E.J. Dionne: Some Lies Are More Equal Than Others

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[Michael van der Galien]

George Orwell’s Animal Farm taught us that while all animals are equal, some animals are more equal than others. Now, we have E.J. Dionne (whose…unique…brand of logic and argumentation Tim has noticed and argued with since his days at the Ball State Daily News op-ed page) to tell us that all broken campaign promises are equal, but some are more equal than others. Specifically, any broken promise that helps further a leftist cause–why, that can hardly be called a broken promise at all, and definitely not a lie.

Take Obama’s latest backtrack on campaign openness, vis-a-vis his promise to let cameras into negotiations of bills versus the closed-door sausage-making now occurring with “health care reform.”

While, to the casual observer, or even the interested political aficionado, it might seem like Obama is breaking a campaign promise, but just read Dionne.

“Is the Democrats’ failure to let C-SPAN into their negotiations merging the House and Senate health care bills a big deal because of a campaign promise by President Obama? No, it’s not.”

Oh. Well, we’re glad that’s cleared up. So pleased that enlightened ones like Dionne can lead us all to the truth.

His argument boils down to this–because there has been public discussion of the bill, it doesn’t matter that no one gets to see what actually goes into the bill. This is like saying that because we could go up and pet a cow at a farm, it doesn’t matter how the steaks get made. Sorry, but for us, nothing could be further from the truth. We need the details, we need to know what kind of deals are being brokered (we’re looking at you, Senator Ben Nelson and Nebraska) and what is going to come out the other end when this whole ugly process is finalized.

[tet68]

The democrats idea of discussion is
YOU voting YES on THEIR bill.

[beethovenfan]

I can’t stand that fruity little bastard Dionne.

[FrdmLvr]

The nerve of a pinko fascist using Orwell when Orwell was warning us about people like him!

[Drill Thrawl]

E.J. Dionne: Some Idiots Are More Idiotic Than Others

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[w1andsodidwe]

“Is the Democrats’ failure to let C-SPAN into their negotiations merging the House and Senate health care bills a big deal because of a campaign promise by President Obama? No, it’s not.”

I am channeling his real response. "No, it's not a lie, because it accomplished the purpose of getting Obama elected, everyone in the know, knew it was a lie, so there"

[VR-21]

Nearly the entire 20th century testifies to the leftist notion that any subterfuge or criminality in pursuit of their cause is excusable. How ironic that Dionne invokes Orwell, because their manner of projecting their criminality on their opponents is the essence of virtually everything Orwell wrote after Homage to Catalonia, when he discovered what evil, rapacious people communists were.

[y6162]

The are a number of good TV versions of Orwell’s Animal Farm.

I wish Fox would run it 7x24.

[Darkwolf377]

I can’t stand that fruity little bastard Dionne.

I use this line way too much but I can't help it--Dionne is the kind of person who spends his whole life waiting for his books to be dumped again.