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Yes, the health care bill has passed the House. The Senate is the final hurdle.
I watched this earlier and was going to export from EyeTV and upload it to YouTube, but Think Progress beat me to it so I’ll use their video. It’s not one of the GOP’s finest moments (to put it mildly), as House Republicans shout, scream, and make repetitive objections over ...
Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel condemned signs containing Holocaust imagery and antisemitic conspiracy theories, at Michele Bachmann’s “tea party” event last Thursday. One sign at the rally contained images of dead Holocaust victims at the Dachau concentration camp under the banner “National Socialist Health Care.” Another sign said ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Elie Wiesel, Tea Party
Pastor Stephen Broden from Dallas Texas gives the benediction at Michele Bachmann’s “house call” protest against the health care reform bill, and immediately launches a political diatribe about “death panels!” and “death care!” and tyranny and socialism and anti-Christ abortion and violation of all the laws of God and ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Sex Clinics, Pastor Broden, Death Panel
C-SPAN 3 is covering the Michele Bachmann anti-health care tea party swarm right now; as I write, Jon Voight is speaking on the steps of the Capitol. I’d estimate the crowd at between 7.3 and 8.2 million people. At least. UPDATE at 11/5/09 10:03:39 am: The word of the day ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Sex Clinics
Michele Bachmann’s (R-Mars) chief of staff is bailing out, and declines to say why. The aide who helped turn Rep. Michele Bachmann into a controversial mainstay of cable news has informed colleagues that she’s quitting — just as the firebrand Republican congresswoman prepares for her biggest media moment yet. ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Sex Clinics
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) continues promoting her bizarre, obsessive “SCHOOL-BASED SEX CLINICS” distortions, in her latest crazy rant to the US House of Representatives. [Video]
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Lunacy, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Sex Clinics
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) announces the latest far right fever swamp fantasy: the health care reform bill is going to allow the demonic Planned Parenthood to set up ... I hope you’re sitting down ... sex clinics in the schools of America! With free abortions for 13-year olds! What’s worse ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Lunacy, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion
The National Right to Life Committee is loudly claiming that the health care bill promoted by Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) would allow federal funds to subsidize abortions. Imagine my surprise, if you will, to discover that this claim is false.
Here’s a second thread to discuss what just happened. Andrew Malcolm has posted the full text for us to pick over.
Here’s an excellent site run by retired psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Barrett (whose Quackwatch has done great work exposing many fraudulent medical practitioners, including the anti-vaccination nuts) looking at the many myths and distortions being circulated about the proposed health care reform legislation. Dr. Barrett calls it: Insurance Reform Watch.
Health Care, Reform, Health Insurance, Quackwatch, Dr. Stephen Barrett, debunking
The 3 Monkeys Guide to Health blog has an excellent post about the enormous fines levied against the drug company Pfizer, and the distorted claims being made about the situation: Pfizer Pleads Guilty, Pays $2.3 Billion For Off-Label Use of Bextra, Zyvox, Geodon and Lyrica. In this case it ...
No word on whether private insurance will cover the finger reattachment or the dental check-up. Man’s Finger Bitten Off in Scuffle at Health Care Rally. A witness from the scene says a man was walking through the anti-reform group to get to the pro-reform side when he got into ...
Health Care, Town Hall, Demonstrations, Protests, Violence, Los Angeles
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), always a dependable source of loony rants, really uncorked a winner today as she told a wildly cheering audience that she wanted them to slit their wrists. “This cannot pass,” the Minnesota Republican told a crowd at a Denver gathering sponsored by the Independence Institute. ...
Code Pink leader Medea Benjamin highly approves of the right wing screamers disrupting health care town hall meetings. This is exactly why I coined the term “moronic convergence.”
Town Hall, Health Care, Extremism, Code Pink, Left Wing, Right Wing, Moronic Convergence
Religious fanatic Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) told his constituents this week that the United States is on the verge of a revolution. Inhofe took the opportunity to blame Democrats for a bevy of issues. He lashed out at democrats for overtaking the government and spending billions of dollars on ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Fundamentalism, Religious Right, Revolution, Health Care
Charles Krauthammer takes a rather cynical look at A Strategy to Save Obamacare.
LGF reader Keith G. has been working on an updated version of the list of LGF questions about health care reform originally proposed in this thread. He’s added a section for each question for any answers that become available. This is a great resource; thanks to everyone for submitting your ...
We’re always posting the hate mail we receive, because it’s so often inadvertently funny. But for a change, here’s an email titled “Appreciation” (uh oh, it’s from an Obama supporter) that made my day. I wanted to express how much I appreciate — and how classy it is — ...
Death Book for Veterans! It’s another “death” boogeyman from a party that should be asking real questions about the health care legislation, but can only seem to muster up cheap alarmist scare tactics intended to confuse and mislead. Here’s the VA planning document they’re calling a “death book:” Your Life, ...
Sarah Palin, Death Panel, Death Book, WSJ, Health Care, Veterans, Alarmism
At the Washington Post, David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey bring up an interesting question about President Obama’s health care legislation: Does the US Constitution give the federal government the authority to require citizens to buy nationalized health insurance? President Obama has called for a serious and ...
Barack Obama, Health Care, Reform, Constitution, Health Insurance
Charles Krauthammer just keeps making sense: Honest Debate Needed on End-of-Life Talk. Let’s see if we can have a reasoned discussion about end-of-life counseling. [Good luck with that. --ed.] We might start by asking Sarah Palin to leave the room. I’ve got nothing against her. She’s a remarkable political ...
Last week we had a thread titled What Would You Ask About Health Care? The purpose was to get everyone’s input on substantial questions about the proposed health care legislation that need answering, and hopefully make a more rational contribution to the debate than ranting about death panels and euthanasia ...
I’m not Barney Frank’s biggest fan (that would probably be him), but he handled this idiot with an "Obama = Hitler" sign exactly the right way. [Video]
Barack Obama, Right Wing, Hitler, Godwin's Law, Health Care, Barney Frank
Comedy Central Video
Glenn Beck, kooks, Weeping, Health Care, Hypocrisy, Jon Stewart