Do not freak out about Sen. Snowe talking to the Dems. Senator Snowe has rejected moving forward on any health care bill with the Democrats using reconciliation. This is GREAT NEWS. Without reconciliation the...
Senator Hatch is a pretty level-headed guy. He used to be a boxer, and if pushed — and I mean really pushed — the guy will come out swinging. And boy, have the Dems...
Finally, some reality has set in, this accurate assessment from the Open Left: “Meet your new legislative calendar: As a background to a jobs bill and the financial regulation package, health insurance reform will...
Watch as the leader of the Jonestown Brigade mixes the latest batch of Kool-Aid, guaranteed to politically kill off more than one in ten Dems in the U.S. House: Even the NYT is poking...
Out of all of the analysis of the State of the Union address — I would call it more of a patronizing lecture — the Atlantic’s Clive Crook said it best (excerpts are below,...
From TIME Magazine: “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is sounding very determined–and surprisingly upbeat–about the prospects for a comprehensive health care bill in the wake of last week’s Senate election in Massachusetts, which cost the...
(H/T Moe Lane) Sen. Pryor: “my sense is, in the end reconciliation will not even be attempted.”
Here is the red meat from this AP story: “Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., did more than ask. In a private meeting the day after Republican Scott Brown won Sen. Edward Kennedy’s Senate seat, Titus...
First, this is a National Public Radio poll we are talking about, not a center-right or centrist group — NPR. Here is the death knell: “The poll holds plenty of danger signs for the...
From a great piece in the Washington Examiner: “Mary Katharine Ham notes that President Obama tells ABC: “Let’s just clarify. I didn’t make a bunch of deals [on health care]. … There is a...
The will to act, which looked so resolute among the Democratic leadership during the Dark Days of the The Great ObamaCare Wars of 2009 and 2010, has left the campsite, with rank and file...
Making the Dems crawl over glass for any attempt at a health care reconciliation bill: The New York Times reports that Democrats face a new set of choices on whether to pursue the strategy...
Speaker Pelosi’s zero point zero House vote margin has eroded further during the week after the Red Tide flooded Central and Eastern Massachusetts. Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D – OH) said: “The senate bill...
David Axelrod on ABC This Week, January 24, 2010 “So I think you’re misreading the results out of Massachusetts . The president will not walk away from the American people, will not hand...
From the Washington Times: “In all likelihood, Mr. Clinton warned Mr. Obama (again) not to repeat his 1993 mistake of allowing mounting opposition to torpedo his grand plans to overhaul health care. Like Mr....
Obama’s Kool-Aid: “Denial, arrogance and self-pity are ingredi ents for a pretty toxic cocktail. And yet it seems that the occupants of the White House bunker, shell-shocked by Scott Brown, are coping by mixing...
Charles Krauthammer: “After Coakley’s defeat, Obama pretended that the real cause was a generalized anger and frustration “not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years, but what’s happened over...
WSJ Editorial page: “Instead of starting legislation off from the left, it will need to build a majority from the center out. As Maine Republican Olympia Snowe pointed out this week, the Senate Finance...
In this story, you have this bright-eyed, bushy-tailed Freshman President who was a U.S. Senator for a year or two, and a two term President and ex-governor whose wife just got beat for the...
Notwithstanding all of the damage that health care has wrought the Democrats, AP is reporting the following statement this morning: “We have to get a bill passed,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. In...
ObamaCare broke their back. The President says he will not “walk away from health care reform,” so, will he wheel away? Dem health care reform is so destructive, so toxic that everyone who touches...
When the lead paragraph in a story in the Boston Globe — owned by the New York Times — from a story titled “Obama here for Coakley, trailing a diminished aura,” reads: “The feverish...
If you want the definition of pathetic, look at Rep. Pomeroy . He attacks the Speaker in a caucus meeting prior to the House floor vote saying she is killing the Dems politically with...
(H/T Gateway Punit and RedMass Group via beforeitsnews.com): The stated reason for Sen. Lieberman’s possible endorsement — Brown’s strong opposition to ObamaCare.
I have been and always will be among those who believe that the Dems cannot pass comprehensive health reform. Mostly because the Dems always over reach. The Waxman-Pelosi-Obama axis are too liberal for America,...
WaPo is reporting on the widely circulated quote from House member Van Hollen that the Dems still consider reconciliation an option. The House Member talking about a procedure used in the Senate to avoid...
Reuters: “A shift of three votes in the House could doom the bill, which passed by a 220 to 215 vote in November. In the Senate, the bill passed on Christmas Eve with exactly...
From `The Backlash is Coming! The Backlash is Coming!´ Independents are breaking for Mr. Brown by a three-to-one margin, Rasmussen finds. And many people do not realize that independents outnumber Democrats—51% of registered voters...
Lacking the courage to vote no, Sen. Nelson tried to have it both ways and lost. If he votes yes on the final passage his career in Nebraska is over, if he votes no...
From the National Journal: “One year after President Obama took office, the green shoots of optimism that accompanied his inauguration are withering, pummeled by gale-force discontent and anxiety over the prolonged recession, a new...
The patsies catch on to ObamaCare: “The ticked-off people in Pewaukee weren’t telling Feingold not to tax them to cover the not-quite-poor. They were telling him not to mess with their coverage, because Obamacare...
“As an illustration, consider the following hypothetical. “You’re a social worker or a parish priest in a poor urban neighborhood that lives under the malignant, if stable, stewardship of an organized-crime protection racket. The...
FireDogLake’s Whip Count: “Consider the math. “I hadn’t remembered until CQ reminded me today that Robert Wexler (D-FL) resigned his post at the end of the year to become the head of a Jewish...
From “White House, Congress Try to Resolve Looming ‘Impasse’ Over Health Care:” “Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., said the Senate version would not get the necessary 218 votes to pass in the House and warned...
The award for the U.S. House Member most foresaking his principles goes to Representative Anthony Weiner (D-NY) — Mr. We-Must-Have-a-Public-Option-to-Medicare-Buy-In-is-better-to-I’ll-vote-for-a-bill-with-no-public-option-and-no-Medicare-buy-in-but-I’ll-whine-about-it: “If you think about the three letters that almost all of us signed, we...
There are policy wonks who are obsessed with the details of the health plan. In July of last year, the politics of ObamaCare went beyond the wonky details. The public, in general, is at...
I know this will come as a shock — sort of like the Pope being Catholic — but the Dems are admitting they have a “serious problem” with regard to the health bill negotiations,...
From Amy Walter, who is clearly on the side of no, Brown will not win, but has these interesting things to say: “Can Republican Scott Brown really win? If you look at just those...
With a taxpayer financed abortions and a government take-over of health care at stake, so what? Maybe this is why Amy Walter writes in the National Journal “the “Facebook Women for Brown” group has...
From John Fund at the Wall Street Journal: “In the end, I don’t believe Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will run for re-election. Whether or not the health-care bill he muscled through the Senate...
Watch the video here. Frank blames right-wing sources for spreading this rumor, like the Associated Press: “The stakes are so high Democrats won’t rule out taking as long as a month to certify the...
From the High Cost of No Price: “Much of the rationale behind the current reform of the healthcare system is about controlling inflation in healthcare costs. However, based on the trend presented above, a...
It is laughable how much the Democrats have hurt themselves politically and continue to hurt themselves politically in their Obama-Pelosi-Reid led health care jihad. Exhibit A is what is happening in Massachusetts. For those...
H/T America’s Blog, from Sam Stien at the Huffington Post: “It could well be” a recipe for disaster in 2010, [AFL-CIO president Richard] Trumka told a group of reporters. “I just came back from...
RealClearPolitics has the key parts of Dodd’s statement in a video clip here and CBS News reports the Trillion Dollar President’s approval rating has hit a new low — 46%. Senator Dodd (D-CT) gives...
See the results here or donate yourself. Do you think that maybe there many Americans who want the ObamaCare bill dead?
Trende, who writes the horse race blog at RealClearPolitics is among the best in country, and here is his take on the MA Senate race: “Consider: PPP (D) has her at 47%. The Globe/UNH...
From the Associated Press this morning: “The stakes are so high Democrats won’t rule out taking as long as a month to certify the election results — should Brown win — to prevent a...
From the Washington Times: “This year, Mr. Obama’s search for a date stems from the White House’s desire to have a major legislative accomplishment to tout — in this case, health care. Steffen W....
Problems, or P to the sixth power, is what Speaker Pelosi faces. She tells her caucus on a conference call not to believe reports that she has decided that the House will OK all...
From Lamb’s Slaughter, about Brian Lambs letter to the Congressional leadership requesting C-SPAN have access to the House-Senate secret, non-conference meetings on health care: “When Lamb’s letter became public a week later, a spokesman...