Jan 22 2010

President Obama on Health Reform: "I am not going to walk away just because it’s hard."

President Obama made it clear to an enthusiastic crowd in Ohio today that he is not giving up the fight for health reform that protects consumers from insurance company abuses, lowers costs and help businesses and families around this country.
I didn’t take up this issue to boost my poll numbers or score political points – [...]

Sep 12 2009

A Bounce, But Is It Enough?

The Rasmussen Survey finds that President Obama’s televised speech has given a boost to the Democrats’ health care plan (whatever it is). A plurality, however, still opposes the plan. This chart shows how support among voters has shifted over the summer:

On balance, these data don’t seem particularly favorable for supporters of government medicine. [...]

Jul 29 2009

Keeping Abortion Out of Health Care

Evangelical writer Jim Wallis has until now remained strong on
the idea that nationalized health care should not force
Americans to pay for killing unborn children. But, as May push
comes to July shove, Wallis’s liberal friends are giving him a
“wedgie.” Now, he seems to be wavering. He [...]

Jul 21 2009

Coup on You!

In mounting desperation, Barack H. Obama and his band of merry men now demand the restoration of Manuel “Mel” Zelaya as dictator of Honduras on the same time schedule as the typical “revolutionary” (radical leftist, that is) Obamic legislation — e.g., government-run health care, crippling energy production, and shooting trillions of dollars of Monopoly money [...]