 Snake Oil & Surrender
Now that the ads have all aired, the halftime show music ended, and the Super Bowl game - which was effectively a surrender by the Denver Broncos - is done, the season of football in America is finished, at least for another few months. That means you can get back to some news about a few topics that you might have missed - including another major "collapse" in America, which is already in progress.
The ongoing deception we're focusing on today actually became fairly obvious to us quite a while ago, but like the old-time story about the traveling snake-oil salesman and the rubes he's conning in the small rural towns, the people getting cheated are usually the last ones to know it.
Paul Krugman perfectly noted this deception on healthcare insurance by Republicans in this morning's New York Times. Some in the media began to publicly admit seeing this GOP chicanery a week ago today, when Senate Republicans proposed yet another so-called alternative to Obamacare. As both Brian Beutler and Matt Yglesias pointed out, while the "alternative" plan was sold in right-wing media as another attempt to replace Obamacare, it was really the first serious sign that Republicans in Congress may finally be ready to abandon the tea party...
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