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Hypocritical Bushies whine about arrangements for Obama’s town hall meeting
19 comments July 2nd, 2009
 
 The people who pre-screened audiences at Dubya’s doings for ideological purity now complain — and wrongly so — that the Obama administration is doing the SAME THING.
 What a bunch of hypocrites!
Investing a trillion dollars makes a whole lot more sense than wasting it
3 comments July 2nd, 2009
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Joe Conason writes:
The senators who now claim that we cannot afford to spend a trillion dollars to make long overdue changes in health care know exactly what that amount can buy. They know because they have spent it, year after year, on military misadventures and subsidies to big banks and corporations, without stinting or whining. Somebody should ask why they think we can afford those trillion-dollar boondoggles but not decent health care for all Americans.
 Read the whole thing HERE.
 UPDATE: Republicans suddenly have stopped citing figures from the Congressional Budget Office as an argument against Democratic proposals for health-care reform.
 HERE’s why.
The agony of defeat
4 comments July 2nd, 2009
 Anything that makes these people this unhappy has got to be good:
 POSTSCRIPT: The antipathy toward Al Franken among the loons at Fox News is explained in part by an episode described thusly by Wikipedia:
 ”In 2003, Penguin Books published Franken’s book Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, which included a cover photo of Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly and a chapter accusing O’Reilly of lying. In August of that year, Fox News sued, claiming infringement of its registered trademark phrase ‘Fair and Balanced.’ A federal judge found the lawsuit to be ‘wholly without merit.’ The episode with Fox focused a great deal of media attention upon Franken’s book and, according to Franken, greatly increased its sales. Reflecting on the lawsuit during a September 2003 interview on the National Public Radio program Fresh Air, Franken said that Fox’s case against him was ‘literally laughed out of court’ and added that the judge’s comment that the case was ‘wholly without merit’ was a good characterization of Fox News itself.”
Wal-Mart wants law forcing big companies to provide health coverage to their workers
16 comments July 2nd, 2009
The nation’s largest employer has joined with a major labor union in a MOVE seen as a boost to President Obama’s push for health-care legislation.
