Repeal: Obamacare as the New Prohibition
It was called the “nullification contagion.”
And it was a battle royal. Literally.
Once upon-a-time in America, a tumultuous battle over the
freedom to drink alcoholic beverages raged across the land. It
was the health care battle of early 20th century America, and it
was furious, divisive and [...]
California Democrats Ache for Canadian/UK Style Government Health Care
A couple of days after Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts — a campaign primarily fought against ObamaCare — the California state senate will now consider imposing a single-payer, government-run, “universal” health-care scheme on the rest of us. Again.
I rib you not; state Sen. Mark Leno decided this was the perfect time to push a [...]
Does George Voinovich (R-Ohio) plan to screw the GOP (and America) on Obamacare?
Prepare to puke; there’s a possibility that GOP Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio is going to bail on his party to cast a swan song 60th vote for the government health care takeover bill.
Michelle Malkin writes that Voinovich is meeting with President Obama at 11:30am Eastern today in the Oval Office.
America has made it clear [...]
Mark Steyn: ‘Obamacare a fast-track to permanent left-of-center political culture’
And as Stein appropriately points out, not only have we begun on a fast-track to a permanent left-of-center political culture, our new Euro-style government on a Harry Reid/Chris Dodd/Ben Nelson scale will lead to our ruin (financially, culturally, and for the elderly and infirmed - physically):
[...] Looking at the millions of Americans it leaves [...]
Sarah Palin and Death Panels: A Brief History
The Washington Independent’s David Weigel writes:
There is a right way to cover Sarah Palin and her PR strategy. Greg Sargent, Ben Smith and Matt Gertz double-check Palin’s claim (made on Facebook) that her infamous “death panel” post was a “metaphor” for how health care would be denied to the old or infirm. In the original [...]
Goodbye Public Option?
The Associated Press reports that Democratic Senators, who have been negotiating behind closed doors, have come up with a compromise health care bill that does not include a public option:
In place of a government-run plan, originally designed as a way of forcing competition on private industry, officials said the Democrats had tentatively settled on a [...]
