A Tea Party is being planned for the Saturday after Thanksgiving -- Nov. 28th. Celebrate the Season and Send Washington a Message This is the first MAJOR TEA PARTY in St. Louis since . . . Tax Day Tea Party. And we need you. In return, we'll crank up the volume of YOUR VOICE so Claire McCaskill, Russ Carnahan, Kit Bond, Lacy Clay, John Shimkus, Aaron Schock, Jerry Costello, Todd Akin, Blaine Luetkemeyer,...
House Vote 887 – H.R.3962: On Passage Affordable Health Care for America Act Result: Passed by 5 votes Date of Vote: November 7, 2009 Roll Call Number: 887 Yes Votes (220) No Votes (215) Member Party Dist. Member Party Dist. Neil Abercrombie D HI-1 Robert B. Aderholt R AL-4 Gary L. Ackerman D NY-5 Todd Akin R MO-2 Robert E. Andrews D NJ-1 Rodney Alexander R LA-5 Michael Arcuri D NY-24 Jason Altmire...
Seriously? At a tea party rally on the steps of the Capitol yesterday, in an attempt to show his originalist bona fides, House Minority Leader John Boehner mixed up the Preamble and the Declaration of Independence. Oops. Apparently 10,000 (or, tens of thousands, depending on your source) tea partiers descended on the steps of the Capitol yesterday, cheering wildly while the likes of Boehner, Michelle...
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...
The GOP has embarrassed itself once more. How can they actively promote an event like their tea party/anti health care protest in DC and watch silently as disgusting signs and insane wackos fill their ranks? Well, it's easy to do when you have Rep. Michele Bachmann telling the teabaggers to "scare" her colleagues into voting against health care reform during this "Super Bowl of Freedom."...
Okay, I don't often link to Dana Milbank , but today, he has some of the color from the teabagger rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. I found this particularly interesting: More ominously, a man standing just beyond the TV cameras apparently suffered a heart attack 20 minutes after event began. Medical personnel from the Capitol physician's office -- an entity that could, quite accurately, be labeled...
Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) has a long, rich history with the Pledge of Allegiance, but let's be honest: you go way back with your girlfriend, and you still forget her name sometimes, right? I've watched this video several times now and I can't decide if the best part is at the end, when Rep. Akin makes [...]
Rep. Todd Akin is under fire for claiming that saying the Pledge of Allegiance “drives liberals crazy.” However, the Missouri congressman seems to stumble on the words when he leads a group of teabaggers in Washington. Red Skelton did it a bit better: Of course, Democrats do not help themselves by sitting through the pledge as [...]
By DANIEL LIBIT | 11/5/09 HuffPost Kicking off today’s tea party press conference/protest at the Capitol, Missouri Republican Rep. Todd Akin urged the crowd to join him in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance because it “drives the liberals crazy.” Then he botched it. So eager to shout out “one nation UNDER GOD,” Akin skipped right over the next word – “indivisible”...
Hard to believe that Todd Akin (R-2), is facing a challenge from the right. Not to mention downright scary to even think about what being to the right of Akin entails. Just consider: today, he joined a group of "Party of No" VIPs to welcome the teapartiers who came to Congress at the invitation of ?ber wackjob Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) to kill health care for the next ten years. Akin's...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Okay, okay. Every once in a while, people mix up the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Sure, it seems like lately the right-wing pot-stirrers seem to be doing it more than anyone else , but it's obvious that when House Minority Leader John Boehner was brandishing the Constitution today on the steps of Capitol Hill and talking about how he was going to vote against health-care reform, the...
As I reported in the Morning News, there was another flagrant teabagging in Washington DC today. Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri today led a crowd of Teabaggers in front of the Capitol in a rousing recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. He said it "drives liberals crazy" when people say the Pledge. Well, our skin doesn't burn or anything when you say it aloud, Rep. Akin, but it does drive us...
Lots of activity today with health care reform. Major endorsements by the AARP and AMA for the health care reform bill. The AARP endorsement should help in alleviating fears of seniors based on the misinformation being pushed by Republicans. Plus word that the CBO's initial scoring of the GOP health plan was not so good. Worse at reducing the deficit, doesn't cover additional people, does not lower...
With great fanfare, Rep.Todd Akin (R-MO) leads the Teabgging crowd, gathered in front of the Capitol, in the Pledge of Allegiance: "As we renew our commitment to the Red, White, and Blue, let us with boldness proclaim the fact that we are one nation under God. It is all together fitting and proper that we should do this--and it drives the Liberals crazy." He then proceeds to flub it.
WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS? (JD Rhoades' Blog) (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Think Progress: Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) had the honor of leading the anti-health care protesters on Capitol Hill today in the Pledge of Allegiance. To show his fervent devotion to the Pledge, he gave a short speech about the importance of the phrase “under God.” However, when it came time to actually recite the Pledge, he was so excited about that one phrase that he forgot to say “indivisible”...
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