CNSNews.com is reporting that Senate Majority Leader Harry is ‘likely’ to use a tax bill passed by the House in March as shell for enacting the Senate health care bill: A senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told CNSNews.com that it is “likely” that Reid will use H.R. 1586—a bill passed by […]
Health Care Reform
Alan Grayson: Idiot
Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) took to the House floor Tuesday and let fly with what may just be the most idiotic remarks in the history of American politics: Grayson is a first term Congressman representing Florida’s 8th Congressional District… A traditionally Republican leaning district. He’s vulnerable, he knows it and he’s letting it all hang […]
Gallup: 61% of Americans See Health Insurance as Personal Responsibility
The results of this new Gallup poll aren’t really surprising, this is still a center right country that believes in traditional principles like limited government and individual responsibility… that more more than anything is what dogs Democrats in the health care debate: In a recent Gallup survey, 89% of Republicans, 64% of independents, and 61% […]
Senate Finance Committee Rejects Public Option — Twice
The Senate Finance Committee rejected two amendments earlier today that would have add a government-run public health-insurance plan to the health care reform legislation currently before the committee: A key US committee on Tuesday rejected a push by liberal Democrats to have a government-run healthcare option included in the $856bn centrist bill taking shape in […]
Keeping We the People in the Dark
Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee have refused to publish the final text of their health care reform bill online prior to voting on it. They claim the language is too technically difficult for ordinary people to understand, and that releasing the text would just lead to confusion. Yeah, right… I suspect it has more […]
Flout the Individual Mandate Penalty and Go to Jail?
I wonder if President Obama still thinks the Individual Mandate provisions of the Health Care Reform bill aren’t a tax: Americans who fail to pay the penalty for not buying insurance would face legal action from the Internal Revenue Service, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation. The remarks Thursday from the committee’s chief of staff, Thomas […]
Yes, Mr. President the Individual Mandate Is A Tax
I don’t know about you, but I didn’t watch Pres. Obama ‘s Sunday Talk show orgy… I’ve skimmed through the transcripts and frankly I don’t think I missed much. He really didn’t say anything new, he simply repeated the same arguments he’s been making for months. About the only interesting thing I came across was […]
The Obligatory Jimmy Carter is a Tool Post
I wasn’t going to comment on Jimmy Carter’s asinine remarks on race because frankly they don’t deserve comment. But after America’s crazy aunt, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi mumbled something about political violence in her weekly press briefing I thought I should take a moment to point out that these are two people that no sane […]
The Tax Man Cometh: Senate Health Reform Bill Includes Many Tax Hikes
The folks at Americans for Tax Reform have examined the Senate Finance Committee health care reform bill announced today and come up with a list of all the tax hikes in the bill: Individual Mandate Tax. If you don’t sign up for health insurance, you will have to pay a tax in the following range: […]
WSJ: Democrats Try Tougher Tone on Health Plan
This isn’t really news to political junkies like me but it is a page A3 above the fold story in today’s Wall Street Journal: A top White House adviser said Tuesday he doubts two Senate Republicans at the center of health-care talks are negotiating seriously, as Democrats adopted a new, more confrontational tone accusing key […]
Arrogance: Congressman Asks For Voters ID Before Answering Question – Updated
I’ve have to hand it to Congressman Jim Moran of Virginia… I didn’t think members could be anymore dismissive or condescending towards constituents than Steny Hoyer or Nancy Pelosi, who called town hall protesters un-American in a USA Today op-ed… But Congressman Moran found a way to sink to a new low by demanding to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]