Tag Archives: Health Care
Obama Healthcare Speech Fact Check
1. Fact Checking last night’s Healthcare Address - More proof that anyone can screw with the numbers to make it look like they want it to look like. Would his plan jack up the deficit? Mneh… maybe, depends on how you look at it. Would preventative care measures really save money? No, not really. What [...]
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Ben Bernanke Reappointed
1. Ben Bernanke be Back - Well, if you don’t switch horses in the middle of a stream… you sure as hell don’t switch horses in the middle of the Mississippi at flood stage… surrounded by crocodiles? (From the Wall Street Journal). On a side note, good to see that ties are banned at Martha’s [...]
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The lasting impact of Eunice Kennedy Shriver
1. Eunice Kennedy Shriver. 1921 – 2009 - She set an example that we should all follow.
(From Time Magazine)
2. President Obama’s Health Care Town Hall could get nasty - Tea Party types will get snotty and the President will probably hear cries of “Socialist!” later this morning. Or not. I’d love to see the President [...]
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HEALTH CARE DEBATE TURNS INTO SCREAMING MATCHES
1. COULD WE ALL PLEASE STOP YELLING FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!?!?!?! – Congressional Democratic leadership calls the disruptive anti-health care bill people “un-American” for yelling and stomping their feet at town hall meetings. I have news for Ms. Pelosi. That kind of behavior is unfortunately very much American. (From the LA Times)
2. Hudson River Airspace [...]
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Obama Health Care Press Conference Fact Check
1. President Obama Health Care Press Conference Fact Check - There’s so much misinformation on BOTH sides of the aisle about this thing, that you’d wonder if we’ll ever know the truth about what will… or what won’t… get passed. (From the Associated Press)
2. President Obama Weighs in on Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrest mess [...]
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Walter Cronkite 1916 – 2009
1. Walter Cronkite Passes Away – There will never be another most trusted man in America. What the Father of Television News told Esquire he had learned. (From Esquire)
2. 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11 – Well after Buzz and Neil went for their lunar stroll, NASA scientists were left to wonder what Apollo 18, 19, [...]
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Obama Press Conference
1. Post Press Conference reaction - Here’s a line from the politico article: “Obama fluently answered the questions, sometimes at considerable length. But his responses were typically variations on a single-word theme: Whatever.” That’s kinda the feeling I got too.
One other observation from here… a lot of the press was awful. Chuck Todd asked what [...]
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Baucus Bill Boogie-down