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A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by Pat Robertson which was intended to allow people to exempt themselves from buying health insurance because God is going to cure all their illnesses. Three of the plaintiffs — Margaret Peggy Lee Mead of Hillsborough, N.C., Charles Edward Lee of San Antonio and Susan Seven-Sky of West Harrison, N.Y. — are …

Another classic from our hero. And how gross is it to see whackjob Rep. Virginia Foxx referred to as “Madame Chair”?

Rep. Michele Bachmann was the opening keynote speaker this morning on the first day of CPAC 2011.

The GOP’s “repeal Obamacare” dog-and-pony show hit the wall in the Senate today. The vote was 47-51, right along party lines. Lieberman and Warner were not present. With a Democratic president and Republicans 13 votes short of the 60 votes they would need to break a filibuster in the Senate, the odds of the law being overturned legislatively in the …

South Dakota Tea Party-backed GOP state Rep. Hal Wick has proposed a bill that would require every adult in the state to by a gun “sufficient to provide for their personal self-defense.” The bill, which would take effect Jan. 1, 2012, would give people six months to acquire a firearm after turning 21. The provision does not apply to people …

CLASSIC rant from our favorite House Democrat.

Think Progress compiled this clip of GOP House members who today will vote to repeal “Obamacare.” But none of them intend to give up their own “government-sponsored health insurance.”

GOProud prefaces the release of its 2011 agenda with this message: The so-called “gay agenda” is defined by the left through a narrow prism of legislative goals. In contrast to the approach of the left, GOProud’s agenda emphasizes conservative and libertarian principles that will improve the daily lives of all Americans, but especially gay and lesbian Americans. On their list …

Openly gay Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) tangled today with lunatic Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who says that health care reform is unconstitutional because some babies are born in trash cans and never see a doctor. I sincerely have zero idea what that is supposed to mean.

“The basis for the individual mandate was the Commerce Clause — that Congress has the constitutional authority to regulate commerce between the states. [But] not accessing healthcare from any source, let alone not purchasing health insurance, none of that is interstate commerce and should not be. “The dozen or so new Republican governors and the almost 700 new Republicans in …

A Virginia federal district court judge appointed by Dubya has ruled that parts of President Obama’s health care reform plan are unconstitutional. The lawsuit was brought by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. In a 42-page opinion issued in Richmond, Va., Judge Hudson wrote that the law’s central requirement that most Americans obtain health insurance exceeds the regulatory authority granted to …

When the GOP takes over the House next month. Rep. Steve King plans to launch a “test vote” on the repeal of health care reform. The GOP has no chance of a repeal with Obama in office, but is looking towards January 2013 as their first chance to yank health insurance out of the hands of America’s poor.

Watch this.

A coalition of insurance companies donated over $86M to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to fight the passage of health care reform. The Chamber is notoriously run by GOP-insiders. The spending exceeded the insurer group’s entire budget from a year earlier and accounted for 40 percent of the Chamber’s $214.6 million in 2009 spending. The expenditures reflect the insurers’ attempts …