Will the Spending Freeze Be Obama’s Immigration Reform?
President Obama is a highly polarizing figure. The Gallup organization says that the "65 percentage-point gap between Democrats' (88%) and Republicans' (23%) average job approval ratings for Barack Obama is easily the largest for any president in his first year in office, greatly exceeding the prior high of 52 points for Bill Clinton." Thus Obama's [...]
Bad Medicine, Bad Politics
Sean Trende has an excellent piece pushing back against the conventional wisdom that passing something is better than nothing:
Health reform is shuffling toward its endgame, and even though the bill’s popularity resembles George Bush’s circa 2007, Democrats seem determined to push the bill through. Browse through certain liberal blogs, or listen to Democratic leadership speeches, [...]
More Obamacare lies explained
Readers would do well to check out Nice Deb’s partial list of ObamaCare promises that have purposeful short expiration dates: “If you like your current health-care plan, you can keep it”, “You will pay less”, “Quality will improve”, “Abortion will not be covered”, “Illegal immigrants will not be covered”, Our health care plan will [...]
Does the House Bill Fulfill Obama’s Pledge to Bar Abortion Funding? Gibbs Won’t Say
During his address to the joint session of Congress, President Obama declared: “Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions.” Does the current House bill’s language conflict with Obama’s pledge? At today’s White House press briefing, Robert Gibbs wouldn’t say.
Obama is endorsing the House bill, which Nancy Pelosi wants to [...]
Squirmer of the House Nancy Pelosi Doesn’t Have the Votes… Yet
I picture Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Haight-Ashbury, 100%) writhing and twisting in frustration; with all those Democrats, surely she can scrape together 218 to vote for SqueakerCare!
Surely not, at least not yet:
House Democrats acknowledged they don’t yet have the votes to pass a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system, and signaled [...]
GOP’s Health Care Strategy Is Short-Sighted
Republicans may be scoring tactical victories in the current
health care debate, but they are no closer to winning the
long-term battle over the future of the nation’s medical system.
In 1994, Republicans defeated President Clinton’s health care
proposal and took back Congress. But once that happened, the
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