Daniel “The Scarp” Scarpinato goes national

by David Safier

Small town boy makes good . . . well, at least he moves up. Daniel Scarpinato went from Star reporter to Capitol Times' Yellow Sheet editor to communications guy on Paton's CD-8 campaign to communications guy for AZ Republican legislators (hope I didn't leave anything out) to his current position as NRCC spokesman.

But success hasn't gone to his head. Scarpinato is still the same overly bombastic, facts-optional guy he's always been, and still deserving of his honored place in the BfA dictionary of political terminology:

Scarps: Attack dog, logic-challenged rants written by Daniel Scarpinato.

The only difference is, now he's doing it on a national level. Today I spotted him on Talking Points Memo. Same dude, same fact-free attitude.

The story is, Barney Frank says in hindsight, Dems should have backed off the health care reform legislation. It's not that the legislation is bad. It's just that Dems are paying too high a political price.

“I think [President Obama] underestimated, as did Clinton, the sensitivity of people to what they see as an effort to make them share the health care with poor people.”

Put Frank's words through the Scarpination Mixmaster and they come out, "Obamacare is a terrible idea."

“With Barney Frank even saying that ObamaCare has been a disaster, it’s time for Lois Capps to finally admit she was wrong when she voted for her government takeover of healthcare and its $500 billion cut to Medicare,” said NRCC Spokesman Daniel Scarpinato.

It's a Scarp two-fer. First he misrepresents Frank, then he picks up the much-used distortion about Dems harming Medicare by creating $500 billion in cost savings, a lie that earned Two Pinocchios in the WaPo Fact Checker.

Daniel, the hometown folks in Tucson are proud of watching you.