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McConnell: The Public Option ‘May Cost You Your Life’
thinkprogress.org - 29 days ago
McConnell: The Public Option ‘May Cost You Your Life’
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For months now, conservatives have been scare-mongering about health care reform with outrageous claims that it would lead to “death panels” that could “ pull the plug on grandma .” In Congress, some Republican backbenchers have claimed that Americans will die if health ...
washingtonmonthly.com - 10/28/2009
Bayh endorses McConnell line on cloture
— washingtonmonthly.com — BAYH ENDORSES MCCONNELL LINE ON CLOTURE.... Democrats and other supporters of health care reform have a very... simple message for center-right Dems who oppose fixing the system: just let the Senate vote. The issue, of course, is cloture. Reform ... (more) Bayh endorses McConnell line on cloture

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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/27/2009
McConnell Says A Vote For Cloture Is A Vote For Health Care Reform
— tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made clear today what the GOP has been suggesting for months: moderate... Democratic senators fearful that voting for health care reform will cost them their seats (think Blanche Lincoln) can't get away with voting ... (more) McConnell Says A Vote For Cloture Is A Vote For Health ...

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thehill.com - 10/26/2009
McConnell: Americans oppose health bill even without public option
— thehill.com — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Monday that the final version of the Senate's healthcare... plan is unpalatable even without the public option. McConnell issued his statement minutes after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ... (more) McConnell: Americans oppose health bill even without ...

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Political Animal:  Back to the macabre nonsense

The Reaction:  It's a cream puff!

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Back to the macabre nonsense
Political Animal — ... is this: die quickly." The GOP and its allies were outraged. Grayson made it sound as if Republican policies are literally life threatening. The remarks, conservatives said, crossed a line of decency. No one, the argument goes, should accuse their rivals of promoting lethal health care policies. A month later, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ken.) told a conservative radio host that the public option favored by most congressional Democrats and most of the American public " may cost you your life ." Dennis Miller asked McConnell specifically about the state opt-out ...

It's a cream puff!
The Reaction — ... It's the first thing that comes to mind listening to the last ditch effort by Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell who is still telling us the public option will kill us all, although you can see he's having a hard time keeping his face straight while doing it. It's a prodigious effort of course, since he and his henchmen all have government health care just like the French and the Norwegians and the Germans and everyone else and all too many of them live to really ripe old ages because of it. ...

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