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Arizona Senator Jon Kyl on the Supreme Court (video)
youtube.com - 5/22/2009
Arizona Senator Jon Kyl on the Supreme Court (video)
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Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl describes what he is, and is not, looking for in President Obama's Supreme Court nomination to replace David Souter.
Sen. Kyl: We support ‘free market’ health care, but we won’t talk about it because it’s not ‘persuasive.’
thinkprogress.org - 5/24/2009
Sen. Kyl: We support ‘free market’ health care, but we won’t talk about it because it’s not ...
— thinkprogress.org — In an interview posted online by the National Review, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) candidly explained how his... party would try to deceive the public during the coming health care debate. Kyl said that although Republicans believe in a “free market” ... (more) Sen. Kyl: We support ‘free market’ health care, but we ...

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cqpolitics.com - 5/18/2009
CQ Transcript: Sens. Kyl and Webb on ABC’s ‘This Week’
— cqpolitics.com — CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS May 17, 2009 – 11:52 a.m. CQ Transcript: Sens. Kyl and Webb on... ABC’s ‘This Week’ CQ Transcriptswire SPEAKERS: GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, HOST SEN. JON KYL, R-ARIZ., SENATE MINORITY WHIP SEN. JIM WEBB, D-VA. [*] STEPHANOPOULOS (voice ... (more) CQ Transcript: Sens. Kyl and Webb on ABC’s ‘This Week’

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Matthew Yglesias:  Kyl: Conservatives Believe in Free Market Health Care and Intend to Get it by Lying

Think Progress:  Sen. Kyl: We support ‘free market’ health care, but we won’t talk about it because it’s not ‘persuasive.’

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Kyl: Conservatives Believe in Free Market Health Care and Intend to Get it by Lying
Matthew Yglesias — Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) gets a little too candid in an interview with National Review, and concedes that the Luntz-prescribed methods for talking about the health care issue are aimed at misleading people about the conservative movement’s real views: JON KYL: We of course believe the free market can provide the incentives for everyone to be covered with good insurance but to talk about it in terms of the free market is not to be persuasive with the people we have to convince. We have to describe this in terms that people really do understand and care about ...

Sen. Kyl: We support ‘free market’ health care, but we won’t talk about it because it’s not ‘persuasive.’
Think Progress — In an interview posted online by the National Review, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) candidly explained how his party would try to deceive the public during the coming health care debate. Kyl said that although Republicans believe in a “free market” approach to health care, to describe it honestly to the “people we have to convince” would not be “persuasive.” Instead, Kyl boasts that he and his colleagues will use the “hollow buzzwords” prescribed by GOP language consultant Frank Luntz: KYL: We of course believe the free market can provide the incentives for everyone to be covered with good ...

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