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newsbusters.org - 24 days ago
Maddow Wrongly Claims 'Constitution Doesn't Have A Preamble'
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Did you know the United States Constitution doesn't have a Preamble? Well, that's what the oh so arrogant, high and mighty MSNBC host Rachel Maddow told her audience Thursday night. In a segment attacking the attendees of yesterday's "House Call" protest on Capitol Hill, Maddow chided ...
Despite Rhetoric About Preexisting Conditions, Boehner’s Health Care Plan Doesn’t Bar Denials
thinkprogress.org - 27 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 ...

Comments vote down Fired Up! Missouri found this 27 days agofound this
swampland.blogs.time.com - 28 days ago
A Republican Health Care Plan
— swampland.blogs.time.com — Better late than never, I guess. While individual Republicans have offered proposals (and hundreds of amendments), there... has been no real GOP alternative to the various health care bills that are working their way through Congress. Now, John Boehner ... (more) A Republican Health Care Plan

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washingtonmonthly.com - 10/30/2009
Failing to meet their own standards
— washingtonmonthly.com — FAILING TO MEET THEIR OWN STANDARDS.... The House Republican leadership "guaranteed" that they would offer an alternative... health care reform bill. If my count is right, that was 134 days ago. Asked about when Americans can expect to see the... (more) Failing to meet their own standards

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doubleplusundead:  Rachel Maddow: Constitutional Scholar

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Rachel Maddow: Constitutional Scholar
doubleplusundead — Rachel Maddow: Constitutional Scholar Seriously, I thought that she was supposed to smart. RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: Congressman Akin was not alone in stumbling over a little basic U.S. history. He had some good company in the top Republican in the House, Minority Leader John Boehner. (VIDEOTAPE) JOHN BOEHNER (R-OHIO.): This is my copy of the Constitution. And I'm gonna stand here with our Founding Fathers who wrote in the Preamble, "We hold these truths to be self-evident..." (END VIDEOTAPE): MADDOW (waving hands): Nnn, Constitution doesn't have a Preamble. Not. Nope. Stop it. That ...

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Operation Housecall
michellemalkin.com 26 days ago — If you can’t make it to the Capitol Hill health care protest in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, there’s still plenty of work to be done from your own backyard. [...] Read the rest »
Protesters Arrested at Lieberman's Office
blogs.abcnews.com 25 days ago — ABC’s Z. Byron Wolf reports: It is protest day, for the Left and the Right, on Capitol Hill. First out of the gate - 8 Protesters backing a universal health care system briefly occupied Sen. Joe Lieberman's office this morning. Protesters ...
Michele Bachmann Leads Health Care Protest on Capitol; Teabaggers Arrested
firedoglake.com 25 days ago — Posted on Twitpic by Somethingfishie Michele Bachmann and her crazy mob of Teabaggers have invaded the Hill today . Thousands of opponents of the Democrats’ health care legislation are gathered outside the Capitol, for a noon news conference ...
The Storming Of The Hill Begins!
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 25 days ago — The next stage of the Capitol Hill Tea Party has begun -- the storming of the Hill! Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), who heavily promoted this event, has frequently promised that this protest will involve bringing conservative citizens inside the ...
Gibbs on Capitol Hill Protest: “I'm Sure There's a Jon Voight Joke in Here Somewhere”
blogs.abcnews.com 25 days ago — Asked about the several thousand protestors who gathered on Capitol Hill today to protest Democratic health care reform legislation, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs joked about one of the actors who was a featured speaker at the rally, ...
Fox News personalities aggressively promote Bachmann's protest against health care reform bill
mediamatters.org 24 days ago — In recent days, following its pattern of advocacy, Fox News and its personalities' have repeatedly promoted Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) November 5 anti-health care reform protest, to be held on Capitol Hill and in the halls of Congress. Fox News ...
Citing no evidence, Hannity estimates that 20,000 attended Fox-promoted GOP health care protest
mediamatters.org 24 days ago — Citing no evidence, Sean Hannity twice stated that 20,000 people gathered to protest health care reform at a GOP rally on Capitol Hill -- a claim he later walked back drastically -- while MSNBC reported that Capitol police estimated the crowd at only ...
Sick Teabaggers in D.C. Helped by Government-Run Healthcare
librarygrape.com 24 days ago — Oh, sweet delicious irony, how I love thee: Thousands of protesters came to Capitol Hill yesterday for Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) protest against health care reform, capping months of fear-mongering about the dangers of so-called “socialized” medicine . However, the Washington Post’s ...
Video: Crowd Sings 'God Bless America' As Capitol Hill Tea Partiers Are Arrested
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 24 days ago — Here's a video recorded by TPM's Christina Bellantoni, of the Capitol Hill Tea Party crowd singing "God Bless America" in protest of the arrests of several of their compatriots, who were charged with illegally entering or disrupting the office that ...
Bachmann Claims Anti-Health Reform Rally Was ‘Organic,’ ‘Nothing That We Planned’
thinkprogress.org 24 days ago — Last Friday on Fox News, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) announced that she was organizing an anti-health reform rally on Capitol Hill, calling on Americans “literally by the busload to come to Washington D.C.” to protest reform. The next ...
A Day At The Freak Show: A Report From The Heart Of The Tea Party Protest
huffingtonpost.com 24 days ago — The only thing more frightening than being caught in an angry mob of health care protesters is revealing to that angry mob that you work for the Huffington Post. On Thursday, I ventured down to Capitol Hill with a professional death wish. I was ...
11/5 Capitol Protest Collectible Postcard
directorblue.blogspot.com 24 days ago — Isn't entrepreneurship wonderful? No sooner had concerned citizens descended on Washington than the gift shops started selling these collectible postcards.Click to bigg-ifyBest question posed by protesters: "Will the public option pay for Pelosi's botox?"Collect 'em all!
WaPo's Milbank Decries 'Hateful and Gruesome' Hill Protest, Thrown by 'Party of No Taste'
newsbusters.org 23 days ago — At the Capitol Hill rally against nationalized health care on Thursday, talk-radio host and author Mark Levin talked to the press: "These are citizen patriots out here, and I’m tired of them being smeared." Some didn’t get the message. In ...
Rug-Muncher Non-Historian Maddow Can’t Even Make Fun Of Conservatives Right — Pat Dollard | Young Americans
At the 2:05 point in the video, Maddow claims the Constitution of the United States does not have a preamble. It does.
King Calls For Tea Party II Tomorrow At The Capitol — TPM Election Central
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is calling the Tea Partiers back to D.C. Much like Rep. Michele Bachmann did last week, King is calling on Tea Partiers to head to the Capitol and protest the Democratic health care reform bill. King is calling on the protesters to meet at 1 p.m. tomorrow, the day the ...
Ignorance or Intentional Deception? — Wizbang
Yesterday I attended the "House Call" rally on Capitol Hill organized by Michelle Bachmann to protest the health care bill. I saw men, women and children of all ages organized...
11/6: Rocking The House — Blogometer
Although the biggest story in the blogosphere is the deadly shooting at Ft. Hood, the second-biggest story is probably yesterday's Tea Party protest on Capitol Hill, in which conservative activists and GOP congressmen rallied against the Dem health care reform...
Protesters railing against government-run health care rescued by government-run health care at Hill rally. — Think Progress
Thousands of protesters came to Capitol Hill yesterday for Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) protest against health care reform, capping months of fear-mongering about the dangers of so-called “socialized” medicine . However, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank notes that ...
Strange Scene: 10 Arrested As Tea Partiers Heckle Police — TPM Election Central
U.S. Capitol Police arrested 10 people this afternoon Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, public information office for the Capitol Police, told TPMDC they happened in the Cannon House building as tea partiers attempted to protest Speaker Nancy Pelosi about health care. They were charged with ...
Health Care Protesters Hit the Hill — The Page by Mark Halperin
Thousands take to the Capitol Thursday to protest proposed overhaul.
Dueling Protests Converge at Pelosi's Office - 'Health Care for All!' or 'Kill the Bill!' — The Note
ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf reports: Capping off protest day here at the Capitol are the competing protests that have converged on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district office on Capitol Hill, leading to several more arrests and littering the hallway with torn copies of House Democrats healthcare ...
WATCH: 'The Note': Health Care House Call — ABC News: Politics
Rick Klein on the Capitol Hill protest before Saturday's house vote.
Let’s see what happens — Six Meat Buffet
Just a musing here… today via Drudge : It is protest day, for the Left and the Right, on Capitol Hill. First out of the gate – 8 Protesters backing a universal health care system briefly occupied Sen. Joe Lieberman’s office this morning. Protesters were arrested, one by ...
Tea Party Activists Hit Capitol Hill, 9 Arrested — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Capitol Police arrested nine protesters Thursday morning in the Hart Senate office building as thousands of Tea Party activists descended on the Capitol building to protest the trillion dollar health care bill and government spending. The gathering was organized by local Tea Party groups ...
Message Conflict? — Talking Points Memo
The RNC is encouraging members of Congress to show up at noon at the Capitol Hill Tea Party event. But they're at pains to tell members not to call it a "protest" or a "rally." It's a "press event" or "press conference." Meanwhile the people actually organizing the event are calling it a ...
Fox News finds another cause: Promoting Rep. Bachmann's health care protest — Media Matters for America - Latest Items
In recent days, following its pattern of advocacy, Fox News has repeatedly promoted Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) upcoming anti-health care reform protest, to be held on Capitol Hill and in the halls of Congress. Fox News has previously promoted numerous other rallies such as the April 15 tea ...