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RNC Fallout: 'Ashamed' donor closes checkbook
Source: Politico

A prominent Evangelical figure and Republican donor says he will end his contributions to the organized Republican Party in reaction to the leaked fundraising presentation that advised using "fear" to solicit contributions and displayed an image of President Obama as the Joker fr …

Blitzer Apologizes for "Any Confusion Caused" by "Department of Jihad?" Chryon | Video Cafe
Source: Crooks and Liars

Not much of an apology if you ask me. Wolf Blitzer says CNN is sorry for any "confusion" caused by their "Department of Jihad?" chryon during their segment the previous day -- CNN Only Too Happy To Parrot Liz Cheney's Scare Tactics and Fear Mongering.

Terrorism Derangement Syndrome
Source: Slate

America has slid back again into its own special brand of terrorism-derangement syndrome. Each time this condition recurs, it presents with more acute and puzzling symptoms. . .

Meet The Press: Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan "very disappointed" by Cheney's criticism
Source: msnbc.com

One week after the thwarted Christmas terrorist attack the fight in Washington heats up as more intelligence failures are revealed.

Bachmann laments that foreign citizens have rights
Source: Raw Story

WASHINGTON -- Republican congresswoman Michele Bachmann, never one to miss an opportunity to promote conservative boilerplate, is now claiming that offering a federal court trial to the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks is a "slap in the face" to not only victims of the tragedy -- …

Scare Tactics Alert - Congressional Republicans New Approach: Throw the Kitchen Sink at Health Insurance Reform
Source: speaker.gov

This afternoon, Congressional Republicans went to the House floor to deliver a series of one-minute speeches in an attempt to scare America's seniors, families and small businesses about what America's Affordable Health Choices Act will mean for them.

Obama's National Emergency Violates the Constitution
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Drew Zahn, writing for WorldNetDaily, takes issue with Infowars declaring Obama's "national emergency" amounts to martial law.

Republicans for Waste and Abuse in Medicare
Source: The Washington Post

Medicare Advantage, however, failed in its mission: prices shot up. Private insurers complained that they couldn't compete with Medicare for the same amount of money Medicare spends.

Pregnancy Crisis Centers: The Truth Behind False Abortion Clinics
Source: Associated Content

When it comes down to it, though, most of us realize that not all pro-lifers are quite that hypocritical or extreme in their beliefs or actions.

Real Life Death Panels | Foreign Policy
Source: foreignpolicy.com

As the United States debates how to overhaul its health-care system, arguments have become increasingly outlandish -- perhaps none more so than former vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin's assertion that the Obama administration plans to implement state-sponsored "death panels" …

Scare Tactics Favored By Generations Of Reform Opponents - Kaiser Health News
Source: kaiserhealthnews.org

Back in 1915, as the First World War loomed, opponents linked health reformers to the German emperor, saying it was a plot to take over the United States, he said. In the 1940s, the American Medical Association said reform efforts would pave the way for the communist Red Army.

Rachel Maddow Watching The Republicans Fall Apart
Source: Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News

Rachel looks at the total incoherence of the Great Obstructionist Party's stand on health care and its use of disgusting scare tactics.Think Progress has a good report on this too:Despite Steele Saying He’s Not Trying To ‘Scare’ People, RNC Poll Says Health Bi …

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- Consensus Thaws On Global Warming
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During an Aug. 5 interview with the BBC, Gerd Leipold, outgoing executive director of Greenpeace, admitted that his organization emotionalizes issues to influence the public.

Winston Churchill was a Bolshevik | Salon
Source: Salon.com

Yet by the standards of the present moment, as these same conservatives mobilize against health care reform to "stop socialism," that same great man was actually a raving Bolshevik.

Obama's Secret Health Care Nightmare - Video
Source: slatev.com

You think "death panels" are bad? In this animated editorial cartoon, Mark Fiore imagines what other sinister surprises opponents of health care reform might "discover" in President Obama's plan.

Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal
Source: Common Dreams

Dear President Obama, I understand you're thinking of dumping your "public option" because of all the demagoguery by Sarah Palin and Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich and their crowd on right-wing radio and Fox. Fine. Good idea, in fact.

Even Republicans Face Wrath, Rumors on Health Care - Hoist With Their Own Petard, GOP Sows Fear and Reaps Hysteria
Source: The Boston Globe

Conservatives are calling it their August Revolt, a surprising upsurge of activism against President Obama's proposed health care overhaul.

They've been very wrong for a very long time
Source: Political Animal

And Republican arguments against Social Security, as Nancy Altman explained today, seem awfully familiar 74 years later.

Stephen Hawking Defends Care in Britain - Prescriptions Blog - NYTimes.com
Source: The New York Times

The physicist Stephen Hawking is defending Britain's National Health Service after an editorial in Investor's Business Daily said Mr. Hawking "wouldn't have a chance in the U.K.," where the health service would have deemed his life "essentially worthless."

Death Panels: The Cruelest of Lies - Swampland - TIME.com
Source: TIME

It is difficult to bear the nihilist cynicism of mainstream Republicans like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh on the health care reform issue. The cruelty inherent in scaring the elderly to score political points is beyond reprehensible.

Threatening Mail, Nazi Graffiti Follow Health Care Protests as the Right Goes Wrong - CNN.com
Source: CNN

A Georgia congressman said Wednesday he's received death threats and found Nazi graffiti outside his office in the aftermath of heated protests about health care reform.

Video - Obama Calls for Civility in Health Care Debate - washingtonpost.com
Source: The Washington Post

Barrack Obama speaks at a series of "Town Hall" meetings to explain what he is seeking to do through reform of the health care system.

Obama to Counter GOP Smears of Health Care Reform in Town Hall Meetings - washingtonpost.com
Source: The Washington Post

President Obama, moving to counter noisy opposition to his proposal to overhaul the nation's health care system, is holding three public town hall meetings this week as his advisers push back against what they describe as false "scare tactics." His goal this week, advisers said,  …

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