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UCmeNdc

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Sun Nov 24, 2013, 08:54 AM Nov 2013

Alan Grayson and Ed Schultz rip Issa’s anti-Obamacare events: ‘They’re smear junkies, .......’

Alan Grayson and Ed Schultz rip Issa’s anti-Obamacare events: ‘They’re smear junkies, that’s all they ever do’


Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) and MSNBC host Ed Schultz teed off on Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) on Friday for what they referred to as a “traveling circus” supposedly focusing on the problems with the Affordable Care Act while ignoring people who are benefitting from it.

“The Republicans have been crisis junkies now for months, if not years,” Grayson told Schultz. “They lurch from one crisis to the next to the next, whether it’s the government shutdown, or whether it’s the debt ceiling or anything else. Now they’re smear junkies, that’s all they ever do.”

On Friday, Issa, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, convened the first of four planned “field hearings” to discuss the act. The Charlotte Observer reported that about 200 people attended the hearing in Gastonia, North Carolina, along with some protesters who chanted, “These sham hearings waste our money.”

But while Issa heard testimony from five hand-picked people who said they have been adversely affected by the law, two women who were willing to discuss its benefits told WBTV-TV that they were denied the opportunity, including Charlotte resident Dana Wilson, who explained that, as someone diagnosed with multiple sclerosis as a teenager, she would be guaranteed medical insurance for the first time thanks to the law’s requirements.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/22/alan-grayson-and-ed-schultz-rip-issas-anti-obamacare-events-theyre-smear-junkies-thats-all-they-ever-do/

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Alan Grayson and Ed Schultz rip Issa’s anti-Obamacare events: ‘They’re smear junkies, .......’ (Original Post) UCmeNdc Nov 2013 OP
The main attraction at the Carny Show packman Nov 2013 #1
The people who are benefiting including GOP voters should tell Issa Rosa Luxemburg Nov 2013 #2
these endless GOP 'field hearings' & 24/7 smears cost America millions that could be spent elsewhere Sunlei Nov 2013 #3

Sunlei

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3. these endless GOP 'field hearings' & 24/7 smears cost America millions that could be spent elsewhere
Sun Nov 24, 2013, 12:54 PM
Nov 2013

Our country would be better off if several of these GOP haters positions were vacant.

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