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White House attempts to clarify President Obama's Michael Vick remarks
Today one tweet from one Sports Illustrated reporter created a Controversy that the White House was forced to respond through a statement.  The tweet in question came from Peter King of Sports Illustrated.  King tweeted, "Yes, Obama called Eagle owner Jeffrey Lurie to praise the Eagles for giving Vick a chance. Said too many Prisoners never get fair 2d chance." The tweet was in reference to an earlier interview King had given in which he mentioned that President Obama had expressed gra...

Obama Brings Back End of Life Counseling
When it was discovered that ObamaCare included funding for end of life counseling, Controversy erupted and that language had to be stripped from the bill Obama eventually signed. So, how is it that end of life counseling is now being funded by the Federal Government? Through Regulation, of course. The New York Times reported that this is the way President Obama will operate for the next two years. The final version of the Health Care Legislation, signed into law by President Obama in March, a...

Twitter roundup
BrendanNyhan Dec 28, 2010 at 1:01pm As predicted (https://j.mp/c9Fe3v), overemphasis on Obama staff as cause of/solution to structural political problems https://j.mp/gYxThi Blaming staff for structural problems - Brendan Nyhan Back in January, I predicted a rash of process-based explanations of President Obama's declining political fortunes in 2010: During the next eleven months, it will become increasingly obvious th... Obama's insular White House worries his allies - latimes.com Bren...

Media amnesia on "death panels" myth
One of the most frustrating aspects of the media's coverage of politics is the way they treat deceptive factual claims. As I've often pointed out, these claims are often reported in a "he said," "she said" format that provides readers with no indication that the statement in question is misleading or false. And even when reporters do characterize these statements accurately, it rarely creates a lasting precedent within their news organization. Instead, these outlets typically suffer a sort of ...

White House May Reintroduce 'Death Panels'
The Obama Administration has restored one of the most Controversial provisions of the new Health Care law. The New York Times reported the new policy will let the government pay doctors for end-of-life counseling. That counseling could include doctors discouraging patients from trying everything medically possible that might keep them alive. "The infamous Section 1233 is still alive and kicking," said Elizabeth Wickham, Executive Director of LifeTree, a pro-life Christian educational ministry....

North Carolina editorial roundup
If you're over 65 and want to consult with your doctor about which life-prolonging medical treatments you'd want or not want if you were incapacitated and dying, should Medicare pay your doctor for offering that medical advice? If you've ever watched a spouse, son or daughter struggle with decisions about what an aging, comatose or terminally ill patient would want — feeding tube? ventilator? resuscitation? — then you know the importance of the patient himself or herself thinking thr...

'Death panels' controversy: Is Obama avoiding Congress?
President Obama talks with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in the Oval Office Nov. 4. Health and Human Services has included expanded 'voluntary advance care planning' consultations in the rules it is writing for the health-care reform law. Critics deride the idea as 'Death Panels.' In a move that could resuscitate the partisan battle over what Sarah Palin dubbed "death panels," the Obama Administration is set to implement a Controversial federal health-care provi...

The Paulding County brief political frets of the day
Paulding County, Georgia - While the Paulding County Political Bytes of the week will continue on a periodic basis, it is time to ratchet it up a bit and present a few government absurdness during the week. Democrats just love unions. Why? An average stagehand at Lincoln Center in NYC makes $290K a year. Any union members at the Dallas Theater? Would you allow your mother to be treated this way? Courtesy of MEMRI, the Middle East Research Institute released a disturbing video of a woman in...

THE HILL: White House Tries To Smother New Death Panel Talk. Get that pillow off of my face!
THE HILL: White House Tries To Smother New “Death Panel” Talk. Get that pillow off of my face! ...

Headline of the day
From the Hill: “White House Tries To Smother New ‘Death Panel’ Talk.” Worthy of the New York Daily News. Hell, it is worthy of the New York Post. ...

Sneaking end-of-life consultations into Obamacare
Jae C. Hon/AP Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made the term"Death Panels"famous during the debate over ObamaCare last year. A new Regulation has revived the debate. During the debate over ObamaCare last year, Controversy erupted over a Medicare provision related to end-of-life consultations with doctors. Following well-publicized criticism from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin concerning government "death panels," the provision was promptly dropped. But now the New York Times reports that it has be...

Fox News Tries To Rehabilitate Palins Discredited Death Panels Smear
As The New York Times reported yesterday, the Obama Administration has enacted Medicare Regulations to include an end-of-life planning provision similar to one struck out of the Health Care Reform Bill after Sarah Palin “touched off a political storm over ‘Death Panels.’” Palin’s “death panels” accusation wasn’t just a lie, it was PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year for 2009. But good ol’ Fox News resuscitated the lie and gave it new life by j...

Berwick Sets Up Death Panels By Fiat
"If they would rather die they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." -- Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol Sarah Palin was right. John Boehner -- make that Speaker-elect of the House John Boehner -- was right. While Americans were busy celebrating with family and friends and presumably not paying attention to the news, the New York Times, in a story ironically dated Christmas Day -- a holiday celebrating the birth of the Prince of Peace -- reported the foll...

Backdoor Death Panels?
When the Health Care overhaul was stumbling its way through Congress early this year, Sarah Palin was excoriated by Democrats for suggesting that the nascent law included “Death Panels” for the elderly in order to save costs of treating the oldest and Most Expensive patients. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Palin wrote that Obama had asked Congress to create an independent Medicare Advisory Council--an unaccountable group of experts charged with containing Medicare costs. She p...

Obama's stealth end-of-life regulation: Palin's 'death panels' made Dems do it
"If you can't legislate it, enforce it," says Tucker Carlson, sitting in for Sean Hannity on Fox , as he slammed the Obama Administration for dishonesty - specifically  sneaking back into ObamaCare  what Sarah Palin labeled  the 'Death Panel's'" end-of-life planning. At that time, Sarah Palin warned of a slippery slope to euthanasia for the elderly, the sick and the disabled and America's response echoed Palin's "Not no, but hell no!".  Now it's back. As per the New York Time...

End-of-life counseling part of new Medicare policy
The New York Times reported over the weekend that a provision of Health Care reform Legislation that was abandoned after it became the focus of conservative outrage is making a return, this time as part of a new policy outlined in a Medicare Regulation. Voluntary counseling on end-of-life decisions was attacked by conservative pundits and politicians throughout the debate over Health Care reform, eventually labeled as “Death Panels.” The service would require Medicare to pay for end-...

LCR at The Daily Caller: Location, Location, Location
by the Left Coast Rebel My latest Daily Caller piece (in quite a while, actually) is actually a modified LCR post but due to the Real Estate, it sounds a lot better than it does here. Location, location, location. Click the image above to read the piece and please Facebook "like" it and comment if you have the time, please get the word on Obama's march to socialism and in this case, Death Panels. Let the new 112th Congress know your outrage over this insidious move on Dear Leader's part. Props...

Still more 2010 election congressional winners
Incoming House freshman Rick Berg and incoming Senate freshman John Hoeven will be the first North Dakota Republicans to serve in the Congress since 1986. New Mexico's Steve Pearce , a Republican, returns in January to his old House seat. He had held it for six years, then ran for Senator in 2008, losing to Tom Udall. Last month he defeated Incumbent Democrat Harry Teague. Congressman Steve Israel of New York's second district is the new Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committe...

The future of health care in the Tampa Bay Area
Beginning on January 1, 2011 the effects of the initial policy implementations of the Health Care Reform Act will be felt by both physicians and their patients. In speaking with family physicians, general practitioners and specialists in the Tampa Bay area, many have decided that they will retire or find another job prior to January 1, 2013, when they must begin to confer with the government in deciding your care or course of treatment. With over thirty million people being added to the health c...

This Week's Health Industry News
With the Congress in adjournment and many business people taking off the time between holidays, we do not expect any substantive health industry news this week. But we could be surprised. Take, for instance, the news reported Sunday by our colleague Robert Pear in Washington. The Obama Administration, through an administrative rule, is resurrecting the notion of end-of-life planning services for older Americans — the same sort of planning that was falsely characterized as “Death Panels”

Texas blog roundup for the week of December 27
The Texas Progressive Alliance hopes Santa Claus was good to you as it delivers the last blog roundup for 2010. Bay Area Houston notices that Death Panels are starting in Jan. Off the Kuff took a look at the election contest that was filed in HD48. Harold at Letters From Texas told a little Christmas story from his childhood, to (unsuccessfully) prove that he’s not a scrooge. It seems the EPA and Big Gas agree on something: Hydraulic Fracturing causes gas to penetrate into the water zone...

Jesus would be a liberal, right?
On Thursday night I appeared on “The Ed Schultz Show” on MSNBC, answering Newt Gingrich's latest attack on the jobless by suggesting Newt watch “It's a Wonderful Life” and reread the teachings of Jesus, which I offered to send him as my Christmas Present. President Obama is a man of quiet but deep Christian faith. Isn't it odd that every time the president quotes Scripture, he is met by angry rightists who seem to hate (hate is not too strong

Hernando County places priority on new Judicial Center during budget crisis
In the midst of a $7 million Budget shortfall, Hernando County remains determined to spend money for a new judicial center. After shelving plans to spend $19 million on a new building to house a judicial center, the focus is now shifting toward conversion of the current Courthouse, which was expanded in 1988. Multiple visits to the courthouse failed to reveal any evidence of unbearable congestion on the part of the judicial system. Courtrooms are rarely filled to capacity and hallways do not hav...

Obama's Birth certificate: Hawaii Governor Abercrombie's Birther mission
Birthers are a group of wacky Conspiracy theorists that claim President Barack Obama was born on foreign soil, usually Kenya. Birthers claim Obama's Birth Certificate, or more exactly his certificate of live birth, is a forgery. Birthers claim Obama is an illegitimate president because he is not an American Citizen. Governor Abercrombie is initiating a process to make policy changes that would allow Hawaii to release additional evidence that Obama was born in Honolu...

When Russia buys warships from a NATO country
Few days later, on July 23, 2010, French president Nicolas Sarkozy was announcing the construction of two "Mistral" Warships at Saint Nazaire's naval center. Asked about what this deal means for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO Secretary General Mr. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer was reassuring on July 25, 2010, that the agreement was not to be seen as a threat, and that NATO was respectful of the two countries' partnership . Finally the deal came to an agreement on December 24, 2010. Th...