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THE DAY HEALTH CARE DIED

Posted by on 1/21/2010 4 comments

THE DAY HEALTH CARE DIED Many rank-and-file Democrats said their stunning defeat in this week’s Massachusetts special election — in which Republicans captured the Senate seat held for decades by the late Edward Kennedy — meant it was time to …

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The consensus was that the fault for Coakley’s now-floundering MA SEN bid lies with one person — George W. Bush.

Posted by on 1/18/2010 2 comments

I kid you not: “People are upset because there’s so many problems,” Rosemary Kverek, 70, a retired Charleston schoolteacher said as tonight’s rally wrapped up. “But the problems came from the previous administration. So we’re blaming poor Obama, who’s working …

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OBAMA APPROVES TAX ON HEALTH PLANS

Posted by on 1/7/2010 4 comments

President Barack Obama signaled to House Democratic leaders Wednesday that they’ll have to drop their opposition to taxing high-end health insurance plans to pay for health coverage for millions of uninsured Americans. In a meeting at the White House, Obama …

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Reids Healthcare Bill: 2074 Pages For Your Reading Pleasure

Posted by on 11/18/2009 4 comments

via Reid: I’m So Totally Stoked My Health Care Reform Bill Will “Save” $127 Billion Over Ten Years, Which Is Less than October’s One Month Deficit. 2074 Pages… And senators will have a full three days to read it before …

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Freddie Mac posts $5 billion loss – Yahoo! Finance

Posted by on 11/7/2009 4 comments

Freddie Mac posts $5 billion loss – Yahoo! Finance. NEW YORK (Reuters) – Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE – News; NYSE:FRE – News), the second largest provider of U.S. residential mortgage funding, on Friday posted a loss of $5 billion in the …

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Reid: Those tonsil vultures stole my vote

Posted by on 10/22/2009 7 comments

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Reid: Those tonsil vultures stole my vote. Reid brought the bill to the floor in an effort to secure the support of doctors groups such as the American Medical Association (AMA) for the future …

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After Stimulus: 49 of 50 States Have Fewer Jobs! *6 Million Jobs Shy of Administrations’ Projections…

Posted by on 10/22/2009 5 comments

After Stimulus: 49 of 50 States Have Fewer Jobs! *6 Million Jobs Shy of Administrations’ Projections… Obama trying to boost party money, morale… RNC Beats DNC in Money Race… Dems lock Republicans out of committee room: ‘They don’t know how …

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Obama’s Success: We Spent $787 billion On The Recovery Act and Lost 3.6 Million Net Jobs

Posted by on 10/16/2009 5 comments

Michelle Malkin » Stimulapalooza: 3.6 Million Jobs Lost is “Quite Positive;” Update: Errors galore. Gaffes in federal reports this week about stimulus have called into question the government’s ability to accurately track how many jobs are being created by the …

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The Nobel Booby Prize:Russia says New sanctions on Iran “counterproductive”

Posted by on 10/14/2009 2 comments

Russia: New sanctions on Iran “counterproductive”

Senate committee confirms Baucus plan will lower wages

Posted by on 10/14/2009 3 comments

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Senate committee confirms Baucus plan will lower wages. The Joint Congressional Committee on Taxation has analyzed the excise tax in the Baucus plan and come to the logical conclusion that it will raise prices …

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MUST READ…..CBO: Tort reform would reduce deficit by $54 billion

Posted by on 10/10/2009 5 comments

Hot Air » Blog Archive » CBO: Tort reform would reduce deficit by $54 billion. CBO now estimates that implementing a typical package of tort reform proposals nationwide would reduce total U.S. health care spending by about 0.5 percent (about …

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AMA Endorses Largest Denier of Health Care Claims

Posted by on 10/6/2009 2 comments

Big Government » Blog Archive » AMA Endorses Largest Denier of Health Care Claims.

Democratic Senator: Oh Hell No I Won’t Read The Health Care Bill

Posted by on 10/2/2009 1 comment

Democratic Senator: Oh Hell No I Won’t Read The Health Care Bill. Sen. Thomas Carper (D.-Del.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, told CNSNews.com that he does not “expect” to read the actual legislative language of the committee’s health …

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Something terrible is happening… Overpaid celebrities don’t have a big enough voice when it comes to Healthcare Reform

Posted by on 9/30/2009 1 comment

Hot Air » Blog Archive » War: ACORN sues Breitbart, O’Keefe, and Giles

Posted by on 9/23/2009 7 comments

Hot Air » Blog Archive » War: ACORN sues Breitbart, O’Keefe, and Giles. Amazing. In one fell swoop, the lawsuit (a) gives Fox a reason to keep covering the story, (b) presents a thorny legal issue that’ll attract media to …

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