This fund raising letter from Senator Grassley (reported by the Washington Post) pounds Obamacare: I had to rush you this Air-Gram today to set the record straight on my firm and unwavering opposition to...
It is difficult to understand the degree of the lack of understanding of health care reform politics that could produce the “go it alone” editorial by the New York Times today. Essentially, the New...
Richard Cohen, the liberal columnist of the Washington Post was the first to point out that the best U.S. President to compare President Obama to is President Carter. Cohen wrote: More and more Obama...
The intolerance of the left wing of the Democratic Party’s members of Congress for those who do not agree with them on health care reform was on display again, in public. Many of the...
It is August and, well, its August, so here are a few quotes from the Health Care Reform Chaos, click the last name (in bold) to read the whole article. Atlas He underwent diagnostic...
Given the almost unprecedented political thrashing the Democratic Party, President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Congress is receiving because of the Democratic Party’s proposed government take-over-of-American-healthcare — can the highest ranking Democratic Senator, the U.S....
The secondary effects of the bomb of the Obama health care plan have not stopped, and could be just the beginning of a really bad set of political problems. So far, Obamacare has wrought:...
The degree of the political problem that President Obama’s “damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead,” approach to health care reform has caused the ruling party in Washington, D.C. is beginning to become clear from...
“It’s a phrase I use,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said today, hesitating at his press briefing to offer a physical demonstration of the phraseology.”Let’s do this in a way that’s family friendly,”...
Take a look. Listen to what one says about Obama’s health plan:
Here is a Wall Street Journal piece on the “Your Life, Your Choice” policy that was stopped under the Bush Administration, but brought back from the dead (so to speak) by the Obama Administration....
These are likely voters, not adults, who were polled: Prior to today, the number who Strongly Approved of the President’s performance had never fallen below 29%. Some of the decline has come from within...
I know this is a shocking conclusion — surprisingly, the article did not even mention the vast right wing conspiracy as the leading cause of President Obama’s health care troubles. Here are a few...
This from Politico: A day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that health reform won’t get through the House without a public option, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Friday that the public option...
Busted: Obama is onto our conspiracy to stop Democrat takeover of American healthcare We tried to keep it a secret. Better give up, Jimmy. We’re dealing with geniuses.
Zogby’s assessment, pretty much sums things up: “None of these numbers looks counter-intuitive to me. Gallup, NBC, and Pew all have Obama at record lows. Rasmussen also shows low approval. Things are volatile out...
Politico reports that Charlie Cook issued a special, unscheduled newsletter to his subscribers — I would say an emergency warning to his Democratic colleagues on the Hill — which said, in part: “These data...
George Stephanopoulos writes, in George’s bottom line,: “they’re screaming ‘listen to us’ and ‘slow down.’ And they’re worried he’s getting in over his head.” For the President, the White House, and the Democratic controlled...
The left is so angry with the President over his deal with Phrma to save $80 billion — which equates to 2 percent of the $3.6 trillion the U.S. will spend on drugs in...
I suspect that the average American who is following the health care debate understands that the majority of health care costs occur in the last six months of life. This well known fact is...
The Washington Post is reporting that Senator Grassley, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, has been convinced by his August recess experience to stand-down on broad spectrum health care reform. This means...
The Washington Post is reporting the White House was taken off guard by the intensity of the left, and the digging in and hardening of their position on the public option. The White House...
MediaCurves did a survey of television ads on Obamacare, and determined that the most effective anti-Obamacare ad is this one. Here are some of the MediaCurve study results about this ad: “A majority of...
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The Democrats want to take the public option plan, on their own, to the floor of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate. OK. (Please.) No ANYTHING BUT THAT! REALLY! NO! STOP IT SOME...
Thirty-one percent of Americans strongly approve of President Obama’s Presidency, and 40% strongly disapprove. These are “likely voters,” not “adults.” The graph is instructive. When President Obama backed away from the Public Option in...
Mike Allen of Politico is reporting on the internal Democratic Party secondary explosions from the White Flag hoisted (a la Drudge) on the public plan option. Where, oh where is MoveOn.org now? Have they...
It seems the Democratic Party has a new town hall strategy: do not have them. Or, in the case of one Blue Dog, don’t show up in your district. Or if you have a...
The recent announcement by the White House that they are dropping/will accept no public option in their health reform bill has cause the already comatose Intrade market prediction of passage of a federal government...
Here is the article that started the controversy.
SWAY is a fascinating book about irrational human behavior, hence its title: SWAY, The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior, by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman (2008, published by Broadway Books). In particular, the lessons...
With the massive union and Phrma spending in support of President Obama’s health reform bill, supporters have outspent opponents five to one, according to the New York Times: Supporters of Mr. Obama’s plan to...