Preliminary CBO Numbers Are In (BUMPED & UPDATED, 11:30 a.m.)
House majority leader Steny Hoyer has informed his colleagues of the CBO health bill score. Politico reports:
The bill would cost $940 billion, and reduce the deficit by $130 billion over the first 10 years and $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years. The deficit numbers Democrats have been most worried about, and will be key [...]
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 [...]
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," [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
