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It’s being called the final push for health care. What it really is, is an example of what happens when Liberals or Progressives come to power. Democrat’s health care reform is Fascism hidden in a white medical lab coat and we all know it. The only question remaining is will Democrats successfully convince enough Democrats to betray this country for a short term victory to aid Democrat Party leaders while helping the president, who has vowed to fundamentally unloosen American from its Constitutional moorings, pass this health care reform bill that will be the beginning of that fundamental change. Speaker...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama on Wednesday was to ring the final round bell of the year-long bout over his historic health care plan, pushing Congress for quick action over stiff Republican objections. Obama was set to deliver his televised exhortation at 1:45 pm (1845 GMT) from the White House's ornate East Room after vainly extending Republicans an olive branch, offering to include four of their ideas in the legislation. The president was to lay out his plans for "moving forward into the final stage" of congressional action on what would be the most sweeping overhaul of its...

CLINTON, Iowa - With the governor of a key battleground state in tow, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton raced through the final weekend before Iowa's high-stakes leadoff precinct caucuses urging activists to look past the primaries and back her because she can win in November. Clinton and Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland stumped through vote-rich eastern Iowa making the case that the former first lady is best able to win back the White House and is ready to tackle the job once she does. "When Governor Strickland decided to endorse me it was a great personal endorsement," said Clinton. "I think it...

Combat phase is over, says Powell as final push begins By Terry Kirby 14 April 2003 A week, to paraphrase the old adage about politics, is a long time in war. Or at least the kind of war we experience now. Last Sunday, the Iraqi regime was largely intact, its apparatchiks still maintaining the war was theirs for the winning. Outside Baghdad, the Americans drew close to a final confrontation with the Republican Guard and the British advanced into Basra. The conflict was still in the balance: protracted street fighting, a siege of Baghdad or a chemical-weapons attack by a...