#359 SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER
GOP COCKSUCKER SENATOR FOR TENNESSEE
In addition to GOP Cocksucker #358, President Obama took on this dude at the health care summit when he tried to tell him what was in the health care bill.
Alexander said it would raise the average guy's premium, just as the president was going to pass off the discussion. What he tried to do what slip in a Fox Not the News talking point right as someone else was going to speak. But Obama caught it and swatted it right out of the park.
President Obama said that the bill would actually LOWER premiums, not raise them. Not smelling the danger, Alexander blundered straight forward, saying that the Congressional Budget Office had said so. That was all Obama needed.
He calmly said this was an example of the misinformation out there. The CBO never said that. What it SAID was that with lower premiums, a lot of people could afford better insurance, which would raise what they pay in premiums.
"We're all entitled to our own opinions but not our own facts."
Alexander was left shuffling through his papers at this evidence that Obama had indeed read the bill and got very, VERY quiet when Obama finished, probably because his mouth hurt from having the taste slapped out of it.
With thanks to TPM Muckraker.
S. Olson
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