Factcheck.org responds to accusations in a tweetstorm from Senator Sanders re: Mercatus study

[JCanete]

218. That's a perfect example of him not taking them at their words or intentions,

thus the "thank you...for accidentally..."

He is obviously slapping them for being foolish enough to try to damn Medicare-for-All with the emphasis on a best case 32 trillion dollar cost to government.

If you were in a debate and you made the foolish ass comment "even if we assume your numbers are correct Bernie, that would be an increase of government spending to 32 trillion dollars..." And Sanders came back and said, "Well if that's your figure, that would be a savings of 2 trillion dollars to the American taxpayer." You just lost that debate. You just opened the door to a smackdown and got owned. Who cares how you try to parse it. Who cares what case you are trying to make overall. You supplied the ammunition for your funeral. But instead, for whatever reasons, we're trying really hard to give the Koch study and its true intentions life-support.

By the way that is nothing like Obama saying "you didn't build this." The words were slightly off but the intention isn't really in question, whether people wanted to spin it or not. In my example above, teh intention is obviously different. they didn't slightly mangle their words, they presented their words in an effort to paint one picture of Medicare-for-All as a flop even in its best case. The problem is that isn't what that particular data showed and that is why it is entirely fair game to use it against them.