Politico: Angry protesters shouted down Democrats at public events from Texas to Pennsylvania over the weekend, leaving the party only one real hope for getting its message out over recess: a backlash. In Austin, Texas, Rep. Lloyd Doggett was drowned out by a group of noisy, sign-waving demonstrators who shouted, “Just say no†as he [...]
Washington Times: The White House on Tuesday dismissed protests against President Obama’s health care reforms in multiple states over the weekend as “manufactured anger.” “I hope people will take a jaundiced eye to what is clearly the Astroturf nature of grass-roots lobbying,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs during a morning off-camera session in [...]
Politico: Even as the Senate Finance Committee restarts its delicate health care negotiations with Republicans, top Senate Democrats have made it clear that they’ll move ahead with or without GOP support this fall. New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the vice chairman of the Senate Democratic Conference, said Democrats are prepping back-up plans if Finance Committee [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House is turning to the Internet to hit back at a Web posting that claims to show President Barack Obama explaining how his health care reform plans eventually would eliminate private insurance. The three-minute White House video features Linda Douglass, a former network television correspondent and now White House Office [...]
Here’s the link to the original video. The White House made the video below as a response to it.
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Why do we have to be civil, if they are going to legislate and govern uncivilly?
If this isn’t a call for censorship of poltical speech I don’t know what is. Once he uses the word “dangerous”, he is exposed as an enemy of free speech. Criticizing the content of political speech as being right or wrong is one thing, but criticizing its right to be spoken by calling it dangerous [...]
DURBIN: Well I think members should be out, speaking with the public, meeting with people who are the health care professionals and talking about the current situation. I’ve done it and I’ll continue to do it. But you know, I hope my colleagues won’t fall for a sucker-punch like this. These health insurance companies and [...]
Rasmussen: Fifty-four percent (54%) of Americans oppose any further funding for the federal “cash for clunkers†program which encourages the owners of older cars to trade them in for newer, more fuel-efficient ones. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 33% of adults think Congress should authorize additional funding to keep the [...]
Said even the New York Times about Vanity Fair Leftist propagandist/publisher Graydon Carter: “Mr. Carter has used his magazine to political, even partisan ends, including the second impending “green†issue and a relentless drumbeat against the current (Bush) administration.” Vanity Fair: Drew Friedman, the author of The Fun Never Stops, Old Jewish Comedians, and More [...]
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Financial Times: The Obama administration’s oversubscribed “cash for clunkers†scheme looks likely to founder in the Senate this week as bipartisan opposition mounted on Monday to the $2bn extension passed last week in the House of Representatives. Republican senators described the scheme, in which car users can take up to $4,500 (€3,170, £2,710) in government [...]
WASHINGTON — The Senate is starting a historic debate on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, who’s on track to be confirmed this week to be the first Hispanic and third female justice. Republicans have lined up almost solidly against President Barack Obama’s nominee, taking what strategists in both parties call a steep political risk in [...]
Jerusalem Post: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu welcomed a planeload of olim on Tuesday at Ben Gurion Airport, telling them “we’re close to a tipping point.” According to the prime minister, “for the first time in 2,000 years, there are going to be more Jews in Israel than outside it.” Speaking to a terminal full of [...]
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WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. John McCain, his party’s failed 2008 presidential contender, announced Monday he’d join the vast majority of the GOP to vote against Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who’s on track to be confirmed this week as the first Hispanic justice. McCain’s decision, the day before the Senate debates President Barack Obama’s first high court [...]
Rupert Murdoch, left, and Jeffrey Immelt News Busters: On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann disputed a claim by a New York Times article that there exists a truce between FNC and MSNBC as he accused the Times’s Brian Stelter of ignoring Olbermann’s denial that such a truce existed, and contended that the story must [...]
Times Online: A quarter of boys and 15 per cent of girls left primary school unable to read and write properly, Government figures show today. Overall one in five 11-year-old pupils failed to reach the expected level in their national curriculum tests in English. It is the first time results in the subject have declined [...]
