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 Issue Analysis

 

The Suicide Mission of ObamaCare will end in, well, you know

 Date Published:September 3rd, 2010
 
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Pat Caddell, Frank Luntz, Larry Sabato, my algorithm and the www.fivethirtyeight.com algorithm all are predicting the end of Speaker Pelosi and the end of the Dems control of the House.
I will never make the mistake of believing that even the irrational Dems will act in their own self-interest.
Their leadership of Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Waxman and […]


 

The Paper, Dismantle ObamaCare

 Date Published:September 3rd, 2010
 
Excerpt:

Mike Stopa wrote a fascinating plan to Dismantle ObamaCare.
As William Jacobson writes, “Stopa is a Physicist specializing in computation and nanoscience in the Physics Department at Harvard University, and director of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network Computation Project.  So let’s just say the guy pays attention to details.”
Stopa is running in the […]


 

Graph: What Gallup’s Unprecedented GOP Plus 10 Generic Ballot Advantage Means for the Dems in the U.S. House

 Date Published:August 31st, 2010
 
Excerpt:

To read this graph from www.fivethirtyeight.com, plug in the generic ballot along the x axis, in this case red +10 (for +10 GOP).
Then draw a vertical line up from the red +10 and where that line hits the diagonal light blue line, is the number of seats the Democrats will lose, listed on the y […]


 

Americans Don’t Believe You, Mr. President

 Date Published:August 29th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

While the White House and the President are beating their chest about the polls showing that either a quarter or 20% of Americans believe The One is Muslim — equally illuminating is the poll that only 33% of Americans say Obama is a Christian.
While the MSM tries to repeatedly explain the President is a Christian […]


 

Even the Huffington Post Agrees, 80% chance the Dems Lose 50+ U.S. House Seats

 Date Published:August 28th, 2010
 
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Charlie Cook, Frank Luntz, www.fivethirtyeight.com, Joseph Bafumi (writing in the Huffington Post) all predict the Dems will lose the U.S. House.
My own algorithm (unpublished) also predicts a loss of the House for the Dems, and has for months.
But the main-stream media and the Dems refuse to acknowledge the role that their Jonestown Kool-Aid Brigade played […]


 

Zuckerman: “The Most Fiscally Irresponsible Government in U.S. History”

 Date Published:August 27th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

The publisher of U.S. News and World Report has written a politically significant and insightful article that sums up the effect of The One and his policies of expanding entitlements and spending trillions.
Mortimer B. Zuckerman titled it “The Most Fiscally Irresponsible Government in U.S. History.”
It’s subtitle is equally clear, “Current federal budget trends […]


 

Video flashback: CNN’s Jack Cafferty on the Liar in Chief on ObamaCare

 Date Published:August 26th, 2010
 
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H/T SoitgoesinTexas


 

Video: America’s Crossroads Pounds Sestak on ObamaCare’s Medicare Cuts and Taxes

 Date Published:August 25th, 2010
 
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Video: ObamaCare Side Effects

 Date Published:August 22nd, 2010
 
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Generic Ballot Check: GOP + 6.0, Dems lose 50+ Seats

 Date Published:August 22nd, 2010
 
Excerpt:

Now that the Democratic political and election types are telling Dems that ObamaCare is a big fat loser — agreeing with everything you’ve read here for the past 2 years — its time to see just how big a loser ObamaCare is for the Dems.
Right now, the average generic ballot shows the GOP has + […]


 

Obama Owns the Economy

 Date Published:August 20th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

Dr. Charles Krauthammer: “Democrats think it is so politically toxic, they are not the ones who bring it up, it is Republicans who bring it up. And when you bet a trillion dollars and you know you’ve added a trillion on to our debt and you have no results, in fact you […]


 

Obama has an affinity for Islam

 Date Published:August 20th, 2010
 
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Dr. Charles Krauthammer: “Given the fact that you don’t see him coming out of a church with the Bible in hand, as you would a Bush or a Clinton and the fact that he’s had this emphasis on Islam, I can understand why the numbers have widened.”
As a colleague of mine reminded […]


 

Dems Groups Advise: Do Not say ObamaCare will Save Money or Lower the Deficit

 Date Published:August 20th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

The following is from a Senate staffer, quoting a recent Politico story, and the [square brackets] are the staffer’s comments:
Politico reports this afternoon on a new messaging effort by liberal groups (including AARP, SEIU, the AFL-CIO, and Families USA) in an attempt to bolster support for the President’s floundering flagship initiative – the […]


 

One in Four Americans Think The One is Muslim

 Date Published:August 19th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

The elite must be losing their minds over the news that one in four Americans think The One is a Muslim.
TIME’s poll that Americans distrust Muslims must also be driving the White House around the bend.
The One’s statement about the mosque at ground zero is looking like the arrogant middle finger to middle America that […]


 

The One’s Purposeful Throwing of Dems Under the Bus, because he is an Arrogant Ideologue

 Date Published:August 15th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

The One threw his fellow Dems under the bus — again — because he is an ideologue.
First, ObamaCare destroyed his own approval rating and all the good will he gained from his unprecedented election.
Second, he sides with 28% of the electorate and sues the State of Arizona to stop the state from enforcing laws the […]


 

Generic Ballot Average at Plus 6.0 for GOP, Foreshadows Massive Dem Losses

 Date Published:August 11th, 2010
 
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In a nutshell, the www.fivethirtyeight.com algorithm (see graph below) shows at a + 6.0 generic advantage for the GOP, the Dems lose 50 plus seats in the House.
The Dems will lose control of the House and it will be the end of Speaker Pelosi.
The Dems can continue to insist that ObamaCare has had nothing to […]


 

HHS: Just One in 50 Seniors Helped by Rx Provisions in ObamaCare

 Date Published:August 10th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

From a conscientious U.S. Senate Finance Committee staffer:
The Administration just noted that 750,000 seniors have received the $250 checks for prescription drug costs.  Doing the math provides a more interesting story:  The Trustees report from last week estimates that Medicare’s enrollment is 46.3 million (see page 10)… so the reality is that […]


 

Download this Pamphlet on ObamaCare for Meetings, Rallies and Doctor Offices

 Date Published:August 10th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

ObamaCare Handout by John Goodman


 

The One’s Approval Matches His All Time Low

 Date Published:August 10th, 2010
 
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SHOCK: The Second Time the White House has told the Truth

 Date Published:August 10th, 2010
 
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While I was fishing, the White House decided on a new strategy.  Admit the truth.
This is a reflection of the fact that Obama, the President, has lied so much and so often, that only the truth has a real shot of being given any attention.
Recent lies include all of the aforementioned health care whoopers (you […]


 

Gone Fishing

 Date Published:August 5th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

Really, I’m in northern Canada, canoeing over 12 lakes and carrying canoes and gear over eight portages.  No cell, no internet.   Last year we saw a bear from our canoe.
But mostly, I’ll be fishing for bass with my two sons and my brother and his two sons.
BIG FUN.
Back on screen Tuesday.


 

Senator McCaskill (D-MO) says people “don’t realize” that a Mandate for ObamaCare is Helpful

 Date Published:August 4th, 2010
 
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The Senator says she got the message from the Missouri vote, but concludes that the public just doesn’t understand.
In fact, it is that she does not understand.
She is another arrogant, liberal who refuses to  care what her voters want.  Why?  Because she understands, and her voters do not.
Just how many voters are “starting to realize” […]


 

Zogby: GOP has an Eight Point Advantage in the Generic Vote

 Date Published:August 4th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

Here is what an eight point lead in the generic vote means, according algorithms which were substantially accurate last cycle.
An eight point lead in the generic vote means that the Dems will lose 65 seats in the U.S. and will lose control of the U.S. Senate as well.
Here is the predictive algorithm by fivethirtyeight.com, in […]


 

ObamaCare is Toxic to the Dems, and could be all for nothing

 Date Published:August 4th, 2010
 
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For the GOP, ObamaCare is the toxic waste dump that has the curious characteristic of only adversely impacting the political health of Democrats.   Many Dems, in fact, have had their political life ended by ObamaCare, and the mortality figures are only expected to get worse.
The key part of ObamaCare, the federal mandate that all Americans […]


 

Is the MSM is Finally Understanding the Toxic Politics of ObamaCare?

 Date Published:August 2nd, 2010
 
Excerpt:

Among the mainstream media, there have been sporadic, hiccup like moments when the Ministry of Propaganda lets something slip about the real truth about ObamaCare.
You know the feeling, you think — “they” allowed that to be published?
I do not have a list of places this has happened, it is merely my sense that it seems […]


 

Video of Stark (D-CA): Feds can make any rule they like effecting your life

 Date Published:August 1st, 2010
 
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Dems in Denial: ObamaCare has Nothing to do with the end of Speaker Pelosi

 Date Published:July 29th, 2010
 
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Denial is a powerful emotion, and the Dems are eating, breathing, thinking and living in denial.
ObamaCare, they repeat to themselves, has nothing to do with the pounding they are taking in the polls.  They ignore the fact that the lion’s share of their current polling demise, and The One’s massive polling collapse, happened during the […]


 

ObamaCare, Debt and Firemen who Set Fires, then Warn about the Dangers of Fire

 Date Published:July 27th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

The Congressional Budget Office, in the form of the Director’s blog, gives the U.S. a warning about its debt, which in my book, is the single most hypocritical statement since Obama claimed ObamaCare will save money.
CBO blessed and legitimized fake Medicare cuts, which were used to fund the ObamaCare entitlement with fake “savings,” allowing Obama […]


 

David Brooks tries to Console Himself with doing “good”

 Date Published:July 27th, 2010
 
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Liberals and their enablers who are feeling the political pain of passing laws like ObamaCare that the public opposes, console themselves with platitudes about the morality of their cause and the laws they passed:
“I feel satisfied because the Democrats have overseen a bunch of programs that, while unappreciated now, are probably going to […]


 

By the Numbers, How The One is Destroying the Nation

 Date Published:July 27th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

From Economics21.org, by James Capretta:

“The primary problem is quite plainly out of control federal spending. In 2008, total federal outlays were about $2.9 trillion. President Obama wants to add $1 trillion to that total in 2011, or about a 33% […]


 

U.S. Government Map of the 159 Agencies Created by ObamaCare

 Date Published:July 26th, 2010
 
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Click here to see the 159 Agencies Created Map.


 

U.S. Government’s Wall Chart of the ObamaCare Implementation Time Line

 Date Published:July 26th, 2010
 
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Click here to see the U.S. Government Wall Chart of the ObamaCare Implementation Time Line.


 

Tick Tock, goes the U.S. Fiscal Clock

 Date Published:July 26th, 2010
 
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Does anyone believe that the U.S. borrowing 41 cents for every dollar it spends can last?
 
Does anyone believe that The One can do anything except keep spending?  Or raising taxes?
 
Does anyone believe that the new entitlement of $2.5 Trillion for ObamaCare is going to […]


 

Dem Political Death by ObamaCare Cometh, the Teaching Moment about Tough vs. Stupid

 Date Published:July 22nd, 2010
 
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The Speaker’s assertion that unemployment checks create jobs is so wrong, its hard to even begin to talk to someone who holds such an ignorant view of basic economics.  And now jobless claims are up this week, symptomatic of Dem leadership gone really, really wrong.
As if the world needed anymore confirmation that the Speaker needs […]


 

JEC Analysis of the Rationer-in-Chief’s “Hearing”

 Date Published:July 20th, 2010
 
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Rationer in Chief’s “Hearing”


 

Photo: Tiger Break

 Date Published:July 20th, 2010
 
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The Next Bridge to Nowhere, part II

 Date Published:July 20th, 2010
 
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Click here for The Next Bridge to Nowhere, part II


 

Fineman: Dems to Use Vote Suppression Tactics Against White Males

 Date Published:July 17th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

Well, well, well — how the tables have turned.
After spending a whole article apologizing for the Obama polls, Fineman goes on to explain in detail the tactics the Dems are going to use against white male voters — attack the GOP.
But then, at the end of the article, Fineman lets slip the real tactic:
“The goal, […]


 

Generic Ballot at +3 for GOP, Means a Dem Loss of the House

 Date Published:July 16th, 2010
 
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Speaker Pelosi will lose control of the U.S. House, if the generic congressional ballot remains at +3 or higher for the GOP — and given the state of the economy, the millstone around House Dems necks called ObamaCare and The One’s Bush-like poll numbers, uh, bye-bye Madame Speaker.


 

ObamaCare will be Pounded — and the Dems too — Forever

 Date Published:July 13th, 2010
 
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If the Dems haven’t realized it yet, the constant pounding on ObamaCare will never, ever stop.
Unless, of course, the law is repealed or defeated in the courts.
The law creates too many juicy political and policy targets, just many too many.  It is a “target-rich environment.”
And the cram-down by which it was done had provided the […]


 

Tanner’s New Bad Medicine Report

 Date Published:July 12th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

Here is Michael Tanner’s new Bad Medicine report, written for the layman, and I urge you to download and read it.
Tanner’s Executive Summary:
“For better or worse, President Obama’s health care reform bill is now law. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act represents the most significant transformation of the American health care system […]


 

The Spend, Spend, Spend Crowd is Hit Upside the Head

 Date Published:July 12th, 2010
 
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When Illinois cannot pay its firemen, policemen and teachers — which is happening right now — it is because the Democrats refuse to cut state entitlement spending.
And because the Democrats keep trying to spend and borrow their way to producing jobs and saving their precious entitlement programs that are bankrupting the country.
But the Dems have […]


 

The Next Bridge to Nowhere

 Date Published:July 10th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

Click here for The Next Bridge to Nowhere


 

The One’s Approval Rating Hits 38% with Independent Voters

 Date Published:July 7th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

Remember the Dem mantra, repeat after me: ObamaCare had nothing to do with these poll numbers.  Absolutely nothing.  Not a single thing.  Nada.  Nope.  Not these numbers, no-sirie-Bob.  ObamaCare is helping the Dems, yep:
From Gallup: “PRINCETON, NJ — Thirty-eight percent of independents approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as president, the first […]


 

Poll: Half of Voters say Obama has Failed

 Date Published:July 1st, 2010
 
Excerpt:

Click here for the full poll results on the June 30 Marist Poll: Half of Voters say Obama has Failed


 

I do not call the President a Liar lightly — but he is a serial liar and I’m calling The One’s Bluff

 Date Published:June 27th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

The video of The One at the G-20 summit talking about “tough choices” and how he has already taken steps to cut the deficit was too much to bear without pointing out the obvious — the current President of the United States is a serial liar. (H/T Drudge Report.)
He says he […]


 

Gather Your Armies

 Date Published:June 27th, 2010
 
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Gallup Graph on Low Approval Rating for Congress

 Date Published:June 24th, 2010
 
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A Successful Defense of ObamaCare is Politically Unsustainable

 Date Published:June 23rd, 2010
 
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It is unprecedented for the majority party to announce, through its hand-maidens and cut-outs, that it will mount a $125 million defense of the President’s signature domestic policy law, unless that law is so unpopular that it is causing the majority party to have to do something — anything to sweep […]


 

E.J. Dionne responds to my post about his column on the NPR Poll

 Date Published:June 21st, 2010
 
Excerpt:

About two hours ago I read E.J. Dionne’s email, about his post, which he wrote to RedState in response to my post, which I also posted on the HSA Coalition site, here.
Dionne’s email says:
Greetings. You recently posted a critique of a column I wrote this week and I chose to reply to […]


 

NYT Graph of the Obama Polling Decline

 Date Published:June 21st, 2010
 
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E.J. Dionne and the NPR Poll

 Date Published:June 17th, 2010
 
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E.J. Dionne, one of the single most annoying liberals on the planet, simply dismisses the NPR poll out of hand (it shows 49% re-electing their GOP Member of Congress, but only 34% re-electing the Dem) by calling it “preposterous:”
“But the numbers in the NPR survey are so bad that Democrats might pause before becoming […]


 

Eating Asbestos ObamaCare

 Date Published:June 16th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

Every media organization will report the NPR poll showing the Dems getting their throats cut in the November election, and Nancy Pelosi losing her job as Speaker, by studiously avoiding the one thing that everyone understands caused the Dems to lose so much public support, so quickly: ObamaCare.
The Dems pride and arrogance is fed by […]


 

Important U.S. House Vote Alert on the ObamaCare Mandate

 Date Published:June 15th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

From Brian McManus of the House Republican Conference Committee:
* * * IMPORTANT LEGISLATIVE ALERT * * * HOUSE GOP TO FORCE VOTE ON REPEAL OF HEART OF OBAMACARE; AMERICANS URGED TO SPEAK OUT IMMEDIATELY AT WWW.AMERICASPEAKINGOUT.COM
House Republicans have just announced plans to force a vote as soon as today on a measure by […]


 

The Dems, Debt and Addiction

 Date Published:June 13th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

Now that the failure of the ObamaStimulus has been laid bare — 41,000 private jobs in May created, but 400,000 plus temporary government census jobs on the books — it is clear that the Trillion Dollar President is out of arrows in his lets-spend-and-borrow-our-way-out-of-the-recession quiver.
Liberals who are now calling for more […]


 

And the voters pick, the FNG

 Date Published:June 8th, 2010
 
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In case you are wondering, here is what FNG means.
And here is a newsflash, with the lowest-ever rating for Congress and Gallup predicting the voters want the FNG, just did you expect to happen?


 

A Message for Free-Enterprise America: Defend Yourself or Die

 Date Published:June 7th, 2010
 
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ObamaCare could have been stopped if health care industries, the drug companies and health insurers, principally, had opposed the law from the beginning.
Even with the now-retiring “pro-life” Stupak Double Cross, the bill only passed the House with three votes after double-crossing Stupak delivered nine.
Now, Obama plans on a $125 million ObamaCare television-ad love-fest to protect […]


 

The Grasshopper Generation and a Lack of Spare Tires

 Date Published:June 5th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

When the U.S. is adding $5 billion in debt each day, and President Obama, ignoring and stomping on the will of the people passed his $2.5 Trillion spending plan called ObamaCare — it enrages me because I believe that President Obama is destroying the country, and the world economy, because he simply will not, and […]


 

ObamaCare and its Death in Court — Severability

 Date Published:June 3rd, 2010
 
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Last time I checked, 33 states were in Court over a provision in ObamaCare.
So what, right?
Well, the fact that the Dems could not have a conference to make improvements in the Senate bill, by amendment or a House-Senate conference (because Senator McConnell, at the behest of Senator DeMint, objected to the appointment of the  conferees) […]


 

Gallup’s Generic Advantage for GOP Equals a Gain of 50+ Seats in the U.S. House

 Date Published:June 2nd, 2010
 
Excerpt:

This mid-term election graph above, from fivethirtyeight.com, is as good as algorithm based election projection gets — and the Gallup generic ballot number, now plus six for the GOP — means that Speaker Pelosi will lose her job, the Dems will be a broken and defeated political force whose irrational ObamaCare behavior was, in fact, […]


 

For Memorial Day: TAPS

 Date Published:May 29th, 2010
 
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TAPS


 

The First Thing We do is Make Fun of the Lawyers

 Date Published:May 27th, 2010
 
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These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.
____________________________________________
ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
WITNESS: No, I just lie there.
____________________________________________
ATTORNEY: This myasthenia […]


 

Alabama Strikes Again — Campaign Ad on the Mosque at Ground Zero

 Date Published:May 26th, 2010
 
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Donate to Rick Barber.


 

IRS 2011 HSA Maximum Contributions and Other Limits

 Date Published:May 26th, 2010
 
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From National Underwriter:
 
The Internal Revenue Service has left the 2011 health savings account “indexed amounts” unchanged.
The 2011 maximum contribution limit for individual HSAs will hold steady at $3,050, IRS officials write in IRS Revenue Procedure 2010-22.
The 2011 maximum contribution limit for family HSAs […]


 

The English Only Ad that is Making People Freak Out

 Date Published:April 30th, 2010
 
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The Two Parties Cannot Even Talk to Each Other

 Date Published:April 14th, 2010
 
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Lets face it: bipartisanship has ended.
How else can you describe what is going in Washington today?
President Obama will speak with those who have opposing views, but only to define his arguments to be used against those making them.
And the Democrats will follow the lead of the White House.
Meanwhile, at an invitation only meeting in the […]


 

Oh What Fools these Democrats Are

 Date Published:April 9th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

The political suicide forced on the rank and file Democrats by the delusionals — the Speaker, the President and Axelrod — will bear its bitter fruit in November.  Yesterday, it was the double-crossing Bart Stupak to drink his career-ending Kool-Aide.
But the Dems-in-denial cannot dismiss credible predictive models on U.S. House seat losses by either party, […]


 

McManus: ObamaCare Taxes Families of Special Needs Children

 Date Published:April 9th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

From: ObamaCare Flatlines:

“An estimated 30 million families use pre-tax dollars in Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) to pay for routine medical care and other vital child care services.
“Parents with special needs children use their pre-tax FSA dollars to pay for […]


 

Indiana Pro-Lifers get Tough, National Right to Life Leadership Still Weak

 Date Published:April 9th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

The pro-life Right to Life PAC in Indiana has now, finally, got the pro-life Democrat joke.
The PAC is not endorsing any of the so-called pro-life Indiana Democrats who voted for ObamaCare.
And so the Democratic political suicide team forced their own members to fore sake their public position on abortion and vote […]


 

30 Second Ad: Rapists and Sex Offenders get Viagra Under ObamaCare

 Date Published:April 7th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

This 30 second television commercial writes itself: the Congressional Research Service confirms ObamaCare allows rapists and sex offenders to get federally subsidized Viagra.
Here is the U.S. Senate Roll Call vote on Amendment Number 3556, an amendment by Senator Coburn (R-OK) to prohibit the federally subsidized Viagra for rapists and sex offenders, which failed by a […]


 

The Militarized ObamaCare Doc Corp (Really)

 Date Published:April 7th, 2010
 
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The militarization of ObamaCare? (See this FOX News video of Judge Napolitano on this unknown provision of ObamaCare.)
Why haven’t you heard about this before?
Well, there were no debates, no hearings, no speeches on the floor, or in Committee — but ObamaCare creates a military corp — in an airdropped Section […]


 

Telling My Daughter not to be a Doctor

 Date Published:April 5th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

About a year ago my daughter was faced with a choice, Med school or nursing school, and she wanted to know my thoughts. It was not an issue of grades or of cost, it was an issue of her own preference.
I told her if she really had a burning desire to be a doctor she […]


 

Pollster Dot Graph on Obama Approval Rating

 Date Published:April 4th, 2010
 
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Obama’s Monthly Approval Index (Graph)

 Date Published:April 1st, 2010
 
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Roll Call of the U.S. Senate Vote on the Repeal of ObamaCare

 Date Published:March 25th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

Senator Vitter (R-LA) offered an amendment last night to repeal ObamaCare.  This vote was on a motion to table, meaning to set aside.  So, a Yea vote is to set the amendment aside — meaning Yea is against repeal of ObamaCare.  This ought give some more clarity in the November election.  Sen. Vitter’s opponent, a […]


 

Japan and China are Not Amused

 Date Published:March 23rd, 2010
 
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Word on the street is that the our debt holders — who in the main are Japan and China — are none to pleased about spending $2.5 trillion on ObamaCare.
In related news, the United States is losing its AAA bond rating.  Really.


 

Dems Can’t Have it Both Ways

 Date Published:March 22nd, 2010
 
Excerpt:

There are many who are now urging and predicting the Dems will pivot away from health care, for damage control reasons.
And no one can or has told the One to shut up about health care.  He is planning to talk, and talk, and talk about it.
Well, historic and far-reaching legislation that passes against the will […]


 

Stupak is Responsible for ObamaCare Passing, and HSAs under ObamaCare

 Date Published:March 22nd, 2010
 
Excerpt:

The simple truth is that Rep. Stupak is responsible for ObamaCare passing in the House of Representatives.
Without his votes, it would have failed, and did not pass by many votes even with his votes — 219 to 212.
The effect of the law itself on Health Savings Accounts will be determined by the implementation of the […]


 

Sen. Hatch to House Dems: If you Pass it, You Will Have to Vote on it Again

 Date Published:March 20th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

One of the most amusing things about watching the Dems who are going to vote YES is that they are simply misinformed about what the Senate is going to do, and what the House must then do.
Even when their own Democratic Senators tell them — the sheep that are Yes in the […]


 

FOX News and their “vote count”

 Date Published:March 20th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

FOX News ought to be ashamed of itself. Pushing their only two away, only one away, the Dems have the votes, they are at plus one in the Yes vote tally. They were wrong when they reported it and they are still wrong.
While FOX News was reporting that the Fat […]


 

The Speaker Does Not have the Votes

 Date Published:March 19th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

Speaker Pelosi does not have the YES votes she needs, but the Dems insist on voting on ObamaCare on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, uh, Sunday. Hoyer said this morning they still don’t have the votes. FireDogLake’s count is at 192 Yes votes, with the No votes rising to 208. Staff […]


 

“Mr. President, I send an unprinted Amendment to the desk,”

 Date Published:March 18th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

“Mr. President, I send an unprinted Amendment to the desk, and ask for its immediate consideration,” are the exact words that any U.S. Senator can say when offering this amendment on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
This amendment, below, should be walked down to the floor of the U.S. Senate and […]


 

It’s Unofficial: “Revenue Neutral”

 Date Published:March 18th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

The natural reaction by most Americans to the unofficial and preliminary claim that the $2.5 Trillion ObamaCare bill is revenue-neutral is, well, B.S. (There is a card game with the same name.)
The second natural reaction is the realization that ObamaCare must cut the guts out of Medicare and raise taxes […]


 

Graham: ‘Democrats Have Lost Their Political Minds’

 Date Published:March 18th, 2010
 
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The Fog of War has Enveloped the Speaker

 Date Published:March 17th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

Having been up on the House side for the last two days, I can report that the fog of war has enveloped the Speaker and will attempt to explain why the Speaker is losing. CNN puts the Speaker down 11 votes, FireDogLake puts the Speaker down 26 — Yes at […]


 

Slaughter Rule gives No Votes Cover from the Left & the Right

 Date Published:March 17th, 2010
 
Excerpt:

Does the Slaughter “pass the bill without voting on it” plan give the No votes political cover from both the left and the right?
Cover from the left: the undecideds who vote No could then say — I did not vote against the President’s health reform plan, I voted against the rule.
Cover from […]


 

Morning Joe: The House is Voting to Amend a Law that Has Not Passed

 Date Published:March 17th, 2010
 
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Sorry I can’t embed the video for some reason, but here is the link.


 

Procedure is Politics and the Seven Reasons Why the House Dems will be Blindsided by the Senate GOP

 Date Published:March 16th, 2010
 
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I spent the day on Capital Hill yesterday talking to House Dems and will be there all day today too. Here are seven reasons the Senate GOP, with Senator Byrd, are going to blindside the House Dems:

1) The House undecideds have been told by exactly no one of the existence […]


 

U.S. Chamber: Myth and Fact of the Senate Health Care Bill

 Date Published:March 16th, 2010
 
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For the .pdf of this document, click here: U.S. Chamber Myth and Fact on Senate Bill
Myth and Fact: White House Misinformation on Health Care Bill
The White House has posted a document on their web site about the “President’s Proposal” for health reform – which is, in actuality, a proposal for the House to pass the […]


 

What the Dems on the Fence are saying about ObamaCare

 Date Published:March 15th, 2010
 
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Rep. John Adler (D-N.J.): If the House and Senate can’t work out cost containment, I don’t see how I could support a bill that doesn’t help our business community,” Rep. John Adler (D., N.J.) said on “Fox News Sunday.” (John D. McKinnon and Jared […]


 

Cartoon: The Suicide Bomber

 Date Published:March 14th, 2010
 
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“Passing the Bill without Voting on it” will Rank up with the Nebraska Kickback and Louisiana Purchase

 Date Published:March 14th, 2010
 
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Even the Dem supporters and defenders know they are down big in the whip count (this one is from FireDogLake) and even Clive Cook writing in the Financial Times acknowledges that the Dems have lost the war of public opinion:
the line taken by defenders of comprehensive healthcare reform goes like this. […]


 

Is Passing Health Care Forgivable?

 Date Published:March 14th, 2010
 
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The vast majority of likely voters strongly oppose ObamaCare — and the best word to sum up the emotions and frustrations of those voters who have had to endure the insanity of the health care jihadists is that they hate ObamaCare.
And the two largest subsets of those strongly opposed are independents […]


 

Axelrod, Gibbs and Pelosi, Why Not Vote Tomorrow?

 Date Published:March 14th, 2010
 
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Axelrod, message maven for Obama, says they will have the votes in the House. Really. It says so right here, on ABC NEWS.
And Chuck Todd of NBC News tweets:
Clyburn on #MTP (Meet the Press) says House Dems do NOT yet have the votes. Matches Pelosi who said “when you […]


 

ObamaCare Will Fail in the House, if they Vote

 Date Published:March 14th, 2010
 
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They announced they are planning to have a vote next week, but the Speaker is still looking for “certain assurances” from the U.S. Senate.
They do not have the votes to pass it. Here is the latest from The Hill newspaper’s Whip Count:
Thirty-four House Democrats are either firm no […]


 

“Passing Bills without Voting On Them”

 Date Published:March 12th, 2010
 
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In the latest Mad-Magazine-like-Spy-vs.-Spy move, the House Dems have hatched a plan which reminds me of their ill-fated plan to delay seating Senator-elect Scott Brown until they had another ObamaCare vote on the Senate floor.
The Dems backed down. Similarly, they will back down from the Slaughter plan.
Former Speaker Gingrich describes the Slaughter plan in […]


 

Video: Dems Admit Bill will not Stop Premium Hikes, Will Raise Taxes and Cut Medicare

 Date Published:March 11th, 2010
 
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Video: Talking Babies on ObamaCare

 Date Published:March 11th, 2010
 
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Or watch it here.


 

23 Dems Switch from Yes on ObamaCare to Undecided

 Date Published:March 10th, 2010
 
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The Speaker’s flip-flops are catching up with her.
And the strangeness is starting to show (see the video): we have to pass the Senate bill so the public can see what is in it.
Her famed control over house members minds is fading: She supported Chairman Rangel right up until she dumped him. She did not have the muscle […]


 

The Coming Defeat of ObamaCare

 Date Published:March 9th, 2010
 
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The media is now pulling out all the stops to help Obama win the House vote. They know he is in deep trouble and they need to help. And they will keep helping, reporting as if the vote is in the bag.
But do not fear. Jay Cost has the real house vote count. (Rep. Massa’s claims […]