Monthly Archive: February 2010

Senator Conrad, the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee said yesterday that reconciliation can only be used if the House passes the Senate bill first. As Sen. Conrad declared, “I don’t know of any...

This video (H/T Drudge Report) captures an important piece of recent history, when the GOP controlled the White House and the Senate. The Democrats repeatedly attacked the Republicans for attempting the “nuclear option.”  Senator...

Cantor Whip count memo

Turns out that the interpretation that the Dems are bluffing on reconciliation is a charitable interpretation. It assumes they have a plan. The other alternative view, that the President really is serious about reconciliation,...

The ObamaCare roll out has run right into, well, itself. From the true-believer-ObamaCare-cheerleader-a-go-go, Jonathan Cohn: “Apparently unresolved, still, is the question of which House votes first. And that’s no small thing. “But the bigger...

The Congressional Budget Office Director, in today’s blog, says CBO cannot “score” or provide a cost estimate for Obama’s health care plan because CBO needs more detail. It’s amazing, the Trillion Dollar President wants...

February 22, 2010, 10:00 a.m. EST MEMORANDUM FROM: Michael Hammond RE: New Obama Health Care Draft As of this hour, there is an 11-page document on the White House web site outlining Obama’s newest...

Brian Darling of the Heritage Foundation has moved the entire health care world from refitting weapons and/or R & R to DEFCON Two with these two posts, here and here. Darling is not only...

Reason number infinite why ObamaCare will fail:  who is going to vote for $2.5 Trillion in new spending? Peggy Noonan outlines the new political reality: “People are freshly aware and concerned about the real-world...

The Hill reports: “In a brutal assessment of the Democratically authored healthcare reform bills pending in Congress and the party’s approach to healthcare, more than half of the respondents to a new Zogby International-University...

Elizabeth Drew has written a long, biased and tortured health care reform review of events, of which, two things, which appear at the very end of the article, are worth quoting. Note to reader:...

AOL (America On Line) of all places has an excellent article that clearly lays out the bottom line of American politics, under normal circumstances: citing Sean Trende, Americans like divided — gridlocked — government....

Senator Bayh, on why he is leaving the U.S. Senate:  “But if I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress...

No legislation will be signed as a result of the White House health care meeting. Congress is politically radioactive. ObamaCare is hated. And never has a Speaker’s low approval rating created male-trance-like-obedience to injure...

The Trillion Dollar President’s $2.5 Trillion ObamaCare continues to unspool (from AP): “First he called congressional Democrats’ yearlong march toward health care overhaul an ugly process. Now President Barack Obama wants to talk directly...

Richard Lowry has a really great insight in this column.  I believe it to be true: “It might have been the most revelatory moment of the Obama presidency. In an interview with Time magazine,...

Published speculation that Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) will retire rather than face re-election is sort of like the rush to get out of D.C. prior to the snow storms last week. Those who stayed and...

The Trillion Dollar President ran on his “yes we can” slogan, but, it turns out, a former State Senator and a part-time U.S. Senator who campaigned instead of legislating may be able to convince...

From FOX News: “It’s going to be very difficult to have bipartisan conversations with regard to a 2,700 page health care bill that the Democrat majority in the House and the Democrat majority in...

The lack of enthusiasm, drive and willingness to do anything more on ObamaCare is the result of political malpractice on the part of the White House, the Speaker and Senator Reid. For all their...

Bill Murchinson of the Creators Syndicate has nailed it, courtesy of RealClearPolitics: “In an interview before the Super Bowl, President Obama announced a Feb. 25 half-day “bipartisan health care summit” that he said would...

The Dem-only, GOP stiff-arm that the Trillion dollar President has been treating the nation to for the last year on health care is supposed to go away in one televised meeting. After forcing the...

  The Trillion Dollar President told flagging Dems at their Party pow-wow yesterday in D.C. that, as the LA Times reports, “trimming goals and postponing hard choices are the wrong approach,” and that “he...

This a classic case of attempted big-man-chest-beating, that comes off as kinda-whine-y — as in, do you want some cheese with that whine? — when Shrum attempts to rally defeated, wounded and shell-shocked troops....

Perhaps it was this, or this that actually persuaded the Trillion Dollar President that he could not just stand behind a podium and order Congress to do his bidding. But I doubt it.  Only...

Senator Franken (D-MN), not known even in his short time in the Senate for his ability to play well with others, may have laid bare the lack of ability to pass legislation by the...