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Barnes was also an avid Democrat. He celebrated Obama’s election in 2008 with champagne in a nursing home with Wang...
...Even the public TV journalist seemed at a loss as he sheepishly attempted to find common ground between the motley collection of candidates during his election wrap-up. On the far right of the podium was a neo-Nazi, joined by a Communist and Social Democrat in the middle, then a probusiness liberal, an environmentalist Green and, not lacking in irony, a conservative Christian Democrat all the way to the left. It was a political free-for-all. With so many smaller parties entering state governments and Germany's federal election just weeks away, the country's main political players...
...Called Senator Grassley to tell him to stop speading [sic] myths about health care reform and imaginary "death panels."' SENATOR ARLEN SPECTER, Democrat, in a Twitter post about Republican Senator Charles Grassley's fear that President Obama's health-care plan would enable the government to decide "when to pull the plug on grandma...
...gang has received disproportionate funds from the health-insurance and pharmaceutical industries. Most significantly, Democratic Senator Max Baucus has received $25 million in contributions from health-industry PACs since 1989, more than any Democrat. Republican Senator Mike Enzi has received a greater share of his campaign contributions from health- industry PACs than any other senator. Admittedly, insurance and pharmaceutical companies should have a place at the table. But they shouldn’t be sitting at the head. I doubt that six “co-opted” hired guns can follow the money trail to common ground...
...According to a declassified narrative released by the Senate Intelligence Committee, the CIA briefed committee members about its interrogation program on Sept. 6, 2006. In the weeks that followed, according to a person familiar with the matter, California Democrat Diane Feinstein, a member of the committee, raised concerns with the CIA about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques. Several other members of the committee spoke publicly about their concerns over the techniques in the months that preceded Bradbury's 2007 memo...