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Matthews on family planning measure in stimulus bill: ‘It sounds a little like China.’
Matthews on family planning measure in stimulus bill: ‘It sounds a little like China.’
In their latest attempt to rally against the new economic stimulus package, many conservatives are ridiculing a measure that would aid states by making it easier to provide comprehensive family planning services to low-income women. Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) defended the measure on ...
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Matthews: Government Support for Family Planning "Sounds Like China"
videocafe.crooksandliars.com — Download | Play    Download | Play You Tube On Hardball while discussing the aid for family planning... included in the stimulus package, Chris Matthews says that government support for family planning "sounds like China" to him. Robert ... (more) Matthews: Government Support for Family Planning "Sounds ...
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Lather, rinse, repeat
Political Animal — ... create jobs nor otherwise improve the economy. Under the provision, states no longer would be required to obtain federal permission to offer family planning services -- including contraceptives -- under Medicaid, the health program for the low-income. I can appreciate the political dynamic here. The Obama White House wants to get at least some bipartisan support for an economic stimulus package, and GOP lawmakers, Fox News, right-wing blogs and talk-radio, and even media figures like Chris Matthews and Jack Cafferty , are telling Americans the policy proposal is right out of ...

No liberals on the teevee
Political Animal — ... the votes to defeat the bill anyway. Josh Marshall noted on Monday the "continuing Republican tilt of much of the capital press corps. Not in ideological terms perhaps, but in terms of whose opinions carry weight, whose matter and whose do not." The ThinkProgress piece highlights this dynamic quite clearly. I'd just add that even when the interviews were over, and Republican officials weren't on screen, the on-air media kept talking about the stimulus debate from a decidedly Republican perspective . When Republicans were in the majority, and ...

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Distrust Of Media
Rook's Rant — ... It's ironic that a cable news host such as Chris Matthews would attack bloggers for supposedly not checking their facts, considering the ...

Chris Matthews ponders fact-checking
Political Animal — ... , "It's ironic that a cable news host such as Chris Matthews would attack bloggers for supposedly not checking their facts, considering the ...

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