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GOP: Stop Spewing Health Care Lies

Target: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
Sponsored by: Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

The Republican smear machine has been at its best recently, spewing falsehoods about the Democrats' health care plan. But President Obama said it best in his address to our nation, when he debunked the "death panel" claim:

"Some of people's concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but by prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens. Now, such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie, plain and simple."

It's cynical. It's irresponsible. And it must stop.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell must take a stand against his party's falsehoods. Tell Senator McConnell: Stop the lies! Force Republican Senators to debate policies actually in the bill, rather than spreading salacious rumors that don't meet the fact-check.

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Dear Senator McConnell,

I am disgusted with the way the Republicans have handled themselves throughout the debate about health care reform. Rather than focus on debating policy points, your party has relied on spreading lies to make the American people scared of reform.

In your role as Senate Minority Leader, you must urge members of your party to stop spreading myths, and instead focus on the facts.

As President Obama said in his speech to the joint session of Congress, "when facts and reason are thrown overboard and only timidity passes for wisdom, and we can no longer even engage in a civil conversation with each other over the things that truly matter -- that at that point we don't merely lose our capacity to solve big challenges. We lose something essential about ourselves."

Please don't let America lose what makes our country great. Urge your fellow Republican senators to stop spreading lies -- and work toward real health care reform.

[Your comment here]

Sincerely,
[Your name here]

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10:33 pm PST, Nov 20, Soo Thacker, Alaska

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8:32 pm PST, Nov 20, Sophie Ginsburger-Vogel, France
Please, let America be a wonderful country, one that show a great example in Human Rights, now !

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Low cost health care is good for business, where people will have more money to buy goods and services.

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7:16 am PST, Nov 19, Louis Benedict, Ohio
Low cost health care is good for business, where people will have more money to buy goods and services.

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4:59 am PST, Nov 19, Randi Lawrence, Pennsylvania
It's just plain mean-spirited to keep health care from US citizens. And it's unimaginable that elected legislators are so blatently dishonest. Get some courage and learn how to tell the truth!

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12:32 pm PST, Nov 18, Alan Papert, Massachusetts
Take back the integrity of the Republican party. It is more important for the future of our great country than destroying a president who is doing his best to serve the people.

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12:30 pm PST, Nov 18, Verona Thompson, New Mexico

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12:04 pm PST, Nov 18, M.L. Ewing, Illinois
Through my work in an international missionary organization, I have lived in several other cuuntries. My experience with the health care system in Great Britain is nothing like what members of your party have made it out to be. I know from personal experience that what has been diseminated as "the facts" are out and out lies. Is the entire Republican Party under the thumb of the big insurance and pharmacutical companies. If you can't speak the truth, don't say anything.

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Insurance companies ARE death panels!

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