Here’s a fun sidenote on the George Till Survey Monkey monkey survey that’s too fun to pass up. We’ve heard Republicans defend the unscientific online poll which was built by Democrat Till out of his desire to derail the “single payer religion.” They haven’t learned that the first lesson of what to do when you’ve trapped yourself in a hole is to stop digging, though.
I found this in the comments at vtbuzz from a few days back. It’s Rep. Anne Donahue (R-Northfield) trying to claim the high ground by asserting that it was a breach of trust for pro-reform legislators to take the poll themselves as a demonstration of just how bogus it is, and how (un)seriously it should be taken:
The only persons other than MDs who were aware of the access code to respond, however, were members of the House Health Care Committee.
I believe Dr. Till felt he could trust the ethics of his peer physicians and his legislative colleagues to maintain legitimacy of responses. Sadly, that proved to be a misplaced trust
Actually, Representative, what you refer to as an “access code” is generally called a URL, or more colloquially, a web page address. You know, those things that are wide open and identified by search engines. Of course, the simple charge that legislators passed on a web address already in statewide distribution doesn’t have quite the punch that suggesting they dishonestly passed out a secret code does. Also, acknowledging that the “access code” was nothing more than a URL in a browser would kind of reinforce your opponents’ point about the absurdity of the whole exercise, no?
Look, I’ll be the first to grant that there are a lot of things to like about Rep. Donahue, but this is silly.
So here, then, are some more Rep. Donahue-style access codes. Oh lord, think of the havoc which will be wrought now that GMD is daring to make them public:
- CIA access code: https://www.cia.gov
- The Federal Reserve: http://www.federalreserve.gov
- Apple computers: http://www.apple.com
- The Vatican: http://www.vatican.va
- The Biggest Loser: www.nbc.com/the-biggest-loser
Can you handle the awesome access power?
is to reach the “CIA World Factsheet,” which represents statistically how the U.S. stands in relation to the rest of the world with regard to things like income and income inequity, education, life expectancy, infant mortality rates, etc.
Believe me, more people from the right ought to access it on a regular basis because they’d suffer a rude awakening…“the best healthcare in the world,” indeed!!! The CIA doesn’t think so.
It would be disastrous.