BUT IS IT REALLY A FALSEHOOD IF IT'S A NOBLE LIE?

[sheshe2]

Today Cassidy revised and extended his fact-challenged remarks:
Hours after a brutal takedown at the hands of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) went on television Wednesday to respond.

But with literally his first sentence, Cassidy did the very thing that had drawn Kimmel’s ire: The senator made wildly misleading claims....

“There will be more people covered under the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson amendment than are under status quo and we protect those with pre-existing conditions,” Cassidy said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

Cassidy made a lot of statements today that can't be defended:

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He's a member of a party in which there are many adherent of the philosophy of Leo Strauss. As Andrew Sullivan wrote a few years ago, Straussians don't believe you and I deserve the truth:

Strauss argued that many critical texts in Western civilization were written with an esoteric teaching for the intelligent few, while presenting a less radical and palatable public doctrine for the masses. Hence the Straussian penchant for a noble lie – one that is good for the people to believe but which the elite knows is bullshit.

More http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2017/09/but-is-it-really-falsehood-if-its-noble.html

The burn it down crowd, ie: Susan Sarandon, who said Hillary was worse than 45, has no clue how this will affect millions of lives. She and the GOP have theirs. Fugg the rest of us.

[Me.]

1. Sigh

is there a you lie smilie?

[sheshe2]

2. Cassidy is a liar....

no smilie...but you can use this

[yallerdawg]

3. And the cherry on top? Defund Planned Parenthood!

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[sheshe2]

4. They are going for it all and may just win this time.

Bastards!

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. I hate SS more than Trump, no excuse for him, but we all thought she was smarter than him. Turns...

out, they're both rich, selfish assholes, who don't mind a little collateral damage in the furtherance of their selfish goals.

[sheshe2]

6. What is 23 million lives?

As you said, collateral damage and neither one will lose a minute of sleep as they die. They got there's...screw the rest of us.

[betsuni]

7. K&R

[Beartracks]

8. "Wildly misleading claims"? Just say Lie. "Statements that can't be defended"??WTF? Just say LIE.

Why can't the media utter the word LIE when they encounter liars?

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