Posts about Pelosi as of October 26, 2009

Fox News: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday that Senate Democrats will include in the health care reform bill a government-backed health insurance program that allows states to opt out if they can come up with an alternative. “I think it’s the fairest way to go,” Reid said of the “opt out” proposal. The compromise measure was one of a host of different so-called public options being considered in the Senate.

Bend over America. From the Wall Street Journal : Top Senate Democrats are close to finalizing their health bill and could unveil a measure as soon as early this week that would include stiffer penalties on employers who fail to provide health coverage.Senate leaders plan to submit the bill to the Congressional Budget Office for a cost estimate as soon as Monday, and make the legislation public as soon as Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.

Blast your Member of Congress for Harming Unemployed Americans! This new fax has been posted in your Action Buffet based on your answers to the Interest Survey. You can find this fax by proceeding to http://www.numbersusa.com/faxes?ID=11807   In July,  four positive immigration-related amendments were added to the Senate version of the DHS  Appropriations bill .  They were:   The Sessions amendment to permanently reauthorize E-Verify and mandate its use by all government

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And so Harry Reid is going to bring us the opt-out version of the public option . Personally I am fine with this position. Here is what I wrote to some friends about this issue: The question isn’t whether it’s right to allow the red states to refuse health care (for themselves). The question is whether it’s better or worse to allow the red states to deny health care to everyone. If an opt-out is all they can pass, then pass it. We can move the ball further another time. And the politics of it are beautiful.

Call it the optional option: Washington (CNN) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Monday that he intends to move forward with a health care bill including a public insurance option allowing states to opt out. Reid, a Nevada Democrat, has been melding legislation from the more conservative Senate Finance Committee and the more liberal Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. The Health Committee included a form of the public option in its bill; the Finance Committee did not.

This is on Drudge, but I couldn’t let it go without comment : A government-sponsored “public option” for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday. In an appearance at a Florida senior center, the Democratic leader referred to the so-called public option as “ the consumer option .” Rep.

Randall Terry , the founder of fanatical anti-abortion group Operation Rescue , is sending around an email to supporters asking them to burn Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in effigy as part of a national Halloween protest and video contest. The email and video rallying supporters is characterized by an ironic tone that serves only to heighten the threatening factor that has come to characterize the organization and its actions.

In a press conference at 3:15 pm today on Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that the Senate will include an “opt-out” public option in its version of the health care reform bill. States would have the ability to “opt-out” of participating in this plan, as opposed to opting into the plan. Shortly after the press conference ended, Senator Baucus (D-MT), who shephereded the Senate Finance Bill through months of committee debate but who had earlier expressed opposition to a public option released a statement in support of it.

Flo Goldfarb, 68, is a Pembroke Pines resident and constituent of U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston. She said she’s voted for Wasserman Schultz. Today, she was among about a dozen protestors outside the Sunrise Senior Center where the congresswoman and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were promoting efforts to overhaul the health care system. Goldfarb is concerned that health care overhaul will hurt the Medicare health program for the elderly. “They’re not telling the seniors the truth and you’ve got to read in between the lines.

One of the most controversial elements of health care overhaul is the so-called public option, under which the government would offer health insurance. It’s loved by many congressional Democrats – and loathed by Republicans and some conservative Democrats. Appearing today in Sunrise, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a new label for the “public option.” She called it the “consumer option.” She said it wasn’t part of a planned rebranding effort.

No wonder the public still has a disfavorable view of the Republican Party : Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has taken considerable heat from conservative activists for endorsing Republican Dede Scozzafava over Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in next month’s special congressional election in New York. But Gingrich is defending his approach to re-building the Republican Party. It begins, he said, by accommodating those who might disagree with you.

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) – A government-sponsored “public option” for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday. In an appearance at a Florida senior center, the Democratic leader referred to the so-called public option as “the consumer option.” Rep.

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Politico.Related Posts:Politico: Swine flu reported at WaPoBarack Obama’s biggest critic: Charles Krauthammer — PoliticoSwift Boat’s Pickens will stay out of 2010 politicsPolitico: Renegade Dems buck Obama; Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania and Carolyn Maloney of New YorkCBS golf analyst: Soldiers would shoot Reid, Pelosi

…the crisp autumnal air, the harvest colors, the effigies burning.Yes, it’s once again time for Wingnuttia to burn Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in effigy, and they provide us with an instructional video to show us how to do it.This short DIY is brought to us through the kindness of that loving man, Randall Terry – of Operation Rescue fame. He wants it to go viral, I’m hoping that it doesnt, or if it does it’s because it is being mocked. Shout out MPS!

Via Politico, Newt Gingrich at a book signing defended his backing of Republican Dede Scozzafava over Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in the special election to fill a congressional seat vacated by John McHugh.Among other things, Gingrich said: “I just think it is a mistake for the conservative movement to think splitting in the special election is a smart idea. If we give that seat to the Democrats, shame on us.”He made a compelling case on the issues: “She has signed a no tax increase pledge.

WASHINGTON (CNN) –Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Monday that he intends to move forward with a health care bill including a public insurance option allowing states to opt out. Reid, a Nevada Democrat, has been melding legislation from the more conservative Senate Finance Committee and the more liberal Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. The Health Committee included a form of the public option in its bill; the Finance Committee did not.

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The way this attack ad against rising star Doug Hoffman (in NY’s 23rd district) is framed, it’s clear that Hoffman’s sin is being wealthy: Click here to view the embedded video. I think that’s a marvelous standard by which to disqualify people from political office, at least this year.  (And we know from what happens in Massachusetts that you can change the rules whenever it suits you to ensure that your party holds office.)  So I vote that we immediately purge the following millionaires

Jamestown Associates Boasts Impressive Campaign Win Rate Lake Zurich, IL — The Joe Walsh for Congress campaign has hired Jamestown Associates of Princeton, New Jersey to provide consulting and media services in Walsh’s race for the 8th Congressional District seat currently held by Rep. Melissa Bean. Jamestown Associates is responsible for more primary wins for Republican candidates than virtually any firm in the country, including a 7-way 2008 primary in New Jersey CD07 and a primary against an incumbent in Maryland CD01.

How much cash are health insurers really raking in?  Not that the critics will admit it, but not that much: “I’m very pleased that ( Democratic leaders ) will be talking, too, about the immoral profits being made by the insurance industry and how those profits have increased in the Bush years.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., who also welcomed the attention being drawn to insurers’ “obscene profits.” and… Health insurers posted a 2.2 percent profit margin last year, placing them 35th of 53 industries on the Fortune 500 list.

Democrats have a majority in the House with more than 70 seats over the Republicans.  Appropriations can’t be filibustered in the Senate, but even if they could, Democrats have a filibuster-proof majority in the upper chamber.  Passing a budget is the basic responsibility of Congressional leadership, and it was due on September 30th.  In wartime, the annual defense appropriation should have the highest priority over all of the other appropriation bills that comprise the federal budget plan.  The

The horror… the horror! H/T: The Jawa Report Stoutcat

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, said seniors will be much better off under plans to reform the nation’s health care system.Speaking to invited guests at a noontime roundtable at the Sunrise Senior Center, the top member of Congress and the local congresswoman generated applause when they said fixing the so-called donut hole in the Medicare drug program would be part of health reform.“We will begin to immediately close the donut hole,” Wasserman Schultz said.The donut hole is the part of drug costs that isn’t covered under the Medicare prescription drug program.

Posted by Rebekah Spicuglia on Monday, October 26th, 2009Filed in WMC News Brief · Add a comment Saudi Journalist Sentenced 60 Lashes 10/25/09 Reuters: A Saudi court sentenced a female journalist to 60 lashes in a case brought after a Lebanese television channel she worked for aired the sex confession of a Saudi man.Pelosi Gets Behind The Public Option 10/22/09 NPR: House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi is emerging as a champion of a public option.India’s Domestic Violence Campaign

In a new Gallup Poll, twice as many Americans “describe their political ideology” as Conservative rather than liberal. In the latest Gallup survey of 16,321 adults identified 40% as “describing” their political ideology as Conservative, 20% say liberal and 36% described themselves as moderate. The poll has a +/- 1% margin for error. ((FoxNews.com – Poll: Conservatives Most Dominant Political Group Among Americans )) This poll reflects a slight shift in ideology among American adults where in 2005 the number of moderates was even with Conservatives.

A few months ago I signed up to receive e-mails from some of the groups supporting single-payer. Today I received an e-mail from this group that reads, in part: Congressman Wiener needs your help on his single payer Medicare For All amendment.  I just got back from a conference in Boston where Rep. Wiener asked for help on two things… Remarkably, Speaker Pelosi said in Democratic Caucus “If it were up to me, we would have single payer.” Let’s remind Nancy Pelosi with a flood of faxes:  it IS up to her because she is the Speaker.

Randall Terry, the anti-abortion rights activist whose visibility has been on the way up since relocating his operation to Washington, is launching another please-let-this-become-viral campaign: encouraging conservatives to create flaming effigies of Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to protest Democratic support of abortion rights.

See this post:  NY 23! Good News Rising! I wonder if Dede is backing down.  Oh.  Wait.  The Democrats In Drag are rallying? Bruce Walker at the American Thinker: Hoffman is the Obvious Choice Conservatives do not always have obvious choices when deciding whether or not to support a RINO.  Who, today, thinks we would be worse off if John McCain were president?  Ideally, conservatives should have united early behind a solid candidate, but when the meetings of conservative Republicans I attended keep focusing on not nominating “Rudy McRomney,” then it was hard to see who our best standard bearer should be.

A president who’s more sports-obsessed, a bigger work-out fanatic, and more addicted to golf than Bush. But the media’s not complaining. Odd. Ouch: “> “Congressman Kennedy continues to be a disappointment to the Catholic Church and to the citizens of the state of Rhode Island.” Samuelson: “>”In reality, the public plan, also known as the public option , is mostly an exercise in political avoidance: It pretends to control costs and improve access to quality care when it doesn’t.”

More at Memeorandum … WSJ: Senate on Verge of Health Bill WASHINGTON — Top Senate Democrats are close to finalizing their health bill and could unveil a measure as soon as early this week that would include stiffer penalties on employers who fail to provide health coverage. Senate leaders plan to submit the bill to the Congressional Budget Office for a cost estimate as soon as Monday, and make the legislation public as soon as Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.

By CALVIN WOODWARD WASHINGTON (AP) – In the health care debate, Democrats and their allies have gone after insurance companies as rapacious profiteers making “immoral” and “obscene” returns while “the bodies pile up.” But in pillorying insurers over profits, the critics are on shaky ground. Ledgers tell a different reality. Health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two. That’s anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries, even some beleaguered ones.

Someone needs to explain to a few conservative bloggers what satire looks like. Your first clue might be when it mentions dates that are in the future.

Politico By DAVID ROGERS Costs and the political calendar are catching up with health care reform. Having bet the farm, President Barack Obama needs a win and is willing to settle for a cheaper bill and a weaker public insurance option. Democrats in Congress, increasingly worried about the 2010 elections, want stronger medicine for fear the reforms will prove to be a house of cards if working-class voters can’t afford the coverage promised.

For all the Democratic rhetoric from the likes of Kobuchar, Obama, and Pelosi – you’d think that this would be flipped.PRINCETON, NJ — Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group.Let’s be clear here.

Who owns the deficit? It’s Pelosi Stupid — Well yes, but the president sets the tone as to what he’ll accept without a fight, and this president has hardly fought a thing. It must also never be forgotten that given who he chose as his Treasury Secretary, he owns TARP from its inception as much as anyone. ________________________________________ Something to watch when third-quarter growth comes out later this week — What would it have been without government expansion? The answer in the second quarter, as you can see fro m this table , is 2.0%.

(CNSNews.com) – When CNSNews.com asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance–a mandate included in both the House and Senate versions of the health care bill–Pelosi dismissed the question by saying: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”Share This

A few links for today. 40 Democrats that are Pro Life? Betcha none are from Minnesota!! This is surprising. Read about it at America’s Watchtower! Leading cause of death amongst blacks? Abortion! ARRA has it here ! But many don’t feel abortion is murder! What is it than? So your dog leaves a HUGE carbon footprint! How large is the footprint these idiots coming forth with this garbage leave? Is Facebook owned by Google? It apparently does not like anything antiObama and we all know how “patriotic” Google is! NOT!!! Check this at Conservative for Change! Okay, here at Big Dog’s Weblog is an article about Nancy Pelosi attacking the profits of insurance companies.

CNS News : When CNSNews.com asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance–a mandate included in both the House and Senate versions of the health care bill–Pelosi dismissed the question by saying: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”

Health care competes with climate change for the Congressional spotlight this week. (Under the public option, is there an individual mandate to buy carbon credits?) Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid is expected to make announcements about the bill’s composition and cost , and Speaker Pelosi will talk scheduling. ( AP story.)  Chairman Barbara Boxer of Environment and Public Works starts three days of hearings on S. 1733, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. She and Sen.

David Nolan explains why neither Sarah Palin nor Glenn Beck are friends of liberty: Similar Posts: Glenn Beck Can’t Even Define The “White Culture” He Claims Obama Hates Glenn Beck: “Cash For Clunkers” Is A Secret Plot To Hack Your Computer Glenn Beck Jokes About Poisoning Nancy Pelosi Glenn Beck: Dumbass Glenn Beck Explains Frog-Gate

If you’re an old geezer and need your willy pumped they will pay for it!! Looks like we continue to get the government we elect.     Meanwhile, even as these other programs are already broke and getting even deeper in debt, Congress seems to have no problem taking a proposed $850,000,000,000 health care bill and infglating it to over ONE TRILLION DOLLARS! Health care legislation taking shape in the House carries a price tag of at least $1 trillion over a decade, significantly higher than the target President Barack Obama has set, congressional officials said Friday as they struggled to finish work on the measure for a vote early next month.

The massive 9-12 gathering in Washington D.C., “Tea Parties,” and burgeoning Tenth Amendment movement are but a glimpse into the well of energy and passion that is the heart and soul of traditional America. By their malevolent arrogance, Obama, Reid, and Pelosi, may have roused that “sleeping giant.”

CBS News Senate health bill will include public option CNNMoney.com Harry Reid is planning to introduce health care legislation in the Senate that will include a public health insurance option, according to an aide. By Dana Bash, CNN Senior Congressional Correspondent The US health care system is struggling with a … Clock ticking on Democrats’ health care reform The Associated Press Senate on Verge of Health Bill Wall Street Journal Reid Lacks Consensus on Public Option as House Fine-Tunes Plan Bloomberg CNN Related posts: Optional public option enters Senate health care talks – NIMBRUNG.NET FOXNews Optional public option enters Senate health care talks…

CLICK HERE to listen to Today’s Edition ofthe BARN’s Morning Ag Newswith NAFB Broadcaster Brian AllmerNational Ag News for October 26, 2009 Sponsored by the American Farm Bureau Federation“Is Public Option In or Out of Health Care Reform” There has been a lot of scrambling in Washington as leaders in both the Senate and House search for enough votes to pass health care reform. The public health insurance option seems to be the top challenge facing leaders on Capitol Hill.In the House, some are saying the preferred version of a public option plan doesn’t have enough support for passage.

The “O” team just won’t leave it along. They are trying to sell the idea to the public that FoxNews is nothing more than a propaganda sell-out to the right-wing. The right-wing would be us, “We the People” of the United States, who love and respect the Constitution. The crowd huddling around Obama think the award winning news people that endorse socialism [that would be the left-wing] are heros becase they pray to Obama before each newscast. Nancy Pelosi [God forgive me, but this woman is truly a fruitcake] doesn’t want to miss the limelight.

A Democrat boogieman myth . AP finally reports (albeit on a Sunday) on the fact that health insurers have posted a 2.2% profit margin, placing them 35th on Fortune 500’s list of top industries. Contrast this to the 14% that trial lawyers have made : In comparison, trial lawyers showed a profit margin of almost 14% , six times that of the health insurers.

Chippewa Herald Reid Lacks Consensus on Public Option as House Fine-Tunes Plan Bloomberg Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) — Congressional Democrats are counting and recounting to 60 as the House and Senate prepare to release their new plans to overhaul the nation’s health-care system. While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi … King: Optional public option risky strategy CNN Harry Reid: A Mormon in the middle Salt Lake Tribune Pfeiffer: No daylight between Reid, White House

I find this article amusing. From the first paragraph, I laughed: Senate Democratic leaders are close to securing enough votes to advance a sweeping healthcare reform backed by President Barack Obama a top Senate Democrat said on Sunday, adding that it likely would include a national health plan that would allow states the option of dropping out. Wow. Are you kidding me. So this plan, which is so good, which is needed so immediately, which must be passed because His Majesty Demands it… he still can’t even sell it to his own party and has to twist arms to get it done.

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I wanted to take a quick break from corn harvest to update you on yet another round of good news from our campaign for Congress. On October 15th, fundraising numbers were made public in our Congressional race. I am proud to announce that not only did we raise more funds than any other candidate in this race, but we also reported more cash on hand than anyone else!   I’ll get to the numbers in a moment, but first I want to say a word about fundraising in general:   This race won’t be won simply by who spends the most money.

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This NY Times article proves that Democrats think we’ll buy whatever spin they put out there. Here’s what they’re saying: The bad economy is good for President Obama and Democrats as they try to reinvent the health care system with scant Republican support. That is the conclusion of many Congressional Democrats, who say that economic insecurity and high unemployment stoke public support for their proposals to guarantee insurance for millions of Americans.

The symbol of the Democrat party views a meeting of party leaders The only place people like Queen Nancy is in her home district. Of course, that’s San Francisco, so it’s not really like there are any Americans who like her. Rasmussen Reports tells the sad tale: Despite months of haggling over health care reform, voters continue to view leaders in Congress in the same light. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remains the most well known – and most disliked – of the legislature’s top leaders.

Congressional Democrats are countingand recounting to 60 as the House and Senate prepare to releasetheir new plans to overhaul the nation’s health-care system. While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is mainly refining herlegislation, Senate Majority Leade …

In a recent article from the blog at The American Heritage Foundation, the author quoted an excerpt from historian Thomas G. West, author of The Progressive Revolution in Politics and Political Science:The Founders thought that laws should be made by a body of elected officials with roots in local communities. They should not be “experts,” but they should have “most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society” (Madison).

Examiner: “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) intends to bring the legislation to the floor early this week, but Pro-life Representative Bart Stupak (D-MI) and a posse of conservative Democrats might just throw a wrench in Pelosi’s plans.

Pelosi on Elm Street Let’s Ask Hoh River Boy . . . . . Dance Like a Crack Monkey, and of course, Marching Bands!

News outlets covering Capitol Hill report that, with pressure from Democratic leaders, the public option now appears more likely to be in final health care reform legislation.

CQ Politics: “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made another bid to solidify support for Democrats’ ambitious health care plans Friday, pledging to move aggressively to close the “doughnut hole” in Medicare drug coverage.

Sarah Palin took a giant step and did something established Republican leaders seldom do (excepting Senator Jim Inhofe): she endorsed a conservative candidate over an establishment pick. Palin’s endorsement of Doug Hoffman in New York’s 23 Congressional District is driving the old boys crazy. See a priceless Scozzafava video below. Sarah Palin This report says two National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) officials said they will continue to support Dede with $200,000-$300,000 in political ads between now and the November 3rd special election.

Nearly every day this year, as for the past generation, Washington has rattled with the sound of partisan gunfire.Democrats snipe at Republicans for obstructing their plans on health care, energy and Wall Street regulation.Republicans criticize Democrats for big government, overspending and high unemployment.But Neel T. Kashkari, who served both sides as a top Treasury Department official, hears something different: the quiet of the economic bomb that did not drop. Brendan Smialowski for The New York TimesNeel T.

Source: Opposing Views – Nat Hentoff While battling the FBI’s expanded surveillance guidelines, Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., also revealed (Daily Kos, Oct. that in the Senate Judiciary Committee review of the Patriot Act (also Oct. 8), Republicans protecting the Act were joined, in a closed-door classified session, by Obama officials with amendments further preserving it. Then, in a public session, all but three Democrats voted for a watered-down “compromise” bill by Patrick Leahy and Diane Feinstein.

  October 16, 2009 STIMULUS WATCH: Stimulus boon for South, Southwest AP – FILE – In this March 16, 2009, file photo, Aaron Wilson, right, of Pasadena, Calif., a recently hired …   By MATT APUZZO and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE, Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON – Businesses in the South and Southwest benefited most from the first federal contracts awarded under President Barack Obama’s stimulus program, according to initial data released by a government oversight board.

FlashForward’s latest offering, S01E05 ‘Give Me Some Truth’ (October 22, 2009) was OK. Much of it took place in the Senate hearing chambers (?) in D.C. where our guys got interrogated essentially about their flash forwards and their motivations for wanting more money to run their Mosaic investigation. Wedeck in particular, exhibited barrels of angst as he’d previously left Washington under murky circumstances which involved the now president of the U.S.  Part of the fallout involved a high-profile female senator who seems a whole lot like current Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.

All focus has shifted in the health care debate from whether there will be reform at all to whether the final version will contain a strong, robust, affordable public option. This is a good debate to have. I’ve weighed in with opinions on why I believe the public option is essential to any reform package, and why I believe the current buzz about allowing states to opt out of a public option is a bad idea. But the public option should not be the sole focus of the discussion in the weeks going forward.

Several Democratic senators voiced optimism on Sunday that Congress would pass a health care bill containing at least the germ of a government-run insurance program. Their expectations were grudgingly seconded by Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate in 2008. “I think the Democrats have the votes, and in the House, Blue Dogs bark but never bite,” Mr. McCain said on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” using the nickname for conservative Democrats . “So I don’t think they have a problem over in the House side.

Democrats in Washington are becoming desperate in their never-ending quest for a National Health Care. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is counting likely votes every five minutes; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is working the phones, trying to convince wavering democrats to fall in line with White House wishes. For its part, the Obama Administration is doing its best to confuse and muddy the waters declaring war on conservative critics, cable channels and the National Chamber of Commerce, to say nothing about the evil health insurance companies and racist/fascist town hall meetings.

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Calvin Woodward of the Associated Press reported: “Health insurers posted a 2.2 percent profit margin last year, placing them 35th on the Fortune 500 list of top industries. As is typical, other health sectors did much better — drugs and medical products and services were both in the top 10.”The most profitable sector was “network and other communications equipment, at 20.4 percent.”So much for millionaire liberal Nancy Pelosi’s claim about “the immoral profits being made by the insurance industry.”The AP story in full:WASHINGTON (AP) — Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common?

FACT CHECK: Health insurer profits not so fat WASHINGTON – Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery , Tupperware , the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo ? Answer: They’re all more profitable than the health insurance industry . In the health care debate , Democrats and their allies have gone after insurance companies as rapacious profiteers making “immoral” and “obscene” returns while “the bodies pile up.” THE CLAIMS

アメリカのリベラルは保険会社は悪徳だと。だから政府が運営する医療保険制度の方が良いと・・・   AP通信から： http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_go_co/us_fact_check_health_insurance   Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo? Answer: They’re all more profitable than the health insurance industry.   In the health care debate, Democrats and their allies have gone after insurance companies as rapacious profiteers making “immoral” and “obscene” returns while “the bodies pile up.”   Ledgers tell a different reality.

The Obamunists in Washington rail routinely against the “greed” of Health Insurance companies, and say that their rapacious drive for profits is some sort of crime. To cite some examples: “(Democratic leaders) will be talking… about the immoral profits being made by the insurance industry.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Dingbat-Calif. “Health insurance companies are willing to let the bodies pile up as long as their profits are safe.” A MoveOn.org ad.

The New Jersey gubernatorial race is getting tighter since an Independent is drawing voters from both the incumbent Democratic governor and the Republican candidate who was way ahead in the polls weeks ago. Why are more Americans becoming Independents? George W. Bush just about destroyed the Republican brand. His inability to communicate left him like a boxer in the corner being hammered and only able to hold his gloves in front of this face.

Posted in Democrats, Obama, Political, conservative, insurance industry, obscene profits Copyright © 2009 Big Dog. Visit the original article at http://www.onebigdog.net/the-outrageous-profits-of-insurance-companies/.The Democrats have demonized the insurance industry as evil corporations that have skyrocketing profits at the expense of the people.

Oct. 28, 2009 12:43 PM. This just in from Speaker of the House Pelosi. In an interview with MSNBC’s Keith Olberman last night, Nancy Pelosi announced that she would move to bring a vote to the floor of The House of Representatives as early as next week to ban Fox from covering Congress. “That Fox regularly grants access to Republican Congressman to spread their lies and propaganda on their airwaves is a violation of the public trust, and their continued desire to challenge such well documented facts as Global Warming, and the efficacy of single payer health insurance, proves that they are simply doing the work of the special interests.

Calvin Woodward’s article in USA Today FACT CHECK: Health insurer profits not so fat published 10/25/2009 caught me napping. Even knowing that there is a lot of lies about the whole Health Care debacle, I did not expect relatively simple and verifiable fact be … not even distorted but, just flat lie.

This is what happens when you get your man elected, after which he proceeds to disappoint everyone : Some Democratic candidates running for local office around the country call the phenomenon the “Obama hangover.” It is proving tougher to recruit volunteers and get people to vote. “It’s like the morning after the party,” Michael McGann, a Democrat running for clerk of courts in the Philadelphia suburbs, said in an interview. “The party was wonderful and exciting.