From the monthly archives: March 2010

Inciting violence on the right

On March 26, 2010 By

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Senate Republicans refuse to work for more than two hours

On March 26, 2010 By

Senate Republicans, still upset over the passage of health care reform legislation, have now taken to objecting to spending more than two hours a day on committee work, making good on a threat made by Sen. John McCain that there would be no Republican cooperation in the U.S. Senate for the rest of [...]

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Lt. Gov. candidate: health care reform is good for small businesses

On March 26, 2010 By

Henry Sanders, a Madison-area small business owner and Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, shares his thoughts on why the health care reform legislation passed by Democrats and signed into law by President Obama is good news for small businesses:

Health care reform is good for small business– and good for job growth in Wisconsin

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Moore publishes her earmark requests online, Sebring attacks those requests

On March 25, 2010 By

Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore, who represents Wisconsin’s fourth Congressional district, has published a list of her earmark requests online, and among the groups that would receive federal funds are the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee, Marquette University, and Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin. Rep. Moore published her list of earmark requests online [...]

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Jon Stewart’s take on progressives

On March 25, 2010 By

Watch as Jon Stewart shares his thoughts on progressives and the conservative reaction to health care reform:

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Will Walker cancel his taxpayer funded health insurance?

On March 25, 2010 By

As Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker and his Republican supporters in the state Legislature seek to have Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen join a lawsuit preventing the provisions of the health care reform legislation recently signed into law from being enacted, Mike Tate, the Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, has called [...]

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The Right Wing GOP Loses it on HCR

On March 24, 2010 By

Woo hoo!

The GOP, tea party & right wing wacko consortium are losing it after the passage of health care reform that guarantees coverage for Americans. They seem to find concepts like no lifetime caps on coverage, no insurance rescission if you get sick, no pre-existing disease exclusions as alien rights that should not be part of the American social net. With candidates and office holders alike jumping on the “Kill the Bill” bandwagon, it is clear that they don’t value the sanctity of life unless it is a cluster of cells in the uterus.

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Hypocrisy of the highest order

On March 24, 2010 By

Here’s some staggering hypocrisy on health care reform, courtesy of the Texas Attorney General.

Greg Abbott, the Texas Attorney General, has joined the federal lawsuit against health care reform, claiming government can’t order the purchase of health insurance. However, in 2009, Abbott got the Texas Legislature to give him the authority to order families in [...]

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T. Wall sings the praises of tax shelters, loopholes, and gimmicks

On March 24, 2010 By

Not shockingly, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Terrence Wall is singing the praises of tax shelters, loopholes, and accounting gimmicks, this time in the most recent edition of “Against the Wall,” his monthly column for In Business magazine. Wall, who’s never found a tax loophole he didn’t like, and notes Mike Tate, Chairman [...]

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Waterloo indeed!

On March 24, 2010 By

Back in July of 2009, Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) famously said health care reform would be President Barack Obama’s “waterloo,” noting, “If we’re able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.” As David Frum, a former GWB speechwriter, noted in an entry on his blog on [...]

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