[Fwd: LAST CHANCE DEMOCRACY CAFE]

So, we've gone from the spread of disinformation to lying?

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Subject: LAST CHANCE DEMOCRACY CAFE
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:18:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: mike532 <littlemike532@gmail.com>
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To: Politics & Current Events <politics-current-events@googlegroups.com>

LAST CHANCE DEMOCRACY CAFE

By Stephen Day
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/9175
As Steven Pearlstein recently demonstrated in the Washington Post,
Republicans have been spreading blatant lies in their opposition to
health care reform.

And as Paul Krugman noted in response in his blog at The New York
Times, this is hardly a surprising development, given that lying
about
important public policy issues has been the GOP's consistent modus
operandi for well over a decade.

So let's stop to consider this for a moment: our nation faces huge
challenges — challenges we stand little chance of successfully
addressing without an open and honest public dialogue toward that
end.
Yet, one of the nation's two "great" political parties has adopted,
as
its primary operating strategy, a policy of consistently thwarting
all
attempts at achieving such a dialogue.

Is it just me, or is it hard not to call that evil?

And if that's true, wouldn't rewarding such practices, by meeting
their sponsors halfway in the name of bipartisanship, constitute not
only bad policy, but also something akin to sin?

It sure seems that way to me.

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