The Blue Dogs Need To Hear From You
Hugh Hewitt writes:
The announcement by Democratic Congressman Bart Stupak that he and a dozen others Democrats would not vote for the Senate bill because it provides for taxpayer-funding of abortion greatly complicates Nancy Pelosi’s task.
What MSM has not done, however, is to report on who these dozen members are, or how the count [...]
Democrats going the reconciliation route on health care?
According to this report, apparently so. Unless this newer report trumps the earlier one.
Hell, either one, both, or neither of them could be true at this point, after all, the Dems seem to be all the more clueless these days and it’s clear they learned a damned thing from their fiasco in Massachusetts on Tuesday. [...]
Obama Coming Home Empty Handed (Updated)
Although his administration tries to spin the deal as a “meaningful agreement”, in reality Dear Leader is coming home empty handed - with nothing more than toothless, weak, targets and goals defined in meaningless political double-speak.
As Jerry McConnell frames it, after multi-millions of dollars in expenses for the 193 nations to attend the biggest farcical [...]
Kristol: Why Pelosi May Fail
Answer: the people.
First of all, the new Rasmussen survey finds 42 percent favoring the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats — down a bit from a week ago. 54 percent of the public is opposed. 23 percent of all voters strongly support the plan, with 44 percent strongly opposed.
Second, there are [...]
Barack the Magic Statesman
Thank goodness we have such an eloquent spokesman for America’s foreign policy! At last, we see the brave new world of hope and change wrought by Barack H. Obama. (And it has such people in it.)
Now that he has, for all practical purposes, taken off the table any military action against Iran — [...]
Michael Goodwin: Health care debate confirms this is not the Barack Obama we elected
Michael Goodwin appears to be seeing the same thing a majority of Americans are seeing, that Obama’s flailing, including a foul habit of demonizing dissent, is not pretty, and that brief foray into e-mail tracking of critics showed a win-at-any-cost side. Goodwin writes that the sunny-side-up Obama who promised to inspire and unite an unhappy [...]
