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Wendell Potter: Sarah Palin's rhetoric torpedoed Medicare savings

By Wendell Potter - The Affordable Care Act might havebeen able to curtail spending further if it hadn’t been for Sarah Palin’s reckless rhetoric. It was Palin who charged that a provision of the law allowing Medicare to pay doctors for having end-of-life discussion …

House OKs $642B Defense Bill that Obama Threatened To Veto

The House on Friday ignored a presidential veto threat and passed a $642 billion defense bill that abandons the deficit-cutting agreement that President Obama and congressional Republicans backed last summer. On a 299-120 vote, lawmakers backed the spending blueprint that adds …

House Republican Plan to Overhaul Medicare Opposed by Original Advocate

One of the original advocates of overhauling Medicare by providing direct but limited government support to individual patients says the current House Republican plan that includes this provision should be rejected by Congress. In a hearing before the House Ways and Means Comm …

Women May Resort to Coat Hanger Abortions, 'But, Hey,' Says Republican Named Bubba

Republican "Bubba's" Statement

Ken Bennett, Arizona Secretary Of State, Fans Birther Flames, Threatens To Keep Obama Off Ballot

Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett made moves to appease birthers in his state this week, petitioning the state of Hawaii to confirm the existence of President Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate, which the White House released last year. In a radio interview with K …

The Republican Party believes that women are trying to defraud the government. - Slate Magazine

The author,Dahlia Lithwick, states that underlying all of the GOP legislation against women is the belief that women are trying to defraud the government and must be stopped. Women lie to get around rules and get what they want. 

Federal Spending, Taxes, and Deficits Are Lower Today Than When Obama Took Office - Derek Thompson - Business - The Atlantic

Michael Linden presents this clever, smart graph that shows spending, taxes, and the deficit all lower today, as a share of GDP, than in Obama's first year: This is an inconvenient truth. It is inconvenient for Mitt Romney that spending, taxes, and the deficit are all lower toda …

Mitt Romney's Neocon War Cabinet

Romney is loath to mention Bush on the campaign trail, for obvious reasons, but today they sound like ideological soul mates on foreign policy. Listening to Romney, you’d never know that Bush left office bogged down by two unpopular wars that cost America dearly in bl …

ALEC Anti-Union Push Includes Key Players From Michigan, Arizona Think Tanks | NationofChange

The American Legislative Exchange Council, which backs free-market legislation in the states, has been controversial in part because its membership includes major corporations as well as state legislators. Largely unnoticed has been the influence wielded by a third group of ALE …

Preying on the Poor

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month’s rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. But as Business Week helpfully …

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