• Democrats say the newly unveiled House health care bill will save lives and reduce deficits. But will it get any Republican support? Alan calls out the “Party of No.”

• Alan confronts anti-abortion extremist Randall Terry, who is now calling on people to burn effigies of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

• Think you can survive the cut? Just in time for Halloween, it’s a spooky edition of Sudden Death Radio!

George W. Bush said he preferred to meet with families privately, but never received returning bodies.  But, then, he really did look nice when he played dress-me-up.

Evangelist Kimberly Daniels warns via the Christian Broadcasting Network that Halloween is Satan’s holy day and if you take Halloween candy it will rot your soul more than your teeth.  Thank the Lord RightWingWatch has brought us the warnings of Daniels so we can avoid falling into Satan’s trap this Halloween season.

Update: Looks like CBN took the page down from their website, but it’s still available here.

I do not buy candy during the Halloween season. Curses are sent through the tricks and treats of the innocent whether they get it by going door to door or by purchasing it from the local grocery store. The demons cannot tell the difference.

Even the colors of Halloween (orange, brown and dark red) are dedicated.

While the lukewarm and ignorant think of these customs as “just harmless fun,” the vortexes of hell are releasing new assignments against souls.

Daniels’ site features a “war room” where “soldiers for the Lord” can meet up with “homosexuals, devil worshipers,  [and] New Agers.”

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has responded to Levi Johnston’s statement on CBS that he has more on the former VP candidate than he’s telling.

On CBS, Johnston warned:

“If she’s going to go out there and say things to me, about me, I’m going to leak some things on her. I mean that’s just how it is.”

Palin responds:

“We have purposefully ignored the mean spirited, malicious and untrue attacks on our family. We, like many, are appalled at the inflammatory statements being made or implied. Trig is our ‘blessed little angel’ who knows it and is lovingly called that every day of his life. Even the thought that anyone would refer to Trig by any disparaging name is sickening and sad. CBS should be ashamed for continually providing a forum to propagate lies. Consider the source of the most recent attention-getting lies — those who would sell their body for money reflect a desperate need for attention and are likely to say and do anything for even more attention.”

Palin was a contestant in the 1984 Miss Alaska beauty pageant.

It’s certainly possible in a crowded room to have someone skulk next to you and before you know it, a photo is taken. Taylor Swift’s rep says that was the case here, at Katy Perry’s birthday party.  But since when is wearing the Swastika chic?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has unveiled a $894 billion health care package,

[The bill] would provide insurance to up to 36 million people by broadly expanding Medicaid, the state-federal insurance program for the poor, and by offering subsidies to moderate-income Americans to buy insurance either from private carriers or a new government-run plan.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the bill would reduce future federal deficits by about $30 million over the next 10 years, meeting President Obama’s demand that the health legislation not add “one dime” to the nation’s indebtedness.

There are some differences between the House bill and the Senate measure:

The House bill, for instance, would impose a new income surtax on individuals earning more than $500,000 and couples earning more than $1 million — a so-called millionaire’s tax.

The Senate would impose a tax on high-cost insurance policies, a move that experts say could help lower long-term health care costs by giving employers, employees and private insurers incentive to reduce expenditures.

And there are many similarities:

In addition to expanding coverage for the uninsured, both the House and Senate version of the legislation would severely tighten restrictions on the health insurance, for instance, by barring the denial of coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions.

Let’s see what the party of “no” says.

Sue at Crooks and Liars rightly asks why this isn’t getting more media attention. At a time when 7000 Americans a day are losing benefits, the GOP is stalling on supporting a bill that would help them.  Republicans have muddied up the bill with amendments having to do with ACORN and immigration, but having nothing to do with helping Americans. Minority leader Mitch McConnell is holding the agreement hostage to these unrelated issues.

Observers of the weeks-long debate might not be surprised to learn that the sticking points remain the same: McConnell is insisting on consideration of an amendment to prevent ACORN from receiving federal funds, and another designed to filter illegal immigrants out of the workforce. The Kentucky Republican said the eight amendments Republicans are offering won’t take much longer to consider than the six provisions Reid has proposed on behalf of Democrats.

A top CIA official admitted Tuesday that the intelligence community failed to fully inform Congress about its spying activities.  Most significantly, as Jason Leopold points out, the CIA failed to reveal to leading members of the House and Senate intelligence committees that the agency tortured detainees.

Speaking to reporters immediately after the hearing, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Illinois, pictured) said the CIA’s failure to disclose details about its use of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” is a “symptom of a larger disease.”

Schakowsky revealed that, in addition to withholding information from lawmakers about torture, the CIA lied or misled Congress about the shooting down of an airplane over Peru in 2001 carrying American missionaries, the destruction of torture tapes and a top secret assassination program aimed at targeting leaders of al-Qaeda. She would not reveal details of what the fifth case was. A 2008 CIA inspector general’s report had already concluded that the agency lied to Congress about the Peru incident.

When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed that the CIA misled Congress in the torture issue, she was roundly criticized, even after CIA chief Leon Panetta acknowledged that the agency lied to Congress.

“We were told explicitly that waterboarding was not being used,” Pelosi told reporters during a press conference last May. The CIA “misled us all the time.”

Perhaps the fine, upstanding truth-seekers who mocked Madame Speaker would like to make a correction.

• Christina Turner was denied insurance for a shocking reason: her treatment for rape qualified as a “pre-existing condition.” She joins Alan to discuss her troubling story.

• Are Americans too optimistic? Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Bright-sided, explains why she believes that the promotion of positive thinking actually harms our nation.

• But if you DO want a reason for optimism, Alan examines the latest data showing that Obama’s stimulus is working.

In a letter from Governor Schwarzenegger to the California State Assembly explaining that he will veto a bill designed to help the Port of San Francisco with financing, the letters line up in a most peculiar way. The author of the bill, Tom Ammiano, recently yelled, “You lie!” at the governor, but the governor’s office simply says what we see in this letter is just “a strange coincidence.”

(h/t Think Progress)