Bowing to Republican pressure, President Barack Obama’s administration signaled on Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new U.S. health care system.
Facing mounting opposition to the overhaul, administration officials left open the chance for a compromise with Republicans that would include health [...]
If Rep. Betsy Markey (D-Colo.) gets confronted by Tea Party Patriots next week, she’ll counter with a patriot of her own.
Markey’s staff will be handing out a copy of George Washington’s “Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior” to everyone at her public events.
It’s her effort to cool down the boiling debate, with a deliberate nod [...]
A plan by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to limit lobbyists’ influence over the $700 billion bailout program has yet to get off the ground — even as the program nears an end.
Just a few hours after being sworn in last January, Mr. Geithner promised to craft rules preventing external influence over bailout decisions. More than [...]
US President Barack Obama on Friday blamed headline-hungry television networks for enflaming an ugly backlash by foes of his top priority effort to offer health care to all Americans.
A combative Obama also accused health insurance firms of holding sick Americans “hostage” as he launched a weekend tour of mountain west states Montana, Colorado and Arizona [...]
They came in their thousands, queuing through the night to secure one of the coveted wristbands offering entry into a strange parallel universe where medical care is a free and basic right and not an expensive luxury. Some of these Americans had walked miles simply to have their blood pressure checked, some had slept in [...]
Sen. Arlen Specter has decided to take on Sen. Chuck Grassley. Specter tweeted that Grassley used the phrase “death boards.” Grassley’s not happy.
Specter tweeted:
“Called Senator Grassley to tell him to stop spreading myths about health care reform and imaginary ‘death panels.’”
Then he added:
“Had to leave a message — for now. I will talk to him [...]
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) kept up her Facebook attacks on the White House healthcare reform bill Friday, praising a Senate committee’s decision to drop an end-of-life provision.
She also singled out for criticism a proposal by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an adviser to the president and brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, [...]
NASA doesn’t have nearly enough money to meet its goal of putting astronauts back on the moon by 2020 — and it might be the wrong place to go, anyway. That’s one of the harsh messages emerging from a sweeping review of NASA’s human space flight program.
The Human Space Flight Plans Committee, appointed by President [...]
Both MoveOn.org and the White House are combating the viral campaign against health care by creating their own chain e-mails.
The liberal group sent out a “Top Five Lies” message to their list Tuesday and asked them to forward it, post it on Facebook and re-tweet it on Twitter.
The issues MoveOn is citing:
Lie #1: President Obama [...]
Don’t strain the system. Don’t add to the national stress level. Don’t pierce when you can envelop. Don’t show even understandable indignation when you can show legitimate regard. Realize that the ties that bind still bind but have grown dryer and more worn with time. They need to be strengthened, not strained.
Govern knowing we are [...]
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