links for 2010-02-25

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”.
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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