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  • White House Spokeswoman: Skepticism of ObamaCare's End-of-Life Counseling is 'Cruel'

    08/12/2009 12:14:53 PM PDT · by Rufus2007 · 27 replies · 805+ views
    NewsBusters ^ | August 12, 2009 | Jeff Poor
    Are you wary of the federal government using taxpayer dollars to advise senior citizens on "end-of-life" issues? If so, you're just "cruel," according to former ABC reporter Linda Douglass, now the communications director for the White House Office of Health Reform. Douglass appeared on MSNBC's Aug. 12 "Dr. Nancy," with host Nancy Snyderman. Snyderman pointed out that some of the discussion about end-of-life care is just craziness and these "rumors" are difficult to combat (even though there is precedent for governments involved heavily in health care to take such measures, as Michelle Malkin pointed out.) ...more (w/video)...
  • Obama & company are calling in their "troops"

    08/05/2009 11:30:44 AM PDT · by La Lydia · 91 replies · 2,153+ views
    Jawa Report ^ | August 5, 2009 | Stable Hand
    President Barack Obama to me: This is the moment our movement was built for. For one month, the fight for health insurance reform leaves the backrooms of Washington, D.C., and returns to communities across America. Throughout August, members of Congress are back home, where the hands they shake and the voices they hear will not belong to lobbyists, but to people like you. Home is where we're strongest. We didn't win last year's election together at a committee hearing in D.C. We won it on the doorsteps and the phone lines, at the softball games and the town meetings, and...
  • 5 facts about the anti-reform mobs (DNC Talking Points on Healthcare)

    08/05/2009 10:58:12 AM PDT · by Vigilanteman · 75 replies · 2,658+ views
    DNC e-mail ^ | 5 August 2009 | Jen O'Malley
    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...
  • White House: Firing AmeriCorps IG an act of "political courage"

    06/18/2009 11:54:03 AM PDT · by MaestroLC · 111 replies · 3,679+ views
    Washington Examiner ^ | June 18, 2009 | By Byron York
    A top White House lawyer called the firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin an act of "political courage," according to House Republican aides who were in a meeting with the lawyer Wednesday. Norman Eisen, who is the White House Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, met with staffers for Rep. Darrell Issa, the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday. Eisen, along with another White House staffer who accompanied him, "wanted to talk broadly about inspectors general," says a GOP aide familiar with what went on at the meeting....
  • The Beatles' smoking habit snubbed out

    03/28/2006 6:04:30 PM PST · by MRMEAN · 55 replies · 1,576+ views
    LIFE STYLE EXTRA ^ | Tuesday, 28th March 2006
    LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - Record bosses are erasing any evidence of The Beatles penchant for smoking from the cover of an album re-release. EMI are shipping a new version of LP 'Capitol Albums Volume 2' on April 3, but there will be a distinctive difference on the cover. While John, Paul and Ringo were seen puffing away on the evil weed on the original 1964 version, they've magically kicked the habit on the re-release. And that's not the only thing to have vanished into thin air, two of Ringo's fingers, that were holding a cigarette, have also gone on...