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The House passed Obamacare on a 220 to 215 vote around 11:15 p.m. Saturday night. Only one Republican, Joseph Cao of Louisiana, voted in favor. Thirty-nine Democrats voted against it:
1. Rep. John Adler (NJ)
2. Rep. Jason Altmire (PA)
3. Rep. Brian Baird (WA)
4. Rep. ...
Congress
Health care
Pro-life John Shadegg tells Politico that he plans to vote present on the Stupak amendment to ban federal funding of abortions in the health-care bill:
“(Nancy) Pelosi is speaker and she’s pro abortion every minute of every hour of every day as speaker,” Shadegg said in an interview with ...
Congress
Bart Stupak
Nancy Pelosi
John Shadegg
Phil Gingrey
Pro-life John Shadegg tells Politico that he plans to vote present on the Stupak amendment to ban federal funding of abortions in the health-care bill:
“(Nancy) Pelosi is speaker and she’s pro abortion every minute of every hour of every day as speaker,” Shadegg said in an interview with ...
Congress
Bart Stupak
Nancy Pelosi
John Shadegg
Phil Gingrey
Last night the Rules Committee agreed to allow an up-or-down vote on Bart Stupak's amendment to bar federal funding of elective abortions through the health-care bill. A number of the already-declared "no" votes had based their opposition on grounds other than abortion, so the Democrats simply ...
Congress
Bart Stupak
During his address to the joint session of Congress, President Obama declared: "Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions." Does the current House bill's language conflict with Obama's pledge? At today's White House press briefing, Robert Gibbs wouldn't say.
Obama is ...
White House
Barack Obama
Robert Gibbs
"Unpleasant as it may be for the president to hear, his policy is objectively aiding the Tehran regime and harming the opposition in their ongoing struggle."
Strategic Reassurance, we hardly knew ye .
Vulnerable freshman Democrats abandoning ship on health care .
Apparently they ...
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Democratic National Committee
ACORN
The Jerusalem Post reports that Netanyahu will be in Washington all next week. Guess who he won't be meeting with:
As of press time, the Prime Minister's Office said no formal meeting had been scheduled with US President Barack Obama during the visit, which could last through the week. No ...
World
Barack Obama
Benjamin Netanyahu
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Today, Robert Gibbs lamented some of the offensive
signs at the rally (of which there were some,
but not enough to even fill out HuffPo's 12 Most Offensive slideshow ): "I will continue to say what I've said before. You hear in this debate, you ...
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Gibbs: Can You Imagine if, 5 Years Ago, People Had ...
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What’s the honorable thing for a father to do after he’s murdered his daughter in an “honor killing?” Faleh Hassan Almaleki, an Iraqi immigrant to the U.S., ran his 20-year-old daughter down with his car a couple of weeks ago because she’d become “too westernized,” and then tried unsuccessfully ...
World
Republicans send around these numbers from the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released today:
From everything you have heard or read so far, do you favor or oppose Barack Obama's plan to reform health care?
Oppose 53
Support 45
The numbers were the other way around in August: 50 ...
White House
CNN
Barack Obama
The suspect is at large:
Eight people have been shot, two of them fatally at an office building at 1000 Legion Place in dowtown Orlando. Police are looking for a suspect wearing a blue shirt and blue jeans. A witness tells FOX 35 the shooter is a former worker who was employed in the ...
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It looks like the man who killed 13
soldiers and police at Ft. Hood was a Muslim
radical who hated America, resented our occupation of Muslim lands, would not be photographed with women, and chanted "Allahu Akbar" before he launched a one-man ...
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Obama Searching for the Root Causes of Ft. Hood Massacre
Ben Smith comes up with some pretty good stuff this morning comparing General Jones's prepared remarks for the J Street conference last week with the remarks as delivered. Jones pledged then that the administration would send a representative to all future conferences held by J Street. It was ...
World
Barack Obama
Iran
IAEA seeks explanation from Iran on nuclear weapon implosion device :
The Guardian newspaper reported on Thursday that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has requested a response from Iran in regard to evidence that the country has experimented with the creation of advanced ...
World
Iran
It's a flash from MSNBC, with no details yet: Dem leader says House health vote may be delayed due to lack of support
Other
Health care
Let's take a look at Obama's near-term grand aspirations for his "Overseas Contingency Operations." He wants to remove 90k troops from Iraq while at the same time increasing Army and Marine end strength by 22k troops. Presumably the president also plans to increase troop strength in ...
World
Barack Obama
Iraq
Afghanistan
And stop talking about what a lousy hand you were dealt by your predecessor. You’re the president of the greatest nation on earth, now, not he. “One year ago Americans all across this country went to the polls and cast ballots for the future they wanted to see.” You don’t happen to be the ...
White House
Barack Obama
Iran
Her name is Kimberly Munley:
Army officials say the suspect, "the lone shooter" for this tragic incident, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, is currently on a ventilator at a nearby civilian hospital and the police officer who gunned him down, Kimberly Munley, a civilian Fort Hood police officer, ...
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U.S. Army
The Evansville Courier & Press reports on the "furious backlash" against Democrat Brad Ellsworth--who up until now has had a solidly pro-life record--for sponsoring a phony abortion compromise amendment that would require the HHS secretary to hire private contractors to handle the money to pay ...
Congress
Brad Ellsworth
Shot :
Unemployment rate tops 10 percent for first time since 1983; 190,000 jobs lost in October
Chaser :
Some Democrats from more conservative districts, like Representative Ike Skelton of Missouri, Representative Dan Boren of Oklahoma, Representative Jim Marshall of Georgia and ...
