The GOP majority in the Senate is supposed to release a summary of its plans for the healthcare bill today. It is an outline of the full bill that is just about complete and which will be released by Monday.
For the last month, the Democrats' battle plan in opposing the bill has been to denounce that it is being drafted "in secret". We are told that it is undemocratic to draft a bill in secret. Of course, Obamacare was drafted in secret, but that was by Democrats, so it doesn't count. Of course, the House bill to which the Senate GOP is responding is fully public and has been so for months, but that's not worth discussing because it's not secret. Supposedly, not a single Democrat has been able to learn what is in the GOP bill.
In the last few days, however, the Democrats have been shifting from the "secrecy" of the bill to denouncing its content. For example, yesterday, the senators from my state of Connecticut both made detailed statements about how one feature of the GOP Senate bill or another will cause problems and be terrible. It's not worth reviewing those statements; that's not my point. No, I want to focus on one question that this shift in tactics reveals.
If the Senate GOP bill is really being developed in secret and the Democrats are unable to know what is in it, that means that the current shift to denouncing the content of that bill is dishonest. After all, if the Democrats don't know what is in the bill, how can they denounce specific provisions? On the other hand, if the Democrats do know what is in the Senate GOP bill and are actually speaking about real provisions in that bill, then they have been telling lies for weeks about how the bill is being developed in a way that keeps them in the dark. In short, it is impossible for both of these to be true.
It's just more lies.
For the last month, the Democrats' battle plan in opposing the bill has been to denounce that it is being drafted "in secret". We are told that it is undemocratic to draft a bill in secret. Of course, Obamacare was drafted in secret, but that was by Democrats, so it doesn't count. Of course, the House bill to which the Senate GOP is responding is fully public and has been so for months, but that's not worth discussing because it's not secret. Supposedly, not a single Democrat has been able to learn what is in the GOP bill.
In the last few days, however, the Democrats have been shifting from the "secrecy" of the bill to denouncing its content. For example, yesterday, the senators from my state of Connecticut both made detailed statements about how one feature of the GOP Senate bill or another will cause problems and be terrible. It's not worth reviewing those statements; that's not my point. No, I want to focus on one question that this shift in tactics reveals.
If the Senate GOP bill is really being developed in secret and the Democrats are unable to know what is in it, that means that the current shift to denouncing the content of that bill is dishonest. After all, if the Democrats don't know what is in the bill, how can they denounce specific provisions? On the other hand, if the Democrats do know what is in the Senate GOP bill and are actually speaking about real provisions in that bill, then they have been telling lies for weeks about how the bill is being developed in a way that keeps them in the dark. In short, it is impossible for both of these to be true.
It's just more lies.
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