Wait, what was shoved down whose throats?

By Michael J.W. Stickings

John Cole calmly debunks the whole "Democrats are shoving health-care reform down our throats" nonsense that made up so much of the anti-reform Republican spin:

The bill was passed with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, as required by law and Senate rules. It was then passed in the House by majority rule and in accordance with all House Rules.

It was done so by a Democratic majority elected sixteen months ago along with a Democratic President who campaigned daily on Health Care reform, and who received the most votes in the history of American elections and won by the widest margin in decades.

The bill was crafted quite openly, after a year and a half of public debate, and the exact Senate bill that was passed in the House [on Sunday] has been available for people to read and discuss for three entire months. This was the slowest, most open, most thoroughly discussed piece of legislation in my lifetime.

Anyone who says this was "rammed down" anyone's throats simply does not know what they are talking about.

There you go. That's how it was. The truth wins out. Republicans are full of shit.

(h/t: our friend Mustang Bobby)