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    • Is Tom Campbell an anti-Semite?

      Is Tom Campbell a terrorists sympathiser?

      Is Tom Campbell best described as simply being ‘anti-Israel’; making a habit out of befriending violent, jihadist Palestinians?

      …or is this much to do about nothing?

      Marty Wilson, Carly Fiorina’s campaign manager, made his charges clear this afternoon’s emergency media teleconference stating, “Tom Campbell has a record that is anti-Israel; the voters will have to decide if Tom Campbell is sympathetic to terrorists.”

      In a growing dust-up, Republican candidate Tom Campbell’s past votes, former relationships and numerous campaign contributors have come under great scrutiny from certain media and the Fiorina campaign.

    • Patients were routinely neglected or left “sobbing and humiliated” by staff at an NHS trust where at least 400 deaths have been linked to appalling care.

      An independent inquiry found that managers at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust stopped providing safe care because they were preoccupied with government targets and cutting costs.

      The inquiry report, published yesterday by Robert Francis, QC, included proposals for tough new regulations that could lead to managers at failing NHS trusts being struck off.

      Staff shortages at Stafford Hospital meant that patients went unwashed for weeks, were left without food or drink and were even unable to get to the lavatory. Some lay in soiled sheets that relatives had to take home to wash, others developed infections or had falls, occasionally fatal. Many staff did their best but the attitude of some nurses “left a lot to be desired”.
      +++++++
      Government run healthcare = FAIL

    • The Obama administration’s determined effort to reduce America’s missile defense capabilities initially seemed to be just standard Leftist fare — of a piece with the Democratic base’s visceral hostility to the idea of protecting us against ballistic missile threats. A just-unveiled symbolic action suggests, however, that something even more nefarious is afoot.
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      Read it all – sadly true…..
    • The President’s Job 1 at the health-care summit, which runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., is to build the impression that Republicans had their chance, and were players in the process. Then look for a day or so of quiet as Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid take the temperature of their caucuses. After that, the most likely course (“Plan B-1”) is for Dems to try to push comprehensive reform through swiftly on simple-majority votes. This could include POTUS making the case on the road. “Plan B-2” is the a la carte, “skinny bill” approach, which might be even more infeasible, since it would mean months — rather than weeks — of work on an unpopular measure at a time when skittish members are focused on Nov. 2.
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      Probably neither
      (tags: Obamacare)
  • Barack Obama,  Day By Day,  Obamacare

    Day By Day February 25, 2010 – The Rules

    The Dog and Pony show on Obamacare is about to begin this morning. The President and Congressional Democrats have wasted a year in massaging this supposed “comprehensive” health care reform bill.

    But, as the media gathers and the White House prepares the show, Obama has already floated a Plan “B.”

    President Barack Obama will use a bipartisan summit Thursday to push for sweeping health-care legislation, but if that fails to generate enough support the White House has prepared the outlines of a more modest plan.

    His leading alternate approach would provide health insurance to perhaps 15 million Americans, about half what the comprehensive bill would cover, according to two people familiar with the planning.

    It would do that by requiring insurance companies to allow people up to 26 years old to stay on their parents’ health plans, and by modestly expanding two federal-state health programs, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, one person said. The cost to the federal government would be about one-fourth the price tag for the broader effort, which the White House has said would cost about $950 billion over 10 years.

    Officials cautioned that no final decisions had been made but said the smaller plan’s outlines are in place in case the larger plan fails.

    One wonders why this modest proposal took over a year of political machinations to submit?

    BECAUSE OBAMACARE HAS FAILED.

    President Obama should admit his Obamacare health care reform plan is NOT going to pass the Congress, is out of favor with the American public and start working with the Republicans to obtain some meaningful health care reform.

    But, that would be asking alot now, wouldn’t it?

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