Posts Tagged ‘public option’
“You think you’ve heard these same excuses before? You’re right. In this country there were those who dug in their heels and said, ‘Slow down, it’s too early. Let’s wait. Things aren’t bad enough’ — about slavery. When women wanted to vote, ‘Slow down, there will be a better day to do that — the [...]
Tags: 13th, 14th, 18th, 21st, democrat, harassment, harry reid, health-care, intimidation, kkk, ku-klux-klan, public option, republican, slavery, voting right, whig
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Rod Blagojevich, among other things, was accused of pay to play with SEIU. He got ran out of the governor’s office. On September 14, 2009, Pat Quinn released this video: Quinn immediately signed an executive order allowing collective bargaining for in-home workers. Most of these workers are family who live in the home in the [...]
Tags: beshear, collective bargaining, consumer directed option, kentucky, obama, pay to play, pelosi, public option, quinn, SEIU, union
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I get the newsletter from the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission. It’s full of all kinds of neat stuff that doesn’t make the news a whole lot. In fact, more often than not I have to just paste the text in here because no media feels like fooling with it. So far, this has been the [...]
Tags: bank, banking and insurance, bob damron, centre college, charles vice, community, community reinvestment act, consumer financial protection agency, debra stamper, department of financial institutions, fdic, federal deposit insurance, foreclosure, harry reid, interim joint committee, Jim-Cooper, kba, kentucky, kentucky bankers association, kentucky legislative research commission, lrc, mike denham, mortgage, nancy pelosi, obama, public option, steve riggs, subprime, tarp
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September 21st, 2009 | No Comments
I really can’t get over this story: A legally insane killer who escaped in Washington state during a field trip to a fair was recaptured Sunday, the Spokane County Sheriff’s Department said. This is FUBAR on many levels. First of all, a little history on Phillip Paul: Paul was committed to Eastern State Hospital after [...]
Tags: department of social and health services, fair, killer, murder, Phillip Paul, psychopath, public option, susan dreyfuss, washington
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