Posted on September 11 at 3:54 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Ya don't mess with RAHMBO! Oh what I wouldn't give to hear what he said.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/dis...
Posted on September 11 at 3:31 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Why thank you SarahB1 and the feeling is quite mutual.
Posted on September 11 at 1:53 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
More recent reports have Miller raking in over $750,000.00 as of today.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article...
Posted on September 11 at 1:34 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
I'm sorry. I thought the topic was "Joe Wilson Losing it".
Posted on September 11 at 1:22 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Um. Why are you telling me to "Relax"? I'm not the one getting all worked up and hysterical.
Posted on September 11 at 12:40 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Joe Wilson's Dirty Health-Care Secret
Newsweek
By Adam Weinstein
Poor Joe Wilson. The conservative Republican representative from South Carolina stepped in it Wednesday night when he broke with centuries of decorum by screaming, "You lie!" at President Obama during his health-care speech to a joint session of Congress.
Cut the man some slack. He's passionate! I know this because he told me, in the sole message that blazes across his campaign Web site: JOE WILSON IS PASSIONATE ABOUT STOPPING GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE!
Except that he's not;at least not when it comes to his, and his family's, government-run health care. As a retired Army National Guard colonel, Wilson gets a lot of benefits (one of which, apparently, was not a full appreciation of the customs, traditions, and courtesies that mandate respect for one's commander in chief). And with four sons in the armed services, the entire Wilson brood has enjoyed multiple generations of free military medical coverage, known as TRICARE.
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To be fair, Wilson has been consistent in his policymaking if not his personal life: according to his last congressional opponent, Wilson voted 11 times against health care for veterans in eight years, even as he voted "aye" for the Iraq War (during the debate on the war vote, he even called one Democrat "viscerally anti-American"─several times). He voted to cut veterans' benefits─not his own─to make room for President George W. Bush's tax cuts. He repeatedly voted for budgets that slashed funding to the Veterans Administration and TRICARE. And perhaps most bizarrely, he refused─repeatedly─to approve Democratic-led initiatives that would have extended TRICARE coverage to all reservists and National Guard members, even though a disproportionate number of them have served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan─and many lost access to their civilian work benefits when they did so.
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"As a 31-year Army Guard and Reserve veteran, I know the importance of TRICARE," he said in a press release. "The number of individuals who choose to enroll in TRICARE continues to rise because TRICARE is a low cost, comprehensive health plan that is portable and available in some form world-wide." He went on to call TRICARE "world class health care," concluding on a personal note. "I am grateful to have four sons now serving in the military, and I know that their families appreciate the availability of TRICARE," he said.
What does that mean? Nothing─except that Joe Wilson was against government-run health care before he was for it. And now he's against it again. Just not when it comes to his own flesh and blood.
Adam Weinstein, an Iraq veteran, is a freelance journalist. He is uninsured.
Posted on September 11 at 12:26 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Hmmm. The "Health Care" sector shelled out a whooping $435,296.00 in campaign contributions to Joe Wilson. Yep. Kinda shady.
Posted on September 11 at 11:30 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
A must read/see!!
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On Obama hopes his pitch will sway health care debate
Posted on September 11 at 10:49 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Obama’s health care plan
President Barack Obama’s health care proposal would:
• Allow Americans to keep their current coverage if they wish.
• Create an “insurance exchange” that would allow individuals and small businesses to bargain for insurance collectively.
• Bar insurance companies from denying coverage because of a pre-existing condition.
• Prohibit annual and lifetime caps on the coverage recipients can receive.
• Impose limits on out-of-pocket expenses.
• Require free coverage for routine checkups and preventive care.
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On Americans still turn to traditional news media first
Posted on September 17 at 12:55 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Question for all: Which outlet, in your opinion, is the most objective and accurate in reporting the news? I know they are all guilty of spin and sensationalism, but if you had to choose, who would you say is the most unbiased?