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Interview with Senator Harry Reid, NBC’s Meet the Press, December 5, 2004 MR. RUSSERT: When the president talked about Yucca Mountain and moving the nation's nuclear waste there, you were very, very, very strong in your words. You said, "President Bush is a liar. He betrayed Nevada and he betrayed the country." Is that rhetoric appropriate? SEN. REID: I don't know if that rhetoric is appropriate. That's how I feel, and that's how I felt. I think to take that issue, Tim, to take the most poisonous substance known to man, plutonium, and haul 70,000 tons of it across the...

(CINCINNATI, Ohio) - Joe Wilson, real name "Addison" presents himself as a hard boiled combat veteran, retired Army colonel and all around tough guy. He belongs to "white supremacist" organizations, fought hard to keep the Confederate flag in South Carolina and, when an aide to the notorious racist Strom Thurmond admitted Thurmond had a half African-American daughter, Wilson abused and threatened the woman in an attempt to shut her up. His real record is Vietnam. Born in 1947, Wilson was prime material for the Vietnam War. After taking deferment after deferment for college and law school, in 1972, Wilson was...

The normally nonchalant Barack Obama looked nonplussed, as Nancy Pelosi glowered behind. Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men’s club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn’t. But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy! The outburst was unexpected from a milquetoast Republican backbencher from South Carolina who had attracted little media attention. Now it has made him an overnight right-wing hero, inspiring “You lie!” bumper stickers and T-shirts. The congressman, we learned,...

Politics: The senator who called the president a liar and never apologized may have worn out his welcome in his home state. Harry Reid may be riding the liberal agenda into political oblivion.In 2004, Republicans defeated Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle largely on the theme that he neglected his home state in favor of national party interests. The GOP is hoping that in 2010 lightning will strike a second time, and Nevada polls indicate it may be more than wishful thinking. In 1998, Reid beat John Ensign by a hair-thin 428 votes. Ensign would go on to win Nevada's other...

Do you think SC Rep. Joe Wilson should be punished for yelling ‘You Lie’ during President Obama’s speech on Wednesday night?

Rev. Peterson: Rep. Joe Wilson Speaks For Millions! Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President of BOND Action, Inc., released the following statement in support of Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), calling on the congressman to stand strong and to keep challenging the lies spewed by President Barack Obama and his left-wing allies: “Rep. Joe Wilson echoed the sentiments of millions of freedom-loving Americans when he shouted the words ‘you lie’ to Barack Obama. President Obama lied to get into office and he hasn’t stopped. Thank God Rep. Wilson had the courage to speak the truth. I applaud him—but it’s unfortunate...

September 11, 2009 Set aside Joe Wilson's bad manners what about the substance of his accusation? Mr. Wilson claims that various Democratic proposals wending their way through Congress will use U.S. taxpayer dollars to further subsidize health care for illegal immigrants. Democrats say this is not true, and the back-and-forth continues like this: .....

"Hubris-laden charlatans" was the way a recent e-mail from a reader characterized the Obama administration. That phrase seems especially appropriate for the Charlatan-in-Chief, Barack Obama, whose speech to a joint session of Congress was both a masterpiece of rhetoric and a shameless fraud. To tell us, with a straight face, that he can insure millions more people without adding to the already skyrocketing deficit, is world-class chutzpa and an insult to anyone's intelligence. To do so after an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office has already showed this to be impossible reveals the depths of moral bankruptcy behind the glittering...

OK, President Obama has had his say on health care. Now let's look at some inconvenient truths. Obama insisted Wednesday that his public-option plan would save tax dollars, while not adding "one dime" to the deficit. Moreover, he said, "nothing in our plan requires you to change what [health insurance] you have." The first claim is demonstrably false; the second, profoundly misleading. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has reported that the House Democratic bills would add $220 billion to the deficit over the next decade -- and even more after that. Meanwhile, Obama was technically correct when he said that...

The Pelosi Liar Zero dollar bill is out, available for printing out and passing out, as you fight Obamacare and also ramp up to fight the re-elections of certain folks - including the Queen Bee-oiytch herself. Front of the bill is first, below it is the back. For the whole series of Zero dollar bills, go here: "Flickr Zero Bill Archive"

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama accepted a South Carolina Republican's apology for shouting, "You lie!" Wednesday night, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said no sanctions are planned against Rep. Joe Wilson. Obama said Wilson apologized "quickly and without equivocation" and the congressman told reporters the shout-out "spontaneous." "We all make mistakes," Obama told reporters, a day after Wilson stunned the presidents and his colleagues with his outburst. Infuriated Democrats briefly considered sanctioning the four-term congressman, but decided early to look beyond it. "It's time for us to talk about health care, not Mr. Wilson," said Pelosi, D-Calf. Though stunned and...

I just sent a contribution to Joe Wilson. Joe is the Congressman who got so mad he called Obama a liar during Obama's speech last night. That was right after Obama finished calling everyone else who has told the truth about his health care boondoggle a liar. I just called Joe's office to thank him and tell him he spoke for me! 803 939-0041. He is up for re-election in 2010 and he sounds like someone we want to keep around. https://www.completecampaigns.com/public.asp?name=Wilson&page=2

Clearly, Rep. Wilson’s “uncalibrated” timing of his outburst will sidetrack the easily distracted from the real issue at hand: Last month the President said “This is not just about the 47 million Americans who don't have any health insurance at all.” Magically last night, we went down from 47 million uninsured in America to “over” 30 million American “citizens”. And that was without spending a dime! Who are these missing 17 odd million uninsured people? The Department of Homeland Security reported that the number of illegal aliens as of January 2008 was about 12 million. Imagine that. What's five million...

Troglodyte? Calling a liar a liar now makes one a troglodyte?

Republican Rep. Joe Wilson shouted "Lie! You lie," at President Barack Obama during Wednesday's address to a joint session of Congress, earning repudiations from his own party and from Democrats. Wilson took exception to a passage in Obama's speech on health care in which the president said illegal immigrants would not get health insurance coverage under the overhaul. "There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false -- the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally," Obama said. Wilson answered the comment with his outburst, loud...

From Obama's teleprompter: Some of people's concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim, made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens. Such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie, plain and simple. There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false...

Great catch by Don Stewart/Josh Holmes in Mitch McConnell's office: Obama's speech tonight: "There are now more than thirty million American citizens who cannot get coverage.� Obama presser, Guadalajara, Mexico, 8/10/09: “We've got 46-47 million people without health insurance in our country

The old news maxim 'if it bleeds, it leads' is the reason why nearly everyone in the country will hear or see this video of Rep. Joe Wilson (R. SC) calling Obama a liar before they hear anything else about the speech. Let's play first what we'll call the CNN clip. Then we'll see Wilson's heckle in context.

It looks like a Republican congressman's outburst on the House floor during President Barack Obama's address to Congress has momentarily eclipsed the speech itself, at least on Twitter. "Joe Wilson," the South Carolina Republican congressman who shouted "you lie" at the president, is the top trending topic on Twitter right now. Trending topics track the most popular conversation subjects on the microblogging site. "LIAR" and "R-SC" are also trending topics right now, meaning that three out of the ten topics are related to Wilson. "Obama" is the only non-Wilson topic trending about the speech right now. Wilson made his comment...

An audience member yells "liar" at Obama during his speech to Congress. Obama also took a personal swipe at Sarah Palin during his speech. Video at site http://www.stealthfusion.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4593

IT WAS REPUBLICAN JOE WILSON FROM SC

The ball is in President Obama's court to reach out to Republicans if he wants a bipartisan bill on healthcare reform, House GOP Leader John Boehner (Ohio) said Monday morning. Boehner told reporters that the president has not invited House GOP leaders to the White House for meetings on healthcare reform since the end of April.

My friend argued with me that Obama just wanted to tell the kids to stay in school and treat others nicely, and listen to your teachers. Fine... there is nothing wrong with telling kids that... My problem is the one who is saying it. The drop out rate will not decrease because Obama said stay in school. It starts at home, with a solid foundation and parents who are involved. Both of my sons are great students and great kids, I believe it's because their mother and I do their homework with them every night, we talk to their teachers...

(My translation) Growth in Russia is not dependent on international financial markets. The Russian banking system has not been involved in speculation in derivatives from the U.S. mortgage market. Even if some Russian banks may have faced losses when their counterparts failed there is nothing that can compare to the losses suffered by the Swiss bank UBS, the big U.S. banks or some European banks. Finally, the country’s financial reserves are considerable. The situation of the Russian economy is healthier than in August 1998, but also healthier than that of many European countries. Household debt is low whereas it exceeds...

Aides to President Barack Obama are putting the final touches on a new strategy to help Democrats recover from a brutal August recess by specifying what Obama wants to see in a compromise health care deal and directly confronting other trouble spots, West Wing officials tell POLITICO. Obama is considering detailing his health-care demands in a major speech as soon as next week, when Congress returns from the August recess. And although House leaders have said their members will demand the inclusion of a public insurance option, Obama has no plans to insist on it himself, the officials said. “We’re...

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Teddy Kennedy was memorialized at a solemn funeral Mass on Saturday in Boston in a service reminiscent of the way Kennedy spent his days on Earth: bringing together disparate elements of the America's political and social worlds, flummoxing his foes and inspiring his more numerous admirers – and, albeit through surrogates this time, tirelessly working the room on behalf of his latest legislative project. This was a "Catholic" event in both the uppercase and lowercase sense of the word--a grand religious ritual that matched or exceeded anything even in the storied history of the Boston church, and a "catholic,"...

The following is an edited and abbreviated transcript of Edward Kennedy's statement following the Chappaquiddick controversy: There is no truth, no truth whatever, to the widely circulated suspicions of immoral conduct that have been leveled at my behavior and hers regarding that evening. There has never been a private relationship between us of any kind. I know of nothing in Mary Jo's conduct on that or any other occasion — and the same is true of the other girls at that party — that would lend any substance to such ugly speculation about their character. Nor was I driving under...

Even a majority of lower-income Americans expect an increase by Jeffrey M. Jones PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup Poll finds that 68% of Americans believe their federal income taxes will be higher by the time Barack Obama's first term as president ends. This includes 35% who say their taxes will be "a lot higher." Obama campaigned on the promise that he would raise income taxes on only the wealthiest Americans. While Americans were not necessarily convinced of that at the time -- in Gallup's final 2008 pre-election poll, 49% thought their income taxes would be higher if Obama were...

WASHINGTON — The White House plans to announce that the federal deficit is about $262 billion less than officials predicted earlier this year — partly because the administration has provided less aid than expected to Wall Street.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama Wednesday said America, as the world's richest nation, had a moral duty to offer health care to everyone, in a fresh bid to bolster support for his top domestic priority. Obama addressed thousands of people in a call with left-leaning religious faith leaders, as the White House tried to still disquiet among liberals, and fierce opposition among Republicans, to his under-fire health care plan. "The one thing you all share, is a moral conviction, you know, that this debate over health care goes to the heart of who we are as a people," said Obama....

Health care reform is under attack.Send a message to Congress now. Tell Congress to support health care reform that includes a public option! Click here. Dear Supporter, It's time for urgent action. Health care reform is under attack, and every single one of us needs to respond right now. Tell Congress that you support health care reform that includes a public option. Last time, they tried to get to Barack Obama by spreading lies about ACORN. Now, they're using the same cowardly strategy and scare tactics to stop health care reform. Worst of all, it's starting to work --...

LA times. The creator is a Palestinian living in Chicago. Article at link

Jeffrey T. Kuhner authored a column in the August 15, 2009 Washington Times titled, “A failed, single term?” with which I am in total agreement. He referred to the current, in my opinion, illegal occupant of the White House in Washington, DC, Barack H. Obama, who continues to pay highly touted legal-eagles to keep his vital birth information secret. Any normally honest person so besieged by so many millions of people would just show that information to settle an ongoing turmoil and usurpation of an elected office that requires a natural born citizen to legally hold. This secrecy, especially from...

You get a two-fer: 1 What do you think about Obama's health care plan? Thumbs down 59% Thumbs up 41% Total Votes: 9,153 2 Are you satisfied with your health care coverage? Yes 68% No 24% I'm uninsured 8% Total Votes: 14,266

Here is video of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs today at a Press Briefing saying that the protests against ObamaCare happening across the country at Town Hall Meetings are "not completely indicative of what's going on in America." The White House is continuing to try and downplay the level of opposition in the country to ObamaCare, but it is real and it is growing. Gibbs and Obama "whistling past the graveyard" won't make it go away. . . . . (Watch Video)

Plant at now infamous town hall where Sheila Jackson Lee answered her phone claimed to be a doctor... but she lied... she isn't Houston Chronicle DID zero homework. Also, falsely representing yourself as a physician may be illegal under TX law (still developing). more at link

U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said today she does not know the woman who falsely claimed to be a physician when she made a statement supporting the White House's health care overhaul at the congresswoman's town hall meeting Tuesday. The woman, a University of Houston student named Roxana Mayer, is not a licensed physician, although she called herself one at the meeting and was incorrectly identified as such in Wednesday's editions of the Chronicle. In an e-mail to the Chronicle today, Mayer said she'd been advised not to talk further about the matter, but did not say who counseled her....

<p>Don't Let the Myths About Health Care Reform Scare You. There are special interest groups trying to block progress on health care reform by using myths and scare tactics. Like the notion that health care reform would ration your care, hurt Medicare or be a government takeover. Actually, these are false statements.</p>

Facing a barrage of questions Wednesday over the friendliness of the audience at President Obama's New Hampshire town hall meeting, the White House insisted that all questions were selected at random -- including one from an 11-year-old girl whose mother worked as an Obama organizer. Julia Hall of Malden, Mass., grabbed the microphone Tuesday during Obama's town hall meeting in Portsmouth, N.H., and told the president she saw signs "outside saying mean things about reforming health care" as she walked into the building.

A young Somali man from the Twin Cities pleaded guilty this afternoon in U.S. District Court to lying to federal agents investigating the recruitment of up to 20 Somali Americans over the past two years to fight with a known terrorist group in their war-torn homeland. Kamal Said Hassan, 24, left Minneapolis for Somalia to train and fight with al-Shabaab, a Somali Islamist group that has been identified by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization with ties to al-Qaida. Hassan returned to the U.S. last winter, apparently after having a change of heart about the mission, several Somali...

The media have repeatedly stated how "angry," "hostile" and "ugly" town hall meetings across America are becoming. They are of course largely ascribing the nastiness to conservatives voicing their opposition to (among other things) President Barack Obama and Congress' proposed government takeover of the health care system. The press has been particularly offended by the "extreme" use of references to Adolf Hitler specifically and Nazis generally. One image they have repeatedly used as an example of this alleged right-wing extremism is a poster of President Obama - on whose face a Hitler mustache has been Photo Shopped - bearing the...

Any FReepers attending today that can check in and give us on-site info? C-Span will be broadcasting but no link available yet...I have a feeling that this may be one for the history books! Sounds like a lot of folks are already there protesting for both sides from the tidbits FOX is showing! Prayers going up for everyone to be safe, especially from the SEIU union goons!

U.S. Rep. Brian Baird still hasn't decided how he'll vote on a proposed health-insurance reform bill, but he has some key principles in mind, the Vancouver Democrat told about 6,000 Southwest Washington residents Friday afternoon: • If you have a health-insurance policy you like, you can keep it. • Reforms will ensure that people can't be denied coverage. • The U.S. House of Representatives bill won't add to the national deficit. • Any public option wouldn't be subsidized by other revenue. • If it's socialized medicine, Baird won't support it. Those were among Baird's responses and introductory comments during a...

here were no lobbyist-funded buses in the parking lot of Mardela Middle and High School on Tuesday evening, and the hundreds of Eastern Maryland residents who packed the school’s auditorium loudly refuted the notion that their anger over the Democrats’ health care reform plans is “manufactured.” “I went to school in this school,” a man named Bob told me. “I don't see anyone in this room that isn't from Mardela Springs right now.” “We’ve been quiet too long,” said a woman named Joan. They came to yell at their congressman, freshman Democratic Rep. Frank Kratovil, and they were surprised to...

There's been a lot of media coverage about organized mobs intimidating lawmakers, disrupting town halls, and silencing real discussion about the need for real health insurance reform. The truth is, it's a sham. These "grassroots protests" are being organized and largely paid for by Washington special interests and insurance companies who are desperate to block reform. They're trying to use lies and fear to break the President and his agenda for change. Health insurance reform is about our lives, our jobs, and our families -- we can't let distortions and intimidation get in the way. We need to expose these...

o liberals, actually pointing out when they're lying through their teeth is considered to be dirty politics and, in the case of the Obama Administration, perhaps racist, too. Still, despite the risk of infuriating Barack Obama's dwindling number of supporters, someone needs to point out that he may already be able to challenge Bill Clinton for the title of the biggest liar ever to occupy the White House. Of course, since I'm a partisan conservative, I don't expect everyone to just take my word for it. So, what I'm going to do is show you some quotations so that you...

President Obama is committed to making sure middle class families do not see a tax increase, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday, after two top economic officials seemed to leave the door open to such a tax hike. "The president's clear commitment is not to raise taxes on those making less than $250,000 a year," Gibbs said, repeating Obama's pledge from the presidential campaign. That was after Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner suggested Sunday that taxes increases are inevitable. "We will not get this economy back on track, recovery will be not strong and sustained, unless we ... can...

This footage was taken during than presidential candidate Obama's speech in Dover, NH. President Obama pledges not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. This footage was taken during than presidential candidate Obama's speech in Dover, NH. President Obama pledges not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year.