With today's much anticipated vote on the House health care bill, liberal blogger-political activist Mike Stark decided to speak with a few Republican members of Congress as they made their way around the Hill today for a last minute anti-healthcare reform rally.
"I wanted to know how many of them knew at this late juncture how many of their constituents lacked insurance," reported from his website. "Not one Republican could give me an answer. Quite a few, however, served up some entertainment."
Rep. Steven King, (R-IA), the leader of today's anti-reform rally, told a crowd that page #644 of the Democratic health reform bill says, "The government will be required to encourage suicide, and, or assisted suicide."
This, of course, is factually false.
Eugene Robinson: Democrats have some thinking to do after Tuesday's elections, but Republicans don't have time to think. They're too busy trying to survive the party's internal purge and avoid being shipped off to political Siberia. Will loyal members inform on others for harboring suspiciously moderate views? Will anyone judged guilty have to wear a sign saying "Republican In Name Only" as penance? Will there be re-education camps? Will deviationists face the Enhanced Interrogation Technique of being forced to listen to the wit and wisdom of Glenn Beck, at ear-splitting volume, for days on end? Or worse: When Sarah Palin's memoir, "Going Rogue," hits bookstores later this month, will the ideologically impure be required to read -- and commit to memory -- every golden word?
Three doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling their mothers they had died. Police uncovered the scheme after one of the women learnt her baby was alive and had been sold to a woman for 15,000 pesos ($1240), said Mexico City's deputy attorney general, Luis Genaro. The woman gave birth to a girl through caesarean section at the private Central West Hospital in a working-class district in October 2008, Mr Genaro said.
The Bay Area parents of a California State University, Sacramento student who was beaten to death by a dorm mate were still reeling with shock when they received another jolt.
Gerald and Elizabeth Hawkins said ten days after their son Scott died they got a bill sent to their Santa Clara home for $29,186.50 from UC Davis Medical Center.
The bill from the hospital details the hospital's effort to revive the 23-year-old student.
The parents said the bill also implied that they were indigent, saying they had not paid what they owed.
"It was just awful," Elizabeth Hawkins said.
Gerald Hawkins added, "I don't think there's any civilized country, anywhere in the world that would allow the parents of a murdered boy to receive a bill like this."
Right-wing wacky lawmaker, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) planned an anti-health care reform tea party rally on the steps of the Capitol building on Thursday. The event to fight the "crown jewel of socialism," was endorsed and promoted by Fox News and funded by the Astroturf corporate lobbying groups Americans for Prosperity (AFP) and Dick Armey's FreedomWorks.
About 4,000 tea party protesters transported in free buses provided by AFP, shouted "kill the bill" carrying signs questioning Obama's birth certificate, calling him a Marxist and offensively comparing health care reform to the Holocaust.
Will the wounded get purple hearts?
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