Michael Steele peddles Fox's "death book" lie in an attempt to scare seniors to death about health care reform:
Look, you’re taking this whole system, Gretchen, and you’re turning it on its head, and in the process of doing that you’re turning senior citizens on their heads with respect to the kind of coverage and kind of care they’re getting. And so I think it’s time, and this was a placemarker for this fall’s debate.
As we do this, let’s keep in mind that this going to have a real impact on the, some of the most vulnerable people in our community, and we’ve got to be smart about that.
If you want an example of bad public policy, just look at the situation with our veterans, when you have a manual out there telling our veterans, you know, stuff like "are you really of value to your community?", you know, encouraging them to commit suicide, I mean this is crazy coming from the government, and this is exactly what concerns people and puts them in fear of what the government control of health care will look like.
There is no truth to Steele's claim. None. Absolutely zilch.
And this lie isn't coming from a fringe propaganda outlet on cable news (yes, that means you, Fox). This despicable, reprehensible lie is coming from the chairman of the Republican Party. Yet somehow, for some reason, some people still think the GOP can be appeased, that there is some way to negotiate with them.
Well, Earth to the clueless: the GOP is not interested in bipartisanship. It's time to stop dealing with them until they get their act together.
For now, we're going to have to get health care reform done on our own.