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I thought it would be interesting to see how much some of the most virulent opponents of health care reform knew about the people they are supposed to be representing. I came up with two simple questions.
I thought it would be interesting to see how much some of the most virulent opponents of health care reform knew about the people they are supposed to be representing. I came up with two simple questions.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
The latest lunatic fringe talking point equates Democratic-led efforts at health care reform with the 9/11 terrorist attacks on American soil. During...
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) claimed on Monday that health care reform is a bigger threat than terrorism -- the latest incendiary comment from a Republ...
Matt Finkelstein | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
During the health debate, Foxx quoted from an anti-Obama poem called "The Pied Piper" that doesn't appear to be real, which went viral in the right-wing blogosphere earlier this year.
Minnesota Independent | Paul Demko | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
On Wednesday Rep. Michele Bachmann was part of a star-studded "teletownhall" meeting to discuss health-care reform. The event, billed "Keeping Faith w...
Gerald McEntee | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
Let's make sure seniors and all Americans know the truth about health care reform and that lies are spread to block real progress.
Larry Gellman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
They are whack jobs or hard-wired haters, but their influence and numbers are growing among what's left of the Republican party, the news media, and the former Confederacy.
David A. Harris | Posted 09.02.2009 | Politics
Keep talking, Mr. Cantor. You're just helping to keep Jews pulling the lever for Democrats.
Bob Cesca | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media
The contest to be the member of Congress saying the dumbest possible things about health care has just gotten ratcheted up about a thousand more notch...
Michael Markarian | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics
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.
Winston-Salem Journal | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx has written a letter of apology to the mother of Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming man whose name is on a bill adding sexual orie...
Wes Isley | Posted 06.05.2009 | Style
Television shows and beauty pageants are rather inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, but they reflect broad, underlying trends back to us.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
Judy Shepard appeared on last night's edition of the Rachel Maddow Show to discuss the recent expansion of Federal hate crimes legislation and the rem...
Michael Rowe | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
I'd like to imagine the feelings of Judy Shepard as the hate crimes bill named after her murdered son Matthew passed the house in the presence of the woman who attempted to besmirch his memory with ugly distortions.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics
As the House of Representatives debates an expansion of hate crimes legislation, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) has taken the rhetoric to a new level, cl...
Politico | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
Peril awaits any first-term lawmaker who ventures to the House floor unprepared for a duel, but Ohio Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy had a particularly rough ...
Wes Isley | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home
Q&A with Wade Boyles For someone who had never volunteered for a political campaign until this year, Wade Boyles, 36, of Winston-Salem, N.C., hasn't ...
Mike Stark | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics