Jan 27 2010

Video: Budget Freeze Won’t Fix The Debt

President Obama has announced a budget freeze to address the national debt. However, as the folks at DefeatTheDebt.com point out in this brief video illustrating the freeze’s impact on our national debt, it will do very little. In fact, pretty near next to bupkus.
The proposed plan only affects 1/8th of the overall budget, and [...]

Sep 11 2009

As the Byrd Rule Flies: Why Dems Can’t Use Reconciliation to Pass Radical ObamaCare

…Unless they’re willing to immolate themselves in the process — and probably lose the fight anyway.
Everybody is now slinging around the term “reconciliation process,” but I think most of us don’t really understand what the heck that means — other than a sneaky way to pass ObamaCare without having to break a Republican filibuster. [...]