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SUCKO on Social Security

2008-10-30T03:31:05Z

George Bush said I should go to the emergency room if I'm sick. So when they cancelled my health insurance last week cause I was a day late with my premium, I was hopping mad so I took to the New York City streets. www.sandibachom.com

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John McCain: Livestrong Summit 07/24/08

2008-10-28T09:30:46Z

John McCain
Livestrong Summit
Columbus, OH - 07/24/08

TRANSCRIPT:
PAULA ZAHN: Didn't that bill [SCHIP] go down, because there was also a proposed tax increase on tobacco, and how do you reconcile that as a legislator?

MCCAIN: One of the ways that I reconcile it is that they wanted to get revenues from the use of tobacco products, which would mean that we're encouraging the use of tobacco products. I don't think we ought to do that in America. I think we ought to do everything that we can to eliminate and reduce, reduce and eventually eliminate the use of tobacco products. Also, the expansion of the program was dramatically increased and the costs not paid for again. And it was going to go far outside the realm of just children. It was called the Children's Health Insurance Program. It was going to apply to many, many others. Now if we want it to apply to many, many others let's have another program. But let's not call it SCHIP, and let's ceraintly not rely on having people use and even increase their use of tobacco products. I thought the whole effort we should make is to reduce and eliminate it. If we do that, then there's no money to pay for it.

Thank you Paula, and you're very well informed.

LABEL: JM OH 07-24 (RAD#4) Clip 12

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John McCain: Town Hall Meeting 12/17/07

2008-10-27T03:30:35Z

John McCain
Town Hall
Concord, NH 12/17/07

TRANSCRIPT:
MCCAIN: "First of all, SCHIP, like I said with these things, I have to tell you stuff you don't want to hear as well as those that you do want to hear. The SCHIP program was designed to provide children with health insurance. We did that pretty well. There are still eight million that are not covered. Six million of those are simply because we just haven't signed them up. It's not a problem, you simply got to find them and sign them up. You got two million that we're going to have to expand the program to cover. And that will cost about three to five billion dollars. So what do they want to do in Washington? They want to expand it by 35 billion dollars. They wanted it to encompass adults, and they wanted it to encompass 300 people, 300 percent under the poverty line."

LABEL: JM SC 12-17 (BH#30) GIADK- Clip B

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John McCain: Town Hall Meeting 11/18/07

2008-10-27T03:29:26Z

John McCain
Town Hall Meeting
New London, NH 11/18/07

TRANSCRIPT
MCCAIN: "We'll go to two programs, Social Security and Medicare, period. So, umm, let me just give you a small example, the SCHIP program. Is there anyone here who doesn't want healthcare for children? I don't think so. But you know how they're gonna pay for it?... By increasing the tax on cigarettes by a dollar a pack. Now let me get this straight, we want to take care of children's healthcare but we want everyone to smoke to pay for it."

LABEL: JM NH 11-18 (JC#4) AKJZZ - Clip C

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John McCain: Town Hall Meeting 05/02/08

2008-10-26T21:30:20Z

John McCain
Town Hall Meeting
Denver, CO 05/02/08

TRANSCRIPT:
QUESTIONER: ". . . would you, at least, consider legislation since you were a big proponent against the anti-smoking, that we control tobacco . . . we get it away from the 7-11s and so forth, that we stop lawsuits, we stop any possible tax cuts for tobacco famers, we stop exporting Marlboro products across the globe. I mean, we're talking over years—you know, give tobacco farmers and the system through, but maybe stop smoking, stop trying to tax it out. Just say, 'It's a bad product for America.'

JOHN MCCAIN: "Yes sir. And the thing I was puzzled by was when we decided we would want to fund the children's health insurance, S-CHIP program with, guess what—taxes from the sale of tobacco products. Now somebody said, ' Can you help me out here?' So we want to fund a program to give children health insurance, but we want to fund it by encouraging people to use tobacco that kills ya. Only in Washington. Only in Washington could we come up with that kind of a scheme. I just want to mention one other thing about tobacco. And maybe expand just a bit. My friends, there's a farm bill before congress today that increases the subsidies, that gives some of your tax dollars to . . . people in agriculture that make as much as $950,000 a year, that subsidizes ethanol, which as distorted the market, which has then driven up food prices and it is a continuation, in all due respects, of business as usual in Washington, which has to change. I went to Iowa and campaigned in Iowa and said I was against ethanol subsidies and I was against the tariffs on imported ethanol from Brazil, which is made from sugar cane because it distorts the market. My friends, I commit to the agriculture community in America I will open every market in the world to the most productive and best worker and the best agricultural products ever produced but I will not support these subsidies and they've gotta stop. There's too many Americans that need our help now with your tax dollars."

LABEL: JM CO 5-2 (GR#83) DAGIS - Clip E

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John McCain: Town Hall 04/30/08

2008-10-26T21:30:19Z

John McCain
Town Hall Meeting
Allentown, PA 04/30/08

TRANSCRIPT:
QUESTIONER: ". . . my question is really about objectivity and every time I see a debate on health care I really wonder whether or not the statistics and the data that people are discussing are accurate, reliable . . . so are you satisfied with the information that you're getting in terms of it's ability to allow competent decision making?"

JOHN MCCAIN: "I think on the major statistics I am. And here's the most disturbing fact of all and I don't think it's disputed: 47 million Americans are without health insurance today. Half of them will probably, is because they're out of a job and they will gain employment and then they will then be able to obtain health insurance. And that's nice to know. But the other half, which I, 8 million are children, then they, and many of those children of course is just because we haven't been around to sign them up. But then you get down into what you and I all know, is with the big looming fiscal problem and challenge and that is those with people with chronic diseases and, or, and/or preexisting conditions. And that is the area where we really have to address because the insurers won't insure them, they either making too much money to qualify for Medicaid or other reasons, like I said there are some children that simply aren't in the SCHIP program just because they haven't signed up for it . . . And so my answer to you is I think that a lot of the, some of the statistics may be not accurate but the issue of the uninsured and those with preexisting conditions or chronic diseases, is, is really a, particularly the preexisting conditions, is one that's the major challenge in health care in America today."

LABEL: JM PA 4-30 (GR#81) DHGIS - Clip E

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Stop Nancy Pelosi

2008-12-02T22:40:49Z

Don't let her destroy America with SCHIP

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Jim Neal: UNC-G Debate-Funding SCHIP

2008-10-15T09:30:05Z

Jim Neal on funding SCHIP at the UNC-G US Senate Candidate Debate

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Pop-Up Double Talk: Health Care

2008-12-02T22:22:36Z

A few fun facts about McCain's abominable health care plan.

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Hillary's role in children's health program disputed

2008-03-16T10:09:48Z

He said, she said, they said:

Hillary Clinton, who has frequently described herself on the campaign trail as playing a pivotal role in forging a children's health insurance plan, had little to do with crafting the landmark legislation or ushering it through Congress, according to several lawmakers, staffers, and healthcare advocates involved in the issue.

In campaign speeches, Clinton describes the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, as an initiative "I helped to start." Addressing Iowa voters in November, Clinton said, "in 1997, I joined forces with members of Congress and we passed the State Children's Health Insurance Program." Clinton regularly cites the number of children in each state who are covered by the program, and mothers of sick children have appeared at Clinton campaign rallies to thank her.
But the Clinton White House, while supportive of the idea of expanding children's health, fought the first SCHIP effort, spearheaded by Senators Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, because of fears that it would derail a bigger budget bill. And several current and former lawmakers and staff said Hillary Clinton had no role in helping to write the congressional legislation, which grew out of a similar program approved in Massachusetts in 1996.

It's not like she was uninvolved...

Many members of Congress said they believe Hillary Clinton has a deep and sincere commitment to children's health issues. She has sponsored numerous bills and amendments dealing with a plethora of healthcare matters.

But privately, some lawmakers and staff members are fuming over what they see as Clinton's exaggeration of her role in developing SCHIP, including her campaign ads claiming she "helped create" the program. The irritation has grown since Nov. 1, when Clinton - along with fellow senators and presidential candidates Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, and John McCain - missed a Senate vote to extend the SCHIP program, which was approved without the votes of those lawmakers.

John McDonough, then a Democratic state legislator and now the executive director of Health Care for All, a healthcare advocacy group (who has not endorsed a presidential candidate)...

...said it was Kennedy who developed the SCHIP idea after that meeting. "I don't recall any signs of Mrs. Clinton's engagement," McDonough said. "I'm sure she was behind the scenes, engaged in lobbying, but it is demonstrably not the case" that she was driving the effort, he said. After meeting Zuckerman and McDonough, Kennedy sought out Hatch, and the two worked on the bill together, offering it as an amendment to a budget resolution. But President Clinton - much to the surprise and anger of Kennedy - lobbied Democratic lawmakers to oppose the Hatch-Kennedy amendment, the lawmakers and staff members said.

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Jim Wallis on the Death of Compassionate Conservatism

2008-12-02T20:50:38Z

Jim Wallis speaks about SCHIP at a press conference on Capital Hill

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Sharon Watkins speaks to the press about SCHIP

2008-12-02T20:50:38Z

Sharon Watkins speaks to the press about SCHIP

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To:SurgeBob From:Anonymous Re:You

2008-12-02T22:21:55Z

Anonymous' message to Bob Goodlatte (R-VA06)

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The Last Day Of The Year

2008-10-21T03:30:46Z

For some psychological reason, this entire year I've written '08 instead of '07. I'm about to catch up with the curve.

Bush Signs SCHIP "Fix" The AP reports Bush on Saturday "signed legislation that extends a popular children's health insurance program after twice vetoing attempts to expand it.

Washington Post: Huckabee, Romney Make Sunday Push For Evangelicals
Republican rivals Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney took their battle over Christian voters to the pews as both attended services while their campaigns spanned Iowa in a final Sunday pitch to evangelicals.

Washington Times: Giuliani Wistful For Iowa Of Old
A framed copy of the Fort Dodge Messenger with a centerpiece feature article on Rudolph W. Giuliani's shopping visit to the town in August hangs on the wall of his Des Moines campaign headquarters, a reminder of better days for the one-time Republican presidential front-runner.

LA Times: From Iowa Cornfields, A Left-Tilting Tradition
As Iowans ponder whom to support in the Jan. 3 caucuses, their state is the first in the heartland to even consider legalizing same-sex marriage - placing Iowa again in the vanguard and reminding the Democratic presidential hopefuls that progressives here help shape history.

WSJ: Democratic Voters' Fervor Stirs Republican Worries
As presidential hopefuls from both parties rally support across Iowa ahead of Thursday's caucuses, Democratic voters are showing greater fervor for the race than their Republican counterparts, a difference that could have repercussions throughout the 2008 campaign.

Video is Sydney Australia fireworks from last year, pic is from this year.

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$38 Billion in Bonuses for Wall Streeters, Home Foreclosures for Regular Folks. Really?

2008-10-21T09:29:51Z

Yes, really. More sickening greed for you from the Kravisization of Wall Street via the AFL-CIO:

While executives at the top five Wall Street firms are getting a record $38 billion in bonuses this Christmas season, millions of working families are worrying whether they will lose their homes in the New Year-in the wake of the nation's mortgage crisis.
The AFL-CIO called today for major mortgage lenders to impose a one-year moratorium on subprime mortgage foreclosures. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, in a letter to the largest subprime mortgage lenders and underwriters, writes:

Wall Street seems to be giving unprecedented cash rewards to the very people whose conduct threatens to strip millions of Americans of their homes and drive our country into recession, while at the same time refusing to take the actions necessary to address the crisis.

Yes, this is the America that has been created by Bush, his Republican cronies and too many corporate Democrats. You want more holiday spirit? Well, our friend Ohdave reminded me of this in the comments:

The Bush administration has thwarted Gov. Ted Strickland's plan to expand Ohio's popular children's health insurance program to cover middle-class youngsters.
"What this means is that thousands of needy Ohio children will be deprived of access to critical health-care coverage," Strickland said.
"I am appalled at the heartless decision of the Bush administration to reject Ohio's bipartisan plan to provide health-care access to thousands of our children. Sadly, this is an indication that the president and his advisers are totally out of touch with the struggles faced by so many Ohio families."
Federal regulators denied the state's request to expand eligibility to uninsured children in families earning up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level. That's $51,510 a year for a family of three.

Yes, our fantastic populist governor in Ohio, Ted Strickland, is having his plan to help needy children rejected by our fabulist, pompous "President." Merry Christmas kids! Just avoid the outdoors, Chinese toys and meat not cooked really, really well!

Now, in comparison, take a look at what the One Campaign (people who are actually "compassionate" but thankfully not conservative) is doing. Compare the fight they are leading against global poverty (watch the video) to the perverted morality of the money changers known as the GOP.

Let's hope we can get more progressives in government this new year to empower organizations like the One Campaign that much more.

PS Just to feel that much better about money not going to give kids healthcare or solve global poverty issues, just look at how long the State Department has known definitively that Blackwater's been committing fraud, as it kept feeding them no-bid contracts after no-bid contracts for BILLIONS that could be going to kids in need.

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The Grinch Who Stole SCHIP

2008-10-21T09:29:59Z

This is really funny and, of course, makes the point. I have ranted on about this subject many a time, as I think anyone who could vote to raise their own pay and give tax cuts to corporate crooks while denying kids healthcare is not qualified to be called human.

So this time, I'll spare you. The video gets to do the talking...

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Republicans don't like war. They just advocate it.

2008-01-12T20:42:37Z

Via Hunter at DailyKos, re: Republicans, aka "The Party of Violence":

Poor babies. They advocate for war, endorse torture, and dismiss prisoner abuse, but then someone said something mean to them. How uncouth.

The whole piece was excellent, but I just loved that part. He was referrring to their harrrrumphing over Nancy Pelosi's statement saying Republicans "like this war. They want this war to continue."

How dare she pick on people who spend valuable time in Congress passing a resolution about how important Christmas is?

How dare she be so anti-American as to want to protect American lives in Iraq as well as here at home with a plan for children's healthcare?

What a mean, Grinchy Speaker of the House. She accused the Republicans of liking something that they support!

Fund the Death, Not the Life.

2008-01-12T20:42:04Z

Disgusting.

Bush Vetoes Kids Health Insurance Bill

Right next to....

House Passes $696B Defense Policy Bill

WH Press Briefing, December 12 2007

2008-10-21T15:30:23Z

Dana Perino White House Press Briefing, December 12, 2007

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Hightower: Save the GOP from socialism

2008-12-02T22:31:02Z

More at www.hightowerlowdown.org! Republicans don't think millions of children deserve health insurance? Well, then, neither does the GOP!

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UK College Dems Remind Us Of Sen. McConnell's Friends And Failures

2008-10-22T09:29:39Z

Excellent video by the College Dems at Kentucky. I would love to see more people, college Dem and otherwise, use youtube to put out the messages that need to be aired in such a low-effective and impressive manner.

The simple message here: When you leave office Mr. Bush, please take your fellow corrupt, corporate crony Mitch McConnell with you.

(h/t Joe Sonka)

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Republicans Once Again Hit For Opposing Children's Healthcare

2008-10-22T15:31:36Z

These ads are by Americans United (AUFC). And they are good.

This one exposes Rep. Steve Chabot, a right-winger masquerading as a moderate. Similar ads target Reps. Ric Keller and Sam Graves, as well as everyone's favorite Senator/Corporate ATM, Mitch McConnell.

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What If Boehner And McConnell's Kids Didn't Have Health Care?

2008-10-22T21:30:17Z

Well that one kinda answers itself, doesn't it. It's like asking where would Rudy Giuliani be if there had been no 9/11 or why Larry Craig voted to ban gay marriage.

Sudddenly when there were mental health issues in his family Pete Domenici supported mental health parity and because of his experience in Vietnam Chuck Hagel is progressive on the war.

Republicans are hypocrites who literally are missing empathy from their DNA, so when it's their problem, they go running to the government for help. With everyone else, not so much.

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Trick or Treat for SCHIP at Bachmann's office

2008-12-02T22:42:07Z

Constituents gathered on Halloween to Trick or Treatment for kids' health care at Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) office. Rep. Bachmann is all tricks and no treatment this Halloween when it comes to SCHIP.

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Happy Humpday Halloween!

2008-10-22T21:30:56Z

Roundup/tidbits etc...

Kucinich questions Bush's mental health
Strong words from Democratic presidential contender Dennis Kucinich may be nothing new, but his comments to a newspaper Tuesday questioning President Bush's mental health are raising a few eyebrows.
"I seriously believe we have to start asking questions about his mental health," the Ohio congressman told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "There's something wrong. He does not seem to understand his words have real impact."

US Deaths In Iraq Lowest Since March 2006 USA Today reports the "number of US combat deaths in Iraq is headed for the lowest level in more than a year and a half and the fifth consecutive monthly decline."

BIDEN DESCRIBES GIULIANI AS "A NOUN AND A VERB AND 9/11″: Rudy Giuliani, the front-running Republican candidate for president, had questioned what credentials Hillary Clinton, the front-running Democrat, has to serve as president in the last debate of the Republican candidates. The Swamp: Electing a president: A question of experience

GAO Report Highlights Ongoing Problems McClatchy reports, "The US and Iraqi governments have failed to take advantage of a dramatic drop in violence in Iraq, according to a report issued Tuesday by a US watchdog agency, which warned that prospects were waning 'for achieving current US security, political and economic goals in Iraq.'"

21 States Could Run Out Of SCHIP Money The New York Times reports, "Twenty-one states will run out of money for children's health insurance in the coming year, and at least nine of those states will exhaust their allotments in March if Congress simply continues spending at current levels."

Some funnies-

Actually, all the funnies this morning are mean, so just go laugh at the video of a farting pumpkin.

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