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Sad to say, many of you here this evening do choose to walk on by "choose to give priority to financing your next election campaign rather than to the health needs of the American people. You have been setting up straw-man objections to new legislation and then knocking them "and the legislation "down, leaving many of your constituents in total confusion.
Straw Men
I served here in Congress. And I know that in this rarified atmosphere it is easy to become convinced that, like the children of Lake Wobegon, all of us are above average "evidence to the contrary notwithstanding.
Whether above average or not, you cannot plead ignorance. Nor does it require a PhD to recognize as fraudulent the scary gossip that is so widely circulated and so wildly untrue.
You know what I'm talking about; ideas like:
-- "Death panels will decide to get rid of grandma before her time;
--Illegal immigrants will overburden the health care system; or
--Federal funding for abortion is part of the planned legislation.
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