From CBS News: CBS News has learned that up to 60,000 people have cancelled their AARP memberships since July 1, angered over the group’s position on health care. Elaine Guardiani has been with AARP for 14 years, and said, “I’m extremely disappointed in AARP.” Retired nurse Dale Anderson has 12 years with AARP and said, […]
Archives for August 2009
Congressman Eric Massa: I Will Vote Against the Interests of My District
Sen. Tom Coburn is right, American’s have lost faith in their government and I can’t think of a better example of why than the attitude displayed by Congressman Eric Massa of New York. Rep. Massa met with an intimate group of Netroots activists during their annual Netroots Nation gathering in Pittsburgh this past weekend reiterated […]
Video: No Treats From Obama
Politics aside, this is pretty amazing trick: H/T: Jonah Goldberg.
Obama and the Practice of Medicine
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a practicing physician and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute has an interesting op ed column in today’s Wall Street Journal. In it Dr. Gottleb explores Pres. Obama’s apparent lack of understanding about the practice of medicine and the reasons for rising health-care costs: On the defensive because of an increasingly skeptical […]
Crime Doesn’t Pay: Business Owner Fires on Robbers, Killing 2, Police Say
Things went horribly wrong for the four men who tried to hold up a Harlem restaurant-supply shop on Thursday afternoon… The four men burst into Kaplan Bros. Blue Flame Corp. around 3:00 p.m. and things went downhill quickly for them: “I’d do it again if I had to.” Those were the first defiant words out […]
Score One For Sarah Palin
Score one for Sarah Palin, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, issued a statement earlier today saying that concerns raised about the end-of-life provisions in the House health care bill are entirely legitimate. Sen. Grassley’s statement goes on to say that the Finance Committee has “dropped end-of-life provisions from […]
Specter Trails Toomey by Twelve
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Pennsylvania voters is enough to warm my cynical heart: Uncomfortable town hall meetings are just the tip of the iceberg for Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter. He now trails Republican Pat Toomey by double digits in his bid for reelection next year and is viewed unfavorably by a majority […]
Retail Sales Fall, Jobless Claims and Foreclosures Rise In July
Recovery, what recovery??? There’s no good news in the economic data released today… If President Obama and the Democrats in Congress where hoping improving economic indicators would help rescue their health care reform plans there out of luck. Retail Sales fell 0.1 percent last month, while new jobless claims increased to a seasonally adjusted 558,000, […]
This and That: Palin Defines the Health Care Debate, Paglia Slams Obama’s Healthcare Horror and The Truth About Health Insurance
I’m not sure why but I’ve had the Dire Straits song The Bug stuck in my head all day… Well it’s a strange old game – you learn it slow one step forward and it’s back to go you’re standing on the throttle you’re standing on the breaks in the groove ’til you make a […]
Arrogance: Hoyer, Pelosi Call Protests Against ObamaCare “un-American”
I’ve seen politicians say more than a few amazingly stupid things in my time but this really takes the cake… For House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer to take to the pages of a major American newspaper and call those who disagree with them un-American is beyond the pale: However, it […]
WSJ: Our Unconstitutional Census
John Baker and Elliott Stonecipher have a must read Op Ed in today’s Wall Street Journal… In short the 2010 Census is set to count all persons physically in the country, including millions of illegal aliens, resulting in states like California that have high illegal alien populations to unconstitutionally increasing their representation in congress while […]
Unemployment Rate Falls to 9.4%… Sort of…
From Reuters: The U.S. unemployment rate fell in July for the first time in 15 months as employers cut far fewer jobs than expected, providing the clearest sign yet that the economy was turning around. Employers shed 247,000 jobs in July, the Labor Department said Friday, the least in any one month since last August, […]
Senate Ethics Committee Clears Dodd, Conrand
As predicted the Senate Ethics Committee has cleared Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd of wrong doing in his dealings with Countrywide Financial: The Senate Ethics Committee on Friday dropped yearlong investigations into two powerful Senate committee chairmen, Democrats Christopher J. Dodd and Kent Conrad . The group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington had filed […]
WSJ: Obama Advisers Set Groundwork to Raise Taxes on Middle Class
You don’t have to be an economist to realize the Obama Administration’s budget numbers don’t add up and that he’s going to have raise taxes on more than just those earning more than $250,000.00 to pay for his agenda. With that in mind it’s not surprising that White House economist Larry Summers and Treasury Secretary […]
Tax Revenues Continue to Plunge
From the Associated Press: The recession is starving the government of tax revenue, just as the president and Congress are piling a major expansion of health care and other programs on the nation’s plate and struggling to find money to pay the tab. The numbers could hardly be more stark: Tax receipts are on pace […]