Who is claiming that? Like the majority of Americans, lawmakers get thier health insurance from their employer and will continue to do so under ObamaCare.
Because they are desperate to keep up the pretense that the economic disaster they caused is Obama's fault, detract attention from any positive news (for instance 2 million jobs created in each of the last two years) and so stick with cherry picking lagging indicators.
Rounder - people were...
He means lets return to the tax rates of the 1990s when we saw the longest economic expansion in history, full employment, budget surpluses record low poverty.
Because despite all his faults (and there were a few) Reagan was part of a Republican Party that honestly did have the best interests of the USA at heart.
So there is not a single African American Republican in the House. Obama's victory shocked the GOP into taking some cynical tokenistic action. And if that weren't bad enough - you actually think it is something to boast about?
Sad, very sad
First of all, of the 66 hostages taken in the Tehran Embassy hostage crisis, 13 were released in Nov 1979, 52 on Jan 20 1981 and only 1 in July 1980. So which hostages are you referring to being freed in 1980, and which Reagan speech?
The majority of the hostages were in fact released as a...
Reading literature that labels those with a different political viewpoint as "idiots" and then being unable to even defend yourself in a battle of wits without the help of YA members pretty much tells us who the real idiot is doesn't it?
Actually it is more fun to see them refuse to learn a single lesson from their embarrassing losses in 2006 and 2008.
Rather than appeal to moderate and independent voters most still seem to think they have to lurch further to the right and many are still cherry picking polls to misrepresent in...
The reason the articles are not forecasting this trend to continue is that signs of an imminent economic recovery are already in place.
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/05052009/325/bernanke-says-u-s-recovery-ahead.html