Weiner exposes republican "Doc Fix" hoax on house floor.

[sufrommich]

UPDATE 3/19 5:20pm: Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.) just read from the memo on the House floor. And Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) responded by ripping him and demanding his source.

"What they're doing is producing fake memos," he said.

"That memo that he read from has no source. He will not return to the microphone to tell us what it was because he took something that was created by the opponents of health care -- and there are a whole lot of them, mostly paid for by the health insurance industry -- and came to the rostrum with a fake document," said Weiner.

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) interrupted. "Parliamentary inquiry," she yelled.

"I don't yield for that," said Weiner, continuing. "There is no reluctance to talk about the real CBO score: $1.2 trillion in savings for the American people. That's the fact. That's nothing we're hiding from."

"Will the gentleman yield?"

"I will yield only if the person will tell us the source of the document."

A chaotic back-and-forth broke out until Weiner regained the floor.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what you saw just now is a microcosm for this debate: A real piece of legislation that for a year we've been working on and a fake document that they won't even give a source for," he said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/19/doc-fix-memo-fake-health_n_506338.html



Weiner does the work of 10 democrats. He's awesome.

[Bicoastal]

1. He would make a great candidate for President some day...

...if it wasn't for his--well, you know.

[tavalon]

3. I know, his name. But he will be a candidate for President one day

nonetheless. He is a stellar congressman and an overall stand up guy.

[hootinholler]

8. Why? Americans love Weiners!

Beans N Weinies, chili dogs, Coney Islands, the list goes on. I say turn it to an advantage! As American as Apple Pie.

-Hoot

[Lyric]

5. To be fair, I recall people saying the same thing

about a junior Senator from Illinois with a name that sounded a lot like "Osama" and a middle name that was obviously Arabic.

;)

[Jennicut]

2. Rethugs are cowards. I wonder who did make the fake doc.

They didn't do a very good job of faking it.

[elehhhhna]

4. "fake docs we won't give a source for" is the Con's 2010 campaign slogan

Worked before.

[tblue37]

6. That document is a typical Rovian dirty trick. He taught

Republican operatives to circulate damning memos and correspondence on Democratic Party letterhead. He has done this in campaign after campaign. He might or might not be directly behind this one, but he crtainly is the fountain from which this poisoned stream flows.

[hlthe2b]

7. My first thought when the story broke

Where is the Rovian cretin?