Why Democrats Believe They Must Pass Health Reform
President Obama confirmed the worst kept secret in Washington this week: Democrats will move health legislation forward in Congress without any Republican support, despite a bevy of polls saying slow down or start over.
Now the newest parlor games in Washington are the black art of vote counting and brushing up on arcane Senate procedures like [...]
Pelosi Doesn’t Tell the Truth About Taxpayer-Funding of Abortion in Health Bill
During her closing remarks–at which point Republicans didn't have a chance to respond–Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said that John Boehner had misinformed viewers today when he said that there's public funding of abortion in the health care bill:
Leader Boehner, the law of the land is there is no public funding of abortion, and [...]
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 [...]
"This Is About Whether We Value One Another"
President Barack Obama greets Louvon Harris, left, Betty Byrd Boatner, right, both sisters of James Byrd, Jr., and Judy Shepard, center, mother of Matthew Shepard, following his remarks on the the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in the East Room of the White House, Oct. 28, 2009.
Today the [...]
