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White House Disputes Pelosi Contention that Town Hall Protests are “Un-American” — The White House disagreed this afternoon with the contention by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, that the disruptions at town hall meetings are …
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Kristin Jensen / Bloomberg:
Obama to Defend Health-Care Plan at Town Hall After Disruptions — Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama will defend his efforts to overhaul the U.S. health-care system at a town hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, today after a series of protests met his fellow Democrats in recent days.
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Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
SEIU Recruits Obamacare Supporters to ‘Drown Out Voices’ in Conn. (Pelosi Will Be Appalled at the 'Un-Americanness') — Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer decided to double down on some pretty distasteful messaging today, calling some of the opposition to health care reform, “un-American” …
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Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Democrats fight back on healthcare, town halls
Democrats fight back on healthcare, town halls
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The Political Carnival
Rasmussen Reports:
32% Favor Single-Payer Health Care, 57% Oppose — Thirty-two percent (32%) of voters nationwide favor a single-payer health care system where the federal government provides coverage for everyone. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% are opposed to a single-payer plan.
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John / Power Line:
The Democrats' Dilemma — Today's Rasmussen survey has data that shed considerable light on the health care debate. The question posed to likely voters was whether they favor a single-payer health care system. ("Single payer" is a euphemism for socialized medicine.)
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The Other McCain
Ezra Klein:
Is the Government Going to Euthanize your Grandmother? An Interview With Sen. Johnny Isakson. — Sarah Palin's belief that the House health-care reform bill would create “death panels” might be particularly extreme, but she's hardly the only person to wildly misunderstand the section …
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Southern Beale:
Don't talk to me about death panels, Sarah Palin. — You, who so carelessly bolstered a lie about healthcare reform to score a cheap political point; you, the most craven of political opportunists, who fearmongers about some dystopian socialist/fascist fantasyland; you …
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Lost in Translation: Clinton Says She, Not Bill, is the Secretary of State — ABC News' Kirit Radia reports: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost her cool Monday after a Congolese student, speaking through a translator, asked her what “Mr. Clinton” thought about a Chinese trade deal …
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
MSNBC Anchor: “Socialist' Is Becoming the New N-word' — UPDATE at end of post: Is this what Newsweek meant when it proudly declared on its cover, “We're All Socialists Now?” — Did you know that when you refer to someone as a socialist, you're really calling them the N-word?
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Curt / Flopping Aces:
MSNBC Anchor Ponders: Is “Socialist” The New N-Word?"
MSNBC Anchor Ponders: Is “Socialist” The New N-Word?"
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Bryan P. Sears / Explore Baltimore County:
Cardin expecting big crowd for health care town hall — Session at Towson tonight; supporters plan ‘rally against health reform opponents’ — Protesters and counter-protesters at a town hall meeting tonight at Towson University on proposed federal health care reform will not be allowed …
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The Huffington Post:
Our Fuzzy President Is About To Come Into Focus — We're finally going to get to know the real President Obama. — Once the final outlines of health-care legislation become clear, we'll know what really matters to him. Where he draws the line. How he wields the levers of power.
Jay Bookman:
It doesn't take Stephen Hawking to figure this one out — The conservative opinion magazine Human Events was reputedly Ronald Reagan's favorite read, and to this day fancies itself the house organ for the hard-right intelligentsia. Among those published regularly in its pages are such luminaries as Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter.
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Hill jets may be scrapped — The new congressional jets may be getting scrapped. — After an uproar over a proposed purchase of new executive jets for use by senior government officials, including members of Congress, the top Defense appropriator in the House has offered to eliminate funding …
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Instapundit
Steve Schmadeke / Chicago Tribune:
Judge sentences man to 6 months in jail for yawning — 6-month term given by judge who has doled out the most charges of contempt in Will — Clifton Williams arrived at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet and sat in the fourth-floor courtroom where his cousin was pleading guilty to a felony drug charge.
Emanuella Grinberg / CNN:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies — (CNN) — Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of President John F. Kennedy and a champion of the disabled who founded the Special Olympics, died Tuesday, the Special Olympics said. She was 88. — Born on July 10, 1921, in Brookline, Massachusetts …
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Scared Monkeys
Matt Welch / Reason:
Who's Ready for a New, Race-Based Government Entity Called the “Native Hawaiian Council”! — The 50th state is on the verge of being governed quite differently, now that a pro-sovereignty Hawaiian is in the White House: … Read the Akaka bill here; Wikipedia page here.
CNN:
GOP senator wants Sanford to be impeached — (CNN) — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, already under fire for an extramarital relationship, should be impeached for abusing state finances, a Republican state senator said Monday. — Sen. David Thomas, in a letter to leaders …
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Wall Street Journal:
The Next Fannie Mae — Ginnie Mae and FHA are becoming $1 trillion subprime guarantors. — Printer — Friendly — Much to their dismay, Americans learned last year that they “owned” Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Well, meet their cousin, Ginnie Mae or the Government National Mortgage Association …
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The Jawa Report
Washington Post:
Ailing States Face Bleak Outlook in Next Fiscal Year — NEW YORK — As states across the country grapple with the worst economy in decades, most have cut services, forced workers to take unpaid days off, shut offices several days a month and scrambled to find new sources of revenue.
Hannah Seligson / New York Times:
American Graduates Finding Jobs in China — BEIJING — Shanghai and Beijing are becoming new lands of opportunity for recent American college graduates who face unemployment nearing double digits at home. — Even those with limited or no knowledge of Chinese are heeding the call.
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Israel Insider / Breitbart.tv:
NAKED EMPEROR NEWS: 'OBAMA'S MOTHER OF ALL POLITICAL LIES AND THE TOWN HALL MAYHEM IT CAUSED' — “But what we will do is, we'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf …
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
‘Concerned father’ on Fox: Obama's health-care reforms ‘sentencing our families to death’ — You had to figure that the moment you saw that “concerned father” harassing John Dingell at the town-hall meeting on health care in Michigan, he'd be showing up eventually on Fox News. After all, it's what they do.