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One of the stepping stones toward earning respect is trust.

Unfortunately, as shown at Political Punch, it appears the steps taken are backward:

At a rally in Holmdel, New Jersey, today, President Obama continued making a promise about health care reform that he has acknowledged isn’t literally true.

“Let me be exactly clear about what health care reform means to you,” the president told residents of the Garden State. “First of all, if you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you.”

But last month, as the president acknowledged during a press conference, he doesn’t literally mean that you are guaranteed to be able to keep your health care plan, and your doctor, if and when health care reform passes. [emphasis-admin]

Oh heck, we’ll never get to the bottom of this hurry-up plan the administration and some in Congress are prepared to ram down our throats until and if it is signed into law. How can we when the person who so desperately wants results can’t be trusted to repeat the same story twice?

Enough of that.

There’s so much thrown at us out of Washington these days that it takes forever [and an awful lot of energy] to distinguish fact from fiction.

Right now we could all use a dose of “just the facts” and I know just the guy to get them [and not a bad sidekick in this instance either].

Enjoy!

Now, wasn’t that fun?

I know. I said enough. However, I spotted this after wrapping up this post.

Interesting. The stakes are high. A leaked whip list suggests fifty progressive (read liberal) members of the House are prepared to vote against the health care bill if it doesn’t contain a “robust” public option. Moderates, or Blue Dogs, are worried about too robust a public option that will not play well in their districts and possibly undermine existing health care options. The plot thickens, as a new report from the Senate says no bi-partisan compromise coming this week.

It could be the ray of sunshine some of us are hoping for if it pans out in the end.

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