Opposition to Obamacare Holding Steady
To the extent voters are following the Democrats’ frantic efforts to bribe or threaten the last three or four Congressmen into voting for government medicine, they remain unimpressed. Rasmussen finds that likely voters oppose the plan by 53-43 percent. These numbers have held remarkably steady since around Thanksgiving.
The Democrats seem to [...]
The protest at the AHIP insurance company conference in DC was astroturfed
I knew it the moment I saw it on television and before I saw the signs, but it was just a gut feeling based on Obama’s, the SEIU’s, and HCAN’s history.
The SEIU and HCAN (Health Care for America Now) bused in activists from DE, CT, MD, MN, VA, NJ, NC, NY, OH, PA, RI. In [...]
Jack Murtha, RIP
I won’t speak ill of the departed, and therefore have nothing at all to say about Jack Murtha. Philip Klein, however, notes a potentially important point: if the Republican wins the special election to succeed Murtha in May, the Democrats’ government medicine bill could have trouble passing the House. Let’s hope so.
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This Explains A Lot
Paul noted yesterday the economy’s strong resurgence in the fourth quarter–great news, seemingly. Yet the stock market was down on Friday. Why? Investors Business Daily offered this explanation:
[R]ight now, the market seems to be saying: “It’s the policies, stupid.” Specifically, the socialistic policies that the Obama administration keeps pushing at Americans who [...]
Government Medicine: Poison at the Polls
No wonder the Democrats have to bribe their own Senators and Congressmen to vote for Obamacare: all poll data indicate that the measure (whatever it is at the moment) is deeply unpopular, and the latest numbers from Nebraska suggest that anyone who votes for government medicine, representing other than a deep-blue state, is in [...]
Article: Dropping the Bomb on Health Care
Peter Schiff writes that Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress are about to take a very bad system and make it unimaginably worse. He points to the fact that the current bill is a one way trip to socialized medicine, and that it does nothing to restrain the forces that are propelling healthcare costs [...]
