http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38834.html

For info, see
http://www.enewspf.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11955

Quoting from the article:

Highlights of the amendment include the following:

* Patients go to any doctor or hospital of their choice.

* Comprehensive benefits, including coverage for dental, mental health, and prescription drugs.

* …the plan saves at least $400 billion annually

* Community health centers are fully funded, giving the 60 million Americans now living in rural and underserved areas access to care.

* …provides resources for the National Health Service Corps to train an additional 24,000 health professionals.

* …modest new payroll and income taxes amounting to less than what most businesses and people now pay for insurance premiums and out-of-pocket expenses.

Last week, Senator Al Franken proposed an amendment that would prohibit the Pentagon from contracting with firms that force women employees to agree not to sue companies if they are raped as a result of their employment.

Thirty Republican senators voted against this amendment.

See http://current.com/items/91120110_senate-passes-amendment-to-prevent-kbr-halliburton-from-covering-up-raping-employees-literally.htm and http://www.alternet.org/blogs/healthwellness/143164/30_gop_senators_vote_to_defend_gang_rape/.

Her are those senators:

 Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

Think Nixon was the only one who believes that?

Note this breathtaking exchange [between Vice President Dick Cheney and] Fox News at the weekend. He was asked: “If the president during war decides to do something to protect the country, is it legal?” Cheney’s answer: “General proposition, I’d say yes.”

If you would like to know more …

here is another editorial by the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/opinion/18thu1.html

And here is the abbreviated Senate Armed Services Committee Report:
http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/supporting/2008/
Detainees.121108.pdf

I’ll quote from that Senate Report:

On February 7, 2002, President George W. Bush made a written determination that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which would have afforded minimum standards for humane treatment, did not apply to al Qaeda or Taliban detainees. Following the President’s determination, techniques such as waterboarding, nudity, and stress positions, used in SERE training to simulate tactics used by enemies that refuse to follow the Geneva Conventions, were authorized for use in interrogations of detainees in U.S. custody.

In other words, we get to ignore the Geneva Conventions when we want to.

I wonder if President Bush will pardon both his buddies and also himself as he leaves office.

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More of my political information. Certainly not unbiased. I have long considered myself a Republican. I voted for Bush the first time (but was severely disappointed in the final resolution). This page continues my contribution to the political discourse of our current election campaign.

The Republicans For Obama website is here: http://www.republicansforobama.org

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Here is more information, clearly not “independent” relevant to the current election campaign. The source of this video is http://www.keatingeconomics.com. The NY Times has a brief story about this at http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2008/10/06/06gigaom-obama-puts-keating-economics-short-online-9540.html. The LA Times story is here http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-keating7-2008oct07,0,7970180.story. The second video below is CNN’s review of the video pronouncing the video TRUE.

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 Please note that the investigation cleared John McCain of all criminal wrongdoing; instead the Senate Ethics Committee reprimanded him for “poor judgement”.

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Ok … if you get this via email you can click here to see the video http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/gov-palin-cold-open/773761

This is just another in my series of video links relating to the election.

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