How The Health Care Overhaul Affects You

The New York Times highlights how we’re impacted by the new legislation.

GOP Rep. Joseph Cao Calls Health Reform “At Par With Slavery”

by Thomas Wellborn

GOP New Orleans Congressman Joseph Cao reversed his support for health care legislation because he sayks the Senate bill doesn’t go far enough to restrict funding for abortion insurance coverage. In an interview with New Orleans Times-Picauyne, Cao asserted the bill contained abortion services “At Par With Slavery“.

Cao’s statement was not only a searing affront to the African American community, but his vote threatened to deny his constituents much-needed health reform.

Think Progress reports:

- According to a report by the Center for American Progress, health reform makes a tremendous first step to

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Rep. Emanuel Cleaver Won’t Press Charges For Being Spat Upon

Missouri Democrat Emanuel Cleaver won’t press charges after being spat upon, although Capitol Police made no arrests.

[He] was making his way through a group of angry protestors when the incident occurred. It was one of several ugly incidents in a day of protests against President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul measure, which faces a House vote on Sunday.

Cleaver, who is black, was also one of several lawmakers who faced racial epithets as they walked to the Capitol to vote.

Cleaver, along with Georgia Congressman John Lewis, had to endure the “n” word in addition to someone’s bodily fluids.…

Pastor Who Prayed for Obama Death Now Wants 219 Congresspeople To Die

Wiley Drake, the Southern Baptist minister and Alan Keyes running mate who infamously told me he practices imprecatory prayer for the death of President Obama, has expanded his efforts.  Now, every Democrat who voted for the health care reform bill has made that prayer list.

Orange Country Pastor Wiley Drake fired off an email to his supporters this morning, telling them that all 219 Democrats have been placed on the “imprecatory prayer list.” “We’ll remember in November and pray Psalms 109 while waiting,” he urged, before listing each offending congressman by name in “Satan’s domain in Washington D.C.”

The …

Newt On Health Care Reform: Vote Was “Worthy Of Hugo Chavez”

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich issued a statement saying the health care reform bill is more akin to what is done under Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez than how things should be conducted in the USA.

The Obama-Pelosi-Reid machine combined the radicalism of Alinsky, the corruption of Springfield and the machine power politics of Chicago. Sunday was a pressured, bought, intimidated vote worthy of Hugo Chavez but unworthy of the United States of America.

Newt repeats the conservative talking point that Congressman Alcee Hastings of Florida said, “We make up the rules as we go along,”  which is from a heavily …

ACORN Disbanding

Conservatives couldn’t stop health care, but they are probably very proud of themselves for the demise of ACORN.

“It’s really declining revenue in the face of a series of attacks from partisan operatives and right-wing activist that have taken away our ability to raise the resources we need,” ACORN spokesman Kevin Whelan said.

Several of its largest affiliates, including ACORN New York and ACORN California, broke away this year and changed their names in a bid to ditch the tarnished image of their parent organization and restore revenue that ran dry in the wake of the video scandal. They …

Democratic Congresswoman’s Office Vandalized After Health Care Vote

Can you imagine if Democrats behaved this way after a vote they lost? Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Tucson had the front office of her Arizona office smashed in in the wee hours Monday morning.

At 2:40 a.m., just a few hours after staff left the building after the late-night vote, the alarm system went off, said spokesman C.J. Karamargin. The panel to the front door and the glass panel alongside it were smashed out. The perpetrator likely had to hop the gated fence to get access to the door, since it’s not viewable from the parking lot.

Karamargin said it …

On Monday’s Radio Show…

• Alan explains why President Obama’s victory on health care is a victory for the American people.

• Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) joins Alan to debate the merits of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

• How low could they go? Alan exposes the latest shameless behavior of anti-reform activists and lawmakers.…

Texas GOP Rep. Randy Neugebauer: “I [Said] ‘Baby Killer’!”

Now that he’s had a day to think about it, Texas Republican Congressman Randy Neugebauer is saying that it was the bill he was calling a “baby killer,” not fellow Congressman Bart Stupak.

“Last night was the climax of weeks and months of debate on a health care bill that my constituents fear and do not support. In the heat and emotion of the debate, I exclaimed the phrase ‘it’s a baby killer’ in reference to the agreement reached by the Democratic leadership. While I remain heartbroken over the passage of this bill and the tragic consequences it will have …

Republican Congerssman Steve King: “Let’s Beat The Other Side To A Pulp”

Iowa Congressman Steve King loves America so much he tells a bunch of health care reform haters that he’d love to start another country with them.  He love his fellow Americans so much that he wants to beat some of them “to a pulp.”

KING: I just came down here so I could say to you, God bless you. … You are the awesome American people… If I could start a country with a bunch of people, they’d be the folks who were standing with us the last few days. Let’s hope we don’t have to do that! Let’s …

Feel The Hate

After the passage of the health care bill I got some warm wishes from the opposition:

Kirbyboy1der @alancolmes By the way, your a liar about teapartiers yelling the “N” word up in D.C. Watch the videos, jack. It never happened.
Kirbyboy1der @AlanColmes Shame on your Bolshevik party, nitwit!

OzarkKid @AlanColmes So where can the millions of consrvativs go now that America has followed suit with the rest of the crap economies in the world?

JustinKJonas @AlanColmes pull your head our Alan, Americans were ignored and are furious.Unplug and travel outside your elitist ring and you might …