At a Barney Frank town hall meeting in Dartmouth, MA, a constituent asks, “Why are you supporting this Nazi policy?” Frank responds: “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” He then calls her approach “vile, contemptible nonsense.” He closes by saying: “Trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing [...]
Let me state from the get-go that I’m no opponent of gun ownership (got my first rifle at the age of 12 and am still a crack shot). But something weird is going on when you have guys wandering around a political rally or protest site with pistols strapped to their thighs, or semi-automatic assault [...]
This disturbing video was produced by an extremist libertarian organization called Freedom’s Phoenix and another group that goes by 4409. The individuals attended President’s Barack Obama’s townhall event on healthcare in Phoenix Monday carrying assault rifles and handguns. The individual who interviewed one of the armed townhall attendees is Ernest Hancock, an online radio host [...]
President Obama may drop the “public option” of his healthcare plan. CBS News spoke with former Presidential candidate Howard Dean about a “public option” compromise.
Who’s behind the racist smears against President Barack Obama? None other than long-time Republican communications flack and Willie Horton ad creator Craig Shirley, according to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. Here are some excerpts from the transcript as it pertains to Shirley: RACHEL MADDOW: One of the places where scary information is coming from, one of the [...]
At a town hall style meeting in Montana, President Barack Obama says he isn’t trying to vilify insurance companies. He says he’s just trying to stop their practices that hurt people.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio is co-sponsor of H.R 676, a single-payer amendment included in the healthcare reform bill. In a recent discussion about the amendment, Kucinich said the month of August should be about redoubling every effort at the state level to show people that only through a single payer system can healthcare costs be [...]
What does UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley have to lose if Congress passes real healthcare reform this year? Well, for starters, his nearly three quarters of a billion dollars in unexercised stock options might lose a few pennies on the dollar. What does Isabella, a four year-old girl in Winsconsin who is physically incapable of eating [...]
The people started lining up an hour early in Aurora, Illinois, 40 miles west of Chicago and not a hotbed of radical socialism, to hear Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, talk about HR 676, the single payer bill he co-authored with Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan. “Hastert Country” recently turned blue with the election of Democrat Bill [...]
