"She's giving hypocrisy a bad name." - Democratic Underground

A-Schwarzenegger

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Wed Jun-29-11 02:22 AM
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"She's giving hypocrisy a bad name."

On Bachmann from Isikoff's story
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43570552/ns/politics-decision_2012/

"She's giving hypocrisy a bad name," said Ron Pollock, executive director of Families USA, a consumer health care advocacy group, when asked about the Medicaid payments to Bachmann & Associates. "It's clear when it feathers her nest she's happy for Medicaid expenditures. But people that really need it — folks with disabilities and seniors — she's turning their backs on them."

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Tunkamerica

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Wed Jun-29-11 02:44 AM
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1. not to mention taking funds that could better be used elsewhere

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A-Schwarzenegger

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Wed Jun-29-11 03:26 AM
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2. "But people that really need it—folks with disabilities and seniors—

she's turning their backs on them."

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Tunkamerica

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Wed Jun-29-11 03:30 AM
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3. turning her back implies something different than actually taking the funds

Edited on Wed Jun-29-11 03:31 AM by Tunkamerica

that they could use

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A-Schwarzenegger

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Wed Jun-29-11 03:40 AM
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4. Well, it's a good thing for her that she hasn't had to choose between taking the funds

Edited on Wed Jun-29-11 03:41 AM by A-Schwarzenegger

that they could use, turning her back on them,
and giving hypocrisy a bad name, so far.

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