which you desperately need as our highways are horrible, are on a heavily conservative station -- but that also means I end up getting a healthy dose of opposing viewpoints every day), and he's been bringing this up nigh-daily for the past week or so -- citing this exact passage in the way I described above. He is considered mainstream talk radio. I could understand if it was, say, Savage, but this is a guy with a prime-time television show as well.
Is the whole bill agreeable? Of course not. Is there wasteful spending in it? Of course there is. And these are valid points that need to be addressed and corrected. My point is that I am sick and tired of seeing term definitions being quoted and passed off as the bill's policies.
If people want to complain about legitimate areas of the bill that actually would establish policies they disagree with, by all means do so. That's what debate is about. But making stuff up -- saying that the bill makes private insurance illegal, or gives the government unfettered access to personal bank accounts -- and pointing to a section that says nothing of the sort and is talking about something completely different is dishonest, unethical, and is part of what is wrong with modern political discourse in this country.
And yes.
That makes me rage, hard.
