Displaying 241 To 270 Of 485 Comments MEDIA COVERAGE OF HEALTH CARE REFORM BRAVO CHER! Wonderful article, my friend. 🙂 You really drove the point home perfectly! This article needs to be shown to everyone we can think to show it to. Email it; print it; show it to your friends and family when visiting at their home for the Holiday Season. People need to see this article! Cher, I also like that you brought up Media Matters for America. Media Matters has done so much to help stop the spread of right wing lies. Despite the credit and attention it receives (both good and bad) I still think it’s not mentioned nearly enough. The book I recommend the most over any other is by David Brock: The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy. Get this book! It is a must read for everyone! If you can’t find it I have the unabridged audio version of it. I’d be happy to let anyone listen to it. Even if you heed nothing else I say, heed my words about this book. From Mother Jones: The Republican Noise Machine » Posted By Scheherazade On December 22, 2009 @ 5:23 am Kool and the Gang Groove with Cuba A hopeful sign to be sure! 🙂 » Posted By Scheherazade On December 22, 2009 @ 12:31 pm I’m sorry. 🙁 If I had seen your post sooner I would have gladly looked it up for you. 😐 Forgive me. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 22, 2009 @ 11:21 am It sucks that both of my senators vote “nay!” 🙁 I hate living in a red state! The two from my old state voted “nay” too! » Posted By Scheherazade On December 22, 2009 @ 8:46 am Here we go… GOP senators who voted against anti-rape law refuse to explain why Republicans Voting ‘Nay’ Name Voted » Posted By Scheherazade On December 22, 2009 @ 6:01 am The vote was 68 – 30. As for who voted for and against I don’t have that information handy just this moment, but you can get the amendment number and bill number here: Franken’s Proposal To Guarantee Sexual Assault Victims Their Day In Court. That should let you search the senate’s website to get the answer. You can also look on OpenCongress. These links would also be interesting to you regarding the bill I expect. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 22, 2009 @ 5:30 am LOL! I love it! God has spoken! 😀 » Posted By Scheherazade On December 22, 2009 @ 6:05 am Could you imagine kissing the lips of someone you saw as spewing venom? Remind me to tell you about a few exes of mine… *shudders* » Posted By Scheherazade On December 22, 2009 @ 6:35 am Sourcewatch is a website I keep handy all the time. When I would go troll bashing on another unnamed website I kept it open in a new tab at all times. I could not believe how many people would post links from American Thinker, the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the Washington Times. It was nice to have a way to provide proof that the sources they try to pass off as factual are actually bastions of disinformation. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 22, 2009 @ 4:46 am I know of no word filter. 🙂 So tell us what you think! 😉 Hehe. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 1:15 pm Huffy is bad for you. 😉 Hehe. Besides hanging around here you should spend some time at these places: Daily KOS You’ll feel better in no time! 😉 They are sometimes critical of the president, but they are almost always fair about it. If nothing else they certainly don’t seem to have this vendetta against Obama that Arianna does. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 12:22 pm lol! » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 11:37 am Oh my… Can you imagine a lover’s quarrel between them? YIKES! » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 11:00 am In all fairness he does say in his book Stickin’: The Case for Loyalty that they don’t really talk politics at home. I find it hard to imagine how two political strategists can avoid the subject. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 10:51 am Health Care Bill Clears Senate Test 😀 » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 1:23 pm From Talking Points Memo: GOP Voted To Delay Funding For Troops — As Part Of Health Care Debate? Everybody knows the health care debate has become more and more contentious, and dominated by a Republican parliamentary effort to delay the debate. But an under-appreciated aspect of this whole controversy — exceedingly rare, if not unprecedented — is the fact that it’s even affected defense spending, with Senate Republicans having worked to hold that up, too! Late on Thursday night, the Senate voted 63-33 to break a Republican filibuster of the defense appropriations bill. Only three Republicans voted against this delay of military spending: Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX), Olympia Snowe (ME) and Susan Collins (ME). The filibuster was part of a Republican effort to further delay the health care bill. So think for a second about what happened here. The Senate GOP sought to hold up military spending — and not because of an argument with the defense appropriations bill itself or something in it that might have been offensive to them, but in an attempt to block a domestic political debate. It was an especially interesting position for a party that repeatedly accused then-Senator Barack Obama, during the 2008 campaign, of trying to “defund the troops” when he voted against a military funding bill because it didn’t include a timeline to withdraw from Iraq. …continued at Talking Points Memo. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 1:06 pm You’ve definitely won me over 😀 *HUGS TIGHT* I wish I had the energy to write articles and post links all day long. Information is the key to keeping the truth on our side, and we’ve got to use the truth to call the right on lies when we see them! » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 12:59 pm From the article:
he just said that it should pass, he now wants it to pass -said the changes he wanted from his MTP interview have been made..named at least 3 of them » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 12:38 pm Oh cool. Thanks for the update. 🙂 I hadn’t seen that article. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 12:34 pm You’re a doll. 😀 » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 12:30 pm I don’t trust McCain anyway. I think everyone should read that article. It shows just how big of a bullet we dodged on Nov 4th 2008. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 12:30 pm From Talking Points Memo: McCain: Ted Kennedy Would Be Disappointed Health Care Bill Not Bipartisan (VIDEO) Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said today that he didn’t think the late Sen. Ted Kennedy would appreciate that health care reform was passed “on a party line vote.” McCain slammed the Senate bill because “there has never been a major reform accomplished in the history of this country that wasn’t bipartisan.” He also said: “Senator Kennedy would appreciate the outcome. I don’t think he would appreciate it on a party line vote.”
All of the negotiations and efforts that I made with him, we never engaged in this kind of unsavory process of offering people different deals, which in the end cost people from other states lots of money and puts burdens on them.
Here’s the full clip: » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 12:12 pm From Media Matters for America: Levin: Harry Reid is “the Mussolini of the Senate,” “one sick man” » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 11:52 am From Media Matters for America: Limbaugh on Landrieu, Nelson, Dodd: “prostitution has been legalized in Washington, D.C.”
» Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 11:50 am From Media Matters for America: FoxNews.com falsely claimed CBO said “Senate health bill won’t reduce deficits” A headline posted on FoxNews.com falsely claimed, “CBO: Senate Health Bill Won’t Reduce Deficits.” In fact, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) concluded that the bill would reduce federal deficits by $132 billion over 2010-2019 and would continue to reduce deficits in subsequent decades
» Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 11:48 am » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 11:40 am ***BREAKING NEWS*** From Talking Points Memo: Sector Snap: Health insurers surge after key vote Health insurers jump after key Senate vote on health care reform; passage expected this week
Note: TPM’s source is AP News, and I cannot copy the text of the article without the express permission of the Associated Press. Sorry. » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 11:32 am ***BREAKING NEWS*** From Talking Points Memo: AMA Endorses Health Care Reform The American Medical Association today endorsed the Senate health care reform bill. The organization’s president-elect, Cecil Wilson, spoke at a press conference with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other Senate Democrats. “After close and careful review, the AMA is pleased to announce its support for passage of the amended health system reform bill,” Wilson said. He said the AMA supports several “key benefits” in the bill, including “improvements in choice and access” and the elimination of denials for pre-existing conditions. “America has the best health care in the world, if you can get it. But for far too many people, access to care is out of reach because they lack insurance,” he said. “And this is just not acceptable to physicians.” He said the AMA has worked closely with senators over the past few weeks. And, because “there is still work to do,” he said the organization will continue to work with the Senate to address issues of concern. One of those issues is the matter of increasing Medicare payments to doctors, which he said Reid and Sen. Max Baucus promised to address early next year.
» Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 11:27 am From Talking Points Memo: On the Senate floor yesterday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) slammed Republicans for their “desperate, no-holds-barred mission of propaganda, falsehood, obstruction and fear,” which he said will result in a “day of judgment” by the American people. Whitehouse began his monologue by quoting 1950s intellectual Richard Hofstadter, warning that a right-wing minority could create “a political environment in which the rational pursuit of our well-being and safety would become impossible.” “The malignant and vindictive passions that have descended on the Senate are busily creating just such a political climate,” said Whitehouse. Whitehouse attributed these “desperate acts” to the Democrats’ “momentum,” which is
When it turns out there are no death panels, when there is no bureaucrat between you and your doctor, when the ways your health care changes seem like a good deal to you, and a pretty smart idea, when the American public sees the discrepancy between what really is, and what they were told by the Republicans, there will be a reckoning. There will come a day of judgment about who was telling the truth.
He concluded: “There will come a day of judgment, and our Republican friends know that. That Mr. President, is why they are terrified.” Here’s the full clip:
» Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 11:22 am I really appreciate the feedback from everyone. 🙂 » Posted By Scheherazade On December 21, 2009 @ 10:46 amComments Posted By Scheherazade
David Brock, the reformed conservative noise-maker, on how the Right has sabotaged journalism, democracy, and truth.
Sen. Lamar Alexander [R, TN] Nay
Sen. John Barrasso [R, WY] Nay
Sen. Christopher Bond [R, MO] Nay
Sen. Samuel Brownback [R, KS] Nay
Sen. Jim Bunning [R, KY] Nay
Sen. Richard Burr [R, NC] Nay
Sen. Saxby Chambliss [R, GA] Nay
Sen. Thomas Coburn [R, OK] Nay
Sen. Thad Cochran [R, MS] Nay
Sen. Bob Corker [R, TN] Nay
Sen. John Cornyn [R, TX] Nay
Sen. Michael Crapo [R, ID] Nay
Sen. Jim DeMint [R, SC] Nay
Sen. John Ensign [R, NV] Nay
Sen. Michael Enzi [R, WY] Nay
Sen. Lindsey Graham [R, SC] Nay
Sen. Judd Gregg [R, NH] Nay
Sen. James Inhofe [R, OK] Nay
Sen. John Isakson [R, GA] Nay
Sen. Mike Johanns [R, NE] Nay
Sen. Jon Kyl [R, AZ] Nay
Sen. John McCain [R, AZ] Nay
Sen. Mitch McConnell [R, KY] Nay
Sen. James Risch [R, ID] Nay
Sen. Pat Roberts [R, KS] Nay
Sen. Jefferson Sessions [R, AL] Nay
Sen. Richard Shelby [R, AL] Nay
Sen. John Thune [R, SD] Nay
Sen. David Vitter [R, LA] Nay
Sen. Roger Wicker [R, MS] Nay
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-said that rockefeller amendment is huge
-states still have the right to make the bill better too
-says that disappointed in no PO but best that can be expected
-cost panels with teeth in them now (3 of them)to regulate costs by insurance co
-hospitals can be self exmpted (sounded positive but missed part)
-great thing in bill with how they treat small business
-he agrees with feingold about wh and PO
working toward passing health care reform legislation, and “when we do, the lying time is over. The American public will see what actually comes to pass when we pass this bill as our new law. The American public will see firsthand the difference between what is, and what they were told.”
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