Blunt: We can't afford this bill
The Turner Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
Seventh District Congressman Roy Blunt spoke against the health care bill earlier today on the House floor:
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Blunt: House health care bill is 2,000 page roadmap to government takeover
The Turner Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the best quotes among those who opposed the health care bill which just passed the House by a 220 to 215 margin, came from Seventh District Congressman Roy Blunt : "It's a 2000 page roadmap to a government takeover of health care," Missouri Republican Roy Blunt said of the House bill.
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Today's Health Care Reform Debate
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | yesterday
This evening the House will vote on whether or not to pass the historic-- if very imperfect-- health care reform bill. It could have been so much better. But to appreciate how good it is , just look at the Republican alternative joke bill that John Boehner, Roy Blunt and Paul Ryan put forward. We don't often laud Debbie Wasserman Schultz here but she hit the nail on the head when she dubbed it the...
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Nodler's first major endorsement comes from lobbyist who brought Jack Abramoff into his firm
The Turner Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
Those who are looking for signs of problems in Gary Nodler's Quixotic third effort to become Seventh District Congressman, need look no further than his first major endorsement. As Dave Catanese reported in the KY3 Notebook Nov 3, former Roy Blunt aide Gregg Hartley, now a lobbyist with the powerful K Street firm of Cassidy & Associates, announced his endorsement of Nodler's candidacy: "I...
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Hurtling Toward 2010, 11/6
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The 2010 midterms are just around the corner (sort of). Here's what's happening: Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) claimed he didn't endorse the stimulus, even though he stumped for it at a rally with President Obama; the Club for Growth, meanwhile, is airing a TV ad that highlights his erstwhile stimulus support; Ned Lamont, the Democrat who defeated Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) in the 2006 Democratic...
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Wardell Rips Nodler For Comments on Lobbyists
KY3 News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
7th District Republican Congressional candidate Michael Wardell called Sen. Gary Nodler's comments about the influence of lobbyists on campaigns "astounding" and said it exemplifies "so many of our problems." On Thursday, while explaining his endorsement from Washington, D.C. lobbyist Gregg Hartley, Nodler told The Notebook that lobbyists ties to candidates and campaign contributors...
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Missouri Pols Play Unemployment Blame Game
KY3 News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Missouri Republicans hopped all over the new unemployment rate Friday, which hit double-digits for the first time in 26 years. GOPers said the 10.2 percent jobless number proved that the Obama administration's massive economic stimulus package failed to accomplish its intended goals, eight months after its passage. "While President Obama told us that the failed stimulus would keep unemployment...
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Boehner pulls a boner
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
DOWNLOADS: (125) PLAYS: (616) How is that the House Minority Leader can mix up the U.S. Constitution with the Declaration of Independence in front of a Tea Party crowd at the Capitol? Who knows..but he did it, pulling out his pocket copy of the Constitution he's pledged to uphold, today pledging to "stand here with our Founding Fathers, who wrote in the preamble: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...
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Obscene holocaust exploitation, teabagger-style
The Reaction (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By (O)CT(O)PUS Notice this poster that equates Holocaust victims with national healthcare reform. Protestors displayed this poster today at a rally near the Capital steps, an event sponsored and organized by House Republicans. More than tasteless hyperbole, it goes far beyond all boundaries of civility and decorum. It is obscene to exploit the Holocaust to score a political point, and it offends me...
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Anti-health care protesters sink to a new low
The Modern Left (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I have written previously about how the right is using fear tactics in their attempt to stop health care reform. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), compared health care reform to the threat of terrorism: I believe we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country. Yesterday, protesters at the GOP anti-health care rally were spotted holding...
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Pure IIE Snark: Health Care, Reading, and 3rd Grade Civics
2008 Democratic Convention Watch (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
A couple days ago, I told you I wasn't going to read the new GOP health care plan because I was pretty sure I knew what it was going to say. And here we go, courtesy of this morning's DSCC e-mail: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE TO ROY BLUNT: YOUR HEALTH CARE PLAN INCREASES UNINSURED BY 6 MILLION, HIKES COSTS 50% Many months after he was named Chair of the Republican House Health Care Solutions Group,...
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Blunt: H1N1 Vaccines Should Go To Moms & Kids First
KY3 News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Congressman Roy Blunt seized on media reports that Goldman Sachs received H1N1 vaccines before some hospitals and blamed the Obama administration for its failure to "manage distribution of this vaccine." "While many Missourians are still at risk, Wall Street bankers are at the head of the line for H1N1 vaccine," Blunt said. “The federal government continues to demonstrate...
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Blunt at House Call Conference: Republicans have better ideas
The Turner Report (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
During a brief speech at the House Call Conference this morning, Seventh District Congressman Roy Blunt ripped into Democrat health care plans and said the Republicans are the ones with the better plan:
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Hartley Sends E-mail to GOPers Touting Nodler, Dinging Long
KY3 News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
"You can't be partly pregnant . . ." Gregg Hartley, who endorsed Sen. Gary Nodler for Congress Tuesday night, has sent an e-mail to 7th District Republicans, urging them to sign on to the campaign. In the note, Congressman Roy Blunt's former longtime chief of staff also suggests a potential weakness of auctioneer Billy Long's campaign. "The pundits would tell you Billy Long is in the...
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While Democrats were touting AARP's endorsement...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
...via Matthew Yglesias , this image of Holocaust victims was on display at today's " House Call " protest organized by Michele Bachmann and the Republican House Leadership: Take a closer look: Keep in mind that this wasn't some Glenn Beck-organized 9/12 stunt. This was an event staged by the House Republican leadership -- actual elected officials, members of the U.S. government. Other Republican...