Posts Tagged ‘health care’

Bernie Sanders: “the day will come” for Medicare-for-all

Bernie Sander’s allotted 30 minutes on his proposal for single-payer health care (after Oklahoma asshat Senator Tom Coburn, on behalf of the Asshat Party, required a reading of the amendment to slow down the process, and Reid demanded Sanders pull the bill so he could kiss Nelson’s ass for Christmas).
And anyone offended by my [...]

GOP legislators make teabaggers proud with rude, out of order disruptions on House floor

This morning, prior to the vote on health care reform, the GOP orchestrated, in the now world-renowned teabagger style, an ugly disruption of the Democratic Women’s Caucus statements for the record (which had already been shortened by agreement between the two parties. The Dem leadership persists in making these agreements although they are never honored [...]

Media aghast at Dem Congressman’s frankness and refusal to cower at GOP hysteria

This is the most blatent display of our craptacular media as you are likely to find. The “journalists” on CNN’s Situation Room, after a summer of “birther” “deathers” and myriad other radical Right fringe lies about Obama and the Democratic health care reform efforts — each one uglier than the last — are absolutely apoplectic [...]

Photos from today’s Rally for a Moral Budget

(Click on box to get a bigger version.)
Quite a good turnout for a weekday. And it wouldn’t be complete without teabagger counter-protesters. They were relatively well behaved, compared to the townhall outbursts.

Jesus and Lincoln weep

… at cruel, corrupt “Christian” “conservative” Republicans on full display across America. Hell, even the original Republican fearmonger Ronald Reagan is weeping, if the opinon of Nancy on the matter is any indication.
Add the following example to the list of suffering people being dismissed, mocked and condemned by their fellow citizens, most of whom probably [...]

How will the Democrats’ health care reform benefit Oklahoma?

The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Henry Waxman, is one of the House committees that has produced a bill to address health care reform. Waxman is a fierce advocate of real reform, and he and his committee staff have come up with a great way to demonstrate the benefits the bill would produce [...]

Another proud moment for Oklahoma

What an ass.
Really, what does he do all day, besides kissing the butts of the big oil lobbyists?
In response to this fine example of Oklahoma crude, the Oklahoma Democratic Party has a petition to demand that Inhofe “read the bill!”
Here’s what I posted as a comment as I signed:
Pointless exercise, since this cretin just got [...]

Coburn’s contradictory health care message: ‘You’re on your own’ but ‘call my office’?

This is the now famous clip of Oklahoma’s cruel doctor, Senator Coburn, responding to a constituent’s suffering with such utterly cold political pandering that even after years of Republican meanness on full display, most of the nation gasped in shock.
Which is it, Senator, is she on her own like the insurance companies decree in cases [...]

Community discussion on health care reform

All around the country Monday night, Americans will be coming together to discuss the coming changes to our health care system, and how we want to influence the degree and outcome of those changes. Thanks to the work of those who worked on the Obama campaign here, those in and near Oklahoma City will be [...]