Archive for September, 2009

• Senate Finance Rejects Anti-Abortion Language in Health Bill (Wednesday, September 30th, 2009)

• New TV Ad on ObamaCare Taxes by the RNC (Wednesday, September 30th, 2009)

• What’s Hiding in the Health Care Bill? (Wednesday, September 30th, 2009)

• Public Option Vote Forces “the Reveal” of the War Going on Inside the Democratic Party (Wednesday, September 30th, 2009)

• FireDogLake on the Dems Blaming the GOP for the Failure of the Public Option (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• Atlantic Wire: Blogosphere’s Reaction to the Failure of the Public Option (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• DailyKos: Liberals Show Frustration with Dem Majority Leader, Senator Reid (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• Audio: Senator Harkin Claims “We Have the Votes” for a Public Option in the Senate (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• Audio: Senator Harkin Claims “We Have the Votes” for a Public Option in the Senate (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• NYT: Abortion Debate makes Health Care Reform too Close to Call in the House (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• Rockefeller’s Public Option Amendment Went Down in Flames, 15-8, Not Agreed to (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• The Senate Shell Game: Taking Up the Blank Health Reform Bill on the Senate Floor (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• Liberals Launch Television Ads in Montana Against Baucus on Public Option (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• Liberals: We Have the Votes to Pass the Public Option in the Senate without any Republicans (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• AP: Dem on Dem Opposition over the Public Option in the Senate Finance (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• LA Times: Health Care Showdown on Public Option & the Pay For (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• Kennedy Warns Health Care Debate Could Turn Violent (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• WaPo: Experts say Rationing Needed (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• Charlie Cook on the Plight of the Blue Dogs in the House (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• NYT: Abortion Debate makes Health Care Reform too Close to Call in the House (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• Letter on Secret Medicare Cuts (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• Congress’s Secret Plan to Pass ObamaCare (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• Cook: Blue Dogs Beaten Up at Home and By their Own Dem Leadership (Tuesday, September 29th, 2009)

• The Correlation Between Dems Who are at No on ObamaCare and their Senior Population — High (Monday, September 28th, 2009)

• The Young and Healthy, Without Lobbyists, Get Fleeced in Health Reform (Monday, September 28th, 2009)

• Likely Voter Poll: Support for ObamaCare Lowest Ever, 58% say Likely Plan will Not Pass (Monday, September 28th, 2009)

• Cost, Hennessey and Perrin: What are the Odds… (Monday, September 28th, 2009)

• If you Don’t Buy Health Insurance You Get Fined $1,000 and Could Go to Jail — and Face the IRS (Monday, September 28th, 2009)

• The Big Event in the U.S. Senate Finance Committee this Week: the Public Option Amendments (Monday, September 28th, 2009)

• 178 Signatures on Discharge Petition to Make House Release Bills 72 Hours before Floor Vote (Sunday, September 27th, 2009)

• AP: House Dems Consider Tax on Insurers (Saturday, September 26th, 2009)

• AP: Fears by Seniors Play Key Role in Health Care Debate (Saturday, September 26th, 2009)

• WaPo: Baucus Bill maybe just a Draft (Saturday, September 26th, 2009)

• NYT: Cracks in Dems United Health Care Front (Saturday, September 26th, 2009)

• ObamaCare Mandate: Buy Insurance or Go to Jail (Saturday, September 26th, 2009)

• Mandates May Increase Health Costs (Friday, September 25th, 2009)

• Dem Election Angst (Friday, September 25th, 2009)

• Biden Calls some Fellow Dems “Turkeys” (Friday, September 25th, 2009)

• How Close are the Dems to Passing Health Care Reform? (Friday, September 25th, 2009)

• Rockefeller’s and Cantwell’s Pledge to Vote No Over Public Option, Makes Snowe Vote Key for Bill to Leave Committee (Thursday, September 24th, 2009)

• Real Liberals Don’t Want Senator Snowe’s Support (Thursday, September 24th, 2009)

• A New Health Reform Strategy: Songs Could Lower Health Care Costs By Billions (Thursday, September 24th, 2009)

• David Broder: Why the Comprehensive Policy Approach Does Not Work in D.C. (Thursday, September 24th, 2009)

• Rove: Obama’s Full Ginsburg shows Over-Exposure Risks, Highlights Obama’s Health Care Mistakes (Thursday, September 24th, 2009)

• Senate Health Care Rift Over Timing of the CBO Score (Thursday, September 24th, 2009)

• U.S. Issues $7 Trillion in Debt in 12 Months (Thursday, September 24th, 2009)

• The Flow Chart to Keep Your Doctor Under ObamaCare (Thursday, September 24th, 2009)

• Is the GOP Over-reaching on Health Care? (Thursday, September 24th, 2009)

• Dem Strategist: Ominous News for Democrats (Thursday, September 24th, 2009)

• Why People are Furious at Congress (Thursday, September 24th, 2009)

• More Significant Changes Expected for Baucus Bill (Thursday, September 24th, 2009)

• Big Changes Seen Ahead for Baucus Bill (Thursday, September 24th, 2009)

• Daily Kos: Snowe Just Tried to Kill Health Reform (Thursday, September 24th, 2009)

• McConnell Blasts HHS ‘Gag Order’ (Thursday, September 24th, 2009)

• How ObamaCare Contradicts the President’s Goals (Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009)

• Why Docs Hate ObamaCare (Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009)

• Dem Strategist: Ominous News for Democrats (Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009)

• Dems Block 72 Hour Health Bill Review and Pass Bill without Legislative Language (Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009)

• No 72 Hours to Review Bill and Only Conceptional Language Allowed (Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009)

• CBO Chief Admits Medicare Benefits will be Cut to pay for ObamaCare (Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009)

• CBS: Pelosi Seeks to Make Health Bill More Liberal (Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009)

• 2010 Elections: Rage, not Race (Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009)

• Dems Spar with Each other over PhRMA Deal Cut by the White House (Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009)

• White House sees Health Bill Passage in Six Weeks (Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009)

• Roll Call Vote on the Amendment to Produce Legislative Language in the Senate Finance Committee (Not Agreed To 11-12) (Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009)

• ABC News on the “Gag Order” issued by HHS Against Humana (Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009)

• Let the Unravelling Continue (Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009)

• Even the grizzled Senate Veterans Found this Amazing — Vaporbill (Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009)

• Capretta: Let the Unravelling Continue (Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009)

• TIME: Senate Dems Grapple with Suddenly Less Promising 2010 Elections (Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009)

• Mitch McConnell: ‘Severe’ reaction if reconciliation used (Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009)

• Mitch McConnell: ‘Severe’ reaction if reconciliation used (Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009)

• House Liberals to Pelosi: Stick with Us and Ditch the Blue Dogs (Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009)

• Reid Threatens Nuclear Option to Pass Health Care Reform (Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009)

• CBO Chief Admits Medicare Benefits will be Cut to pay for ObamaCare (Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009)

• Pelosi Kills Deal with Blue Dogs on the Public Option (Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009)

• Text of the Letter from House Liberals to the Speaker (Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009)

• Pelsoi Kills Deal with House Blue Dogs on Public Option (Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009)

• CBO Chief Admits Medicare Benefits will be Cut to pay for ObamaCare (Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009)

• Big Deficits Loom from Senate Health Bill (Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009)

• Associated Press: “Memo to President Barack Obama: It’s a tax.” (Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009)

• NYT: Unions Oppose Tax on Health Care Premiums for the Middle Class (Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009)

• Pollster: Seniors Moving Enbloc to the GOP (Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009)

• CBS: Five Obama Health Care Promises He has Broken (Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009)

• The Pro-Lifers say ObamaCare will Increase Abortions by 35% (Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009)

• British Health Care System gets it Wrong in 1 of 6 Patients (Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009)

• Politico: Health Bill says ‘Tax’ when President Obama says ‘Not’ (Monday, September 21st, 2009)

• Britain Eyes Assisted Suicide Reform as Population Ages (Monday, September 21st, 2009)

• Britain Eyes Assisted Suicide as Population Ages (Monday, September 21st, 2009)

• House Minority Leader Boehner says ObamaCare has no Pulse (Monday, September 21st, 2009)

• DeMint Calls Out Obama (Monday, September 21st, 2009)

• Boehner Says Democrat Health Care Plan Is Dead (Monday, September 21st, 2009)

• WaPo: Obama on the Air, Off his Game? (Monday, September 21st, 2009)

• The Truth that Tells a Lie (Monday, September 21st, 2009)

• Morris: ObamaCare, Losing Everyone (Monday, September 21st, 2009)

• TIME: Dems Weigh the Risks of Going it Alone (Monday, September 21st, 2009)

• London Telegraph: President Barack Obama is beginning to look out of his depth (Monday, September 21st, 2009)

• The Political Class Ignoring at their Peril (Monday, September 21st, 2009)

• The Real Reason for the Rage (Monday, September 21st, 2009)

• Obama, Stephanopoulos Spar Over Definition of ‘Tax’ (Monday, September 21st, 2009)