How quick some people forget: The nation must stop health insurance companies from defrauding senior citizens, presidential candidate Barack Obama told residents in Des Moines on Friday. The Illinois senator’s remarks came in response to a recent study and a government report that conclude Medicare’s private plan alternative – called Medicare Advantage – costs taxpayers […]
Republicans have filibustered another bill (though the media refuses to use the F word). This time it was a bill to block the decrease in Medicare payments. Just more evidence that the Republicans hate our senior citizens and want to see them all suffer. What monsters.
Finally some good news from the White House: The Bush administration on Wednesday released $450 million in emergency funds to help poor families pay their expensive heating bills this winter. Record high heating oil prices due to record crude oil costs of $100 a barrel are cutting into family budgets, with senior citizens and poorer […]
That is what Boehner called GOP Senators who are against the “surge”: Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) called for comity Wednesday during a meeting of the Republican Conference after House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) referred to Senate colleagues who have begun to favor a change in course in Iraq as “wimps.†Wilson declined to comment […]
Tom Delay appeared this morning on Stephanopoulos and he has not lost his touch when it comes to lying. Besides accusing Democrats of being more corrupt than Republicans, he made one assertion that is a flat out lie. Rough Transcript: Delay: The Democrats are going back to their constituents and urging them not to sign […]