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Policies of Fear or Ignorance?

Ryan Mack | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: End of Life Consultations, End of Life Care, John Boehner, Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, End-of-Life, Health Care Proposal, Health Care, Obama Health Care, End of Life, Barack Obama, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News

Living wills and health care proxies are very critical documents and every independent citizen, young and old, should have these documents within his or her estate plan.

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The Abortion Distortion: Setting The Record -- and John Boehner -- Straight on the Capps Amendment

Jessica Arons | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Lois Capps, John Boehner, Health Care Reform, Government-Funding, Taxpayers, Politics News

Abortion is a red herring. Most of the politicians and interest groups who protest abortion coverage in health care reform do not want reform to succeed at all.

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Steele Doesn't Argue With Radio Host Who Trashes Boehner And Blunt

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Steele Blunt, John Boehner, Michael Steele, Jericho Steele, Roy Blunt, Boener Blunt, Blunt Steele, Roy Blunt Tobacco Lobbyists, Politics News

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele appeared to express agreement last week as a conservative radio host interviewing him trashed th...

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Dems May Split Health Care Reform Bill In Two

wsj.com | By JONATHAN WEISMAN and NAFTALI BENDAVID | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Health Care Debate, Kathleen Sebelius, Barack Obama, John Boehner, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Robert Gibbs, Politics News

The White House and Senate Democratic leaders, seeing little chance of bipartisan support for their health-care overhaul, are considering a strategy s...

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Boehner To Drug Makers: Stop Appeasing Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Care, Pharma, John Boehner, Politics News

House Republican Leader John Boehner launched an unusually harsh broadside at an estranged GOP ally Monday, ripping the drug industry for siding with ...

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Pop Goes The Compensation Bubble

Harry Moroz | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cato Institute, Gary Becker, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, John Boehner, Libertarians, Executive Compensation, Jeff Madrick, Tarp, Politics News

Doubts about the federal government's ability -- and willingness -- to reign in excessive executive compensation have persisted since October of last year. Now, the tables have turned.

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Lewin Group's Parent Company Donated Big To GOP Leaders

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lewin Group, Eric Cantor, The Lewin Group, Boehner Cantors, John Boehner, Transparency, Politics News

House Republican Leaders John Boehner (Ohio) and Eric Cantor (Va.) have taken roughly $60,000 from the health insurance company that owns the research...

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Health Care: The Presidential Campaign of 2009

Rick Horowitz | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congressional Recess, Birthers, Decision 2008, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Choice 2008, Election 2008, Congress, Henry Waxman, Republicans and Health Care, You Decide 2008, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, GOP and Health Care, Democrats and Health Care, Obama and Kenya, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, August Recess and Health-Care Reform, Blue Dog Democrats, John McCain, Birthers Conspiracy, Birther-Movement, Obama Birthers, Obama Kenya, Politics News

It's not just the bizarro "birther" brigades that are treating Obama as electorally illegitimate. Think about the way the health-care fight has played out recently.

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Firefighting in the 1800's: A Corrupt, Bloated, Private For-Profit Industry

Tina Dupuy | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Firefighters, John Boehner, Mitt Romney, Capitalism, Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Doctors, Socialism, Free Market, Health Care, Jim Demint, Hcr, Politics News

Less government is not always good. The private sector is not always first-rate. And free market capitalism does not cure all.

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GOP Senator Undercuts Party's "Elder Murder" Claims

The Plum Line | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elder Murder, Susan Collins, Jay Rockefeller, Republicans GOP, End of Life Consultations, John Boehner, Medicare, Advance Planning and Compassionate Care Act, Health Care, Government Euthanasia, Politics News

As I've been noting, conservatives and Republican leaders have been running wild with the claim that the House Dems' health care reform bill, by offer...

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Republicans Lying to Old People About Euthanasia, Robots

Bob Cesca | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Evan Bayh, Republican Lies, Public Option, Rush Limbaugh, John Boehner, Health Insurance, Mary Landrieu, Obama Health Care, Sean Hannity, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Max Baucus, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Robots, Virginia Foxx, Republicans, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

Republicans would have you believe that all the debate about making health insurance more affordable is merely subterfuge in the White House's scheme to impose a final solution to the nation's elderly problem.

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These Health Care Numbers Could Make a Man Sick!

Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Steele, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Office of Management and Budget, Chris Dodd, Henry Waxman, Republicans and Health Care, Barack Obama, GOP and Health Care, Bill Kristol, Nancy Pelosi, Congressional Budget Office, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Harry Reid, Chuck Grassley, Health Care, William Kristol, Politics News

Not only do the various plans now being considered fail to "bend the curve" of health care spending downward, every one of the plans would send the curve still higher.

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Obstructionist Lawmakers Harm Animals and the Economy

Michael Markarian | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Thad McCotter, Raul Grijalva, Nick Rahall, John Campbell, Tax Dollars, John Boehner, Wild Mustangs, Dan Burton, Wild Horses, Ed Whitfield, Virginia Foxx, Fiscal Responsibility, Elton Gallegly, Steve King, Politics News

If they were truly concerned about the economy, self-described fiscal conservatives like Boehner, Bishop, and King should have been the first to line up today in support of the mustang legislation.

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GOP Creates Colorful Chart To Combat Health Reform

Time | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: GOP Chart, Gop, Gop Health Care, John Boehner, John Boehner Chart, Health Care, GOP Heatlh Care Chart, Politics News

House Minority Leader John Boehner, borrowing a tactic from the health care wars of 15 years ago, has put together an arresting graphic "to expose the...

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Auto-Tune The News Takes On Bachmann, Boehner (VIDEO)

Posted 09.03.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Autotune the News, Auto Tune the News, Michele Bachmann, John Boehner, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann Autotune, Comedy News

Auto-Tune The News, a "vaguely acceptable faux R&B series" created by musician Michael Gregory, has taken on Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and John...

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Conservative Jokers Attack ACES

Josh Dorner | Posted 08.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Tom Perriello, Clean Energy, Teabaggers, John Boehner, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Nrcc, Aces, Green News

The National Republican Congressional Committee tried to air an ad attacking Rep. Perriello for supporting the bill. Only they used the discredited $3,100 "national energy tax" number and the TV station refused to air it. Oops.

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Obama Learns the Bush Maneuver

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Jackson, Mark Sanford, Obama, Unemployment, Cheney, Bush, John Boehner, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

The Democratic response to criticism was lifted directly from the Bush playbook. They are saying that without the stimulus things would be much worse.

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Dems Launch Stimulus Offensive To Counter GOP Criticism

The HIll | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

The Democrats are fighting back on the GOP's stimulus criticism. The majority party is no longer content just to let the stimulus debate play out in ...

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Is John Boehner a Closet Environmentalist?

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Jobs, Paul Krugman, Green Energy, John Boehner, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Waxman-Markey, Green News

When Boehner described the climate bill as a "pile of sh*t," it sounded like he was making a veiled reference to feedlot biomass fuels, which could reduce our carbon footprint.

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Boehner Stimulus Claim Proved False, GOP Leader Backpedals

Cleveland Plain Dealer | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Boehner Stimulus, John Boehner Stimulus Claim, Boehner Stimulus Ohio, Boehner Stimulus Claim, John Boehner, Stimulus Ohio, John Boehner Stimulus, Politics News

When U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner told a newscaster Sunday that not a single stimulus-funded road contract in his home state of Ohio had be...

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.04.2009 | Home

Read More: U.S. Troops in Iraq, Mark Sanford, Mark Sanford Crossed Lines, Crossing Ultimate Line, James Inhofe, Sarah Palin Resigns, John Boehner, Al Franken Win, Al Franken, Troops Flowers and Sweets, John Boehner Climate-Change Bill, James Inhofe Franken, Cost of Iraq War, James Inhofe Clown, U.S. Casualties in Iraq, Sarah Palin, Baghdad-Iraq, Iraq, Home News

The GOP's Runnin' Off the Rails tour continued this week with Sarah Palin announcing she will resign, Mark Sanford admitting he "crossed lines" with multiple women (while providing an instant new slang term for sex: "crossing the ultimate line"), James Inhofe welcoming Al Franken to the Senate by saying, "We are going to get the clown from Minnesota," and John Boehner spending an hour on the House floor reading aloud portions of the landmark climate-change bill he labeled "a piece of shit." Also this week, U.S. troops in Iraq were finally cause for celebration, fireworks, and dancing in the streets of Baghdad. It turns out it was not our arrival in Iraq that was greeted with flowers and sweets but our departure. It's an agonizing lesson learned six years, $1 trillion, and 4,321 U.S. deaths too late.

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Boehner Video Stars "Job-Sniffing Bloodhound" To Whack Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Jobs, Boehner Jobs, Obama Economy, John Boehner, Bloodhound, Boehner Obama, Job Sniffing Bloodhound, Politics News

The loss of 467,000 jobs in June, driving the national unemployment rate to 9.5 percent, is unwelcome news for the Obama administration, which has spe...

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Boehner Calls Climate Bill "A Pile Of Shit"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cap and Trade, Boehner Climate Bill Full of Shit, Boehner Cap and Trade, John Boehner, Boehner Climate Bill, Boehner Climate Bill Shit, Politics News

On Friday, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) delayed a vote on the American Clean Energy and Security Act with a nearly hour-long speech. He...

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Republican John Boehner: 'Where Are The Jobs?' From The Stimulus

AP | WILL LESTER | Posted 07.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Unemployment, Federal Spending, John Boehner, Jobs, Funding, Stimulus, Recession, Republicans, Stimulus Money, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Republicans concerned about the Obama administration's big spending on economic stimulus, energy and health care are asking, "Where...

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A Desperate Fili-Boehner to Stop Clean Energy

Josh Dorner | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, House of Representatives, Congress, Boehner, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi, Clean Energy, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Green News

Knowing that he didn't have the votes to stop the clean energy jobs bill, Republican Minority leader John Boehner instead turned to a tactic familiar those who want stand in the way of progress -- delay.

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