Tag Archives: health care reform

Yesterday the Utah Senate delayed approval of a long-running federal grant providing assistance to people with HIV, the Ryan White Act. Utah Senate president Michael Waddoups said coldly, “Doesn’t Obamacare pay for this?” The grant program is named after Ryan White, a teenage hemophiliac who died from AIDS complications in the 1980s after contracting the HIV virus during a transfusion …

The FBI has arrested a California man for making telephoned death threats to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over her backing of the health care reform bill. Charges against the man have yet to be disclosed, but they are expected to be filed in federal court in California. Several federal officials said the man made dozens of calls to Pelosi’s homes …

Rep. Alan Grayson is trying get the sanctions imposed on the Florida doctor who says he doesn’t want to treat anybody who voted for Obama. The doctor is now a teabagger hero.

Urologist Dr. Jack Cassell of Mount Dora, Florida has posted a sign telling patients to go elsewhere if they voted for Barack Obama. A doctor who considers the national health-care overhaul to be bad medicine for the country posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for President Barack Obama to seek care “elsewhere.” “I’m not turning …

Former National Review editor David Frum says his fellow conservatives need to stop making false promises that they can repeal the health care reform bill. Frum has called for a more moderate GOP that focuses more on governing and less on so-called morality issues.

God, aka Norman Laboon, has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination. Laboon was arrested last week after Rep. Eric Cantor dug up two year old death threats that Laboon had made against him on YouTube. Critics charge that Cantor’s team was desperately looking for any proof that Republicans too have been the subject of threats, as were many Democrats …

“Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away – called New York City – there was a special place where fairies could go when they weren’t feeling well. It was known as the Gay Men’s Health Project. The friendly bears and slender youths who ran this magical dispensary helped unlucky fairies mend their wings and wee-wees so they …

Anti-gay closet case gay homosexual South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer is calling on his Red State counterparts to stage a constitutional convention to repeal the health care reform bill. Yeah, that’ll happen.

Wannabe wingnut attack dog Jason Mattera ambushed Sen. Al Franken with a crazy-ass claim that the health care reform bill provides $7B for “playground jungle gyms.” Watch how Franken handles him (even after being called “Sen. Smalley”) and keep in mind that this Mattera’s own edited video. What the bill really says: In the “Creating Healthier Communities” portion of the …

Grayson: “It’s time to get rid of Republicans entirely.”

“Yes, it is wrong to post the personal addresses of Members of Congress (or in this case, mistakenly the address of a brother of a Congressman) on the internet to encourage harassment. But how much worse it is to have thousands of ordinary citizens’ home addresses posted on the internet with virtual instructions to go and harass them for donating …

“My attitude is ‘Go for it!'”

Get them here.

Today Rep. Anthony Weiner’s New York office in Queens received a package containing white powder and a threatening letter. Emergency service units evacuated the Democratic congressman’s fifth-floor office in Kew Gardens, officials said. “They came over the loudspeaker: ‘Don’t be alarmed. Just the fifth floor is being evacuated,'” said Kathy Farrell, 44, who works at an orthopedic surgeon’s office next …

Oy vey. Just when we thought it was all over. But no. With the Senate working through an all-night session on a package of changes to the Democrats’ sweeping health care legislation, Republicans early Thursday morning identified parliamentary problems with at least two provisions that will require the measure to be sent back to the House for yet another vote, …

Teabaggers are throwing bricks through the office windows of House Democrats. The window broken Friday at the Niagara Falls office of Rep. Louise M. Slaughter, D-Fairport, was one of at least four cases of vandalism targeting Democratic offices across the country late last week during the debate over health care reform. A window was also broken at the Monroe County …

Despite internet postings of the home addresses and phone numbers of Democrats who voted for health care reform, GOP leaders have still not condemned the threats of physical violence pouring in from teabaggers. Local police are now protecting the homes of some Democratic House members.

Chris Geidner at Law Dork reports that late last night, Sen. Bob Bennett’s poison pill amendment to suspend same-sex marriage in DC failed when it was stricken from the health care reform bill. After 1 a.m. this morning, as the Senate considers a slew of Republican amendments — many “poison pills” — to the House’s health care reconciliation “fixes,” Sen. …