Plus We Have a Motorcade [Thursday, April 10, 2014, 1st period]

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"The President's health care deadline--the big effing deal, to paraphrase the Vice President--came up last week, and the numbers of enrollees are in: more than 7 million people have signed up, even with the website problems they had that first month. Now the right wing media is spinning like crazy, accusing the administration of bulking up the numbers, or deciding they might not be the right kinds of people--that is, young healthy people, not old sick ones-- who have signed up. Last month they were proclaiming that there was no way the President could even hit his goal because apparently they have never seen the lines at the post office the night that taxes are due and don't understand that Americans are procrastinators."

He took a sip from his coffee. "My question is this: if the President managed to spin straw into gold or discover life in outer space or the key to immortality, how would the right wing media spin those to be a horrible thing? Go."

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Re: Spin Zone! [4/10]

[walkswithcoyote]

"Straw into gold? Just another way to subsidize those lazy farmers! Sure, let 'em grow hay and dry it out and BOOM, there's gold." Mercy made a face. "And living forever? Social Security is already going bankrupt. What does he want to do? Ruin us completely? Our national debt will be in bazilions!"