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Obama and the Political Center

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birthers, John McCain, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Death Panels, George W. Bush, Health Care Reform, Fox News, Democratic Party, Glen Beck, Republican Party, Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama, Politics News

The failure of McCain's divisive message to resonate beyond the base should have alerted Republican leaders to the resurgence of the center, but they seemed to have missed this clue.

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Life And Death: Hospital Ethics Panels Help Families Decide

usatoday.com | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Death Panels, Health, Death, Living News

Medical and moral decisions must be made. But there's no written directive for guidance. Family and physicians disagree. What now? Every day, in a hos...

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Let's Shout 'You Lie!' to the Liars (Metaphorically, Of Course)

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Joseph Welch, You Lie, Rush Limbaugh, John Ensign, John Boehner, Death Panels, Joe Wilson, Glenn Beck, David Letterman, Living News

We're in a no-kidding crucial situation. Unless someone will stand up and (metaphorically) shout "you lie!" to those who are lying, we may find one day that there is no one left to speak for us.

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Opposition to Health Care Reform Peaks Early, But Falls Fast -- Like Sarah Palin?

Yuna Shin | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Gop Health Care Reform, Death Panels, Palling Around With Terrorists, Health Care Reform, Lipstick on a Pig, Facebook, Sarah Palin, Hockey Mom, Barack Obama, Bill Maher New Rules, Bill Maher, Sarah Palin Book, Going Rogue, Politics News

If you rise too fast and peak too early, then you fall just as hard. It is a lesson that the GOP needs to learn in order to stay relevant for the majority of Americans who consider themselves to be in the center.

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Death Panels By Proxy: Washington Times Spreads New Health Care Lie

Time | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Washington Times Death Panels, Death Panels, Health Care Smears, Death Panels by Proxy, Washington Times, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News

There they go again. Now that the "death panel" lie has snookered nearly half the country, the Washington Times is going for the other half in an edit...

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Death Panels are Real

David Goodman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Insurance Companies, Health Care, Healthcare, President Obama, Sarah Palin, Death Panels, Nataline Sarkisyan, Private Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News

The truth is, death panels already exist. Every day in this country, life and death decisions are made by insurance companies, whose only motivation is profit.

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Debate Misses Point of End-of-Life Counseling

Gail Austin Cooney, M.D. | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: End of Life Consultations, End of Life Care, Death Panels, Medicare, Health Care, End of Life, Living News

As a doctor specializing in palliative care and hospice, I'm disheartened to see how end-of-life counseling was twisted into something sinister and untrue, then ultimately dropped because it was deemed too divisive.

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GOP Leadership Worried About Damage To Party's Reputation From Base

POLITICO | Glenn Thrush | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nrcc, Obama Birth Certificate, Michele Bachmann, Social Networking, Death Panels, John Boehner, President Obama, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Eric Cantor, Pete Sessions, Politics News

"I would point out that the greatest anxiety about the president's policies tends to come from independents," he said. Long before the tea parties or...

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The Internet and the Ignorant

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Internet, Rush Limbaugh, Death Panels, Health Care, Blogging, Bloggers, Politics News

If readers are intent on being deceived by one kind of magician or another I'd suggest they put their faith in the imaginary lottery folks or the cash-strapped Nigerians. They harm only the gullible.

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Poll: Majority Dismiss Right Wing Healthcare Attacks As "Scare Tactics"

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Socialized Medicine, Right Wing Attacks, Senate Finance Committee, Scare Tactics, Health Care Rationing, Death Panels, Illegal Immigrants, Healthcare Reform, Politics News

Wow, this is cause for cautious optimism: Buried in a new Bloomberg poll is evidence that solid majorities dismiss all the leading right wing health c...

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Health Care Reform and Death

Paul Gewirtz | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: End of Life Consultations, End of Life Care, Death Panels, End of Life, Death, Politics News

Death is essentially a taboo topic in public debates, and serious discussion about terminal illness and death has been almost completely lacking in the recent health care debates.

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Rush Limbaugh's Big Fat Republican Health Care Plan

Beth Armogida | Posted 11.15.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Rush Limbaugh, Death Panels, Ann Coulter, Health Care Reform, Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich, Health Care, Republicans, Republican Party, Comedy News

Homosexuality will be classified as a mental illness, unless of course you're a male, Christian politician. OxyContin will be free, untraceable and in donut form. All illegal aliens will be covered... with dirt.

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Wall Street and Washington Dissing Main Street, One Year Later

Don McNay | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Anniversary of Financial Meltdown, Bailout, 000 Commode, $35, American Association of Justice, Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, Washington Elites, American College, Campaign Finance Reform, Michael Jackson, Lottery, Small Business, President Obama, Mitch McConnell, Death Panels, Kentuckian, Kentucky, Structured Settlements, Taylor Swift, Vanderbilt University, Eastern Kentucky University, Million Dollar Round Table, Personal Finance, Housing Crisis, Lottery Winners, Robert Kaiser, Business News

Wall Street and Washington don't understand what is happening on Main Street. The people in Washington are pushing the line that they saved us from "something even worse." Like what?

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Bachmann Defends Joe Wilson: He "Spoke Truth" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joe Wilson, Death Panels, Illegal Immigrants, President Obama, Michele Bachmann, Politics News

In an appearance on Newsmax TV last Friday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) expressed support for Rep. Joe Wilson in his "outburst" during President O...

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How Research Kills Old People

D. Brad Wright | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Comparative Effectiveness Research, Medicare, Death Panels, Health Care, Health, Politics News

People clamor for health care to be treated like any other good or service, but as soon as people start talking about how much bang you're getting for your buck the clamor morphs into outrage over rationing.

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Time for Congress to Face Facts: They Are the Death Panel

David Paul | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Outsourcing, Debt, Congress, Federal Budget Deficit, Death Panels, Budget, Economic Development, Exports, Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, Jobs, Health Care, Federal Budget, Politics News

For two decades now, we have become accustomed to justifying any manner of spending, from education to tax cuts, as an investment in our future.

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The Bile Boils Over

Tom Sullivan | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Conservatives bathed in daily lies -- from WMDs to "death panels" -- have become so comfortable spreading them that they treat it like good, clean fun for the whole family.

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We Can't Afford Health Care? You lie!

Tom H. Hastings | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: You Lie, Foreign Bases, Budget Priorities, Death Panels, Health Care, Nukes, Military Spending, Politics News

Does it not seem that when the US can afford and not question nearly 1,000 military bases on other people's sovereign soil -- 287 of them in Germany alone -- that we can afford to create jobs?

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New Rule: Float Like Obama, Sting Like Ali

Bill Maher | Posted 11.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Van Jones, Death Panels, Snuggies, Elvis, Democrats, Facebook, Harry Belafonte, Barack Obama, Million Mom March, Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, Protests, Fox News, Fox, Health Care, Glenn Beck, Electronics, Muhammad Ali, Comedy News

Here's the thing: Muhammad Ali also had a way with words, but it helped enormously that he could also punch guys in the face.

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How to Deal with Fox News

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Birthers, Fox News, Republicans, Death Panels, Obama School Speech, Media News

As the Republican base dwindles to Southern white males and various credulous hangers on, the whole party is set to topple just as inevitably.

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Republicans Fear "Crackpots" Becoming Face Of Party

POLITICO | Andie Coller | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Joe Wilson's outburst Wednesday night earned more than a personal rebuke from the president and a dagger-eyed gasp from the speaker of the House; it d...

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

Ray Hanania | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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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Throwing Women Overboard -- Again

Martha Burk | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Women's Issues, Speech, Death Panels, Illegal Immigration, Obama, Health Care, Politics News

As the debate heats up in the coming days, we must paraphrase the question from our foremothers -- Mr. President, how long must women wait for equality?

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Wendell Potter and Health Insurance Industry Misinformation

Jake Whitney | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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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