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Or am I missing something?


No not a thing.

The last statement is a continuance of the process started in the first part of the editorial.......
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The speaker gaveled the vote closed; Medicare privatization had passed.

It could have ended with, "Then monkeys flew out of their butts", and been just as truthful.

But of course it was meant to scare old people and Socialists.

First it points out a political tactic that is used by both political parties and makes it sound like it is something illegal or extraordinary, then comes to a farcical conclusion.

It is roughly similar to the reaction over gerrymandering. Most people didn't even realize that a lot of Democrats went along with because it made their congressional seats "safe".

Warren