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November 27, 2009
Tom Coburn’s Shame
If this lunatic has any capacity for shame, that is…
“Thirteen major military and veterans groups have joined forces to try to force one senator — Republican Tom Coburn of Oklahoma — to release a hold that he has placed on a major veterans benefits bill.
Coburn has been identified by Senate aides as the lawmaker preventing consideration of S 1963, the Veterans’ Caregiver and Omnibus Health Benefits Act of 2009, by using an informal but legal practice of putting a hold on a bill.”
– Rick Maze, “Coburn Named As Senator Holding Up Vets Bill,” Marine Corps Times, Nov. 3, 2009.Finally, sanity prevailed in spite of the embarrassing Coburn…
“The U.S. Senate unanimously approved legislation Thursday to provide financial aid to caregivers of disabled veterans, ending a stand-off with Sen. Tom Coburn that drew national attention.” […]
“Coburn had objected for weeks to passing the bill using the Senate’s fast-track process, holding out for the opportunity to offer amendments.”
– Chris Casteel, “U.S. Senate Approves Veterans Bill,” The Daily Oklahoman, Nov. 20, 2009.
October 12, 2009
Michele Bachmann’s Wacky ‘School Sex Clinics’
See a video of Crazy Michele in action here.
“Can you believe this, Mr. Speaker? Let’s put sex clinics in our schools, and let’s put Planned Parenthood in charge of these sex clinics, because the bill requires under this provision, Planned Parenthood would be authorized to serve as a sponsoring facility for the Nation’s schools.”
– Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Kookooland) on the House floor, Sept. 30, 2009.Debunking:
“We see no language in the three main versions of the bill that would allow school-based clinics, which have a long history of providing basic health services to underprivileged students, to provide abortions. Nor would the clinics even be new — they have been around for three decades. So we rate the claim Pants on Fire!”
– PolitiFact.com’s Truth-O-Meter.
September 21, 2009
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August 11, 2009
Palin’s Wingnuttiest Notion: Health Care Death Panels
Beck Agrees with Palin’s ‘Death Panel’ Claim: ‘I Believe it to be True’
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress, Aug. 10, 2009
Death Panels Without the Panels
Robert Wright, The Atlantic, Aug. 10, 2009
Fox News Lies Killed This Man’s Mother
Tracy Knauss is a progressive satirist who has done great art collages like the one shown below:
But even Knauss’ solid slapdowns of Fox News likely didn’t prepare Tracy for the tragedy that struck his family; his mother, an ardent Fox News viewer, refused medical treatment that led to her death; she refused it due to false information spread by Fox News. Read on:
Here is the graphic Tracy posted with the entry above:
And this also appeared on Tracy’s Facebook page:
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