[kj] oliver / fox election spin

[Brendan]

So what exactly is up with your healthcare system, why do you pay so much
over there and still get so little for your dollar?


> McCain aides themselves are the first who started blaming Palin, before

> the election had been cast.

>

> The McCain aides responsible for saying things to the press like, "Sarah

> Palin is a diva," etc., were ex-aides of the Romney campaign, mostly.

> They did not want, post-election, Palin to be the new leader of the

> party; they wanted Mitt Romney to be at that helm.

>

> Speaking of policies, they were actually discussed, like McCain's

> ridiculous $5,000 tax credit to individuals so they could privately buy

> health care on the private market.  That $5,000 credit would be treated

> as taxable income by the government and would give incentive for

> employers to drop employees' coverage, since now the govt was giving

> them a tax credit to go of and buy their own. It is one of the stupidest

> policy proposals I have ever seen, and McCain deserved to lose on that

> one, too.

>

> -Oliver

>

>

> fluw wrote:

>> Palin was no doubt ill equipped for the position, but note this report

>> you

>> linked came from Fox News who..

>>

>> are attempting to spin the story of the election, by giving people on

>> the

>> "right" a scapegoat -

>>

>>

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