Let Your Voice Be Heard
With the House of Representatives scheduled to vote on Nancy Pelosi’s health care takeover bill, a watershed moment in American history is fast approaching. In this video, Congressman Mike Pence puts the battle over health care in the context of freedom and of the relationship between the individual and the state:
Only massive public opposition [...]
Obama must consult less, insist more on health - San Francisco Gate
It’s true that politics is the art of the possible, but it’s also true that great leaders expand the scope of possibility. Barack Obama took office pledging to be a transformational president. The fate of a government-run public health insurance …
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Dem Disarray
It’s hard to say where the Democrats are on the “public option” at the moment. Over the weekend, the Obama administration signaled that it was open to dropping that piece of the health care “reform” plan. The result was substantial push-back from the party’s left wing, with some Congressmen saying that 100 liberal [...]
Texas Democrat: Bill without public option ‘would be very, very difficult’ (Video)
The American people can’t let their guard down yet. Barack Obama’s administration may have signaled today that it is ready to abandon the idea of a public option, but there are die-hard pushers of the idea fighting to keep it.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -On the same day that a Cabinet member signaled the [...]
Senate Democrats: Caving - or Bushwhacking?
AP breathlessly reports that the Democratic leadership has “reached a shaky peace” with the somewhat moderate Blue-Dog Democrats (which AP calls “the party’s rebellious rank-and-file conservatives”):
The House changes, which drew immediate opposition from liberals in the chamber, would reduce the federal subsidies designed to help lower-income families afford insurance, exempt additional businesses from a requirement [...]
Obamacare Would Make Public and Private Insurance Plans Cover Abortion
In July 2007, presidential candidate Barack Obama told a group of Planned Parenthood activists that he would require coverage for abortion in both his public plan and in private insurance plans:
In my mind reproductive care is essential care. It is basic care, and so it is at the center, the heart of the plan that [...]
