The White House issued a statement Sunday evening reaffirming its commitment to a public option for insurance coverage and called reports that the president and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were pursuing different strategies, “absolutely false.” In a three-paragraph post on the White House's blog, Deputy Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer offered, what he called, a “Rumor Check” of those recent reports. “In his September 9th address to Congress, President Obama made clear that he supports the public option because it has the potential to play an essential role in holding insurance companies accountable through choice and competition,” Pfeiffer wrote.
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Obama stands with Reid, WH re-confirms support for public option
Party-rock duo’s first headlining jaunt includes support from Shwayze and Lady Gaga DJ Space Cowboy. By Gil Kaufman LMFAO Photo: Steven Lawton/ FilmMagic Somewhere out there — likely buried underneath a sticky, shot-soaked mound of fur coats, DayGlo T-shirts with Frankie Goes to Hollywood-style party-encouragement mantras and lots of brightly colored shorts — are the members of LMFAO . And while it might not seem like it from the dazed looks on their faces, they’re probably hard at work finalizing the talent lineup for their first headlining outing, the soon-to-launch Party Rock Tour.
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LMFAO Looking For Bikini Girl (Or Girls) For Upcoming Tour
Myron Rolle swapped shoulder pads, hard hits and a professional US football contract for lectures, tutorials and quiet anonymity at Oxford University when he traded a spot in the National Football League draft last year for a Rhodes Scholarship. Rolle, 22, was a star defensive player at Florida State University, where he also won acclaim as a pre-medical student for research on stem cells and cancer cells. In the safety position, Rolle, who is 6ft 2in and weighs 15 stone 5lbs, specialised in taking players to the ground with punishing tackles at full speed, snagging opponents' passes out of the air and running them back for touchdowns
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American football star Myron Rolle trades NFL for Oxford Med. School
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I was reading the business pages of the New York Times today, and I caught an article at the bottom of Page B3 entitled “Vote Backs a Financial Oversight Body.” And I thought, great, finally, we’re going to get some much-needed regulation of the banks.
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Financial oversight board offers loopholes to Wall Street banks
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It's January 2011.
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‘Obama’s Coup’ video game plays on the paranoia of the right wingnuts
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Filed under: Hot Bodies , Politix Devout Mormon Congressman Jeff Flake (R – Arizona) is giving TMZ’s favorite shirtless lawmaker Aaron Schock (R-Illinois) a run for his six-pack — starting a new battle of the biceps on Capitol Hill.The world saw Flake flex his muscles earlier this …
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Hunks on the Hill — Who’d You Rather?
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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama wants smaller community banks to have greater access to the government's $700 billion financial rescue fund to assist small businesses that are still suffering from a prolonged credit crunch.
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Obama to announce help for small businesses
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Earlier this week, the health insurance lobby AHIP (America’s Health Insurance Plans) issued a false and dishonest report claiming that the Baucus health care bill would increase health care costs. Even the firm hired to do the analysis — PriceWaterhouseCoopers — backpedaled from the report’s conclusions. The insurance lobby’s strategy backfired as it appeared to alienate Sen
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Obama rips health insurance lobby as ‘deceptive,’ ‘dishonest,’ ‘bogus.’
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Let’s make a deal: no more talking about health care reform. For a while, anyway. A couple weeks, let’s say.
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Everyone Shut Up About Health Care Reform For a While
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