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Bachmann Rally Compares Health Reform to Holocaust
casavaria.com - 20 days ago
Bachmann Rally Compares Health Reform to Holocaust
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The radical fringe of the Republican party today gathered to hear Michelle Bachmann call for open rebellion against the government. Signs were held up in front of the US Capitol showing a Nazi mass grave and calling it “healthcare”. Other signs showed the president as an evil villain ...
Congressional Budget Office Thrashes Republican Health-Care Plan
voices.washingtonpost.com - 22 days ago
Congressional Budget Office Thrashes Republican Health-Care Plan
— voices.washingtonpost.com — Republicans are learning an unpleasant lesson this morning: The only thing worse than having no health-care reform... plan is releasing a bad one, getting thrashed by CBO and making the House Democrats look good in comparison. Late last night, ... (more) Congressional Budget Office Thrashes Republican ...

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Republican Health Insurance Reform Bill Insures Almost Nobody
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 22 days ago
Republican Health Insurance Reform Bill Insures Almost Nobody
— tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — Earlier this week, a spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner made a prediction . The Republican... health care plan, he said, "will cover millions more Americans" than the Democrats' plan. Bold. But here's what the experts say: By 2019, CBO and ... (more) Republican Health Insurance Reform Bill Insures Almost ...

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Despite Rhetoric About Preexisting Conditions, Boehner’s Health Care Plan Doesn’t Bar Denials
thinkprogress.org - 24 days ago
Despite Rhetoric About Preexisting Conditions, Boehner’s Health Care Plan Doesn’t Bar Denials
— thinkprogress.org — While leading GOP opposition to health care reform over the past few months, Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)... has simultaneously insisted that Republicans believe in helping Americans with preexisting conditions get health care. Currently, “in 44 ... (more) Despite Rhetoric About Preexisting Conditions, Boehner’s ...

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Oompa Loompa Sprayontan Dude
d r i f t g l a s s — ... I've got another puzzle for you Oompa loompa doompeda dee If you are wise you'll listen to me Who do you fault when your Party's insane? A shrieking, bigot-riddled daisy chain? Rabid from a diet of paranoid lies Peddled by demented teevee guys? The Gutless Party Leadership Oompa Loompa Sprayontan Dude Letting his Party come completely unglued A laquered corpse, irredeemably screwed Like the Oompa Loompa Sprayontan Dude ...

Right Wing Anti-Semitism Is Nothing New
DownWithTyranny! — ... Gabby Giffords (AZ), Jane Harman (CA), and John Adler (NJ) to true blue progressives like Jan Schakowsky (IL), Henry Waxman (CA), Jerrold Nadler (NY) and Steve Cohen (TN). But it was only the radical right kapo-like Cantor who had an emotional breakdown. Friday Minnesota Gruppenführer Michele Bachmannnnnnnnnnnnnnnn summoned the teabagger Sturmabteilung to DC in the vain hope-- vain except in the case of Larry Kissell-- of intimidating members of Congress. They marched around and teapartied with horrific pictures from Dachau and equating saving ...

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