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REBELING DEMOCRATS, YEA.

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:08:56 GMT

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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.....

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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.....

Private Health Insurance is a Defective Product

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:29:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: DR. STEFFIE WOOLHANDLER: Right. Well, the private insurers are getting millions of mandatory new customers. The taxpayers are going to give subsidies. It’s not going to make healthcare affordable, but it’s going to cost the taxpayers a lot of money to give these subsidies.

Private health insurance is a defective product. We know from our studies of bankruptcy that the majority of Americans who face medical bankruptcy start their illness with private health insurance but are bankrupted anyway by gaps in coverage, like co-payments, deductibles and uncovered services.

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

Study: Over 2,200 US Veterans Died in 2008 Due to Lack of Health Insurance

Dr. Steffie Woolhandler,

DR. STEFFIE WOOLHANDLER: Well, we think that the Congress needs to start from scratch on this bill. The reform process in Washington has been hijacked by the private health insurance industry. If you look at the Baucus framework, which was the basis of the Senate bill—it’s on the Senate Finance Committee website. Just right-click on that document, and it turns out the author of the document was Elizabeth Fowler, who’s a former vice president of Wellpoint, the nation’s largest private insurance company, covering 35 million people. So the private insurance industry has hijacked the process. What’s come out of the House, what’s likely to come out of the Senate, is a completely inadequate bill that takes about $500 billion in taxpayer money and hands it over to the private health insurance industry.

Democrat Ben Nelson Draws a Line in the Sand on Health Care

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:28:16 GMT

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Democrat Ben Nelson Draws a Line in the Sand on Health Care

In a warning sign for the White House, Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska tells ABC News that he'll vote to block any health care bill that looks like the bill passed by the House.

"Well, first of all, it has more than a robust public option, it's got a totally government-run plan, the costs are extraordinary associated with it, it increases taxes in a way that will not pass in the Senate and I could go on and on and on," Nelson said in an interview that is part of ABC News' Subway Series with Jonathan Karl.

"Faced with a decision about whether or not to move a bill that is bad, I won't vote to move it," he added. "For sure."

The $1.1 trillion price tag on the House bill, Nelson said, is "absolutely" too high.

State Journal-Register - CO2 curbs would be devastating

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:58:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Newspaper/Op-Ed

Clip Source: www.sj-r.com

In My View: CO2 curbs would be devastating

Regulations and mandates that force nationwide cuts in carbon dioxide emissions offer only speculative environmental benefits, if any, as a switch to wind and solar power will certainly cause more harm than good to the environment.

But command-and-control forces in Congress are headed in that direction, with the House narrowly passing a bill to cap CO2 emissions, and the Senate taking up a companion bill this month.
Engineers calculate that a stunning 600 square miles of wind turbines would be needed to produce the same 1,000 megawatts of electricity as a single medium-to-large coal power plant. That’s enough to provide electricity to about 10,000 homes.

Tags: heartland institute, environment, dan miller

AARP puts 'political self-interests' above members

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:51:00 GMT

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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."

The Huge Mistake

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:26:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Al Gore is gonna be very rich after this swindle is complete. How he has gotten away with it really boggles the mind, as he has been exposed now for the clueless liar he is by a number of sources.

Clip Source: newsrealblog.com

While the Senate is working on its version of the Cap and Trade Bill that passed in the U.S. House of Representatives last June, new criticism of Cap and Trade has emerged from a rather unlikely source: two lawyers for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Laurie Williams and Allen Zabel, the two EPA attorneys, have produced a YouTube video comparing passage of the Cap and Trade Bill to: “the ill-fated launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger.”

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Al Gore will, quite possibly, become the first “carbon multi-millionaire” with the passage of Cap and Trade, thus making him (to paraphrase Williams and Zabel): “The Big Rip-Off Artist.”

Naturally, the EPA is not thrilled with the idea of two of its attorneys speaking out against Cap and Trade. From Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman comes the following:

The Environmental Protection Agency is being accused of trying to silence two EPA attorneys who have publicly criticized a key component of the climate change legislation being considered by Congress.

Tags: con artists, the great global warming hoax, al gore

The ten lies of Dick Cheney

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:48:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A career liar exposed.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Part One)

On December 11, the Senate Armed Services Committee issued a compelling report into the torture and abuse of prisoners in US custody (PDF), based on a detailed analysis of how Chinese torture techniques, which are used in US military schools to train personnel to resist interrogation if captured, were reverse engineered and applied to prisoners captured in the "War on Terror."

The techniques, taught as part of the SERE programs (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) include sleep deprivation, the prolonged use of stress positions, forced nudity, hooding, exposure to extreme temperatures, subjecting prisoners to loud music and flashing lights, "treating them like animals," and, in some cases, the ancient torture technique known as waterboarding, a form of controlled drowning that the torturers of the Spanish Inquisition called "tortura del agua."

Deadly denia'

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:53:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Ralph Peters always goes to the heart of a matter. He and Bolton are Americans' friends. We need people to clear the cob-webs from our brains and from the PC that we've been guilted into accepting. See the realities or succumb and speed up the decline of America.

Clip Source: www.nypost.com

Deadly denial

As President Obama belatedly appears at Fort Hood today, will he dare to speak the word "terror?"

Under Muslim jurisprudence, jihad's an individual responsibility. Hasan was a self-appointed jihadi.

A sickening (and amateurish) Washington Post article portrayed him as a poor, impoverished minority

As a major drawing added professional pay for his medical credentials, plus his benefits, Hasan made a six-figure income.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, one of the few lawmakers willing to whisper the word "terrorism," needs to call the officers who sat on Hasan's promotion board before the Senate, put them under oath, then ask if Hasan made major because of minority-quota requirements.

Maj. Hasan's terrorism should not result in a witch hunt against Muslim service members. But soldiers who happen to be Muslims must be subject to the same level of scrutiny and discipline as those of other faiths.

Because Islamist terrorism doesn't exist. Just ignore the dead and ask our president.

The Joe Lieberman Show

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:32:07 GMT

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Lieberman Pledges To Filibuster House Bill "As A Matter Of Conscience" (VIDEO)

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Lieberman: "Nothing" Better Than Public Option (VIDEO)

Congress Assists In Torture Photo Cover-Up, Lieberman At Center Of Controversy

Lieberman Aiming To Weaken Climate Change Legislation

Tags: politics, joe lieberman, us senate, torture, healthcare reform, climate change

Club for Growth Endorses Rubio

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:04:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Moving on to the next ousting of a RINO. The GOP came out of the gate supporting Crist, but the man is just a Democrat with an R behind his name. Rubio will have my vote. On a recent survey sent out by the Republican Party I wrote "Rubio" all over it. They asked all the right questions and then give us crummy candidates.

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Club for Growth Endorses Rubio

The Club for Growth PAC, an anti-tax organization with considerable financial resources, announced on Monday that it is endorsing Marco Rubio in his Florida Republican primary battle with Gov. Charlie Crist for the United States Senate.

The decision isn’t that surprising; last week, the conservative group pounced on Mr. Crist’s most recent statements that he didn’t somehow endorse President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package when he appeared with the president last February and touted the effort.

Mr. Rubio, a longtime state lawmaker and Republican leader in Florida, has attracted the attention of national conservatives in recent months

Chris Chocola, the president of Club for Growth, said:
“Marco Rubio is the real deal, one of the brightest young stars in American politics today, and a proven champion of economic liberty. He is a dynamic spokesman for the principles of limited government and economic freedom, and he will make a fantastic senator.”

AP: House Healthcare bill Nowhere to go in Senate

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:18:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Liberals may have to swallow hard and accept a deal without a public plan in order to keep the legislation alive.

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Big question mark: Fate of health care in Senate

WASHINGTON — The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.

The government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate.

If a government plan is part of the deal, "as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent whose vote Democrats need to overcome GOP filibusters.

"The House bill is dead on arrival in the Senate," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said dismissively.

Democrats did not line up to challenge him. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has yet to schedule floor debate and hinted last week that senators may not be able to finish health care this year.

Tags: healthcare, politics

Abortion Bait and Switch

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:14:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I knew this was a smoke-and-mirrors trick on the part of the Democrats. Now "pro-life" Democrats can tell their constituents "I voted to take abortion out, it was the pesky Senate that put it back in." What a crock!

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Geithner: “Fannie and Freddie were a core part of what went wrong in our system.”

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:09:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnsnews.com

During Geithner’s Senate testimony, he admitted that both Fannie and Freddie played a central role in the financial crisis, telling Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) that the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSE) were a “core part” of the country’s financial woes.

“Absolutely,” Geithner said. “Fannie and Freddie were a core part of what went wrong in our system.”

Geithner explained that the administration did not have the time to come up with coherent regulations regarding Fannie and Freddie because of its other legislative priorities.

“We did not believe that we could have, in this time frame, lay out a sensible set of reforms to guide and determine what their future will be,” said Geithner. “We didn’t think it was an essential thing to do just now, but we do believe it is an essential thing to do.”

Tags: fannie, freddie, gse, mortgage crises

The Lords of Entitlement

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:55:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: They WILL subjugate us. They do not represent us; they have, indeed, become our "lords". We work for Washington. The American people have entered a new era of serfdom and slavery. The action in the Senate on this bill and the 2010 elections are our last hopes.

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The Lords of Entitlement

Nancy Pelosi defied policy logic and public opinion late Saturday night, ramming through the House a nearly 2,000-page health-care leviathan that counts as the biggest expansion of the federal government since the New Deal.

a breathtaking display of illiberal ambition, intended to make the middle class more dependent on government through the umbilical cord of "universal health care." It creates a vast new entitlement, financed by European levels of taxation on business and individuals. The 20% corner of Medicare open to private competition is slashed, while fiscally strapped states are saddled with new Medicaid burdens. The insurance industry will have to vet every policy with Washington, which will regulate who it must cover, what it can offer, and how much it can charge.

as subsidized costs soar, government will have no choice but to ration medical care, starting with the aged and grievously ill.

"One term" Obama's credibility SHOT!!!!

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:46:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Republicans and Democrats saw opportunities to create new sources of campaign contributions by privatizing as many military functions as possible. There are now a large number of private companies that have never made a dollar in the market, feeding instead at the public trough that drains taxpayers of dollars while loading Americans with debt service obligations.

Clip Source: www.globalresearch.ca

Republic of Fools: The Evil Empire

by Paul Craig Roberts

The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that “our” government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate. Voters will vent their frustrations over their impotence on the president, which implies a future of one-term presidents. Soon our presidents will be as ineffective as Roman emperors in the final days of that empire.

Obama is already set on the course to a one-term presidency. He promised change, but has delivered none.

Voters are already recognizing the writing on the wall and are falling away from Obama and the Democrats. Independents who gave Obama his comfortable victory have now swung against him, recently electing Republican governors in New Jersey and Virginia to succeed Democrats. This is a protest vote, not a confidence vote in Re-publicans.