Liberals use emotion and scare tactics to get their way. Conservatives use facts, numbers, and an occastional NMATV video post, to make their points. Numbers are a beautiful thing.

Gateway Pundit catches Bernie Sanders in the modern definition of a gaffe, which is the accidental telling of truth by a politician. While health-care reform advocates insist that the public plan is no threat to health insurers, Sanders insists that the entire point of the public plan is to strike fear into the hearts of the heartless…

Here’s the fun stuff: an analysis on Sanders’ numbers by Hot Air’s Ed Morrisey…

Sanders accuses the health insurers of spending a million dollars a day, in the aggregate, to fight the public plan. If so, that amounts to $365 million for this year at the most (obviously, they’ll stop once action is taken on the bill or it fails). At that rate, the health insurers would take 2,739 years for them to spend what the CBO estimates ObamaCare will cost over ten years in its least expensive iteration. If we’re going to talk about wasteful spending, let’s put that in its proper perspective.

THAT was a boo-yah moment.

I thought we were told that the government shouldn’t try to scare the public into getting what it wants. I guess that depends on who’s doing the scaring and how badly they want it.

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