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Hypocrites! The RNC's Health Insurance Covers Elective Abortions

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:07:50 GMT

clipped by: DanaGarrett
clipper's remarks: Yet another example of rank GOP hypocrisy!

The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.”

Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents for the company said that the RNC’s policy covers elective abortion.

Leading up to passage of the House health care reform bill last week, 176 House Republicans joined 64 Democrats in voting for the so-called Stupak amendment, a measure that prohibits federal funds from being used to buy health insurance that covers elective abortions.

REBELING DEMOCRATS, YEA.

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:08:56 GMT

clipped by: ricksnares
clipper's remarks: This debate is going to be around next year, when it hits the senate floor it is going to be real interesting to say the least.....

Clip Source: www.ricksnares.com

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AN AMERICAN QUEST

Newt: Democrats Will "Rebel" If They Don't Get Their Way

This is going to last a long time, this will be so heated when this hits the senate floor, time to fire up the Tea Parties, this thing could still get derailed.....

Ohio Democrats Invite Palin TO Campaign

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:08:33 GMT

clipped by: Jorjor
clipper's remarks: From the source: COLUMBUS - Today, the Ohio Democratic Party sent the following letter to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, inviting her to campaign for John Kasich during her upcoming book tour stop in Columbus on November 20.

Clip Source: blog.buzzflash.com

November 12, 2009

Dear Governor Palin:

The Ohio Democratic Party cordially invites you to campaign for Republican gubernatorial candidate and former Lehman Brothers Managing Director John Kasich during your upcoming trip to Ohio.

Based on your recent success of promoting an ultra right-wing candidate in the special Congressional election in New York, we believe your engagement in the Ohio gubernatorial race would be invaluable.

You have a lot in common with John Kasich, and we believe you would enjoy his company. For instance, you are both darlings of FOX News. You are both high-priced national speakers. You have both distinguished yourselves as celebrities. And John Kasich ran for President for a few months, so he could offer you some pointers as you prepare for your 2012 presidential bid.

We look forward to working with your office and the Kasich for Governor campaign to schedule a mutually agreeable time.

Sincerely,
Chris Redfern
Chairman, Ohio Democratic Party

Tags: right-wing, self-destruct

Well....so what if Bush had done that?

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:20:52 GMT

clipped by: dl211
clipper's remarks: Of course it's hard to draw any kind of comparisons when speaking about the war in Afghanistan, because George W. Bush knew how to act as Commander In Chief when it came to making decisions about what his hand-picked generals were requesting. Barack Obama on the other hand doesn't know how to act as Commander In Chief when it comes to commanding the military.

There is no way to forget the daily shellacking that George W. Bush took during his entire presidency. On some days and on some issues it could get pretty horrific. The far-left fringe were relentless in their attacks and the media just fell right in line with them....and anyone was just plain dumb if they didn't believe what they were saying. George W. Bush couldn't smile without there being an ulterior motive behind it. Bush was so many things, from dumb and lazy, to a liar and conniver and even believed to be a criminal at times. No one would dream of calling Obama any kind of name....except maybe socialist. Which in some ci

Clip Source: www.examiner.com

Well....so what if Bush had done that?

Imagine the outrage coming from the left if Bush had fallen so short of the targeted number of H1N1 Swine Flu vaccine dosages....like by 85 million dosages short. Imagine the outrage if Bush had condoned then House Speaker Dennis Hastert conducting closed door meetings with Republican leaders on nationalized health care, or anything for that matter, and didn't include Democrats or the American public in on the proceedings in those meetings.

Tags: bush, obama, no, comparison

Responding to modern Marxism

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:53:41 GMT

clipped by: dl211
clipper's remarks: Every single Democrat in the current majority, including Barack Obama, swore an oath to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution. Yet, they absolutely ignore the limitation of power set forth in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. None of the 17 powers enumerated there authorizes the current health-care bills or the cap-and-trade bill, or the bailout, or the stimulus package – all recently passed by the House of Representatives.

When asked by a reporter to identify the constitutional authority for the current health-care bills, Sen. Patrick Leahy said: "We have plenty of authority, why would you say we don't have authority?" Speaker Nancy Pelosi's reply to the same question was: "Are you serious? Are you serious?" Obviously, neither one is "preserving, protecting or defending" the Constitution when they ignore its limitation of congressional power.

Clip Source: www.wnd.com

Responding to modern Marxism

Denial is not that river in Egypt. It seems to be a river that begins in the White House and flows freely through the Democrat Party and the media. The rest of the nation seems to be encouraged by the prospects of reining in the runaway policies Obama's majority is trying to impose.

It is increasingly clear that the battle is no longer between Democrats and Republicans; it is between liberals and conservatives. Since these terms, too, are fuzzy, let's be perfectly clear: The battle is between the people who subscribe to the principles of freedom set forth in our founding documents, and the people who subscribe to the principles of collectivism set forth by Karl Marx.

Tags: marism, obamaism, democratism, too, damn, many, isms

Newsflash! Independents Not All Moderates! Wow!

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:01:27 GMT

clipped by: davboz
clipper's remarks: Not surprisingly, David Brooks,"Tool for the mainstream meme-ology" pushes the old notion that all independents are moderates, the swing vote.
John Zogby (Co-authored by Zeljka Buturovic, PhD) writes in Huffington Post.................lays out numbers showing otherwise.

Clip Source: publicdisrespect.blogspot.com

Independents are increasingly the people who would like only to return "things" to a place where they just make sense.Greater numbers want to see a REAL new type of leadership and fewer of them care which party they are from. Unfortunately the lesser educated among them, with lower impulse control, have rushed to the front with their signs. The "news media" have only been too happy to get their snapshots on their derisive portrayals of the Independent movement.

Republicans and Democrats are both on a road (granted one is in each lane, right & left, respectively) but that road is off the ground, and leading off and away to some loonyland where ponzi schemes work out all-right, all that counts is if you SAY you work for the betterment of the people who elected you, and endless money printing will eventually overcome any degree of debt no matter how many $quadrillion it totals.

They both have driven us into a degree of debt that is not salvageable.

The Ruling Elite

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:45:56 GMT

clipped by: mklosinski
clipper's remarks: Not having government run health care gives these people even more reason to get re-elected.
Leave no incumbent in office.

Clip Source: www.cnsnews.com

(CNSNews.com) – More than 200 amendments were rejected by the House Rules Committee ahead of Saturday's vote on the Democrats' health care bill, including 11 that would have required members of Congress and other government officials to be enrolled in the same federal insurance plan proposed for the American people.

Critics of the health care bill said they offered the 11 amendments – including some that would require the president, vice president, and Supreme Court justices to give up their Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP) to enroll in the ‘public option’ or Medicaid – to showcase the problems with the massive legislation.

“If it is good enough for American families, then it is more than good enough for Washington bureaucrats,” he said. “Therefore, I decided to offer an amendment which would mandate all members of Congress, their staff, and administration officials to participate in the public option.”

Tags: health care, congress

Unequal Power Unequal Access

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:23:30 GMT

clipped by: Kelika

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

"If women are denied a chance to develop their full human potential, including their potential to lead healthier and at least somewhat happier lives, is society as a whole really healthy? "

question raised by Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization which just finished up it first -- first? -- study of women's health.

But really. "We will not see significant progress as long as women are regarded as second-class citizens in so many parts of the world," Dr Chan said. Unequal power relations, she continued, "translate into unequal access to health care and unequal control over health resources." "What does this say about the state of social progress in the 21st century?" asks Dr. Chan. One can only wish she'd ask Rep. Stupak and the House Democrats.

Tags: women health

Republicans Edge Ahead of Democrats for 2010 House Elections, Poll Shows

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:00:07 GMT

clipped by: billpar
clipper's remarks: Let's make sure it's a Hurricane and that the candidates are Fiscal conservatives. Otherwise, what is the point of getting a new bunch of Rino's to continue spending and mismanaging the economy.

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

Republicans Edge Ahead of Democrats for 2010 House Elections, Poll Shows

According to a Gallup poll released Wednesday, 48 percent of voters said they would back a Republican, while 44 percent said they would support a Democrat, if the 2010 House elections were held today.

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele (AP).

Fresh off major Election Day victories in Virginia and New Jersey, Republicans got another boost Wednesday with a new Gallup poll that shows registered voters would favor the GOP over Democrats if the 2010 congressional election were held today.

Independent voters were decidedly stronger in their preference for a Republican candidate, choosing the GOP by a 22 percent margin -- 52 to 30 percent -- according to the survey.

"The wind is going to be at the backs of the Republicans" going into the 2010 midterm elections, but "it could be anything from a breeze to hurricane force," Sabato added.

Tags: politics

Sure, her healthcare bill is a mess

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:44:59 GMT

clipped by: jatfla
clipper's remarks: This from the Salon and Camille Paglia??? Amazing.

Clip Source: www.salon.com

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Sure, her healthcare bill is a mess

As for the actual content of the House healthcare bill, horrors!

this rigid, intrusive and grotesquely expensive bill is a nightmare.

why can't my fellow Democrats see that the creation of another huge, inefficient federal bureaucracy would slow and disrupt the delivery of basic healthcare and subject us all to a labyrinthine mass of incompetent, unaccountable petty dictators? Massively expanding the number of healthcare consumers without making due provision for the production of more healthcare providers means that we're hurtling toward a staggering logjam of de facto rationing. Steel yourself for the deafening screams from the careerist professional class of limousine liberals when they get stranded for hours in the jammed, jostling anterooms of doctors' offices.

And why are we even considering so gargantuan a social experiment

AARP puts 'political self-interests' above members

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:51:00 GMT

clipped by: jay8h

Clip Source: www.onenewsnow.com

AARP puts 'political self-interests' above members

Some senior citizens are dropping their membership with the AARP following the group's decision to endorse a new government health insurance program.

Last week the American Medical Association and the AARP both endorsed the Democrats' House healthcare bill. AARP executive vice president Nancy LeaMond says the bill "meets our priorities for protecting Medicare, providing more affordable insurance for 50 to 64-year-olds, and reforming our healthcare system."

"The AARP has received over $2 billion in grants from the federal government over the past 15 or 20 years, and most people don't know that," Barton reports. "With having such a huge liberal agenda, it is really a travesty for them to get that sort of money. The Senate Finance Committee [has] passed this bill...[it refers to] a co-op, and this co-op is the AARP -- and they will be making money on the government-run option. They're going to handle it."

Republicans Edge Ahead of Democrats in 2010 Vote

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:39:42 GMT

clipped by: jay8h

Clip Source: www.gallup.com

Republicans Edge Ahead of Democrats in 2010 Vote

PRINCETON, NJ -- Republicans have moved ahead of Democrats by 48% to 44% among registered voters in the latest update on Gallup's generic congressional ballot for the 2010 House elections, after trailing by six points in July and two points last month.

The Nov. 5-8 update comes just after Republican victories in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections, which saw Republicans replace Democrats as governors of those states.

As was the case in last Tuesday's gubernatorial elections, independents are helping the Republicans' cause. In the latest poll, independent registered voters favor the Republican candidate by 52% to 30%. Both parties maintain similar loyalty from their bases, with 91% of Democratic registered voters preferring the Democratic candidate and 93% of Republican voters preferring the Republican.

Baby Killers Threaten Church Tax Exemption

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:29:48 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight
clipper's remarks: and these are the people you want in charge of whether you live or die? They couldn't organize a monkey feces fight at the zoo.

Clip Source: ace.mu.nu

The Democratic instinct to crush free speech is surpassed only its sister predisposition to crush religion. So it really is no surprise that Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey is suggesting that the IRS revisit the Catholic Church's tax-exempt status.

In her own words:

The role the bishops played in the pushing the Stupak amendment, which unfairly restricts access for low-income women to insurance coverage for abortions, was more than mere advocacy.

And this political effort was subsidized by taxpayers, since the Council enjoys tax-exempt status.

the tax-exempt status of churches, religious organizations, and other non-profits is not a subsidy. This insidious line of thought is characteristic of Democrats, who are so twisted that they believe whatever the government forbears to take by force of law is a "subsidy" the recipient should be thankful for

Representative Woolsey should be ashamed of herself.

Rather, she should be ashamed for her ignorance.

Tags: church, abortion, death, taxes, democrats

Dems Rejected 11 Amendments Requiring Congress to Enroll in same Health Plan

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:37:54 GMT

clipped by: jatfla
clipper's remarks: The Lords & Ladies of Congress are exempt from the sorry bill they are thrusting us under. "Representatives" indeed!!!

Clip Source: www.cnsnews.com

Dems Rejected 11 Amendments Requiring Congress to Enroll in Gov’t-Run Health Plan

More than 200 amendments were rejected by the House Rules Committee ahead of Saturday's vote on the Democrats' health care bill, including 11 that would have required members of Congress and other government officials to be enrolled in the same federal insurance plan proposed for the American people.

“If Congress forces our constituents into a public option plan over time, then members of Congress should be expected to do the same,” Rep. Howard McKeon (R-Calif.)

the second time McKeon had tried to amend the Democrats’ health plan to include legislators in the public option.

health

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:48:30 GMT

clipped by: acidblue

Clip Source: www.npr.org

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The so-called Stupak amendment included in the House bill would prevent women eligible for government tax credits for health insurance from using that money to enroll in any plan that covers abortion. Of 258 House Democrats, 64 voted for the amendment, along with 176 Republicans, guaranteeing its passage.