Tony Romm of The Hill reports that the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee made it clear on Thursday that not only were Republicans not going to have a seat at the table as the Senate reconciles the two proposals in play, but that a strong “public option” will be a [...]
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Also tagged Baucus, Comittee, Compromise, Education, Harkin, Health, HELP, Insurance, Labor, Max, Option, Pensions, Public, Reform, Tom
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Freshman Rep. Alan Grayson (D.-Florida) shows the true face of “bipartisan debate” in a segment of Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room. When called upon to apologize or at least clarify his statement that Republican plan was to have sick Americans “die quickly”, he put on a performance that illustrated perfectly the depths and extremes to which [...]
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Also tagged Alan, Allen, Blitzer, Dragging, Florida, Grayson, Greyson, Health, Insurance, Knuckle, Neanderthal, Neanderthals, Obama, Plan, Reform, Uninsured, Wolf
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Probably the single defining moment for the health care debate was when Rep. Joe Wilson leaned forward during the president’s address to congress and uttered that one exclamation, “you lie!” in response to the president’s assertion that illegal aliens would not receive medical benefits under the administration’s nascent health care proposals. Once the words cleared Rep. Wilson’s [...]
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Also tagged Baucus, Health, Illegal, Immigrant, Immigration, Karina, Obama, Reform, Student, UCLA, Undocumented
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
President Obama failed to get the health care reform measure passed by the August recess as he hoped, and the full-throttle approach that the administration took in getting the legislation passed had some surprising and unintended consequences. For one, it resulted in the emergence of an opposing grass-roots movement that the conservative movement has not [...]
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
I can forgive ignorance – I’m ignorant about any number of topics; it’s the human condition. We’re born with our instincts, and we spend the rest of our lives filling our noodles up with information, some useful and profitable and some delightful and fun to know. As the frail and limited beings that we are, [...]
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Also tagged ABC, Assumed, Baucus, Beck, Bi-polar, Bipolar, Byron, GOP, Health, Illness, Limbaugh, Malkin, McConnell, Mental, Monopoly, Obama, Obamacare, Option, Public, Reform, Republican, Savings, Suffering, Wolf
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Here’s the truth – the moment that I heard Joe Wilson was from South Carolina, I knew that the charges of racism weren’t far behind. It’s reflexive, utterly predictable and as inevitable as the sunrise. The truth is, President Obama spoke for an entire generation in power now when he made his famous cocktail comment. [...]
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Starting to feel my pre-9/11 funk as they start with the programming. I witnessed the attacks and their aftermath from the World Financial Center across the street and attached to WTC 1 by a footbridge. I watched an excellent special last night featuring the debunking of the conspiracy theories by the staff of Popular Mechanics and other [...]
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The administration and the media are either tone-deaf, ignorant or are on the offensive again. The narrative in the press is that Republicans are willfully blocking reform for political gain, and the uninsured are going to be suffering as a result. In other words, conservatives are heartless monsters that would through the underclass into the fiery [...]
Filed in Democratic Floozies, Education, Health, Media Tarts, Media Whores, Politics
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Also tagged Assholes, Children, Czar, Green, Health, Hollywood, Insurance, Kindergarten, Madison, National, Obamacare, Republicans, School, Speech, Uninsured, Van
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Among the biggest of the straw-man arguments being levelled against opponents of President Obama’s comprehensive healthcare reform is that we either believe that “death panels” will be making life and death decisions about each individual geriatric on their 50th birthday, or that we are peddling this notion to the gullible submoronic elderly who then raise [...]
Filed in Health, Politics
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Also tagged Administration, Couseling, Death, Health, Obama, Panels, Reform, Towey, VA, Veterans
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
Best quote of the year – that’s it in a nutshell. From an e-mail circulating with links to Thomas Sowell’s excellent series on the Obama health care proposal. It’s a very good read.
Let me get this straight. Obama’s health care plan will be written by a committee whose head says he doesn’t understand it, passed [...]
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Also tagged Health, Insurance, Medicine, Obama, Option, Origin, Origins, Public, Quote, Reform
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