TagsTagsVideo Right wingers are spewing a huge amount of venom at law student Sandra Fluke, but it's quite evident from Rush Limbaugh's statements and the nonsense all over the right wing blogs that most of these people have no idea what Fluke actually said. Actually, that's the generous analysis -- it's also ...
Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, Women's Rights, Health Insurance, Birth Control, Contraception, Right Wing, Misogyny
Big LGF kudos to the Obama administration for holding the line against the whiniest lobby in America -- the "social conservative" Neanderthals opposed to contraception: Health plans ordered to cover birth control without co-pays. Most healthcare plans will be required to cover birth control without charging co-pays or deductibles starting ...
Contraceptives, Religious Right, HHS, President Obama, Health Insurance
Here's the new leader of the GOP presidential race, enthusiastically promoting the idea of a personal responsibility to buy health insurance in 2005 -- a radioactive position in today's Tea Party GOP.
newt gingrich, Health Insurance, Affordable Care Act, Hypocrisy, Right Wing
Sharron Angle is just one of the many GOP far right extremists running for office this election, and her latest statements show how far out of the mainstream she really is -- calling autism and maternity benefits "politically correct special interests:" Angle: Insurance mandates are product of government bowing to ...
Nevada, Sharron Angle, Republican Party, Extremism, Far Right, John Birch Society, Autism, Health Insurance
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
President Obama is about to address the House of Representatives about health care reform; you can watch live over the web at this page on C-SPAN.
Barack Obama, Health Care, Health Insurance, House of Representatives
The American Medical Association is now officially endorsing President Obama’s health care legislation: AMA Supports House Passage of Health System Reform. Washington, D.C. – After careful review and consideration, the American Medical Association (AMA) today announced its qualified support for the current health reform bill as a step toward providing ...
Health Care, American Medical Association, Barack Obama, Health, Health Insurance
The latest Gallup poll shows that Americans still trust Barack Obama on health care far more than they trust either the Democrats or the Republicans in Congress, although the overall confidence level is dropping as the political horse trading goes on and on. And congressional Republicans are trusted about as much ...
At her Facebook page, Sarah Palin stringently fact-checks the health care summit. Oh, wait. Actually, she just reposted the GOP’s official talking points. The short version: 1) we are so interested in reconciliation, how dare you say we’re not? 2) really, honest, we mean it, we’re totally into reconciliation, 3) the ...
Health Care, Reform, Health Insurance, Summit, Talking Points, Video, Chris Matthews
Here’s a live White House video stream from the festivities in Blair House, as Democrats and Republicans wrangle over health care reform legislation in a veritable blizzard of talking points. White House Video
The health care summit meeting is now underway at the Blair House in Washington DC; the GOP seems to be completely united in their anti-government message. It’s being broadcast on the cable news channels, so here’s a thread to discuss…
Health Care, Reform, Health Insurance, public option, Senate
You’ve probably already heard that the Senate passed the health care reform bill today, after months of political wrangling designed to remove any vestiges of actual usefulness: Senate approves landmark health-care bill. Democrats are increasingly confident that President Obama will sign a bill into law in early 2010 that would ...
Health Care, Reform, Health Insurance, public option, Senate
After holding out for months to insert anti-abortion restrictions into the Senate’s health care reform legislation, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) is apparently now ready to sign the bill: With Nelson on board, health-care bill could pass by Christmas. Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), the final Democratic holdout on health care, announced ...
Health Care, Reform, Health Insurance, Right Wing, Insanity, Abortion, Bad Craziness, Michelle Malkin
In the single most absurd, irrational argument against health care reform I’ve seen to date, Chuck Norris takes a break from marketing his fitness equipment to pen a ridiculous screed for the right wing news sites, asking the question: What if Mother Mary Had Obamacare? In Norris’s addled world, it’s a ...
Bad Craziness, Abortion, Insanity, Right Wing, Health Insurance, Reform, Health Care, Chuck Norris
Here’s an eye-opener at Nate Silver’s blog: FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Why Progressives Are Batshit Crazy to Oppose the Senate Bill. Silver’s post centers around this graph, and he explains in great detail how he came up with the numbers: Read it all before we start fighting about it. If I can ...
In a surprise move that’s only surprising if you haven’t paid much attention to Joe Lieberman’s many other “surprise moves,” he announced today that he won’t support the health care bill in its current form. WASHINGTON — In a surprise setback for Democratic leaders, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of ...
Health Care, Reform, Health Insurance, Senate, Joe Lieberman
The US Senate has rejected an attempt to tighten restrictions against coverage for abortion in the proposed health care reform bill: U.S. Senate rejects abortion measure in health bill. The measure was co-sponsored by Sen. Robert Casey (D-Pa.), Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). Nelson has threatened to ...
An interesting development in the health care reform battle, as the Democrats get the 60 votes they need to begin the debate after Thanksgiving: Sen. Blanche Lincoln also on board, 60 in hand. Sen. Blanche Lincoln is a yes for debating health reform, but a no for the public option, ...
Employees of the Republican National Committee will be pleased to know that if they should ever find themselves in the unfortunate position of needing an abortion, their insurance plan covers it. The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a ...
GOP, Republican Party, Health Care, Health Insurance, Abortion