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Maryland will offer federally funded abortionsAmerican Thinker (blog)During the debate over the health-care bill, President Obama delivered a speech to a joint session of Congress, saying: "Under our plan, no federal dollars ...
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Rep. Joe Wilson is coming to Virginia to raise money. No lie!Washington Post (blog)The same one who made international headlines when he interrupted a speech by President Obama to a joint session of Congress by shouting "You lie!" Gov. ...
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...in the famous 2008 "race" speech? To shift political momentum in the direction he wants, as I would argue he did with his Joint Session address and other major speeches on health-care reform? To introduce a way of thinking long-term about a policy matter,...
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I hope this inspires some people to do what's right (Republicans, Democrats, everyone). The debate isn't political; it's moral. Everyone MUST have health care. These are clips from Obama's joint session speech on health care, spliced together, with some guitar I played over it. Health care is a right not a privilege. To hear more political music check out: kevin.thejohnstones.org.
Following President Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress, Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) stopped by Fox Business to discuss what effect, if any, the speech will have on the debate surrounding health care reform and whether a bipartisan solution is feasible.
The President delivers an address to a joint session of Congress, explaining just how he wants to bring peace of mind to Americans who have insurance, and affordable coverage to those who don't. September 9, 2009. (Public Domain)
Congressman Brian Bilbray gives his reaction to Obama's Joint Session Address to Congress regarding health care to Alexis Glick of FOX News Business.
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...a joint session of Congress.] September 9, 2009 Remarks of President Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care ... Text - Obama’s Speech on Health Care Reform - Text nytimes.com 6/16/2009 — Following is...
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Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) apologized for screaming "You Lie" at President Barack Obama during last night's joint session of Congress. As Rep. Wilson explained, his emotions got the best of him. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) called the incident "totally insulting." Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) said he's "never seen anything like that before." Rep. Wilson issued the following apology shortly after the incident. This evening I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the presidents remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the healthcare bill. While I disagree with the presidents statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the president for this lack of civility. Rep. Wilson's campaign opponent has raised close to $70000 since last night as of this post. You can give here: www.actblue.com The Morning Browser is live and interactive weekdays 6-7am CT: christiangrantham.com
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A Republican House member shouted "You lie" during President Obama's health care speech to Congress on Wednesday, and members of both parties condemned the heckling. South Carolina Democratic Party chair says Wilson "embarrassed" state. The outburst came when Obama denied that proposed health care legislation would provide free health coverage for illegal immigrants. Immediately, Wilson shouted, "You lie!" . The outburst caused Obama to stop and look toward the heckler. "That's not true," the president responded. Behind him, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared shocked and turned toward the outburst as Vice President Joe Biden looked down and shook his head. Loud boos echoed through the chamber immediately after the outburst. While it was the most attention-getting, Wilson's shout wasn't the only demonstration of displeasure made by Republicans during the speech. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, wore a sign around his neck that said, "WHAT BILL?" And when Obama asked Republicans to share their health reform ideas with him, a small group raised up a stack of papers above their heads. After the speech, Republican Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate defeated by Obama last year, called Wilson's outburst "totally disrespectful" and said he should apologize. Appearing on CNN's "Larry King Live," he said there was "no place for it in that setting or any other and he should apologize immediately." Other Republicans also criticized Wilson, along with the expected ...
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Rep. Barney Frank discusses Pres. Obama's health care speech to the joint session of Congress on 09-09-09. Rep. Frank lives up to his name in his assessments on a wide range of topics with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. On Rep. Joe Wilson's juvenile heckling of Pres. Obama's comments on undocumented workers being exempt from any benefits in new legislation: "It's a sign of just how effective the President was. These guys just couldn't handle it."
President Obama addresses Congress on the current health care proposal before that body. This speech was given to a joint session of congress on Wednesday September 9th, 2009.
From Newsweek: How nasty has the political discourse in Washington gotten? During his speech to Congress tonight, President Obama defended his health care plan, saying that he had never proposed providing coverage to illegal immigrants. You lie! shouted Rep. Joe Wilson, a Republican from South Carolina, prompting Obama to briefly pause in the delivery of his speech and eye his heckler. No doubt emotions are often heated during these joint sessions with the president and members of Congress, but decorum typically rules—except for tonight, apparently. In an interview with CNN afterwards, Sen. John McCain trashed Wilsons heckling and urged him to apologize. Totally disrespectful, McCain said. So far, no comment from Wilson or his congressional office. One thing is for sure: Wilsons outburst didnt do the GOP any favors tonight, particularly against a backdrop of a speech in which Obama went after his critics to either put up or shut up on health care reform. It completely overshadowed the official Republican response to Obamas speech. Rep. Charles Boustany, a cardiothoracic surgeon from Louisiana, urged Obama to scrap the current bill and start anew with true bipartisan negotiations. We agree much needs to be done to lower the cost of health care for all Americans. On that goal, Republicans are ready — and we've been ready — to work with the President for common-sense reforms that our nation can afford, he said.
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Boustany has been sued for malpractice 3 times. He is an avid birther. And embarrassingly, he tried to buy a British 'lordship' from some scammers a few years ago. Could they have picked anybody lamer to rebut the President's speech?
Rep. Charles Boustany gives GOP rebuttal to Obama's Speech to the Joint Session of Congress
At the close of an address on health reform to Congress, President Obama reminds people: "I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it's better politics to kill this plan, than to improve it." "If you misrepresent what's in this plan, we will call you out," he adds. "And I will not accept the status quo as a solution. Not this time. Not now." He also talks about a letter he received from late Senator Ted Kennedy that was written in May, but delivered to Obama after Kennedy's death. In the letter, Ted called health reform "unfinished business" but was confident that "this is the year" that it would pass. Obama also remarked on when it is necessary fo government to step in.
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The GOP propaganda machine is in full spin as operatives and hot talk stations spread lies and hysteria about items said to be found in the current House bill language of the American Affordable Health Care Act. Talk of genocide on both ends of the life cycle are paraded down the street in a grotesque death march of wing nuts eager to drink any Kool-Aid and any lie to sabotage discussion about actual substance. Scare tactics included outrage over mandated funding for abortions and assisted suicide for those over 65. Per a recent Kaiser Family Foundation analysis, the abortion coverage was modified significantly in committee. The Energy and Commerce Committee amendment: Prohibits abortion coverage from being required as part of the essential benefits package; and requires segregation of public subsidy funds from private premium payments for plans that choose to cover abortion services beyond Hyde—which allows coverage for abortion services to save the life of the woman and in cases of rape or incest; and require there be no effect on state or federal laws on abortions. See also the Guttmacher Report of July 22, 2009, that discusses these restrictions in the context of the insurance industry. The genocide mandate is a considered a wild distortion of the House Bill. All manner of documentation to the contrary, Republicans try to paint a provision for suggested elderly medical counseling every five years as some Soylent Green scenario where seniors are meekly led to assisted ...
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{Part II} - President Obama's Critical Health Care Speech CLOSING - 09-09-09 - Obama: 'No one should go broke because they got sick' President Obama defended his proposal for government-run public health insurance as an option for consumers, saying it would force private insurers lower costs. But Obama, speaking now to a joint session of Congress, called the provision one alternative for increasing competition for health insurance and signaled his openness to alternatives
Out of control GOP congressman heckles Obama during health-care speech//// A Republican House member shouted "you lie" during President Barack Obama's health-care speech to Congress on Wednesday, and members of both parties condemned the heckling. When Obama denied that proposed health-care legislation would provide free health coverage for illegal immigrants, South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson shouted, "You lie!" Obama paused and looked toward the Republican side of the chamber before continuing his speech. After the speech, Republican Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate defeated by Obama last year, called Wilson's outburst "totally disrespectful" and said he should apologize. McCain said there was "no place for it in that setting or any other and he should apologize immediately." Other Republicans also criticized Wilson, along with the expected Democratic condemnation. "It was crude and disrespectful," said Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, a top Senate Democrat. "I think the person who said it will pay a price." /////The plan would bar insurance companies from dropping or refusing coverage for a pre-existing condition. "As soon as I sign this bill, it will be against the law for insurance companies to drop your coverage when you get sick or water it down when you need it most," Obama said. Because Democrats enjoy majorities in both houses of Congress, Obama could get a plan passed if Democrats vote as a solid block. And while he has said he wants ...
The blatant and not-so blatant sabotage that's happening in our country today regarding health care reform is nothing short of criminal. People's lives are actually at stake and once again, people's ignorance and lack of education and being informed is about to do us all in... The greed from our health insurance companies shouldn't be surprising, if you're paying attention, but it's still astounding to me. //////// President Obama told Congress on Wednesday that while he is not the first president to take up the cause of health care reform, "I am determined to be the last." //////////// Hey, this is too good not to share! - Forward and/or print this and give to anyone who doubts the public option in healthcare./// This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by socialist electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the socialist clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the socialist radio to one of the FCC regulated channels to hear what the socialist National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like using socialist satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of socialist US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking the socialist drugs which have been determined as safe by the ...
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama told Congress on Wednesday that while he is not the first president to take up the cause of health care reform, "I am determined to be the last." - 09-09-09 - Pre President Obama is delivering an address to a joint session of Congress to present the most detailed description of his idea of health reform. Obama has been criticized as the health care debate has devolved into rancorous town hall meetings and a partisan split over reform plans. Obama has also faced a split in his own party over how to best go about reforming the nation's health care system. "Well the time for bickering is over. The time for games has passed. Now is the season for action," Obama said. "Now is when we must bring the best ideas of both parties together, and show the American people that we can still do what we were sent here to do. Now is the time to deliver on health care." While much of the debate over health care has been over a government-backed public option, Obama said that's not the only problem plaguing the system. "Those who do have insurance have never had less security and stability than they do today," he said of Americans who have lost their insurance when they have lost their jobs or have had their coverage dropped when they have suffered an illness. Obama will say that there is agreement on about 80 percent of what needs to be done, "but what we have also seen in these last months is the same partisan spectacle that only hardens the disdain many ...
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In an interview with The Associated Press, White House Communications Director for health care reform Linda Douglass says President Barack Obama will send a clear message about health care reform when he speaks to Congress Wednesday night. (Sept. 9)
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VP Biden Gives Preview of President Obama's Speech to Joint Session
The Obama administration appears to be pinning its hopes for passing health care reform on President Obamas speech next week before a joint session of Congress. However, political analyst Lawrence ODonnell believes that Obama is acting from a defensive posture and is unlikely to succeed. Obama is giving a speech they never intended to make, ODonnell told MSNBCs Rachel Maddow on Wednesday. September was supposed to be the signing ceremony in the Rose Garden for this legislation. So theyre ...
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Solon Simmons, Assistant Professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, responding to Obama's first speech to a joint session of Congress on February 25th, 2009. Simmons saw the message from Obama as a very powerful and positive message to Americans during a time of economic crisis. Interview conducted by Marci Ien on CTV, February 25, 2009. Video courtesy of CTV.
Gov. Bobby Jindal's task tonight, to rebut President Obama's first address to a joint session of Congress, was a thankless one. But it still constituted an opportunity for the Louisiana Republican to show that he could handle the national spotlight, present himself as a fresh face of the Republican Party, and stand up to the current president oratorically. On each of these three hurdles, he came up short. Both Democrats and Republicans alike panned Jindal's rebuttal in terms that were ...
This is part 6 of 6 of President Barack Obama's address to both chambers of congress on February 24, 2009.
This is part 5 of 6 of President Barack Obama's address to both chambers of congress on February 24, 2009.
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