George Orwell is looking more and more like a prophet every day.
Rep. John Carter (R-Texas), the secretary of the House Republican Conference and a former District Court Judge, is having his messages to constituents censored by Democrats on the Franking Commission. Republicans are no longer allowed to use the words “government run health care” in the communications to their constituents.
Carter received an email from the Franking Commission informing him of the censorship.
“It came to me from the Franking Commission and I have the email from the Franking Commission here if you’d like to see it,” Carter said. “We held a telephone town-hall… When you hold telephone town-halls you have a recorded message that introduces the town-hall and the subject matter you’re going to be talking about. You have to now submit that language to the Franking Commission.
“What we proposed as language was as follows, ‘House Democrats unveiled a government-run health care plan,’” Carter said. “Our response from Franking was, ‘You cannot use that language. You must use, ‘The House majority unveiled a public option health care plan,’ which is Pelosi-speak or ‘just last week the House majority unveiled a health care plan which I believe will cost taxpayers…’”
“I would submit to you this is a free speech issue, guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States,” Carter said. A highly-placed Hill staff source tells HUMAN EVENTS this is the new policy being enforced by Democrats. Republicans will be forced to use the Democrats’ version of language describing their attempted government takeover of healthcare on their official communications with their constituents or they will have to pay for the postage personally.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32856
The Democratic regime is pulling a bureaucratic double-speak on an already dumbed-down constituency. Just switch the word “government” to “public option” and it’ll seem like everyone has a choice, rather than being forced to take what the government dishes out.
This socialist “health care reform” needs to go down in flames.
Their just making mistake after mistake…take a look at what Pelosi “believes” about this Obamacare plan…
never ending benefits?
Frank,
Nancy sure is a hoot. “You have a cap on your costs, but not on your benefits”. On her planet, healthcare will be free, and no one has to pay for it. There’s one basic tenet of economics that escapes the minds of idiots like Pelosi: “There’s no such thing as a free lunch”. In other words, that “free” benefit took time, effort, or money to produce. I didn’t appear out of thin air, it costs….the taxpayers.
SFC MAC