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“I will vote against the interests of my district…”

August 17, 2009
By patrick

The Washington Times has this report on an exchange Representative Eric Massa of upstate New York (district 29) had this past weekend at the Netroots Nation conference: PARTICIPANT: So if we got your meetings to sixty forty, you’d vote…and there was single payer in a bill you would vote for it? MASSA:  Oh absolutely I would...
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Let’s have a conversation

August 16, 2009
By patrick

Ann Althouse looks at the neo-Orwellian rhetoric of politicians “having a conversation”.
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Nancy Pelosi then and now

August 14, 2009
By patrick

Speaker Pelosi in an August 10th opinion piece on Health Care reform and the protests against the proposed bill (HR3200): These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American. Then-Minority Leader Pelosi at a San Francisco town hall meeting,...
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“You’ll be able to keep your plan” – Examining Health Care Claims

August 14, 2009
By patrick

President Obama is fond of saying “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep it.” The Congressional Budget Office wrote this in a report to Congressman Rangel: CBO and the JCT staff estimate that nearly 6 million other people who would be covered by an employment-based plan under current law would...
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Reagan on Nationalized Medicine

August 14, 2009
By patrick
Reagan on Nationalized Medicine

This is a short clip of Ronald Reagan from his 1961 LP “Ronald Reagan speaks out against Socialized Medicine” “…one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free.” The transcript of the recording...
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Staring at the fire hose

August 12, 2009
By patrick
Staring at the fire hose

In the past year, America has seen its national debt skyrocket, unemployment double, and its standing in the world stagnate, at best. In response to the economic crisis, the President and the Democratic Congress took the idea, “throw more money at it,” as policy. This Congressional Budget Office debt projection should be reason enough for...
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