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GOP steps in Obamacare trap: Watch their false claims blow up in their face!
For the right, attacks against Obamacare's market disruption were great fun. Until it doomed their own plan. By Brian Beutler Late last year, when conservatives everywhere were grieving publicly for each American who’d received a cancellation notice from a health...
LTE Contra Robert Hurt
In his column of February 6, 2014, Mr. Robert Hurt, Congressman for Madison's Congressional District continues his criticism of President Barack Obama, particularly criticizing the President's policies for growing the economy and creating jobs. Mr. Hurt encourages his...
LTE Contra Robert Hurt
I’m responding to Robert Hurt’s article in the Feb 6 Eagle. I agree with him that much of what politicians say is “empty rhetoric,” including the words of President Obama and Robert Hurt. I cannot agree with Robert Hurt’s assessment of the President’s record. Mr....
“Inequality for All” Watch Party
Please join us on February 27th for an "Inequality for All" Watch Party! Following the film, Secretary Reich and Senator Elizabeth Warren will join us on a conference call to talk about how to change the conversation on income inequality. ROBERT B. REICH,...
Virginia’s Gay Marriage Ban Is Toast
By Peter Galuszka Here's what it boils down to.. "...the Bill of Rights and the constitution are designed precisely to protect the rights of minorities. If voters or their legislators could strip away individual rights at the whim of the majority, we’d live in...
Represent Us: A Movement For The People
Our message: You shouldn't have to buy access to your own government. That’s why we’re building a movement big enough to force our leaders to stop answering to special-interest cronies and start answering to the people. http://youtu.be/bFtVCBNFgeo America’s government...
Join us for breakfast Saturday
Breakfast Meeting at the George James Community Center Saturday, February 8th Please join the Madison County Democratic Committee at our next regular meeting, Saturday, February 8th at the George James Community Center. Come early for the Center's home-cooked "Big...
Virginians will suffer without expanded coverage for the working uninsured
The 2013 Virginia General Assembly chose to not act on Medicaid Expansion that would have provided healthcare coverage for low income families. Instead, the decision of Medicaid Reform and Expansion was delegated to The Medicaid Innovation and Reform Commission (MIRC)...
Behold: A Republican Health Care Plan
In their quest to repeal Obamacare, Republicans have faced two political problems. First, while the Affordable Care Act isn’t a popular law, polls show that the idea of simply going back to the way things were is far less popular. The second is that for the last three...
Equal Pay for Equal Work
For 10 years, Lilly Ledbetter fought to close the gap between women’s and men’s wages, sparring with the Supreme Court, lobbying Capitol Hill in a historic discrimination case against Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Ledbetter won a jury verdict of more than $3...
