Ruth Marcus wonders why Republicans continuously make things up abouth health care reform. Georgia Republican Tom Price: “This bill, on Page 733, empowers the Washington bureaucracy to deny lifesaving patient care if it costs too much.” Not true. The bill sets up a Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research “in order to [...]
Values Voter News has been tracking 4 videos on YouTube. See Government on YouTube becoming a hit. New video with 2.8 million hits since mid July. and Watch video with 4.3 million YouTube hits since mid July over health care. Maybe the most viewed ever opening statement governmental speech on YouTube . The below videos make up about 12.5 million YouTube hits since late March of '09 and 10 million of...
The Call 'Em Out series continues this week -- and this time we’re calling out the House GOP . All but one Republican member of the House voted against health insurance reform last Saturday. During the 12-hours preceding the vote, GOP members stood at the podium spouting lie after lie in a last ditch effort to kill reform. Watch our video showing all of the outrageous lies from the House debate...
PREGAME Greetings from mild and dark Pittsburgh. It's in the mid-50s but dark. Stupid Daylight Savings Time. Stupid farmers. Anyway, the darkness is really going to cut back on our walks up from town for the next few months outside of the occasional daytime, weekend game. Here are a few shots however. From this morning, the Stanley Cup Champion banners on Centre Avenue have been replaced with these...
From Ruth Marcus' November 11 column, " Health scare tactics ": I'm hoping, for your sake, that you didn't spend your Saturday night as I did: watching the House debate health-care reform on C-SPAN. Pathetic, I know. The outcome wasn't in doubt, and the arguments were as familiar as an old pair of slippers. Moral imperative! Government takeover! Long-overdue protections! Crippling mandates!...
On Saturday, several Republicans went wild and shouted down members of the Democratic Women's Caucus on the House floor. As each woman stepped up to the microphone to give a brief statement about how the House health care legislation would benefit women, Republicans -- led by Rep. Tom Price (GA) -- repeatedly talked over them, screamed, and shouted screeds like "I object, I object, I object, I...
Role Models by digby Politico has a big story this morning on the GOPs "women problem": Conservatives say they pushed Dede Scozzafava out of the House race in New York’s 23rd District a week ago because of her left-of-Republican social views — and not because she is a woman. But the growing schism between the Republican Party’s ascendant right wing and its shrinking moderate...
We didn’t think this looked very good as we watched Rep. Tom Price and other members of the GOP shout over Democratic women on the House floor Saturday as they tried to discuss the health care bill’s impacts on women. It looks even worse compiled by Democrat-affiliated Think Progress , which titled their Youtube spot “GOP Gone Wild.”. A delaying tactic is one thing, but doing...
L ike all good Political Bloggers I subscribe to many Left Wing Websites in order to keep tabs on the Opposition. But when I opened up my e-mail today I was overwhelmed with E-mails filled with Congratulations on a "Health Care Reform Victory." The Funny part is, the "Victory" was from the Astro Turf Efforts by these Left wing groups and not from a Grass Roots Movement. . Here are...
The lone GOP House member to vote for the House health insurance reform bill on Saturday night admitted on Sunday that his vote was one of "conscience." While Cao was the only member of the GOP to vote for the bill, thirty-nine Democrats voted against it. Cao voted for the bill because, as he put it, "I had to make a decision of conscience based on the needs of the people in my district....
What they always do: don’t tackle the issue. Instead, shout others down because, as we know, no one has the right be heard except them. Screw women (literally and figuratively). On Saturday morning, a group of House Republicans — led by Rep. Tom Price (R-Georgia) — attempted to stop the Democratic Women’s Caucus from making their [...]
By Michael J.W. Stickings Think Progress : This morning, the House began consideration of the rule for debate of the House health care bill. As the Democratic Women's Caucus took to the microphone on the House floor to offer their arguments for how the bill would benefit women, House Republicans -- led by Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) -- repeatedly talked over, screamed, and shouted objections. "I object,...
In the debate over the health care bill this morning, more than forty Democratic congresswomen took to the floor of the House of Representatives to voice their support for an amendment in the legislation that would expand health services for women and offer pre- and post-natal care to young mothers. In each and every case, the Republicans rose to object. That's my congresswoman Lois Capps being disrespected...
During the early debate over the health care reform bill, a number of House Republicans led by anti-gay Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) repeatedly attempted to stop the Democratic Women's Caucus from arguing that the proposed HCR bill would benefit women....