Yet another Republican Congressman tweets: Yet another Republican Congressman who voted against healthcare reform this past weekend when we are seeing over 2,200 veterans a year die who didn’t have access to healthcare. [congress]R000578[/congress]
An interesting tweet, however actions speak louder than words (or 140 characters or less). On Saturday Roy Blunt voted against healthcare reform, yet last year over 2,200 veterans without healthcare died in our nation. How does Roy consider that a way of honoring them? [congress]B000575[/congress]
This tweet links to a YouTube video honoring our veterans: With news that over 2,200 veterans died last year from a lack of healthcare coverage, the NRCC is exhibiting full blown hypocrisy by the overwhelming support against healthcare reform they exhibited this past weekend. Now is the time to change this. Show you honor our […]
And a link to her site: So what is Michele saying about this? On Veterans Day, we pause to remember the brave American heroes who sacrificed so much to preserve our great nation. Though we celebrate Veterans Day once a year, we reap the benefits of freedom everyday. America’s courageous sons and daughters who have […]
Rep. Phil Gingrey, MD voted against healthcare reform with a public option on Saturday and today he is: I can’t think of a better way to thank a veteran today than supporting a bill to help ensure them having access to healthcare. Imagine if the 2,200 veterans that died last year from a lack […]
While we take a day to honor those who have served our country so selflessly Harvard releases a new study with a number that should send shock waves through anyone who supports our veterans: A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because […]
While progressives are still celebrating the passage of healthcare reform by the House, there seems to be amnesia when it comes to who we are dealing with – big pharma. One thing missing in healthcare reform that really should be there is dealing with situations like this: On the morning of Sept. 2, 2009, another […]
The lack of maturity by the House GOP is on full exhibit today as they debate healthcare reform. Here’s a compilation put together by Think Progress of the GOP trying to silence women lawmakers today: Here’s something that isn’t childish – people will die while they Republicans pull these games because they don’t have healthcare. […]
Yesterday TPM ran a story talking about how Tuesday’s election made healthcare reform just a “bit easier”. Here is the basic overview of that reasoning: The NY-23 seat abdicated by Republican John McHugh (who resigned to become Secretary of the Army) went to Democrat Bill Owens–the first Democrat to hold the seat in over a […]
So says the New York Times. Cesca does a good job at tearing this trash piece by the NYT down: Every Republican in Congress defends Rush Limbaugh and parrots Glenn Beck, and all of the really important Republicans from Chuck Grassley to Big John Cornyn have at one time or another engaged in the “death […]