The other day, I had the chance to listen to radio personality Dan Fagan literally scream at U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller on KFQD, 750 AM and call Joe Miller a liar.
In the clip below, you will hear a portion of the exchange between U.S. Senate Candidate Joe Miller and Dan Fagan.
The issue that was being contested by Dan Fagan was what Joe said in a Human Events article written by Jedediah Bila.
There is a quote in the article that Fagan took issue with and was his reason for calling Joe Miller a liar.
She refused to vote to repeal Obamacare; I would.
Joe Miller was basing that comment on an actual comment made by Senator Murkowski in an interview.
While she opposed the ObamaCare bill (the reason why is it cut Medicare too much), after the bill was signed into law, she stated she would not repeal the law.
This is a fact and Senator Murkowski can spin it anyway she wants as is she is trying to do in a recent article in the Anchorage Daily News.
Murkowski said her track record shows she opposed the federal overhaul "at every single opportunity," including voting against the measure's passage, and has supported efforts to repeal the legislation either wholly or in part. Miller himself supports repeal.
Someone should ask Senator Murkowski if Medicare needs to be cut?
For Fagan to say she was against ObamaCare, he is not telling the whole story.
When she states she wants to repeal Obamacare; her main reason for opposing Obamacare is stated in her June 2010 address to the Senate (3:42-3:56); "...and this is one of the main reasons why I could not support the healthcare bill that came forward."
She may want to repeal Obamacare, but she does so with her main reason that Medicare is cut. So Fagan was wrong and Joe Miller was and is right on Murkowski.
Moreover, Joe Miller pointed to the change in Murkowski's stance on repealing ObamaCare on his website:
US Senate Candidate Joe Miller is calling on Senator Lisa Murkowski to explain why she continues to grandstand on the repeal of ObamaCare, while offering us no concrete evidence that she will stand up and be counted in the United States Senate. Early this month, The Hill reported that she has declined to sign a simple nine-word Republican bill that would repeal ObamaCare and allow free market advocates to go back and get it right. Senators Jon Kyl of Arizona and John Cornyn of Texas, among other prominent Republican legislators have signed on, while Mitch McConnell, Lamar Alexander and Lisa Murkowski have begged off. (See Senate Bill to Repeal Healthcare Reform Lacks Backing from Republican Leaders, The Hill, July 5, 2010.)
"The Senator has some explaining to do," Miller said. "Alaskan voters deserve something more than a 'duck and weave' routine on her nuanced, and sometimes contradictory positions on the repeal of ObamaCare. If she cannot make up her mind on something this straightforward and unpopular, how can Republican voters have any reasonable expectation that she will 'fight for Alaska' if they give her the nod in August." Last August speaking at a townhall meeting in Anchorage, she said "It's not so much that the government run [healthcare] plan is in and of itself a bad thing." She backed up that view with a vote earlier in 2009. Murkowski was one of only a handful of Republican Senators who voted against their Party with the Democrats for a $33 billion expansion of the SCHIP program, shortly after President Obama took office (The Senate Vote on H.R. 2 as Amended, January 29, 2009). President George W. Bush vetoed a similar measure twice on the grounds that it was a move towards socialized medicine which the nation could ill-afford.
Though she now says she favors repealing ObamaCare, as has been widely reported, she said precisely the opposite in a March 30 interview with KTUU shortly after the bill passed. At the time, it looked like public sympathy was swinging in support of the new legislation. But after Mr. Miller decided to jump into the race in April, she altered her message. Do her recent protests really indicate a change in course? The new information from The Hill raises serious questions about her willingness to stand on the true conservative principle of limited government, and the disparity between what the Senator says in Alaska and what she does in Washington. It seems we're hearing more of the reelection Lisa now, while the real Murkowski sees new federal government programs as the answer to almost every problem.
As Joe Miller pointed out, it wasn't until he got in the race that Senator Murkowski flipped and flopped while telling the whopper.

And it seems Dan Fagan has bought into Murkowski's spiel hook, line and sinker.
A supposed conservative talk-show host laying the ground work for a liberal double-speak, political flip flop -- strange bedfellows indeed.
And kudos to Joe Miller for taking a stance with Dan Fagan, the Drama-man. We need more candidates who have a spine.
Oh and how does Miller feel about Medicare while Murkowski wants to repeal the Medicare cuts?
Miller says he believes the federal Department of Education should be abolished and that, over the long term, the government should stop offering Social Security and Medicare. His campaign message to Republican primary voters shouts of the contrast between him and Murkowski, saying she is for abortion rights, supported a Wall Street bailout and is not in favor of repealing the "Obamacare" federal health law.
At least Joe has the courage to state what needs to be done.













































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Joe said - "She refused
Joe said - "She refused to vote to repeal Obamacare"
Yet there hasn't been a vote to repeal since Obamacare passed the senate, a fact Joe miller stated more then once on Fagan's radio show
How is this not a deception of the truth?
joe
Pointed to her comment that she didn't want to repeal it. You are twisting the comment made to your interpretation. She did refuse to repeal it even though a vote hasn't come up
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