The Nation is among the most liberal of all the well-read magazines in the U.S., and the fact they are backing Senator Sanders in his threat to vote against health care reform if there...
Rove in the WSJ: “Today the latest Quinnipiac Poll tells us that only 19% of voters believe that Mr. Obama’s health-care reform won’t add to the deficit. The rest of us have reason to...
The argument being made by former Democratic Party Chairman Dean is really pretty simple: the only health care reform in the Senate bill is the public option, and if the four moderate Senators kill...
In a era where default by the U.S. government and the collapse of the dollar are seriously discussed, when gold keeps rising and the U.S. keeps printing money (a trillion last year) to “finance”...
It is so important, it bears repeating: “I’ll vote against any bill without a public option,” said Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill. The quote is from ABC News, and right before the Burris-bomb, is this...
Note the discussion about the having to increase the debt limit during the Senate health care debate. Oh, this is going to be fun! If you cannot see the image below, click here to...
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[This post made the Best of Blogs list on RealClearPolitics today.] It does not feel like it, but we are winning the war against ObamaCare. You may feel like the political system is broken...
See it here. For a Saturday Night Live skit, it starts slow, but well, you’ll see….
That seals it, every single Democratic and Independent Senator will vote to bring the ObamaCare bill to the Senate floor. Senator Landrieu just announced she would give her vote to Senator Reid and the...
My apologies to my readers for completely garbling this post that went out in today’s email. Obviously, it was not the version I thought I had saved, this is: For the group of U.S....
This document was used on the Senate floor by Senator Coburn, this evening. (For a .pdf, click here.) 0 — provisions guaranteeing taxpayers do not finance abortion 0 — provisions prohibiting the rationing of...
From a reliable staffer: “Phone calls are not going through at all now. Try calling my phone or any phone. It is not even the switchboard anymore. The entire Senate phone system has collapsed.”...
He is the arbitor of all things racial: “The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill. “We even have blacks voting against...
The lead, from the Associated Press: “The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack...
From Jay Cost, “Have the Dems Gone Mad?” (Uh, yes.) “Obama’s current numbers among senior citizens demonstrate the validity of this point, not to mention the concern that Democrats should have heading into 2010....
Keep up the calls! Quoting the Email: CIO Customer Service Bulletin – Problem Notification — Assistant Sergeant at Arms; Chief Information Officer Date: November 20, 2009 Time: 11:30 AM Affected Service: Telephones Problem/Symptom/Status: We...
When in trouble politically, the Dems do what the Dems always do — spend, spend, spend. From David Rogers of Politico: “Counting to 60 in the Senate is only the beginning of the tough...
From Jeffery Anderson of the NY Post: “SENATE Majority Leader Harry Reid is touting the Senate’s latest health-care bill as costing $849 billion over 10 years. But this uses the same accounting trick as...
Former CBO Director Capretta, in his piece, “A $4.9 Trillion Spending Increase:” For starters, the Reid plan assumes that Medicare physician fees will get cut by about 20 percent beginning in 2011 and then...
HOE-HOE-HOE, oh, it’s not Christmas — yet. But Harry Reid is playing the sit-on-my-lap-Santa to lap-dog Senator Mary Landrieu, with a $100 million surprise. (They look so cute.) Why not buy Senator Landrieu for...
As of a week ago, my odds put failure of the health bill at 70%, passage at 30%. They have not changed. Here are Keith Hennessey’s predictions, who was Assistant to the President for...
Capretta: “Today, in a column in the Wall Street Journal, the dean of the Harvard Medical School, Jeffrey Flier, says the bills under consideration in Congress are not health reform bills at all, but...
Top-Line Facts: Spending: The cost of the bill is $2.5 trillion over 10 years of full implementation (2014-2023). Taxes Increases: Taxes will go up $493.6 billion—nearly half a trillion dollars. Medicare Cuts: Medicare will...
From Ryan Ellis at ATR: Which Tax Hikes in Senate Health Bill Violate Obama’s Tax Promise? WASHINGTON, D.C.— Over and over again, President Obama has promised not to raise “any form” of...
CBO Caveats Direct quotes from pages 17 and 18 of CBO Letter to Reid UNLIKELY THAT COST CONTAINMENT REMAINS INTACT. “These longer-term calculations assume that the provisions are enacted and remain unchanged throughout...
In a event a whole lot like lighting a cigarette while standing up to your neck in a pool of gasoline, the trillion-dollar President’s Administration issued a recommendation that mammogram screening for women should...
Sen. Lieberman is setting steel rebar and hardened concrete around his threat to filibuster the public option. From Politico: “It’s classic politics of our time that if you look at the campaign last year,...
From “Circling Sharks Smell American Blood:” “Our dollar is crashing, while the price of gold is soaring. The budget deficit has never been worse – and the president wants to float even more debt...
The Quinnipicak polls were, according to Stuart Rothensberg, the second most accurate polling company when compared to the actual results of the off-year elections in New Jersey and Virginia. The trillion dollar President’s trillion...
If you read this post here, the link between President Obama’s health care plan and his falling job approval is direct and undeniable. (It has graphs, and everything!) This is why Politico is writing...
$880 Billion, with hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes. Since were printing a trillion dollars a year to pay our debt by buying our own T-Bills, what could be wrong with spending...
CNN reports what could be interpreted as a threat to vote against cloture on the motion to proceed: “Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana, said Tuesday that she is leaning against voting to start the debate....
So what is up with the Senate rules, anyway? What does Senator Reid have to do to pass ObamaCare? And why does he need to get 60 votes twice — even before he a)...
James Pethokoukis of Reuters is at it again, subversion-via-blog. So in the little sit down with the President, the Chinese made clear they did not believe a word of the President’s promises about ObamaCare...
For those wondering why I believe so strongly that Obama’s mindless pursuit of health care reform has cost him dearly politically, please read this.
Stupak, unplugged: Stupak is commenting on a claim by White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod that Obama would intervene to remove the abortion funding ban. “They’re not going to take it out. If they...
Two liberals on MSNBC who are saying, time to focus on something other than health care, like jobs? I know, seems so completely rational that it cannot be true. If the U.S. Senate votes...
So you’re a senior citizen and the government says no health care for you, what do you do? As we age and enter into our elderly years, it can become significantly harder to take...
From today’s Hill: “A number of centrist Democrats in the Senate are turning what normally is a simple procedural vote into a cliffhanger. “Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) wants the healthcare debate to formally...
Capretta: “Robert Samuelson has been a skeptic of Obamacare’s supposed cost-control potential from the beginning, but his column in today’s Washington Post summarizes his case with particularly effective force. It doesn’t hurt that all the...
Mark Penn in Politico: “But as a point of strategy, the president has to get off the fence — either energizing the left or strengthening the center. And he might satisfy the left on...