Bad Deeds for 7-23-2009

Republican Senator Says at Least Half Our Opposition to Health Care is Just Plain Politics – Half the Republicans’ opposition to a public health care option comes not from policy differences with the Democrats, or fundamental philosophical differences about the role of government, but purely from a desire to score political points against President Barack Obama, a senior Republican senator has admitted.

George Voinovich (R-OH) said on CNBC Wednesday that a desire to prevent the Democratic president from scoring a historical victory with a public health plan accounts for at least 50 percent of the GOP opposition to the plan.

 

Why the Rush on Healthcare? – One of the media asked at the President’s press conference on health care, “Why the rush?” The simple answer is because we’ve been waiting 60 years for health care reform and many Americans (including American businesses) are being devastated by their health care costs.

 

Don’t Be a Bad Deeder: Stand Up for Health Care – Support President Obama’s three principles for real health care reform, and call on Congress to enact a plan upholding them in 2009.

Now Do More …

 

Insurance Company Rules – How the health care insurance companies make things work for them, not you.

 

Flesh-Peddler Bill O’Reilly Plays Erin Andrews Peephole Video On-Air – Yesterday, Fox News was hyping a Bill O’Reilly “investigation” into the naked Erin Andrews peephole video incident, prompting us to wonder, “Will the ole smut-merchant show the video on the air?” Well, of course he would, duh!

Now, O’Reilly, and Fox News in general, have a long history with this sort of thing. He’ll bloviate righteously about softcore porn on YouTube or underage strippers or how the Make-A-Wish foundation turned down money from a bikini car wash fundraiser or whatever, and all the while he’ll have salacious clips running over the audio of he and his guests mouthing off about the gross injustice of whatever it is they’re talking about. So you just knew that O’Reilly would take this whole thing straight into the gutter, and he did not disappoint. Classic. Just classic Bill O’Reilly slimeballage, wrapped up neatly under the guise of “investigative reporting.”

 

Morgan Stanley Sets Aside 72% of Revenue to Pay Bonuses – Morgan Stanley is setting aside a huge sum to pay out bonuses despite posting its third consecutive quarterly loss and admitting it is disappointed with key departments. There’s nothing like rewards for work poorly done by people who are already rich. Ah, free enterprise!

 

Lou Dobbs’ Promotes Birther Theory Even After His Guest Host Debunked It – Dobbs repeatedly made claims about Obama’s birth certificate that his CNN colleagues call “total bull.” Then, Kitty Pilgrim, guest-hosting Lou Dobbs’ CNN show, debunked claims that President Obama does not have a valid birth certificate and is therefore ineligible to be president — claims that Dobbs himself advanced days earlier on his radio program. Then, days after Pilgrim answered the bogus claims, Dobbs claims Obama birth certificate “questions won’t go away.” Maybe Dobbs really thinks that NASA Faked Obama’s Birth.

Regards,

Jim