TagsTagsBirth control pills via Shutterstock Right wing think tank the Heritage Foundation is blaring that "Obamacare" has awakened a sleeping giant: It is a rare moment indeed when faith denominations of all stripes unite together in common cause, and it is rarer still when that cause is a political one, with ...
President Obama, Health Care, Birth Control, Contraceptives, catholic church
Rick Santorum misses the days when women would die in horrible agony from having back-alley abortions. Ah, good times. Look at what’s happened just in our tolerance for abortion. Fifty years ago...60 years ago, people who did abortions were in the shadows, people who were considered really bad doctors. Now, ...
Rick Santorum, Religious Right, Abortion, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Health Care
A terrible precedent: apparently caving in to the right wing crusade against Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has decided to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer prevention. It's a concrete example of how the religious right's reactionary anti-choice agenda is hurting women ...
Planned Parenthood, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Right Wing, Health Care
In the adventures of the many personae of Newt Gingrich, the Republican Party's big idea guy, today a 2006 memo has turned up in which the Gingrich of 5 years ago "agreed entirely" with Gov. Romney's health care bill. To conservatives, the biggest strike against Mitt Romney is the health ...
It's a funny thing. If you point out that a right-wing pundit lied, their fans don't care. If you point out that they used extremist rhetoric, their fans don't care. But if you point out that they're unhip....have mercy! Mediaite's Tommy Christopher wrote a snarky follow-up to my ...
One of the odd moments (out of many) at last night's Republican debate came when moderator John King asked Tim Pawlenty about his attacks on Mitt Romney's health care plan, using the term "Obamneycare." The question here on the campus of Saint Anselm University from CNN moderator John King was ...
Republican Party, GOP, Debate, Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, Health Care
Ezra Klein has some very interesting statistics about health care, showing that in every country where it's operational, single payer health care is simply working. Everyone knows — or should know — that the United States spends much more than any other country on health care. But the Kaiser Family ...
Paul Ryan's crazed effort to destroy Medicare is apparently a bridge too far for Senate Republicans. Senate Republicans have decided to avoid jeopardizing their chances of capturing the upper chamber in next year’s elections and will not echo the House GOP’s call for a major overhaul of the popular health ...
The new Washington Post-ABC News national poll completely confirms the McClatchy-Marist poll we featured yesterday: Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to cutting Medicare and Medicaid, and overwhelmingly in favor of raising tax rates on the wealthiest. The new poll's numbers: 78% oppose cutting Medicare, and 72% favor raising taxes on incomes over ...
Interesting results in this new national McClatchy-Marist poll; apparently the Republican base isn't so hot on cutting Medicare and Medicaid after all. And a very sizeable percentage of Republicans also likes the idea of the wealthy paying higher taxes. On tackling the deficit, voters by a margin of 2-to-1 support raising ...
Fox News just keeps getting more ridiculous. Here's one of their supposedly unbiased "hard news" shows, Fox News Sunday, featuring former Bush White House press secretary Dana Perino whining that President Obama offended their tender feelings with his budget speech. They're such delicate flowers, so easily bruised. This meme is all ...
President Obama, Speech, Budget, Health Care, Republican Party, Delicate Flowers
Last night, an open microphone caught President Obama making some pretty forceful statements about the Republican agenda and Paul Ryan's ludicrous budget proposal: Obama tells Republicans: 'You think we're stupid?' Video I said (to Republicans), 'You want to repeal health care? Go at it. We'll have that debate. You're not going ...
President Obama, Speech, Budget, Health Care, Republican Party, Obstructionism
Here's a thread to discuss the President's budget speech, which is about to begin... [Live video concluded...] A transcript of the speech.
House Republicans have introduced a bill to repeal the newly enacted health care law, another cynical, grandstanding, time-and-money wasting carnival act for the Tea Party base, with absolutely no chance of passing the Senate: House Republicans set Jan. 12 vote on repeal of health-care law.
President Obama, Health Care, Republican Party, GOP, Obstructionism
Politifact.com has selected their Lie of the Year for 2010: the Republican attack line that the government is taking over health care. By selecting "government takeover' as Lie of the Year, PolitiFact is not making a judgment on whether the health care law is good policy. The phrase is simply not ...
The big news this morning: a federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a key provision of Obama's health care plan is unconstitutional. RICHMOND - A federal judge in Virginia ruled Monday that a key provision of the nation's sweeping health-care overhaul is unconstitutional, the most significant legal setback so ...
Tea Party Republican Andy Harris wants his government health care and he wants it now. He's special, you see; not like the rest of the American population. A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation session by demanding to know ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Republican Party, GOP, Hypocrisy, Health Care
And now we learn, from the official police statement, that Republican Rep. Eric Cantor’s claim that his Richmond office was targeted by someone who fired a bullet through the window turns out to be completely false. Richmond Police Investigate Cantor Building Vandalism March 25, 2010 The Richmond Police Department is investigating an ...
Health Care, Barack Obama, Health, Health Insurance, Bad Craziness, Threats, Eric Cantor, Bogus
Fox News reports that someone took a shot at Republican Rep. Eric Cantor’s Richmond campaign office last night. TPM has more details on the story. House Minority Whip Eric Cantor just gave a brief speech accusing Democrats of using reports of recent threats of violence for political gain, and saying someone ...
Health Care, Barack Obama, Health, Health Insurance, Bad Craziness, Threats, Eric Cantor
The coffin that was placed outside the private home of Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.) was a stunt organized by the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition and religious fanatic blogger Jim Hoft (“Gateway Pundit”), kicking his usual insanity up a notch into actual threatening behavior. And he’s proud of it. Hoft sees ...
Health Care, Barack Obama, Health, Health Insurance, Bad Craziness, Threats, Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, First Things
Racial slurs, gas lines cut, death threats against children, and now this: Coffin placed on Carnahan’s lawn. A coffin was placed on a Missouri Democrat’s lawn, another in a string of incidents against lawmakers after their vote Sunday on a health care overhaul. Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.) had a coffin placed ...
Health Care, Barack Obama, Health, Health Insurance, Bad Craziness, Threats
Fred Barnes in January 2010: The Health Care Bill Is Dead | The Weekly Standard. The health care bill, ObamaCare, is dead with not the slightest prospect of resurrection. Brown ran to be the 41st vote for filibuster and now he is just that. Democrats have talked up clever strategies ...
Health Care, Barack Obama, Health, Health Insurance, Fred Barnes, Bogus Predictions, Pundits
To Michelle Malkin, if President Obama shows any sign of being even slightly happy about the success of his health care reform bill, it’s “gloating.” And in the comments for her thread (among dozens of comments talking about buying food, guns, and ammunition, joining militias, and going on “a war footing”), ...
Health Care, Barack Obama, Health, Health Insurance, Bad Craziness, Michelle Malkin, Timothy McVeigh
At a closed meeting yesterday, House Minority Leader John Boehner told GOP legislators to “behave like grown-ups.” Now, why would he think it was necessary to tell them that? House Minority Leader John Boehner told his conference to “behave like grown-ups” if the healthcare bill is passed by the House on ...
Health Care, Barack Obama, Health, Health Insurance, GOP, Republican Party
There it is — the health care reform legislation championed by President Obama has gotten the necessary 216 votes and passed the House. And now the screaming starts…