The Democrats don't want Americans to see this chart.
From Roll Call:
Democrats are preventing Republican House Members from sending their constituents a mailing that is critical of the majority’s health care reform plan, blocking the mailing by alleging that it is inaccurate.
House Republicans are crying foul and claiming that the Democrats are using their majority to prevent GOP Members from communicating with their constituents.
The dispute centers on a chart (view PDF) created by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Republican staff of the Joint Economic Committee to illustrate the organization of the Democratic health care plan.
At first glance, Brady’s chart resembles a board game: a colorful collection of shapes and images with a web of lines connecting them.
But a closer look at the image reveals a complicated menagerie of government offices and programs that Republicans say will be created if the leading Democratic health care plan becomes law.
...Brady adamantly denied that the chart was misleading and said Democrats are simply threatened by the content of the graphic.
“I think their review was laughable,” Brady said. “It’s ... downright false in most of the cases. The chart depicts their health care plan as their committees developed it.”
“The chart reveals how their health care bureaucracy works, and people are frightened by it,” he added. “So this is their effort to try and discredit” the chart.
I think this could be resolved quite easily.
The Democrats should make their own version of the chart.
Would it look dramatically different?
Let's see the Dems' depiction. They should correct the alleged inaccuracies.
Mail out both. That should satisfy the Dems.
Are the Dems afraid of transparency?
2 comments:
A schematic of the space shuttle would be more complex still. But it gets the job done.
That's not the point.
The issue is why the Dems are afraid of letting Americans see the chart of the bureaucracy.
What's the big deal?
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