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	<title>Comments on: Health care activism forces Dick Armey to resign</title>
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		<title>By: Reality</title>
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		<dc:creator>Reality</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Its pathetic that lobbying has so much to do with the political process!

&lt;a href=&quot;http://theshiftyeyenews.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Truth behind  the Health Care Fight&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its pathetic that lobbying has so much to do with the political process!</p>
<p><a href="http://theshiftyeyenews.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">The Truth behind  the Health Care Fight</a></p>
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		<title>By: Phyllisr1</title>
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		<dc:creator>Phyllisr1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dick Armey doesn&#039;t need medicare he&#039;s still geting federal health inuirance as a former member of congress.  He&#039;s trying to make some headlines by suing to get out of medicare but he&#039;s still being covered by our tax dollars.  Why should that rat be ENTITLED to our health  care dollars and we are not?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dick Armey doesn&#8217;t need medicare he&#8217;s still geting federal health inuirance as a former member of congress.  He&#8217;s trying to make some headlines by suing to get out of medicare but he&#8217;s still being covered by our tax dollars.  Why should that rat be ENTITLED to our health  care dollars and we are not?</p>
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		<title>By: Bobbie from Texas</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bobbie from Texas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mr. Fawkes, you made my morning.  More of those pesky facts.  In 62 years, I, not being a billionaire, can&#039;t think of one improvement made in my life complements of the Republican party. No Child Left Behind was on the right track, but, they didn&#039;t want to pay for that either. Shocker!  Thanks for reminding me why I wear the liberal title proudly.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mr. Fawkes, you made my morning.  More of those pesky facts.  In 62 years, I, not being a billionaire, can&#8217;t think of one improvement made in my life complements of the Republican party. No Child Left Behind was on the right track, but, they didn&#8217;t want to pay for that either. Shocker!  Thanks for reminding me why I wear the liberal title proudly.</p>
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		<title>By: G_Fawkes</title>
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		<dc:creator>G_Fawkes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican

Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised.

All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.

Joe takes his morning shower reaching for his shampoo; His bottle is properly labeled with every ingredient and the amount of its contents because some liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained. Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some tree hugging liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his government subsidized ride to work; it saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees. You see, some liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

Joe begins his work day; he has a good job with excellent pay, medicals benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe’s employer pays these standards because Joe’s employer doesn’t want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed he’ll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some liberal didn’t think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.

Its noon time, Joe needs to make a Bank Deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe’s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some liberal wanted to protect Joe’s money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the depression.

Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some stupid liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his life-time.

Joe is home from work, he plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive to dads; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. He was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers Home Administration because bankers didn’t want to make rural loans. The house didn’t have electric until some big government liberal stuck his nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification. (Those rural Republican’s would still be sitting in the dark) 

He is happy to see his dad who is now retired. His dad lives on Social Security and his union pension because some liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn’t have to. After his visit with dad he gets back in his car for the ride home.

He turns on a radio talk show, the host’s keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. (He doesn’t tell Joe that his beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day)  Joe agrees, “We don’t need those big government liberals ruining our lives; after all, I’m a self made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have”.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican</p>
<p>Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised.</p>
<p>All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.</p>
<p>Joe takes his morning shower reaching for his shampoo; His bottle is properly labeled with every ingredient and the amount of its contents because some liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained. Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some tree hugging liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his government subsidized ride to work; it saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees. You see, some liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.</p>
<p>Joe begins his work day; he has a good job with excellent pay, medicals benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe’s employer pays these standards because Joe’s employer doesn’t want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed he’ll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some liberal didn’t think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.</p>
<p>Its noon time, Joe needs to make a Bank Deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe’s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some liberal wanted to protect Joe’s money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the depression.</p>
<p>Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some stupid liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his life-time.</p>
<p>Joe is home from work, he plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive to dads; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. He was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers Home Administration because bankers didn’t want to make rural loans. The house didn’t have electric until some big government liberal stuck his nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification. (Those rural Republican’s would still be sitting in the dark) </p>
<p>He is happy to see his dad who is now retired. His dad lives on Social Security and his union pension because some liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn’t have to. After his visit with dad he gets back in his car for the ride home.</p>
<p>He turns on a radio talk show, the host’s keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. (He doesn’t tell Joe that his beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day)  Joe agrees, “We don’t need those big government liberals ruining our lives; after all, I’m a self made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have”.</p>
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		<title>By: mw</title>
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		<dc:creator>mw</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not sure if this is a first for you, but this article got mentioned in Wonkette.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not sure if this is a first for you, but this article got mentioned in Wonkette.com</p>
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		<title>By: Valeria Sentowski</title>
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		<dc:creator>Valeria Sentowski</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ah, Christian conservatives--what is their saying?--oh, yes, What would Jesus do?  Oh, I am sure He would let 40+ million Americans go withough health insurance, he would never chase the insurance companies out of the temple, He would just keep telling the hate mongers to keep on hating--what is it with these people?  Is it just because they are poor losers? or is it because they all make over $250,000 a yr and their taxes will go up.  Whatever--someone PULEZ put them before Sarah&#039;s death panel and let us VOTE!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah, Christian conservatives&#8211;what is their saying?&#8211;oh, yes, What would Jesus do?  Oh, I am sure He would let 40+ million Americans go withough health insurance, he would never chase the insurance companies out of the temple, He would just keep telling the hate mongers to keep on hating&#8211;what is it with these people?  Is it just because they are poor losers? or is it because they all make over $250,000 a yr and their taxes will go up.  Whatever&#8211;someone PULEZ put them before Sarah&#8217;s death panel and let us VOTE!!!!</p>
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		<title>By: PaminBB</title>
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		<dc:creator>PaminBB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Georgie Oops&quot; 

NOW you a-holes want to try to distance yourselves from the prince/court jester W. Too late, he is your mascot for the foreseeable future. Good luck with that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Georgie Oops&#8221; </p>
<p>NOW you a-holes want to try to distance yourselves from the prince/court jester W. Too late, he is your mascot for the foreseeable future. Good luck with that.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris NNC</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris NNC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Greg
you don&#039;t have to convince me of anything, however, one day you will be held responsible for your actions, beliefs, and deeds.  If you are happy with your standing then keep on keeping on.  Just say you didn&#039;t see those 47 million suffer because they weren&#039;t like you.  That should work.

PS. I did have something else to say</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greg<br />
you don&#8217;t have to convince me of anything, however, one day you will be held responsible for your actions, beliefs, and deeds.  If you are happy with your standing then keep on keeping on.  Just say you didn&#8217;t see those 47 million suffer because they weren&#8217;t like you.  That should work.</p>
<p>PS. I did have something else to say</p>
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		<title>By: Philip G. Allen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Philip G. Allen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This has been entertaining.  It is amazing!  Republicans, fascists, right wingers, manifest several observable attributes.  Among them are stupidity, ignorance, greed, a desire to be deceitful, and an antisocial nature which would make them plan ahead to not use deoderant.  They should learn that the word is government rather than gubment and that the government is us in cases where the presidential election is not stolen in Florida or Ohio.

I have noticed that Republicans, fascists and other right wingers would rather let American children die from lack of health care and would rather spend the money to kill children in other countries by dropping billions of dollars worth of bombs and landmines on them.

These people are self avowed, chest beating advocates of pro life but cause much more death than abortions do.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This has been entertaining.  It is amazing!  Republicans, fascists, right wingers, manifest several observable attributes.  Among them are stupidity, ignorance, greed, a desire to be deceitful, and an antisocial nature which would make them plan ahead to not use deoderant.  They should learn that the word is government rather than gubment and that the government is us in cases where the presidential election is not stolen in Florida or Ohio.</p>
<p>I have noticed that Republicans, fascists and other right wingers would rather let American children die from lack of health care and would rather spend the money to kill children in other countries by dropping billions of dollars worth of bombs and landmines on them.</p>
<p>These people are self avowed, chest beating advocates of pro life but cause much more death than abortions do.</p>
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		<title>By: mick</title>
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		<dc:creator>mick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Saltine,  funny!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Saltine,  funny!</p>
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