June 1, 2012

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Government Takeover

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Republicans Demand a Government Takeover and Bailout of the Oil Spill

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Teabaggers, Bobby Jindal, BP Oil Spill 2010, British Petroleum, Gulf Oil Spill, Stimulus, Tea Party Movement, Economic Stimulus Package, Oil Spill, Bailout, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, Government Takeover, Republican Hypocrisy, Health Care Reform, Fox News, Socialism, BP Oil Spill, Frank Luntz, Tea Party, Republican Party, Fox News Channel, Republicans, Politics News

Now that crude has begun to wash upon the shores and wetlands of Republican red states, any superficial bumper sticker griping about socialism has been temporarily forgotten.

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BP TARP and SLIME

Bob Franken | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government Takeover, Ecological Disaster, Energycompanies, Bp, Economic Disaster, Regulators, Politics News

How sad it is that the energy company enablers in our government don't determine that the Gulf coast is "Too Big to Fail". Maybe then they would sto...

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The Historic Health Care Legislation - For Democrats, Now the Work Begins

Lanny Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government Takeover, Health Care Reform, Theodore Roosevelt, Purple Nation, Civil Rights Act, Barack Obama, Politics News

If Democrats are to avoid a political bloodbath in November, the president and Democratic congressional leaders must spend substantial time in the coming weeks and months explaining this legislation in simple terms.

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Health Care Reform: Deep Twitter Thoughts on The Health Care Vote

Katie Halper | Posted 03.22.2010

Stupak is like a boyfriend who starts saying all the right stuff after you've decided to break up with him.

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What a Real Government Takeover Looks Like

Rep. Rush Holt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform Vote, Health Care Reform, Government Takeover, Terri Schiavo, Government-Takeover-of-Health-Care, Politics News

As Congress convenes today to pass health reform, I'm reminded of one of the last times we voted on a Sunday: March 2005, when Republicans forced an extraordinary vote to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo.

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A Flawed Step Forward on Health Care Reform

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Bill, Sojourners, Debate, Jim Wallis, Family, Washington, Economy, Campaign, Health-Care Debate, Evangelicals, Senate Bill, Congressional Budget Office, Movement, Legislation, America, Bishops, Republican, Government, Abortion, Conflict, Values, Pregnant Women, Health Care Coverage, Government Takeover, Social Movements, Health Care, Pro-Life, Catholic Hospital, Catholic, Leaders, Bankruptcy, Politics, Democrat, Health, Evangelical, God, Democrats, Elective Abortion, Hyde Amendment, Reform Bills, Insurance Company, Women, Wall Street, Change, Health Care Reform, New York Times, Special Interests, Republicans, U S Conference of Catholic Bishops, Health Care System, Catholic Bishops, Politics News

We all know how much the media love conflict, and they have fallen in love with the health care debate. To say the process hasn't been pretty would be one of the biggest Washington understatements in years.

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Paul Krugman Debunks Health Care Reform Myths

New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Costs, Health Care Reform Bill, Federal Deficit, Public Option, Cbo, Health Care Reform, Government Takeover, Medicaid, Medicare, Paul Krugman, House Senate, Home News

Health reform is back from the dead. Many Democrats have realized that their electoral prospects will be better if they can point to a real accomplish...

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Pray for Glenn Beck

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birth, Debate, Stories, Family, Children, Media, Campaign, Bureaucrats, Miracle, Reform, Pray, Prayer, Legislation, America, Government, Miracles, Abortion, Cerebral Palsy, Government Takeover, Personal Story, Health Care, Pro-Life, Fears, Pregnancies, System, Fear, Families, Healthcare, Choice, Insurance Coverage, Reform Proposals, Anger, Mother, Unborn Baby, Glenn Beck, Rhetoric, Quality of Life, Politics News

Beck's predictions that health care reform would lead to government bureaucrats euthanizing people like his daughter are dead wrong, but we at Sojournors agree with Glenn on this point: God is the giver of life.

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Obama Presses Hard to Unite Dems on Healthcare and Slaps Down Republican "Demagoguery"

Ray Hanania | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Demagoguery, Public Option, Insurance, Death Panels, Social Security, US Senate, President Obama, Government Takeover, Denial of Pre-Existing Conditions, Medicaid, Medicare, Reform, Socialism, Health Care, US House, Ted Kennedy, Joint Session of Congress, Politics News

The President's speech was so powerful it probably sent many of the nation's health insurance industry robber barons into economic cardiac arrest.

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Wendell Potter and Health Insurance Industry Misinformation

Jake Whitney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Cigna, Whistleblower, Death Panels, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Government Takeover, Wendell Potter, Democrats, Bureaucrat, Republicans, Politics News

Potter was vice president of corporate communications for Cigna, the fourth biggest health insurance company in America, when he decided to resign and become a public advocate for reform.

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Town Halls: Don't Confuse Me with the Facts, My Mind Is Made Up

Linda Bergthold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Military, Deficits, Government Bureaucracy, Government Takeover, As Good as It Gets, Socialism, Health Reform, Health Care Reform Town Halls, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News

There is little opportunity for a dialogue in which facts are presented if the people you are talking to have already made up their minds. BUT, if you want an effective Town Hall, here's some advice.

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This Boyfriend May Be Hazardous To Your Health

Nancy Giles | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government Takeover, Health Care Reform, Dating Advice, Single Women, Comedy News

Memo to my fellow Americans, with a special shout-out to my sister single women: settling for health insurance coverage as it exists now would be like settling for a bad boyfriend. And we deserve better.

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Cantor: "Waterloo" Not Right Way To Look At Health Care

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jim DeMint Waterloo, Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Government Takeover, Eric Cantor, Health Care, Jim Demint, Waterloo, Pjtv, Politics News

Asked about Jim DeMint's remark that health care could be Obama's "Waterloo," Cantor said: "I don't think that's a good way to look at it. We are cer...

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Bizarro World of Health Care Reform: Standing Language On Its Head

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dr. David Himmelstein, Turning Language on Its Head, Karen Ignani, Public Option, Government Bureaucracy, Bizarro World, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care Reform, For-Profit Insurances, Government Takeover, Single Payer Health Care, Ahip, Frank Luntz, Spinning the Issue, Physicians for a National Health Program, Savings With National Health Care, Medical Malpractice, Best Medical Practices, Keeping the Insurance You Have, Transparency, Creeping Socialism, Cbo Report, Politics News

Corporate socialism remains at the center of our "uniquely American" failed, fragmented, U.S. health insurance model that emulates the Wall Street norm of privatized profit and socialized risk.

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An Ad Script for Teddy Kennedy on Healthcare Reform

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Advertisement, President Obama, Obama, Reform, Veterans, Issue Ad, Marketplace, Edward Kennedy, Uninsured, Insurance, Government Takeover, Government Run, Health Care, Bankruptcy, Kennedy, Public Option, Hospital Bed, Hospital, Democrat, Medicaid, Ad, Congress, Democrats, Teddy Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Competition, Script, Chris Weigant, Health, Health Insurance, Senator Kennedy, Medicare, Free Market, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Senate, Politics News

In the debate about healthcare reform, why are the loudest voices in the room the ones who seemingly are against all reform? Where are the champions ...

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GOP Senators Equate Public Health Plan With "Government Takeover"

Wall Street Journal | Patrick Yoest | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Health Insurance Plan, Charles Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Health Care Reform, Government-Takeover, Barack Obama, GOP Senators, Politics News

Republican members of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee criticized proposals to create a public health insurance option to compete with private insure...

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