Monthly Archive: December 2009

Connecting the dots between Maureen Dowd of the NYT, and Emmett Tyrrell of the American Spectator: Dowd: “If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and...

Who Jokerized Senator Nelson — Michelle Malkin: “Nebraskans have Jokerized Ben Nelson. (Or rather, he Jokerized himself, didn’t he?)” The art work of the first famous Joker, of the Trillion Dollar President, was done...

Oh, and then there is this: I know you won’t give two-seconds to this letter, but I had to write it. I’m a primary care doctor in YOUR state, and you sold me out....

From Naked Capitalism’s George Washington: “It is obvious that many republicans oppose the proposed health care bill. But many liberals and progressives oppose it as well. For example, economist L. Randall Wray writes: Here’s...

Dave Lindorff writes: “The most outrageous thing the health “reform” bill does is further consolidate the death grip that the insurance industry has over health care access and delivery in America. It does this...

From the Hill: “Bernie Sanders can be a hero at this historic moment by declaring that any final bill must have a public option to win his support,” said PCCC co-foudner Adam Green. “That...

From Human Events: “New reasons emerge almost daily as to why Obamacare can and must be defeated. 1. The American people oppose Obamacare by almost 2 to 1 in the latest CNN poll.  Other...

After all the advertising in Nebraska and phone calls to Senator Nelson, and Sen. Ben Nelson’s own statements about ObamaCare, he is is going up with an ad in Nebraska to let the voters...

The Democrats are knowingly killing themselves politically over health care.  It is self-destructive behavior, writ-large. When I have said in the past, it’s the Jonestown Kool-Aid brigade in charge of the Party, it was...

Here’s a suggestion the Dems will be — I hope — forced to take: Let ObamaCare die, blame the GOP while getting back in the good graces of your base.  Failure to do so...

From Daniel Henninger of the WSJ: “This column has referred previously to a January 2007 New York Times article about Obama at Harvard Law School. It has the best description I have seen of...

When Senator DeMint engineered, and Senator McConnell actually objected to the appointment of the conferees, he was really handing the ball off to the left wingers — progressives if you will — and now...

It’s all about Obama: “This isn’t about me,” he likes to say, “I have great health insurance.” But of course, it is about him: about the legacy he covets as the president who achieved...

From RealQuiet: “If McConnell does object, we must commend him on this one. It puts the Democrats in a terrible position. — Erick “It is looking like Mitch McConnell will object to the appointment...

Robert Costa of National Review has provided the following from Senator Gregg (R-NH) — and is bears wider distribution: “American government changed last night. “We are now functioning under a parliamentary form of government,”...

A hard-core independent voter who is a former CEO of a more than $50 million dollar technology company I spoke with yesterday, wants the health care bill to pass in its most objectional form,...

Many people will tell you many things about the Generic Ballot number — my own view is it is the most accurate predictor of what comes in the next election. In this case it...

Hypocrisy defined: “In the long run we can’t continue to spend as if deficits don’t have consequences, as if waste doesn’t matter, as if the hard earned tax dollars of the American people can...

Richard Lowry writes of the five reasons ObamaCare may not pass (below) and I have added four more, after Lowry’s five: 1. Public Revulsion — see buying of votes and Dems tanking polling data....

From the Washington Post, by Dana Milbank — after repeating re-stating the “death panel,” charges by the Republicans as being over the top, Milbank points out the Democrat’s can not claim the moral high...

Hey, we are just printing the money anyway — it is not like it really matters — your tax dollars, foreigners buying our debt, who really takes this seriously. Don’t you know, the U.S....

Limited changes to bill demanded by Sen. Nelson: “It is very clear that the bill — the final bill — to pass in the United States Senate is going to have to be very...

From Politico: “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California can’t afford to lose any Democrats. And with Stupak threatening to vote against the Senate compromise, she’ll need to offset his vote with other Democrats who...

The corruption of using the public treasury as a check book to buy the votes of Senator Nelson and Senator Sanders — in the face not only overwhelming public opposition, but also in the face...

Word is rampant among the Senate leadership, as well as is being reported by the Wall Street Journal, that Senator Reid has got to 60 votes on cloture on the Senate ObamaCare bill. The...

Daily Kos, from Stephanie Taylor’s blog titled, “Voters Revolt,”: “A new Research 2000 poll from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America shows that voters support a health care bill with a...

Daily Kos: “A new Research 2000 poll from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America shows that voters support a health care bill with a public option by an overwhelming majority, 59%...

Daily Kos, essentially with this post, is telling the left to go-ahead and beat ObamaCare to a pulp because it is not going to pass anyway. It’s a message to the liberal base: you...

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The left-right-center squeeze is on. (See this post for the latest parade of liberal attacks on the bill.) If you want to know how angry the left is at Obama, you must watch this...

From Politico: “Most dangerously for White House chances of assembling 60 Senate votes, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean launched a third day of attacks on the emerging bill, arguing in a Washington Post op-ed...

From the Huffington Post, with notes of betrayal: “I believe this is the moment when we must stand as one and say enough,” Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern wrote in a letter...

From America’sBlog: “So what’s the difference? Why with 60 votes are Democrats so ineffective, but with 50 votes Republicans excel? “What the GOP lacked in numbers, they made up for in backbone, cunning and...

It’s the new death panel debate — when to pull the plug on health care reform? As a pro-lifer, I think the Dems should never pull the plug, just keep health care reform on...

A joint effort by leading Democratic Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) to force the White House to hand over the paper work associated with the deal the White House made...

H/T Dupray:

Tick-tock: “Republicans were tight-lipped on just how long they were prepared to delay the bill, but Coburn told Fox News’s Sean Hannity on his radio program, “There will be several more attempts to derail...

From USA Today: “First the plan was to get a health care bill passed by August. Then the deadline was Christmas. More lately, Democratic congressional leaders have been talking about getting a health care...