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health care reform

Dream Was Not About States Rights

January 17, 2011

After teevee talker Glenn Beck and his friend Sarah Palin hosted a gathering for Tea Party members and other conservatives last summer at the same location that Martin Luther King gave his "I have a dream speech", Reverend Al Sharpton made this comment…. "The folks who criticize our marches are now trying to march themselves," [...]

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New & Improved Values

September 19, 2010

The Values Voter Summit is this weekend. It's a cultural warrior weekend, as it were. Back in August, I blogged about this weekend's Values Voter shindig. Then, the reason for blogging was a guy named Bryan Fischer who was scheduled to speak at the Summit. Mr. Fischer is the fellow who compared American mosques to [...]

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Bill Passage Afterglow

March 23, 2010

*With this post today, The Reverend will have published his 1000th blog post here at the Blog of Mass Destruction. Thanks go out to Ohio.com for giving me the opportunity 2 1/2 years ago….and to all who read and comment here. _________ The health care reform legislation has passed. President Obama, whose primary domestic campaign [...]

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Pathetic GOP Nullification Attempts

March 19, 2010

It's anybody's guess whether a comprehensive health reform bill will pass this weekend. As of this morning, Speaker Pelosi still does not have the magic number of 216 votes. While I can't see the health reform bill failing at this juncture……I can't dismiss the possibility that it will. Assuming the health care reform bill passes……let's [...]

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Why Republicans Are Acting So Crazy

March 17, 2010

Republicans have, basically, ruled Washington since 1994. Sixteen straight years of Republican rule is quite a long time. A sense of entitlement develops. Corporate whore media, at least since the time of President Clinton, has been feeding that Republican sense of entitlement…..constantly, and wrongly, repeating that the progressive United States of America is a conservative [...]

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Miscarriages Illegal In Utah

March 8, 2010

It is yet to be seen whether hyper, anti-choicer, Bart Stupak (D-MI), will single handedly derail the Democratic health reform plan by rallying his Republican Blue Dog buddies to vote against the reconciliation changes to the already-passed legislation. Bart Stupak tells Americans, falsely, that the health reform bill, as passed in the Senate, permits tax [...]

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Ex-Bushie Calls For The Waaambulances

February 24, 2010

The Reverend does not care for Michael Gerson, former speechwriter for G.W. Bush. I'm sure he's a fine man and all, but, when I read his columns at the Washington Post, or reprinted in the AB Journal (and they reprint them all), he always comes across as a sniveling weenie. Today's column is no exception…..check [...]

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How Can Jobs Be Created?

February 12, 2010

On the Jobs Bill front… Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus(D-MT) announced he'd reached accord with ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA). They unveiled what was supposed to be a final jobs package. But the agreement didn't sit well with many Democrats, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has pulled it out of their hands, [...]

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