nydailynews.com - 22 days ago
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President Obama invoked the Fort Hood shootings in an emotional appeal to Democrats to pass health care reform today, contrasting the sacrifices of soldiers with political positioning.
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 21 days ago
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Our guest blogger is Jessica Arons , Director
of the Women’s Health and Rights Program at the...
Center for American Progress Action Fund. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) If you thought that just because abortion is a constitutional right and part of ...
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Why The Stupak Amendment Is A Monumental Setback For ...
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - 23 days ago
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The Stupak amendment would prevent any private health
insurance plan from covering elective abortion, if even one...
of its customer used even one dollar of affordability tax credits. The problem is that the Stupak amendment will conflict directly with ...
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Stupak Amendment Could Likely Be Used By Insurance ...
huffingtonpost.com - 21 days ago
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Sen. Claire McCaskill, a pro-choice Democrat from Missouri,
said on Monday that she didn't think a provision...
greatly restricting the ability of woman to access or pay for abortions would be enough to kill a Senate health care bill Appearing on ...
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McCaskill: Senate Could Live With Stupak Amendment
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The Fort Hood massacre was rhetorical flourish as Obama urged House Democrats to vote for health care.
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His idea was: Soldiers make sacrifices for the good of the country, so congressional Democrats should put their concerns about the next election aside for the good of the country. ...
Presidential Priorities
Ace of Spades HQ —
... the families of the dead or the wounded it is more important to stay in DC and comfort his liberal fellow travelers as they attempt to nationalize our health care system. Former president Bush and his wife found the time to visit, was Michelle too busy to serve as his proxy even? Then while comforting the afflicted politicians who were suffering the tremendous challenge of voting against the wishes of their constituents, he saw fit to disgracefully use the dead and wounded soldiers as a political prop . He was absolutely inspiring. In a very moving way, he reminded us what ...
While Obama Stayed In DC To Campaign For Government Health Care Bush Quietly Visited Fort Hood
Say Anything —
... Quite the contrast, no? In Washington DC the liberals were using the tragedy at Fort Hood as a political poker chip in their efforts to make us all dependent on government health care: ...
Obama and Democrats Don’t Understand ‘Sacrifice’
Stop The ACLU —
... Canada and to a lesser extent in the U.S.A. But this effort isn’t even necessary when, in the U.S. for instance, a large part of the political class cannot even agree upon what the word “sacrifice” means for its own, much less find themselves able to define the terms of enemies to their civilization. What does terrorism, Sharia, or radicalism mean when Democrats cannot even properly understand what “sacrifice” means in the context of what happened at Fort Hood, Texas? On November 7, it was reported by the New York Daily News that President Obama shamefully exploited the ...
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