The GOP’s “inconvenient truth” about the individual health insurance mandate

Yesterday I wrote about the ruling by U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson striking down the individual mandate provision of the health care reform legislation passed by Democrats and signed into law by President Barack Obama. Predictably, Republicans were quick to laud the decision, but today I thought we all could…

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He was for it, before he was against it, before he was for it, before he was against it….to infinity and beyond

Orrin Hatch was on on Fox News last week, with this stern and no holds barred take on health insurance reform: “The individual mandate, in our eyes, is clearly unconstitutional,” explained Hatch to FNC anchor Greta Van Susteren. “If Congress can do that to us, then there’s nothing that the…

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We need a fact check on aisle three!

A recent blog entry by campaign flack Bob Delaporte on Terrence Wall’s campaign blog attempted to make the case against a Feingold Flip-flop on Reconciliation (notice I wrote attempted to make the case, as opposed to succeeded in making the case), and in attempting to make the case, Delaporte wrote:…

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