ISSUE: Health Care
- Derek Pearce
- Nov 3, 2011 at 4:40 pm
Lugar on Food Stamps & Obesity
In this clip, Richard Lugar muses on the costs and benefits of the country’s food stamp program.
“This is a whole area that verges into disputes about health care in the United States,” Lugar says. “Obesity for people of all ages simply leads to increased health costs and so forth. This is well beyond our ability to deal with in the farm program, and some would say it’s a matter of human choice. If you want to be obese, you’re obese.”
This footage was captured by an American Bridge tracker in Fort Wayne, IN, on August 25, 2011.
- Audrey Kubetin
- Nov 2, 2011 at 1:28 pm
George Allen on the Ryan Plan
In this clip, former Senator George Allen discusses Congressman Paul Ryan’s plan to revamp Medicare by replacing it with a voucher program.
Allen says the Ryan plan is a “thoughtful proposal,” particularly in terms of how it would remodel the tax code and turn Medicaid into a block grant program to the states, but Allen thinks “we should do much better than that.”
This video was captured by an American Bridge tracker in Virginia on June 14, 2011.
- Audrey Kubetin
- 12:51 pm
Jim Jordan Proposes “Health Scholarships”
In this clip, Jim Jordan suggests replacing Medicare for younger Americans with a phased-in “health scholarship” program.
“This is a model that’s consistent with American principles because it empowers the individual,” Jordan explains. “Here is your health scholarship. You use those dollars — and you’ll probably have to do a means test approach to it — you use those dollars to help you figure out… which healthcare plan meets your needs.”
This video was captured by an American Bridge tracker in Caledonia, OH, on August 24, 2011.
- Audrey Kubetin
- Nov 1, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Bachmann: We Can Legislate Away Anchor Babies
In this clip, Michele Bachmann claims that it’s possible to prevent undocumented immigrants from having children in the U.S., but she doesn’t explain how.
“It is entirely possible through legislation to stop the anchor baby problem,” she says. “There are hospitals in Southern California that have gone out of businesses because they’re bankrupt, they’re bankrupted by anchor babies.”
This video was captured by an American Bridge tracker in North Charleston, SC, on August 25, 2011.
- Audrey Kubetin
- 3:09 pm
Hatch: Ben Nelson is the Senate’s Only Moderate Democrat
In this clip, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) tells the audience at the Western Republican Leadership Conference that his colleague Ben Nelson of Nebraska is the only moderate Democrat in the Senate.
“Ben is a moderate,” he says. “But you saw what he did on ObamaCare. He became the 60th vote that caused the passage of ObamaCare. But he is a moderate. The others are moderates only when their votes aren’t needed by the Democrats… or when it is a parochial issue in their state. Otherwise, they are with them on all spending issues. That’s how they keep themselves in power and we are so doggone dumb in this country that we think they are actually doing something for us when they are really throwing a wet blanket over the whole economy.”
This footage was captured by an American Bridge tracker in Las Vegas, NV, on October 21, 2011.
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MEMO: 12 Things We Could Learn From Previous Romney Tax Returns
ICYMI: With Mitt Romney still refusing to release his pre-2010 returns, we wanted to be sure that you saw our previous memo explaining why it is so important that Mitt Romney release them.
Click through for the 12 questions that Mitt Romney needs to answer by releasing his previous years’ tax returns.
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ICYMI: Romney Profited From Government Handouts
This morning, the Los Angeles Times reported on Mitt Romney’s reliance on tax breaks and government subsidies while working in private equity. The article focuses on Steel Dynamics, the same steel company featured in Romney’s positive ad released just this morning, and all of the government help they received. In fact, Dekalb County was forced to institute a new tax to pay for all of the handouts.
Despite his constant opposition to government interference in the free market, Mitt Romney has a long history of profiting from government handouts. Research after the jump.
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Scott Brown’s Website Steals Childhood Anecdote From… Elizabeth Dole
Sen. Scott Brown may have some explaining to do. It seems a passage from his website detailing the values instilled in him as a young child was stolen essentially word-for-word from former Sen. Elizabeth Dole.
Original research & screenshots after the jump.
