Thursday, February 28, 2013

There is no such thing as an 'Obama phone'

There is a 'Reagan phone' and a 'Bush phone', though

Twice today, once on the radio and the other on a Fox website comment section, I've heard and read the term 'Obama phone'.  There is no such thing.  The subsidized phone program began in 1984 under Ronald Reagan and in 2008, George W. Bush expanded the program to include cell phones. Obama has nothing to do with it.

If you're going to call that program anything and you have even a shred of integrity, you would rightly call it what it is; a 'Reagan phone' if it's a land line and a 'Bush phone' if it's a cell phone.

Of course, it involves integrity and that's a missing gene in wingnuts.