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• Republicans Love Medicare, Except When They Dont

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 139
  Remember those days of yore, when John McCain was a man who put principle over partisan politics, somebody who could be counted upon to speak the truth? John McCain doesnt. Yesterday, McCain began the Republican assault on health care reform by proposing to strip the Senate bill of its proposed $487 billion in ...
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• The GOP’s government-run tax-and-spend health-care program

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 653
  Republican leaders in the Senate on Monday asked the top actuary at the Health and Human Services Department for a cost analysis of the Democrats’ health-care reform proposal. That would be exactly as dry as it sounds except for this: the actuary, Richard Foster, is the very same official muzzled by the Bush ...
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• How Quickly They Forget

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 740
  Republican leaders in the Senate on Monday asked the top actuary at the Health and Human Services Department for a cost analysis of the Democrats’ health-care reform proposal. That would be exactly as dry as it sounds except for this: the actuary, Richard Foster, is the very same official muffled by the Bush ...
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• AIG Gives Taxpayers the Finger — AGAIN!

  
  Who Hijacked Our Country — Authority: 121
  In the past year, too many large corporations have performed the following sequence: 1. Hold out hand to receive financial gift from taxpayers; 2. Close three fingers around the money, leaving the middle finger extended. The following might be the most revolting case yet (but it’s hard to say, since there’re ...
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• Conlin/Braley schedule roundtable press events

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 144
  Roxanne Conlin, a Democrat challenging Sen. Charles Grassley, and U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley will hold roundtable events in Davenport and Waterloo on Monday. The events will focus upon health care and jobs. The first event will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, local 431 ...
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• Miller-Meeks to again challenge Loebsack

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 144
  Ottumwa doctor Mariannette Miller-Meeks on Monday will officially announce a second run against Dave Loebsack for Iowa’s 2 nd Congressional District. Miller-Meeks, 54, a Republican, will make a series of stops in the 15-county district located in eastern and southern Iowa.  Barbara Grassley, Iowa Sen. Charles  ...
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• Eight Years Later, Still No Appetite to Share the Burden of War Funding

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 740
  Here’s an interesting response from Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), senior Republican on the Finance Committee, when asked by a reporter this morning whether Congress intends to pay for the wars its launched, or continue to borrow the money and pile onto federal deficits. Defending America is a number one ...
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• Senator Charles Grassley at Westside Conservative Breakfast

  
  Iowa Defense Alliance — Authority: 117
  Two standing ovations from 100 + people was an early Thanksgiving thank you to Senator Charles Grassley when he spoke Wednesday at the Westside Conservative Breakfast in Des Moines. Grassley opened his remarks by highlighting his time over the years spent traveling and listening to constituents which he tallied up to ...
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• The Height of Disingenuity

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 682
  As some of you know, Sen. Grassley has put forth an amendment to prevent a proposed panel on criminal justice reform from engaging in any discussion regarding the propriety of decriminalization or legalization of any drugs.  Jacob Sullum (h/t: Popehat ) notes Grassley’s mind-boggling rationale for this ...
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• With Unemployment Near Ten Percent, Giffords Seeks Importation of More Cheap Foreign Labor

  
  brianlee — Authority: 137
  A very timely post from www.fairus.org about an attempt to expand the number of immigrants now! Keep reading more posts like this by subsribing to this blog here With Unemployment Near Ten Percent, Giffords Seeks Importation of More Cheap Foreign Labor FAIR has learned that – with unemployment at its ...
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• Grassley Goes After Proposed Medicare Payroll Tax Increase

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  It was inevitable that conservatives would attack the Senate health care reform legislation over the proposed o.5 percent hike in Medicare’s payroll tax for the country’s highest earners. Now they’re drilling down into the specifics. Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), senior Republican on the Senate Finance ...
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  Bildungblog — Authority: 449
  "Get lost, Chuck! Theres room for only ONE mummy in this goddam pyramid!"
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• New documents: White House scrambled to justify AmeriCorps firing after the fact

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Just hours after Sen. Charles Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa released a report Friday on their investigation into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin, the Obama White House gave the lawmakers a trove of new, previously-withheld documents on the affair. It was a twist on the now-familiar ...
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• Health bill moves ahead on partyline vote

  
  Politically Speaking — Authority: 130
  The perceived wariness of a few U.S. Senate moderate Democrats on moving forward the health reform bill cobbled together by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid dissipated yesterday. All 58 Democrats and the two independents who typically vote with the majority party Dems held together and passed the bill (with an $858 ...
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• Letter from Douglass Kinan to Senator Lieberman re: Ongoing Government Corruption

  
  Whistleblower Support Blog — Authority: 110
    TIME SENSITIVE REQUEST Via fax: 202-224-9750/860-549-8478/866/317-2242 & US Mail 34 Glenburnie Road Boston, MA 02132 November 13, 2009 Honorable Senator Joseph Lieberman ATTN: Clarine Nardi-Riddle, Chief of Staff 706 Hart Office Building Washington, DC 20510 RE: REQUEST TO BE AN EXPERT GOVERNMENT ...
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• Nelson targeted as Senate health vote nears

  
  Politically Speaking — Authority: 130
  An important vote on health care reform comes off tomorrow, when the U.S. Senate will undertake a procedural vote on the recently introduced Patient Protection and Affordability Act. It is not a vote to pass the bill out of the Senate, but to move full consideration of the bill in the chamber. There are 58 Democrats, ...
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• Grassley: Obese could get higher health premiums

  
  Politically Speaking — Authority: 130
  A report Tuesday showed the obesity rate for Americans hanging (like a gut) again in the low-30s percent, while pointing to the rate climbing to 43 percent by 2018. Obesity is measured at 30 pounds above a healthy weight, and if it rises to the 2018 projection, one-fifth of all health care costs will be related to ...
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• Eric Holder Lindsay Graham: Eric Holder Jon Kyle: Holder Senate Questioning on 9/11 Civil Trials

  
  Maggie's Notebook — Authority: 611
  Attorney General Eric Holder spoke in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee today, saying he wanted to address his controversial decision to try the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York City. See a video below. Eric Holder Holder told the mother of a man who ...
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• Grassley: Iowans concerned over terrorist trials

  
  Politically Speaking — Authority: 130
  Word that the federal government may buy the empty Thomson Correctional Center in western Illinois to house suspected terrorists now housed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has stirred concern among Americans. Some are also chapped at the fact that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder also plans civilian court trials for the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Do You Think Grassley Writes His Own Speeches?

  
  Conservative Compendium — Authority: 135
  Because government doesn’t have its nose in enough places it doesn’t belong already: Senator Charles E. Grassley wrote to 10 top medical schools Tuesday to ask what they are doing about professors who put their names on ghostwritten articles in medical journals — and why that practice was any different from ...
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