Tag Archives: health care reform

Was Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) Drunk During Health Care Debate?

Conservative sites are claiming that Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) was drunk during a speech about health care reform on December 23rd. Hmm, he does seem a little slurry.

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Senate Passes Health Care Bill

It’s definitely not the bill we wanted, but this morning the Senate voted 60-39 to approve its version of health care reform. The Senate voted Thursday to reinvent the nation’s health care system, passing a bill to guarantee access to health insurance for tens of millions of Americans and to rein in health costs as proposed by President Obama. The …

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Ad Attacks Obama On Public Option

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Sen. Coburn’s Prayer Backfires, Other Oklahoma Senator Misses Health Care Vote

Remember when Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) asked for prayers that a fellow Senator miss the crucial cloture vote on health care reform, presumably due to illness or death? This morning, teabaggers were wondering if their prayers backfired when Coburn’s Oklahoma GOP colleague Sen. James Inhofe failed to show for a second procedural vote. From a caller to Sen. John Barrasso …

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Health Care Reform Chart

Embiggen the image for a breakdown of the positive changes some claim will result from the pending health care reform bill. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

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Progressives Want To Kill Health Bill

Well, some progressives. Like bloggers from Firedoglake and Daily Kos.

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Pending Senate Health Care Vote Fosters More Wingnut Calls For Civil War

Above is today’s World Net Daily poll asking readers what they’d like to give the president for Christmas. Charming. And over on the ever-reliable Free Republic, the calls for revolution are racheting up in the face of the Senate’s coming vote on health care reform. A mere sampling: -“My prediction: there will be no free/fair elections in 2010, or ever …

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Sen. Tom Coburn: Pray For Something Bad To Happen To Pro-Reform Senators

Facing a possible 60-vote approval of health care reform, last night Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) said, “What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can’t make the vote tonight. That’s what they ought to pray.” Pray for an illness, Senator? A car accident? A death? What, exactly?

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Quote Of the Day – Jim Robinson

“Let’s face it FRiends, if the unconstitutional healthcare bill passes, the socialist coup d’etat will have advanced well beyond the point of no return! There is nothing in the constitution that authorizes this illegal federal power-grab and plenty that forbids it. If the Obama/Reid/Pelosi Marxist attempted coup pulls this off without the people resisting to the hilt, then they’ll have …

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Dems Say They Have The 60 Votes On Senate Health Care Bill

Working overnight in the blizzard, today Senate Democrats announced that they have the necessary 60 votes to approve the health care reform bill. The news came this morning after Sen. Bill Nelson (D-NE) agreed to vote for cloture. “Change is never easy, but change is what’s necessary in America,” Mr. Nelson said at a morning news conference. “And that’s why …

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Al Franken Denies Joe Liebermann Additional Time On Senate Floor

And John McCain does NOT like it.

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Keith Olbermann’s Special Commentary On Health Care Reform

Last night Keith Olbmann issued one of his classic special comments/rants on the health care reform morass in the Senate. WATCH THIS!

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The Senate Alimentary Canal

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Quote Of The Day – Howard Dean

“This is essentially the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate. And, honestly, the best thing to do right now is kill the Senate bill and go back to the House and start the reconciliation process, where you only need 51 votes and it would be a much simpler bill. The American people don’t care how we …

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Glenn Beck & Orrin Hatch: Health Care Reform Is Unconstitutional

No American will be ever be “born free” again if those dirty communists in Congress try to expand the availability of health care.

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Obama To Oprah: I Give Myself A Solid B+ For My First Year In Office

Last night President Obama told Oprah Winfrey that he gives himself a “solid B+” for his first year in office. On Sunday night, Oprah’s Christmas at the White House special aired; during her one-on-one conversation with the president, Oprah asked Obama what grade he would give himself for his first year in office. “A good solid B-plus,” Obama answered, and …

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Lieberman Betrays Dems, Won’t Vote For Health Care Reform Bill

Another roundhouse from Sen. Joe Lieberman. In a surprise setback for Democratic leaders, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, said on Sunday that he would vote against the health care legislation in its current form. The bill’s supporters had said earlier that they thought they had secured Mr. Lieberman’s agreement to go along with a compromise they worked out …

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Insurance Companies Paying Facebookers To Oppose Health Care Reform

Insurance companies have been busted paying Facebook members in virtual currency in return for sending their Congress members an email opposing health care reform. Facebook users play a social game, like “FarmVille” or “Friends For Sale.” They get addicted to it. Eager to accelerate their progress inside the game, the gamers buy “virtual goods” such as a machine gun for …

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Rep. Alan Grayson To Cheney: STFU

The above title is taken directly from Grayson’s office YouTube channel. Hah.

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Fox News Goes There

If the government doesn’t pay for poor women’s abortions, that means even MORE black and brown babies! What to do?

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