Sunday, August 23, 2009

Fact Check Healthcare Reform?

The Sunday morning talk shows just inspired me to pursue a new venture.  If you're like me and can't get enough of those verbal slugfests, this is guaranteed to improve the quantity - if not the quality - of future political debates.

We've all heard of the omnipresent "factcheck.org," right?  Personally, I've had enough of factcheck.org.  This fact-finding/fact-proving website is nothing more than an argument-killer.  Ask Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity...or anyone at Fox News.

If you're like me (and Fox News), the last thing you want, when you're arguing anything - especially politics - are the facts.  Facts are the modern-day buzz killers of the political food fights we all love to watch - or listen to - every day.  So, on behalf of political junkies everywhere, I'm officially announcing the creation of my new website www.facts-schmacts-check.org. 

How does it work?  I'll explain by example. Unless you live under the proverbial "rock," you know that health care reform is being debated on television and radio (am,fm and my personal favorite, SiriusXM), constantly. Every one of them features talk shows which fan the fires of debate on this timely issue.

While both parties agree we need reform, one believes we need a "public option" while the other side says, "...wait a minute... we don't agree with what those guys said!  What was it they said?"  

"Ok", they say (reluctantly) "maybe we need health care reform but we all need green beer on St.  Patrick's day and not all of us have access to that either, right?"  And the reason we're arguing is because our opponents say 47 million people in this country lack health insurance."  "We don't agree!"  (Sound familiar?)

That's exactly what's happened in past televised debates.  Plus, after hearing "we don't agree..." someone would bring up - you guessed it - factcheck.org.!"  Those scalawags! Aha, but that's all about to change...

In fact, just this morning Sen. Orrin Hatch (btw, have you ever met anyone named "Orrin?"  Who names their son"Orrin?") said (allow me to paraphrase) that while 47 million people "may be" uninsured, 12 million are "illegal aliens" and 11 million are young adults who think they don't need it (just unlimited text messaging); 10 million decide they don't want it (just because...they want their country back first) and 9 million don't know how to sign up for it.


Finally, 4,999,998 are going to move to France, anyway.  So, according to his astute calculations and knowledge of the facts, this whole debate and reform is really about two (2) uninsured individuals in Jackson, Wyoming! (Hey, Cheney...did you let your policy lapse?)  

I say, "Well done, Senator!"  And where did the good Senator get his information?  Where else? At "our" favorite new website on the Internets: www.facts-schmacts-check.org!

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