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Rep. Anthony Weiner on CSPAN – November 7, 2009

Rethink Afghanistan

Rethink Afghanistan
Too many critical questions surround the war in Afghanistan that only public debate and Congressional oversight hearings can answer ………
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Grayson (FL-D) takes Broun (GA-R) to task

Alan Grayson (FL-D) takes Paul Broun (GA-R) to task on the Bill of Attainder clause and how the Republican Party is wasting valuable resource and time in congress to attack one select group. Basically, if Acorn has done something wrong (illegal) take them to court and do not do “trial by legislation”.

Link to article on it over at Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/22/grayson-grills-broun-constitution/

Link to full transcript over at Daily Kos

Senator Bill Nelson Opposes “Opt Out” Plan but Supports Republican “Trigger”

Check out who came out to speak about health care insurance reform? Senator Nelson avoided town hall meetings during the recent recess to discuss the matter with his constituents. The last time I heard from Nelson was an morning email news release supporting the Baucus version of the bill and by the afternoon the press was reporting how the majority of the democratic members of congress were strongly criticizing the bill. How embarrassing that was for Nelson? He finally gets the courage to make a public statement about his position on health care insurance reform and he gets his ass handed to him by his own party and the press. Now look at what angle he is taking. He opposes the “opt-out” plan but supports a “trigger” plan offered by a Republican Senator,  Olympia Snowe? Once again he finds a way to look like he is splitting the difference but all he is doing here is taking a weak position on  the issue to appease the health care insurance industry and once again NOT represent his constituents that voted him in to office to represent them and their interests!!!! The “trigger’ option only “kicks the can down the road” and delays the needed reform to later and allows the for-profit health insurance industry more time to rape people of their money. Maybe Mr. Nelson should leave congress and become a lobbyist for the health insurance industry and let some one take his seat in the US Senate that will represent the people of Florida.

Check out the whole story by David Dayen on FireDogLake
http://firedoglake.com/2009/10/12/bill-nelson-says-no-to-the-public-option-opt-out/

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Rachel Maddow on Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

I know  this is a bit old (i.e. – last Friday) but I thought it has a good historical perspective on Nobel Peace Prize

Countdown to Health Care Dot Com

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TYT – Alan Grayson Strikes Again — Must See “Bacon” Speech!

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TYT: Republicans Oppose Al Franken’s Law on Protecting Victims of Gang Rape

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Here is the list of the 30 republicans that voted NO to help protect victims of rape:

Alexander (R-TN) Barrasso (R-WY) Bond (R-MO) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burr (R-NC) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Corker (R-TN)

Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Graham (R-SC) Gregg (R-NH) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Johanns (R-NE)

Kyl (R-AZ) McCain (R-AZ) McConnell (R-KY) Risch (R-ID) Roberts (R-KS) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Thune (R-SD) Vitter (R-LA) Wicker (R-MS)

Link to the actual roll call vote:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00308#position

Link to another story about the bill:
How is Protecting the Victims of Gang Rape a Partisan Issue?
http://theurbanpolitico.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-is-protecting-victims-of-gang-rape.html

Some perspective on Alan Grayson’s righteous stand

10/01/2009 08:17:30 PM EST

posted by guttermutt

Alan Grayson apologized to the dead and their families in America, because of the results of THIS STUDY recently published by Harvard which concludes that 44,789 Americans die every year because they don’t have health insurance.

44,789 per year. That’s 122-123 every day. That’s a lot. And it’s all in the name of industry profits, and the politicians those profits have bought. Let’s put that into perspective.

2976 people died in the September 11 attacks (hijackers not included as they don’t count as people). That’s more than 15 times less. In the three years following the 9/11 attacks, terrorism killed 2929 people worldwide.

THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY KILLS FAR MORE THAN TERRORISTS

93,325 – 101,841 civilian deaths and 4,262 military service deaths in Iraq, since the 2003 invasion. Using the higher estimate, that’s a total of 106,103 people (not including other coalition or iraqi combatants). That’s over 6 years ago, the healthcare industry kills more in 3 years. That’s half the time!

THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY KILLS MORE THAN WAR

According to the same Harvard study, Nephritis, Nephrosis, etc… (Kidney disease) kills 42,868 American’s every year, and is listed as the 9th leading cause of death in America according to the CDC that’s 1921 less than those killed by lack of health insurance.

THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY IS THE 8TH LARGEST KILLER IN AMERICA

It’s about god damn time someone in Congress made this strong of a stand! I hope upon hope that this is only the beginning.

THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY WILL KILL 123 PEOPLE TODAY

Who will be the next member of Congress to step up to the plate? Stand and deliver for the American’s you represent man!

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