Author: Dan Perrin

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...

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...

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...

Well said, from The Daily Beast, by Tunku Varadarajan, here is the first paragraph: “Harry Reid, a small-state senator with all the allure of a small-town accountant, may offer unlikely echoes of the French...

The following shows the degree of the political failure of ObamaCare: “Perhaps the greatest measure of Obama’s declining support is that just 50% of voters now say they prefer having him as President to...

In a classic have-it-both-ways-moment, Senator Reid has been selling the media and the public the following story line: in a breakthrough deal we took out the public option, but its not dead. Uh, huh....

If you were a progressive liberal, would you be enthused about the Democrats dropping the public option or the abortion restrictions in the House health bill? Or President Obama reneging on his campaign promises...

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...