Outstanding article! Read the whole thing, folks.
I'm sending this quote to my eunuch Senators and Congressman.
” it would have been a great gesture of solidarity . . . . . if each of your fellow Republicans on the floor had stood, one at a time, looked the President in the eye and likewise declared, “You lie!” . . .
I think that any verbal use of the term “lie” would have been viewed as a breach of decorum. I would have loved to see the Republicans silently and in unison raise a sign labeled FALSE! every time Obama uttered an untruth. The visual impact of hundreds of silent dissents would have been enormous.
This strategy also would have sidetracked any inherently unproductive and unresolvable discussions about Obama’s motivations (a lie being the KNOWING utterance of a falsehood) and instead focused attention on what matters more. At the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter whether Obama has made erroneous statements out of ignorance or malice. What matters is that public support for the plan declines once people realize it really will cover abortions, it really will help illegal immigrants, it really will take away private plan choice etc. And once people see and understand the president so consistently on the wrong side of the facts, they can draw their own conclusions about whether this arises from stupidity or venality.