The GOP has never had to defend any of the lies that they've made about health reform. Before now.

[YewNork]

Remember all the lies that they said was going to happen if reform was passed:

death panels, the government standing between you and your doctor, etc.

As those things do not happen, they need to be reminded about those lies.

[Lebam in LA]

1. They will just pretend they never said it

Remember the doom and gloom predicted with Bill Clinton budget. Oh the lost jobs, the downfall of America, oh the humanity. They have the memory of a gnat. The media will never call them on it. Never:grr:

[YewNork]

3. At least we have future ammo.

They've been used to defeating reform efforts by fear mongering and scare tactics of telling lies and twisting facts, and because they've been successful in the past
we've never been able to absolutely disprove their lies. Now we will. As the sky does not fall, they need to be held accountable for their scare tactics.

The next time Palin ever has a one on one interview, I hope that she's asked: "How about those death panels?"

And when employers don't start dropping their employees insurance because it's "cheaper" for them to just pay the fine, Republicans
need to be asked why that didn't happen.

[Richardo]

2. They can start with these 45 year-old whoppers:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/adventures-in-old-age/200908/medicare-is-socialism

Ronald Reagan, on behalf of the AMA, released an LP record (remember those?), Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine, in which he said:

"Write those letters now; call your friends and them to write them. If you don't, this program I promise you, will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow, and behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country...And if you don't do this and if I don't do it, one of these days we are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children, what it once was like in America when men were free."

As I recall, Ronnie spent HIS sunset years being President of the United States and proclaiming it was 'Morning in America'.

Anyway, to continue:

Other politicians shared similar sentiments.

Barry Goldwater in 1964: "Having given our pensioners their medical care in kind, why not food baskets, why not public housing accommodations, why not vacation resorts, why not a ration of cigarettes for those who smoke and of beer for those who drink."

George Herbert Walker Bush also was part of the chorus in 1964 when he called Medicare "socialized medicine."

And as late as 1996, when he was running for president, Bob Dole bragged, "I was there, fighting the fight, voting against Medicare . . . because we knew it wouldn't work in 1965."

You can see that the level of mendacity and fear-mongering has not really changed all that much, it's just gotten more hysterical.

[HughMoran]

4. Political ad "So Congressman xxxxxx, when do the 'death panels' start"?

Fucking fools may not want to bring this HCR up at all in some districts where they were especially toxic during the debate before passage.

[Old Codger]

5. Not gonna happen

There is about as much chance of them actually admitting they ever said it even in the face of absolute proof as I have of flying to the moon. They have so deceived themselves that they were right and will continue to do so. Lying is a politicians bread and butter... they know no other way to do things.