"If the starting point for this meeting is the job-killing bills the American people have already soundly rejected, Republicans would rightly be reluctant to participate."The mixture of Newspeak and lies in this solitary sentence is chilling. "Job-killing"? which think tank dreamt that up? And when precisely did "the American people" reject anything? When the people of Massachusetts voted in a special election?
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Politics and the English language, 2010
The President has proposed a half-day, televised health care summit, and in the process of chickening out, House GOP leader John Boehner and Eric Cantor use one of the most Orwellian quotes I've seen in a long-time.
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