MO-Sen, IL-Sen: Republicans Blunt, Kirk Mislead on Health Care

There are two current Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives who are presently running for seats in the U.S. Senate, Missouri's Roy Blunt and Illinois' Mark Kirk. Both have been telling easy-to-debunk lies in the health care debate.

First, friend of all corporate lobbyists Roy Blunt tries to personalize the debate:

"I'm 59," Mr. Blunt said last week during a meeting with Post-Dispatch reporters and editors. "In either Canada or Great Britain, if I broke my hip, I couldn't get it replaced."

Ooooh, scary! There must be a lot of broken-hipped Canadian and British seniors hobbling around, huh? Nope. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch did their due diligence:

We fact-checked that. At least 63 percent of hip replacements performed in Canada last year and two-thirds of those done in England were on patients age 65 or older. More than 1,200 in Canada were done on people older than 85.

Oops. Turns out Blunt had been lying the entire time. Blunt's lame excuse:

"I didn't just pull that number out of thin air," Mr. Blunt said in a subsequent interview. It came, he said, from testimony before the House Subcommittee on Health by "some people who are supposed to be experts on Canadian health care."

"I had been given that example. I was told that 59 is the cutoff," he said. "I'm glad you pointed that out to me. I won't use that example any more."

You won't use that example anymore?! How about you stop parroting all of the bogus non-statistics your right-wing corporate cronies feed you? How about you stop engaging in scare tactics to mislead voters, senior citizens especially? Roy Blunt is nothing but a dishonest corporate shill.

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in office at the moment.

And Burris, Himself, is now considering reversing his plans to retire at the end of his term.

Frankly, I will wait and see what the Alan Keyes branch of the Illinois GOP does. They are SO conservative, that Kirk probably strikes them as a commie, even though Kirk has made his bones on conservative issues. One of our favorite spectator sports in Illinois is watching the Beta Fighting Fish wars, which is about how our local GOP behaves in primary season.

but I guess he's running for Bond's senate seat.

I despise Roy Blunt.

He'll just pull another equally false example out of thin air and use it. Oh, how I hope Robin Carnahan wins!!