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Automatic mastery of the facts. when karl rove wrote in "the wall street journal" that barack obama had, quote, the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year, politifact rated that mostly true. even though the approval rating mr. rove cited was 49% and ronald reagan posted a 48% approval rating at the end of his first year. did not matter to politifact apparently. they rated that, the statement from mr. rove as mostly true. what? yeah. because apparently the wordç "true" mean...

Our frustration. they have told us they do not intend to run a correction about their mistakes on this which i should not find astonishing but i do. politifact, you are wrong here on the facts and bluntly and you ought to correct it. putting the word "fact" in your name does not grant you automatic mastery of the facts. when karl rove wrote in "the wall street journal" that barack obama had, quote, the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year, politifact rated that mostly true...

Traumatized to go in and try to prove one way or the other so you can get the funding you desperately need, its unbelievable. but congresswoman, do you think they might have put the clause in there to try to move the political spectrum and then at the end they say all right, well take this one objectionable clause out and lets pass the bill otherwise? >> last year when we debated the health care bill, tlrm similar attempts, although not even as extreme as this attempt, but the stupak amendment a...

November. i dont think -- i think that was distressing for folk, and i dont think they think thats how the democratic process should work. >> two quick political questions. >> yes. >> first of all, are you getting involved in the arkansas democratic primary between blanche lincoln and bill halter? >> we are not, and frankly senator lincoln was helpful to us, and we know the stupak amendment was defeated in the senate, not only senator lincoln but two republican senators from maine. i really appl...

Embryonic stem cell research. everybody hailed it. it was wonderful. >> they trust him. they dont trust barack obama. >> its a trust factor. im willing to trust the president. even during this debate about health care, what did president obama say? we will not use federal funds for abortion. what did the speaker say? keep current law. lets not expand or restrict it, lets keep current law. its clear in the executive order that hide restrictions on abortion will apply in the health care exchange. ...

In the end, congressman bart stupak was among the 219 house democrats who voted for the senates version of health reform last night. he did not get included in that legislation the so-called stupak amendment, the rollback of abortion rights he managed to slide into the bill last year. the bill last night did not include the stupak amendment but did include the senate bill language on abortion, which is a very specifically written ban on federal funding for abortion. thats all congressman stupak ...

In the end, congressman bart stupak was among the 219 house democrats who voted for the senates version of health reform last night. he did not get included in that legislation the stupak amendment, the rollback of abortion rights he managed to slide into the bill last year. the bill last night did not include the stupak amendment but did include the senate bill language on abortion, which is a very specifically-written ban on federal funding for abortion. thats all congressman stupak ever claim...

Compromised language for federal funding for abortion services continued to negotiate for the white house even as democrats are saying they couldnt support the senate bill. it is beginning to talk and find the compromise is the second component for nancy bellsy. under a trillion dollars then the stupak who said he couldnt vote for the senate bill continued to negotiate was the sign pelosi had put together. >> california insurance company that jacked premiums up by 30 percent an then the stupak a...

Compromised language for federal funding for abortion services continued to negotiate for the white house even as democrats are saying they couldnt support the senate bill. it is beginning to talk and find the compromise is the second component for nancy bellsy. under a trillion dollars then the stupak who said he couldnt vote for the senate bill continued to negotiate was the sign pelosi had put together. >> california insurance company that jacked premiums up by 30 percent an then the stupak a...

Is the senate and the senate rules. there is no doubt if we try to put policy, abortion policy, in the reconciliation package thats going through today the emphasis is the policy, not a budgetary concern, therefore, wed be byrd out because of the byrd rule. that wont work. to win the senate, attempted to put basically the stupak amendment in the health care bill when it was going through. we could get 45 votes. our difficulty in statute, we would all love to have a statute that would be stronger...