Florida Congressman Alan Grayson breaks down the GOP Healthcare Plan on the House floor. This is his presentation in its entirety – 2:27. In true GOP form, they are more concerned with shooting someone elses plan down than developing one of their own. Fear The Republicans have officially become the “do nothing” party. Fix nothing. [...]
This story by Matt Miller is a repost from the Daily Beast. Once the party of fiscal sanity, the Republicans are now wailing that the Democrats’ health-care plan cheats seniors out of money. Matt Miller on how they scare grandma. Connoisseurs of hypocrisy will always find plenty to savor in political debate. But even by [...]
This story is a repost from Think Progress. At the How To Take Back America Conference last weekend, conservative speaker Kitty Werthmann led a workshop called “How to recognize living under Nazis & Communists.” Announcing the panel in a column preceding the conference, talk show host Janet Porter gushed how Werthmann’s description of Austria in [...]
Last week, ten US Senators introduced the perfect vehicle for reform of the surveillance powers in the PATRIOT Act, as well as the much broader and more dangerous FISA Amendments Act (FAA), the warrantless surveillance law that was passed by Congress last summer. The new bill, called the JUSTICE Act, would add essential new checks [...]
Recently, a video was posted on Facebook by a friend. It was offered as proof of the growing “Cult of Obama”, which the author felt was something to be feared… I’m not sure where I stand on the issue yet, but as I watched, I was struck by the gulf growing between these two groups. [...]
This story by Daphne Eviatar is a repost from the Washington Independent. Just in case he wasn’t familiar with it, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) decided to read the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution to David Kris, assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, who was testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee today [...]
This story by Daniel Tencer is a re-post from the Raw Story. Plan to keep Internet free of interference from ISPs draws opposition from GOP, service providers Six Republican senators have introduced an amendment that would block the Federal Communications Commission from implementing its recently announced Net neutrality policy. Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison [...]
CIGNA says they are ‘A Business of Caring,’ but the reality is that they are getting filthy rich by denying basic coverage, especially to those patients that need it the most. Douchebags! Just watch this video: In response, Sick for Profit launched a contest to rename CIGNA’s advertising tagline and YOU can help. Watch the [...]
Scarborough denounces right-wing ‘hatred,’ launches ‘conservative honor roll’ MSNBC morning show host Joe Scarborough went on the attack against right-wing “hatred” Tuesday and declared he would be putting together a “conservative honor roll” to reward GOP politicians who denounce the rhetoric of commentators like Fox News’ Glenn Beck. “You cannot say that the President of [...]
See the actual vote here: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2003/roll332.xml Related Posts:The 39 Democrats Who Voted “No”
