From the BBC "Have your Say" comments...this sums up the right wing spin perfectly:
"Those leftwing naysayers told us that our plan to fly by leaping off a cliff was ill-conceived and that flapping our arms would never work. Those people lacked vision, and their negativity is harming our War on Gravity.
Our new plan to flap even faster is definitely working to slow our descent, and if we give up now the results will be disastrous. Clearly the Democrats would prefer that we hit the ground and went splat just to prove us wrong."
Gyrate Ting, London, United Kingdom
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