Entries Tagged as 'Health Care'
Remember this despicable display? The piece of trash who tossed dollar bills has been identified as Chris Reichert of Victorian Village, Ohio. Per Wonkette: The now-adult turd, “Chris Reichert of Victorian Village,” bravely wasted many days after the videotaped display of insane rage denying that he had, in fact, heckled and then tossed a few [...]
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Tags: Health Care·parkinsons disease·Political Fringe
Hmmm… are you wrong?? Let’s see if House Minority leader John Boehner thinks you should compare Obamacare to slavery. John Boehner says… Whoa E. Pluribus! You may want to back away from the shitty, demeaning, ignorant comparison there. Even Boehner thinks you’re going too far.
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Tags: Barack Obama·Health Care·John Boehner·slavery
The winding path that led to health care reform was maddeningly vicious– due mainly to the intense rhetoric and numbingly personal attacks on the product, and the people responsible for it. The fact that this legislation was even crafted and signed into law at all was miraculous, considering the most polarizing political climate in 50 [...]
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Tags: america·Barack Obama·dynamism·Health Care·President
A look at the aftermath to history. Whether you praise it, loathe it, or are indifferent to it– A new thread in the American tapestry has been woven.
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Tags: Barack Obama·Health Care·history·President
The bill signing is expected at or around 11:15 this morning. Please join the event below: JOIN THE LIVE CHAT VISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOV
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Tags: Barack Obama·Congress·Health Care
The evil, back room tactics that the Democrats used (like actually passing health care by having more popularly elected officials than the other party, and whose job is to PASS laws) were evident. Elections matter. The GOP should learn that lesson, if they already haven’t. The president speaks on the passage of health care reform. [...]
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Tags: america·Barack Obama·Health Care
Let me offer a ludicrously premature opinion: Barack Obama has sealed his reputation as a president of great historical import. We don’t know what will follow in his presidency, and it’s quite possible that some future event–a war, a scandal–will define his presidency. But we do know that he has put his imprint on the [...]
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Tags: Barack Obama·Congress·Health Care·history
On July 30th, 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the epic legislation call Medicare into law. President Johnson’s historic achievement was not without significant contention and venom. Many on the other side of the aisle opposed it as nothing more than government intrusion on the rights of liberties of free people. That idea has been [...]
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Tags: Barack Obama·Health Care·history·Lyndon Johnson·Medicare·President
The independent, non-partisan Congressional Budget Office is now public enemy number one in the eyes of conservatives. Some of them have apparently loaded up on crazy pills. Exhibit A: The real culprit in this high-stakes drama is the GOP– their weak-kneed leadership and their lame health care proposal– put forth only because they felt compelled [...]
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Tags: CBO·Conservatives·GOP·Health Care·Medicare·Nancy Pelosi
Really???? Watch it below. See, I don’t have a problem with real, sensible protest. It’s when you act like a pack of sick animals– whose sole means of debate is to mock, ridicule, and demean others– whose points of view are different from your own. You do a disservice to yourself and your cause. And [...]
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Tags: Health Care·health care reform·parkinsons disease·Protest·Tea Party