Wendell Potter: Sarah Palin's rhetoric torpedoed Medicare savings

By Wendell Potter - The Affordable Care Act might havebeen able to curtail spending further if it hadn’t been for Sarah Palin’s reckless rhetoric. It was Palin who charged that a provision of the law allowing Medicare to pay doctors for having end-of-life discussion …

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Obamacare Causes Franciscan University to Stop Offering Health Insurance

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Bristol Palin Blames Obama's Daughters Sasha and Malia for His Embrace of Same-Sex Marriage

Bristol Palin suggests that President Obama’s daughters Sasha and Malia are behind his embrace of same-sex marriage rights, and she thinks that’s a shame.  In a blog post titled “Hail to the Chiefs – Malia and Sasha Obama,” the 21 year old daug …

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Bristol Palin Weighs In On Obama's Gay Marriage Support

Bristol Palin is not satisfied with President Obama's explanation of how he evolved to support gay marriage--by talking with his family and friends. "You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples," Obama said in the ABC interview in which he mad …

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McCain says Palin VP choice was based on her qualifications to take his place as president if needed

Speaking [on ABC's This Week] about presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney selecting a vice presidential running mate, McCain said that the “primary, absolute, most important aspect is if something happened to him, would that person be well qualified to take that place?&rdqu …

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Indiana: Sarah Palin Backs Richard Mourdock for Senate

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin threw her support behind Treasurer Richard Mourdock’s (R) bid to unseat six-term Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) today. It’s a rare endorsement this cycle from the former Alaska governor, who has b …

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'My Mom Worked Wonders' - 'Bristol Palin' Defends Mother's Selection as VP Candidate in '08

Talking Points Memo in an article titled, "Why Mitt Romney Won't Take GOP Down Another VP Rabbit Hole" quoted a strategist who said my mom is "a case study on what not to do. The McCain campaign really screwed up by going in and picking someone who was just gonna sha …

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Sarah Palin says Obama wants to ban kids from farm work. Is she right?

Sarah Palin says the Obama administration wants to ban kids from working on family farms. In a Facebook post Wednesday she charges that the Department of Labor is working on regulations that would stop children from doing agricultural chores that teach hard work and help feed Ame …

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Fox News Burying the National Dialogue in "Doo-Doo."

Bill O'Reilly, the tumescent personality of Fox News,said on his Friday show "Robert Reich is a communist who secretly adores Karl Marx." (This came after Fox News' Neil Cavoto called me a "sanctimonious twit" for suggesting the rich should pay more in taxes.) O'Reilly's ac …

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The Looniest Talking Point Ever (And Palin’s Got It)

We have a winner. If you had asked me before what the craziest conservative talking point was, it had to be the czars. After all, this was a case of taking something around for decades and claiming it was some sort of new threat to the republic. Plus it came with fun side idiocy …

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