Mar 14 2010

Democrats’ Abandon Promise of Posting New Obamacare Bill 72 Hours Before Vote (Also plan to circumvent Constitution)

Remember Pelosi’s promise to post the new ObamaCare bill up for 72 hours before a vote?
Well, you can just forget about it, that was a lie. That pledge has now been “softened“:
House Democrats appear to be softening their pledge to allow the public 72 hours to review the health care reform package online before a [...]

Mar 10 2010

Stupak: There’s No Deal, And I Won’t Agree to a Promise to Fix the Bill in the Future

Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak said yesterday at a townhall in his home state, "I'm more optimistic than I was a week ago" that a deal could be reached to pass a health care bill that bans public funding of abortion. Some speculated that this meant Stupak was ready to cave. "Obviously they don’t know me," [...]

Feb 3 2010

Three pillars of Obamaism

Barack Obama signed three executive orders on January 22, 2009. One provided for closure of Guantanamo and the the review of the cases of the detainees held there. One provided for the termination of the CIA program of enhanced interrogation. One provided for the review of detention policy options. Following on [...]

Feb 2 2010

Hoyer: W.H. Rethinking Plans for Detainees

News from Steny Hoyer, via Politico:
The second-ranking House Democrat signaled Tuesday that the White House is reconsidering a plan to move Guantanamo detainees to a prison in northwest Illinois. 
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said he agrees that the Obama administration should reassess the plan to move terrorist suspects from the Cuba military base to [...]

Nov 6 2009

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 [...]

Aug 11 2009

Getting it wrong with Congress

In the post below, I suggest that by next year at this time, President Obama’s audacious domestic agenda will have traumatized every congressional Democrat who depends on non-liberal voters for re-election. But Obama’s fearless left-liberal is not confined to domestic matters. Indeed, his hostility towards Israel is already unsettling congressional Democrats, including [...]

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