Posted on 03/31/2012 10:21:55 AM PDT by brityank
The RNC shoots itself in the mouth
Opponents of the Affordable Care Act and the Obama Administration really could not have had a better week. They did a tremendous job framing their constitutional argument against the statute to the public, the lawyers on their side were brilliant, and it appears that they had a receptive Supreme Court majority. It was an eleven on a scale of one to ten.
Now this. The RNC released an advertisement (embedded in the story linked below) with audio from the halting beginning to Don Verrilli’s oral argument on the individual mandate to make the point that (as the ad’s title says) "ObamaCare: It’s a tough sell." So far as I can tell, it is less a real ad that would actually run than a stunt intended to draw attention – no less a stunt than the DNC surely has done in lots of other contexts.
But Bloomberg News had the good sense to actually compare the actual argument audio with what the RNC distributed. It turns out to have been materially doctored. As the Bloomberg piece says, "A review of a transcript and recordings of those moments shows that Verrilli took a sip of water just once, paused for a much briefer period, and completed his thought, rather than stuttering and trailing off as heard in the doctored version."
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It probably also sets back the effort to get the Court to become more transparent. As Amy pointed out to me, the Justices now have before them a perfect illustration of the gross distortion that can instantly be made of recordings of their proceedings. What is to stop the same misleading stunt being pulled with the Justices’ own oral argument questions and comments? Nothing at all. The Court made a special exception in releasing the oral argument tape for the health care arguments so promptly, and it probably will hesitate before doing so again. If there were any chance that the Justices would permit cameras in the Court, I do not see happening now.
(Excerpt) Read more at SCOTUSblog....
I don’t believe there was ever a chance that
cameras would be allowed in the Supreme Court.
RNC can’t be as stupid as they were when mikey steele was in charge.
RNC can’t be as stupid as they were when mikey steele was in charge. Can they????
OH YEAH!!!
facepalm pic anybody ???
Whatever he did seems to have worked well.
Then he was fired.
My judgment is neither here nor there regarding Mike, but really guys, how do winners do it?
How do people who know how to be winners decide which way to go next?
Now we are saddled with an RNC chairman who is so incompetent he failed to make sure voters in Virginia had a chance to vote the whole list of official Republican candidates.
The party apparatus and their running dog lackeys will not be forgotten for that one ever!
I"d expect more and more jokers pulling this sort of thing now that they know there's nobody at all in charge!
Yeah : )
You found a blog that agrees with you. The ad exaggerates Virelli's fumbling, but I agree that obamacare is a tough sell. Bloomberg doesn't like it, but do they jump on Dem ads with a few seconds of audio?
I keep reading comments that the Dems play dirty and the GOP gets rolled.
Whatever he did seems to have worked well.
Well, as I recall Mike was invited to attend several of the early Tea Party rallies and turned them down. It took a concerted push from the folks in the trenches to get him to finally pay attention, and I think the first one he spoke at was in Delaware.
The various Tea Party groups all had more of a hand in shaping that win for the Repubs than did the RNC hierarchy. JMHO.
Steele had little to do with the ass whoopin the dems suffered last election cycle.
Obammy and the dems grab on all things was responsible for that.
And as for not gettting the whole group on the Virginia ticket, are you sure those at the RNC didn’t have an agenda to get mitt elected?
i didnt go outta my way to find or prove anything that i necessarily agree with, beyond the fact the for multiple reasons the gop/rnc appear to be unable and unwilling to be effective politically, even when they *try*...
being a good fighter means that *they* must get down and dirty and mean...BUT NOT incredibly stupid and easily debunked, as the edited ad was trotted out into the light, just like the NBC Treyvon/Zimmerman 911 call...
bambam care a 'tough sell'...it shouldve been met with formal charges and action, anything possible, on day one...
but, as our conversation has gone the past couple days, the willingness of the population isnt *there* yet to stop the commie offensive...still playing *fair*, giving them opportunities to repent...its required by us...
as far as Atlas Shrugged, i have yet to read it [keep meaning to], but i bet our perceptions of Galt are the same, simply disengaging from the systems of the established society and being self sufficient/preserving, in the face of the monster...politically, or otherwise...
2010 took place under the NEW leadership ~ which does have the intent to force Mitt down our throats.
That, btw, is understood by everyone. I think they want to lose it all.
Given that progressives self-define their movement as ‘progressing beyond the original intent of the constitution’ in order to free the government from, as Mr. Obama famously said, the “charter of negative rights” (rights that the government does NOT have) — the author is right when he says conservatives “hate the constitution.”
Of course they do - that is the whole point of their 70 year effort to render it moot!
Given that progressives self-define their movement as ‘progressing beyond the original intent of the constitution’ in order to free the government from, as Mr. Obama famously said, the “charter of negative rights” (rights that the government does NOT have) — the author is right when he says conservatives “hate the constitution.”
Of course they do - that is the whole point of their 70 year effort to render it moot!
” bambam care a ‘tough sell’...it shouldve been met with formal charges and action, anything possible, on day one...”
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