Monthly Archive: June 2012
Lemmings Unite! The WH Urges Dems to Once More Jump off the Cliff on ObamaCare
Will they never, ever learn? The White House is urging Dems to do their lemming routine — right before an election! Gee, I guess losing 80+ Dems last cycle in the U.S. House has...
Obama: You can keep your plan if you like it — unless you want an HSA
President Obama knows perfectly well that the Minimum Loss Ratio and the Actuarial Value regulation will eliminate Health Savings Account qualified health plans from the individual and small group insurance markets; yet he persists...
Justice Roberts Blinks, Upholds ObamaCare — the Mandate is a Tax and is Constitutional 6-3
Chief Justice Roberts is so concerned about the integrity of the Supreme Court, that he forgot about the integrity of the U.S. Constitution. Justice Roberts simply held that the mandate is a tax because...
Plain English: What the Court Decided
In Plain English: The Affordable Care Act, including its individual mandate that virtually all Americans buy health insurance, is constitutional. There were not five votes to uphold it on the ground that Congress could...
ObamaCare is Reviled for a Reason
From Would Americans Miss It? ObamaCare is reviled for a reason: ObamaCare, needlessly enacted during a deep economic recession, is “deeply unpopular with the public,” and it’s easy to see why, says John Steele...
NYT Tees Up the Blame for ObamaCare’s Failure Solely on the Shoulders of Obama
MSM Shocker: In the White House, many of his top advisers, including Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his first chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, counseled Mr. Obama against a sweeping health care...
Barone: If you don’t like ObamaCare, it’s because you are racist (obviously)
The flaw in the liberal’s go-to race baiting, by Barone, who makes the same point I did a month ago: As Barack Obama’s lead over Mitt Romney in the polls narrows, and his presumed...
FireDogLake’s Realistic Political Assessment of Dems Health Reform
Not your lapdog media types, even though FireDogLake is a liberal site: The fact is polling shows most Americans think the law is unconstitutional. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll from two months ago found...
Miller on Severability
From Severability for ObamaCare: Obamacare diehards maintain, perhaps out of habit, that the Court will simply uphold the entire law, so there’s no need for further “severability” analysis. A surprisingly under-informed set of health...
Comments from the story on Obama asking for Campaign Donations, instead of giving Wedding Gifts
Douglas Reed says: June 22, 2012 at 12:52 pm Extremely tacky. The nanny state wants total control. Sentinel says: June 22, 2012 at 12:53 pm And forget about Christmas this year (since it’s Christian...
HHS Secretary Praises their MLR Regulation Yesterday, an Hour before Ruling might have been issued
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, an hour before the U.S. Supreme Court could have released their decision yesterday, praised the Minimum Loss Ratio (MLR) regulation that will force 5,490,187 Americans to lose...
The Nixon Lesson that the Fake One did not Learn
The key lesson of Watergate was that when then President Nixon declared Executive Privilege, Watergate stopped being about G. Gordon Liddy and the Plumbers, and started being about President Nixon. In a move that...