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Entries from August 2012

Even Obama Once Admitted Obamacare Raids Medicare To Pay For New Entitlement

August 15th, 2012 · No Comments

Writing at Townhall.com, Guy Benson notes Obama adviser David Axelrod calling the fact that President Obama’s health care law cuts over half a trillion dollars from Medicare “a lie” by Republicans. Of course, that’s not something that was made up by Republicans, but a statement from a report by the Congressional Budget Office. In fact, […]

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NYT Reports Insurance Coverage “May Be Unaffordable For Millions”

August 14th, 2012 · No Comments

McCaskill: Obamacare “Will Bring Down The Deficit And Bring Down Health Care Costs” Yesterday, The New York Times reported, “The new health care law is known as the Affordable Care Act. But Democrats in Congress and advocates for low-income people say coverage may be unaffordable for millions of Americans because of a cramped reading of […]

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Sore Loser Laments “Perfect Storm” For Electoral Thrashing

August 14th, 2012 · No Comments

“It kind of defies all logic where the most highly-funded, most well-organized candidate loses.” ~Martin Casas Martin Casas, who was trounced by young upstart Michael Butler last Tuesday in the 79th district, is the epitome of a sore loser. The arrogance of saying something this stupid after losing so badly defies all logic! More arrogance […]

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Senate Republicans Warn Of “Crippling Defense Cuts,” Ask Where is Leadership From White House

August 13th, 2012 · No Comments

CNN wrote on Saturday, “Republicans are calling on President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Senate to act before sequestration takes place at the beginning of next year, saying cuts to the military are ‘not the way to address America’s fiscal challenges.’ . . . The president signed the Sequestration Transparency Act earlier this week, which will […]

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Poll: 21% of Romney Voters Plan on Voting for Nixon

August 13th, 2012 · No Comments

“We’re going to make a prediction here. If Dave Spence is the Republican nominee for governor, his race against Nixon in the fall will make Nixon’s race against Kenny Hulshof in 2008 look like a nail biter.” (8/2/12) KSDK.com: If the race for U.S. Senate were held today in Missouri, Todd Akin would win over […]

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Crossroads GPS Video: “People Over Government”

August 9th, 2012 · No Comments

[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/r3JDM2vDXYQ” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] The Karl Rove led Crossroads GPS super PAC has a new ad out against Claire McCaskill. The ad buy started yesterday and will run through August 14 on broadcast and cable networks in Missouri.  “Claire McCaskill has a long history of voting for tax hikes on Missouri small businesses and families […]

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Rusty Gets the Axe

August 9th, 2012 · No Comments

UPI/Bill Greenblatt We believe this sentence from the Riverfront Times sums up the misguided and shortsided campaign of soon to be former Rep. Russ Carnahan – “Rep. Russ Carnahan showed up to his election results watch party last night with a concession speech written on some campaign flyers, folded up in his back pocket.” Minority […]

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Tags: Rep. Lacy Clay · Rep. Russ Carnahan

Obamacare Relies On Medicaid Expansion But 1 In 3 Doctors Won’t Take Medicaid Patients‏

August 9th, 2012 · No Comments

The Wall Street Journal reports, “About one in three doctors across the country doesn’t accept new patients who are covered by Medicaid, the federal-state insurance program that is supposed to enroll millions more low-income Americans as part of the Obama administration’s health overhaul, according to a new government study. Some 31% of physicians in a […]

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Video: Sarah Palin Stumps for Sarah Steelman Pt1

August 6th, 2012 · No Comments

Hat tip:NDblogvideos [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/2pl2266xwC8″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]Related: Sarah Palin Stumps for Sarah Steelman Pt2 [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/aXLqcOmHJlk” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]

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Brunner Use of Marine Logo on Campaign Bus Questioned

August 6th, 2012 · No Comments

“The campaign believes that the RV does not constitute campaign materials, but we will remove the sticker just to be cautious.” –Brunner Press Secretary John Sutter Wentzville Patch: According to the Marine Corps Trademark and Licensing Program, using the branch’s logo as the Brunner campaign has with a small logo on the rear of a […]

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