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Dean Powers lives in Castleton, VT. He has apprenticed at several newspapers including The Nation. He currently writes for OpEdNews. He can be found at facebook.com/deanppowers.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 30, 2009 NY Times Manipulates Poll, Claims Health Care Reform Opposition "Growing"
There's a little concern that the quality might diminish if the government passes reform (69 percent), but there is almost an identical number (66 percent) of respondents who feel they will ***lose*** their health care altogether if the government fails to act!! Haha!
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, July 24, 2009 NY Times Prints Health Care Articles "K Street" Style
Today, The New York Times released the latest in a series of articles on health care that slants language and provides unsubstantiated facts to create the perception that Americans oppose fixing our broken health care system--a false reality.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, July 17, 2009 Republicans Exploit Kennedy's Illness in Push to Destroy Health Reform
Chuck Grassley has reached a new low, exploiting the weakened condition of Senator Kennedy to suggest that the long-time champion of health care reform would want Democrats to cave to the special interests, knowing Kennedy cannot defend himself from these insinuations.
SHARE Thursday, July 2, 2009 Top GOP Aide: We Had Key Dem "Votes from Day One"
Democratic leaders ought to call for investigations into the deal that is alluded to by a top GOP aide. The Washington Post ought to reveal this source.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 1, 2009 Ben Nelson has Become a Punch Line
More and more, Senator Ben Nelson's name comes up as an adjective, referring to something akin to a sickness that is living inside the Democratic Party.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, June 12, 2009 Palin Is Soooooooo Hurt By Letterman's Comments
This entire uproar is manufactured by the same hacks who have been winning elections for the Republicans for the last three decades. It's part of their "persecuted is me" narrative. It used to be that they were persecuted as WalMart shoppers. Now they are persecuted as women. Go figure.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Landrieu: "Drill, Drill, Drill," Calls Obama "Senator"
There must be some retribution at some level. George Washington had severe consequences for deserters. There was good reason. If Obama wants to accomplish his goals, he and Harry Reid need to start holding the line.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Dem. Landrieu Joins Dem. Nelson in Red Light District of Senate
Senator Landrieu became the latest Democrat to come out publicly opposed to the public health care plan option. A majority of Americans favor the public plan option, and our president campaigned for it.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 26, 2009 The Storm is Always Building at the New York Times
"Mr. Reid...must corral support for it in the face of an increasingly resistant Republican minority." -NYTimes
Increasingly resistant? When were the Republicans EVER supportive of anything that the Democrats have proposed? If by increasingly resistant Adam Nagourney is looking at a time span that begins when the Wright Brothers were still just tinkering around with bicycles, then he is correct.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 14, 2009 GOP's Frank Luntz' Memo on Health Care; How to Fight Luntz
The New York Times is reporting that Frank Luntz, the word smith for the Republican Party, has circulated a memo in Washington DC advising Republicans on how to attack Democrats and President Obama for his proposals on health care reform.
(11 comments) SHARE Friday, April 10, 2009 NY Times Climate Change Article: Careless or Deceptive?
Is the New York Times deceitfully and willfully aiding special interests opposed to climate control by engineering a myth that there is populist opposition to curbs on greenhouse gases?
SHARE Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Limbaugh Strategy: White House Operatives Get Credit OpEdNews Deserves
Top strategists in the Obama administration are receiving credit for the "Limbaugh strategy:" essentially dragging him out of his little spider hole and letting the nation watch him squirm. OpEdNews first argued for this strategy in October 2006. But everybody knows, if James Carville or Stanley Greenberg didn't conceive an idea, it was as good as never conceived.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 12, 2009 Glenn Beck's Show Mocks Americans as "Moochers"
As America teeters on the brink of economic insecurity, Glenn Beck lashed out at Americans with mocking derision as he suggested for the 5,897,632 time that America is on the road to socialism.
SHARE Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Sarah Palin: "I'll Plow Through [God's] Door" Prematurely
My name is Pastor Bob, I just made that up--like Sarah Palin and her phony invocation of God. Join me as I take a walk with Jesus and point out the ridiculous hypocrisy that is the life of Sarah Palin. Together, we'll discover a higher purpose, a greater calling and a deeper knowledge of the human soul.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 14, 2008 Read My Lips; George Bush Ends Career Nationalizing BANKS!!!!
Listen, for one satisfying moment, to the words of that troglodyte Republican you've met, with his pale face and his bird-like, nervous twitches and glances as he declares angrily, "I don't want nationalized health care."
Savor the moment. Replay it a few times. The President this idiot elected just Socialized (or nationalized, or Marxisized or Stalinicized) his bank. Read my what?
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, October 13, 2008 Obama Should Apologize for Congressman Lewis?
With Frank Rich and John Stewart coming close to comparing McCain and his followers to the Weimar Republic, why did McCain attack Congressman John Lewis's remarks?