Missouri Congressman Roy Blunt left his wife in order to mount a tobacco lobbyist, so it's understandable he'd be concerned about keeping his thrusters in working order.
But this is bad form, even for a Beltway cocksman.
A newspaper has corrected a lie Blunt is peddling as he criticizes efforts to reform health care. In a meeting last week with the editorial board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Blunt said 59-year-old silver foxes like himself were too old to get new hips in Canada or Britain, bastions of socialized medicine.
Not true.
Post-Dispatch writers checked Blunt's assertion.
At least 63 percent of hip replacements performed in Canada last year and two-thirds of those done in England were on patients age 65 or older. More than 1,200 in Canada were done on people older than 85.Informed of the error, Blunt said he'd stop using the example. The congressman said he picked up the "fact" during testimony before the House Subcommittee on Health. A writer at Daily Kos investigated this claim and found it lacking a foothold with reality.
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those opposed to healthcare for all are disparate
I spent a solid ten seconds trying to figure out the joke prior to realizing it's a typo. Now laughing at self.
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