Yesterday, the House Oversight and Government Reform committee held a hearing on the implementation of the Recovery Act, also known as the stimulus.

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Republicans Health Care Mantra- Lets Forget about the hardworking American.

It is very important that Americans decide whether they care about health or lining the silver purse of the big insurance and big pharmaceutical companies. And if left to the Republican party, that is exactly what we will be doing.

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The Republican Party has pulled itself out of its "Party of No" rut. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party is clearly out of touch with the right-of-center American public, pushing Rooseveltian policies on a public that is no longer living in 1929.

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Tea Baggers / 9-12'ers/ Libertarian Party Linked to John Birch Society

Fox News promotetd the Tea Parties and Town Hallers movements in August and the 9-12 Project that grew out of these groups with founder Glen Beck of Fox News..

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The problem, according to conservatives, is that you have insurance. And good policy will take it away from you. post:

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What Really Happened in NY-23: How Teabaggers became Carpetbaggers

Okay, it is time to shatter the myth that the NY-23 election was a "national referendum" on Obama. Nonsense! What it was was a debacle for the Sarah Palin branch of the Republican party. I don't know if you have ever been involved in local, small-town politics. I have.

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Are Conservatives Still Welcome in the GOP?

The "Big Tent" GOP of Ronald Reagan seems in danger. Reagan's rule of not speaking against a fellow Republican was thoroughly rejected in the 2008 races as candidates sought to distance themselves fron the Bush-Cheney years.

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Douglas L. Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate for the 23rd Congressional District, showed no grasp of the bread-and-butter issues pertinent to district residents in a Thursday morning meeting with the Watertown Daily Times editorial board.

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Who the hell is Dick Armey, anyway?

The first time I heard this name mentioned was on an episode of 'AMERICAN DAD', and I thought it was just a gag name for a fictional character. Now that I have done a bit of reading on this guy, I think he's about as useful as a leader as breast implants are on a Hamster.

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From spin to lies to partisan hyperbole, the perverse evolution of the present-day Republican public discourse is not just poisonous to the party and it's moral character, it's also toxic to our democratic process and now has planted the conceptual seeds of extremist violence …

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While the energy of the anti-tax and anti-Big Government tea party movement may yet haunt Democrats in 2010, the first order of business appears to be remaking the Republican Party. Whether it's the loose confederation of Washington-oriented groups that have played an organiza …

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excerpt: "" The tea party is taking aim at NRSC-backed canidates including Florida Governor Charlie Crist, Texas Rep. Michael Conaway, and California gubernatorial candidate Carly Fiorina. ""

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Rolling Stone: health care town hall protests tightly orchestrated by corporate funded "right-wing groups", health care lobbyists

I was just pointed to a story in Rolling Stone from last week confirming virtually everything that progressives have been saying about the fake health care town hall protests over the summer.

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Isn't this interesting? Armey (who's had government health care all along) is suing to keep his Cadillac federal employees health care plan instead of Medicare.

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Dick Armey descended on Washington Saturday - Hijacking the Republican Party.

"Freedom Works'" Dick Armey descended on Washington Saturday. In Washington the "Tea Baggers" displayed their usual zest for hate and vitriol. Pictures of President Obama altered to appear as Hitler were all the rage.

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On Thursday, Dick Armey's FreedomWorks partnered with an anti-health reform group pushing to privatize Medicare to host a Republican rally outside the Capitol. Alongside speakers such as Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Rep.

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excerpt: ""Just one day after President Obama tries to recapture the initiative in the health-care debate with a speech to a joint session of Congress, thousands of taxpayers plan to storm Washington, D.C., in a three-day event to take their fight against excessive spending, bai …

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Update: Dick Armey's Clenched Fist

September 13 the L.A. Times Culture Monster blog picked up on the Communist source of Glen Beck's 9/12 logo:

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Who Do You Trust

So it's the Insurance vs Government on Health Care?

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excerpt: ""Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, who is currently one of the leading opponents of health care reform as the head of FreedomWorks, is not above telling lies in his quest to derail President Obama's reform efforts.

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excerpt: Steve Forbes ""In a quick few minutes he claimed that people in England over 65 years of age could not receive dialysis, that Obama wanted single payer, and that Freedom Works displayed video of the almost violent Doggett town hall on their web site so that politicians  …

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FreedomWorks, a political action group Chaired by Dick Armey, has put up a page in support of Armey's incorrect assumption that an ad comparing Bush to Hitler was used by Moveon.org. Rachel Maddow on "Meet the Press" had tried to correct Armey on air but was not able to do so.

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excerpt: ""MSNBC's liberal anchor Rachel Maddow took to Meet the Press on Sunday morning for a debate over health care reform, but ended up correcting a grievous misstatement by former Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey.

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While seniors across the country are worried about cuts to Medicare under health care reform, Dick Armey thinks that the popular program is "tyranny."

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Meet the Press had barely ended and the right wing attack dogs were at it again, this time with the old lie that MoveOn.org ran a "Bush is Hitler" ad. Not true, as Rachel Maddow told Dick Armey. But why let the facts get in the way of good old Republican distortions?

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