Krystal Ball tells the truth on Obamacare

25 Sept 2013 | MSNBC.com
Krystal Ball stated the truth that Conservatives’ alternative to Hillarycare’s liberal healthcare proposal was one by  Wharton Business School professor Marl V. Pauly. That proposal was subsequently adopted by Conservative/Republican Think Tank Heritage Foundation. His proposal required individuals to purchase private insurance called an individual mandate. It was within a bill cosponsored by 22 GOP Senators. It is the same bill that was adopted by Mitt Romney (Romneycare) and it was adopted by President Obama who went against his initial support of Single Payer in order to appease Republicans.

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Bernie Sanders: Watch out, 1 Percent

'What the Guardian is doing is important for democracy'

There's been a concerted effort among some politicians and a few of their pet media to accuse The Guardian – you remember, the paper that published the Edward Snowden material? – of treason. So, The Guardian showed one of these articles, from The Daily Mail, to some publishers and editors at various important newspapers, and printed their responses.

Yes, there's a lot of two-faced stuff, here. Papers like the New York Times, which regularly flacks for the US government, for example. But it's fair to say that all these media owners and editors at least understand the principle that's at stake when politicians defend secrecy and lies.

10 October 2013 | The Guardian
On Thursday the Daily Mail described the Guardian as 'The paper that helps Britain's enemies'. We showed that article to many of the world's leading editors. This is what they said:

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Grim report on press freedoms under Obama

Zoë Carpenter | The Nation | 10 Oct 2013

What sets the Obama administration apart from others, said Downie, is not its attempt to control the media narrative but rather its ability to do so. “What’s significant here is the very sophisticated, very successful, very determined way they’ve gone about doing this,” Downie told The Nation. “Most administrations aren’t very successful. This one has been very tightly disciplined.”

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Republican governors and Medican't | The Daily Show

10 Oct 2013 | Health-challenged states like Texas and Mississippi refuse to take advantage of a federally subsidized Medicaid expansion.

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Bill Moyers essay: On the sabotage of democracy

4 Oct 2013 | BillMoyers.com

Once upon a time when I was a young man working on Capitol Hill, it was commonplace that when a bill became law, everybody was unhappy with it. But you didn’t bring down the government just because it wasn’t perfect. You argue and fight and vote and then, due process having been at least raggedly served - on to the next fight." - Bill Moyers

RNC chairman can't answer simple question of what do Republicans want

3 Oct 2013 | MSNBC.com

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Bernie Sanders explains how the Koch Brothers are keeping the government shutdown

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) explained on The Ed Show how the Koch brothers are using threats and their money to keep the government shut down.

The Shutdown... brought to You by Citizens United

2 Oct 2013 | TheBigPictureRT

The first government shutdown in 17 years might never have happened if the Supreme Court didn't open up the floodgates of corporate money with its 2010 Citizens United decision.

Elizabeth Warren: Why government matters

4 Oct 2013 | Elizabeth Warren speaks the truth with class and passion:

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Republican shutdown... "irrational, avoidable and predictable"

San Antonio Express-News makes it very clear that one party is responsible for an "irrational, avoidable and predictable" government shutdown.

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1 October 2013

David Gregory obliterates Ted Cruz on Meet The Press

Things have gotten so bad for Ted Cruz that even David Gregory destroyed him on Meet The Press. Gregory painted Cruz as a total failure, and told the Senator, ‘You haven’t moved anyone.’

Calling out Ted Cruz's faux filibuster lie | The Ed Show

Sen. Cruz distorted a story about a student from New Jersey to try and make a point about defunding healthcare and student loans.

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Healthcare Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

25 Sept 2013 | The Daily Show
Texas Senator Ted Cruz casts himself as Churchill to Obama's Chamberlain in the great fight against Hitler's healthcare exchanges.

Bernie Sanders flames 'extreme right wing extremists' for threatening government shutdown

27 Sept 2013
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Friday tore into what he called "extreme right-wing Republicans" for threatening to shut down the government and default on the nation's debts if President Barack Obama's health care reform law was not defunded. 

Matt Taibbi on how Wall Street hedge funds are looting the pension funds of public workers | Democracy Now

26 Sept 2013

In his latest article for Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi reports that Wall Street firms are now making millions in profits off of public pension funds nationwide. "Essentially it is a wealth transfer from teachers, cops and firemen to billionaire hedge funders," Taibbi says. "Pension funds are one of the last great, unguarded piles of money in this country and there are going to be all sort of operators that are trying to get their hands on that money."



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