Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of October 2, 2009

The Democrats’ Secret Plan to Pass the Public Option by Next Thursday ….Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, told the liberal “Bill Press Radio Show” yesterday that Democrats “comfortably” have the remaining votes to reach 51 and pass a public plan once the debate moves to the House floor . . .

…but the least Mr. Baucus can do is not make things worse. Instead, his Medicaid expansion is a disaster on every level—like the rest of ObamaCare.

Ken’s Take : This is my big beef with the healthcare system — the long waits to get appointments, and then the long waits to get seen on appointed days. * * * * * Regarding the availability of health care: 74% of those in the U.S. meet for scheduled doctors appointments within four weeks, while only 42% of British and 40% of Canadians do. Only 10% of Americans wait longer than two months, while 33% of Brits and 42% of Canadians wait that long.

Worldnet Daily Posted: September 30, 2009 6:14 pm Eastern © 2009 Note: This is the latest in Coulter’s multi-part series debunking “liberal lies” about health care. 17) America’s low ranking on international comparisons of infant mortality proves other countries’ socialist health-care systems are better than ours. America has had a comparatively high infant mortality rate since we’ve been measuring these things, going back to at least the ’20s.

What Democrats Don’t Want You To Know Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Max Baucus’s bill includes the so-called individual mandate, along with what he calls a $1,900 “excise tax” if you don’t buy health insurance. It turns out that if you don’t pay that tax, the IRS could punish you with a $25,000 fine or up to a year in jail, or both. Under questioning last week, Tom Barthold, the chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, admitted that the individual mandate would become a part of the Internal Revenue Code and that failing to comply “could be criminal, yes, if it were considered an attempt to defraud.” Mr.

The Washington Times has taken a look at Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus’s health care overhaul legislation and found rationing and death panels cleverly disguised as accountants: The offending provision is on Pages 80-81 of the unamended Baucus bill, hidden amid a lot of similar legislative mumbo-jumbo about Medicare payments to doctors.

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RedState Morning Briefing For October 2, 2009 Sign up to get the morning briefing by email here. 1. President Obama, maybe you could talk to your general while you are in Europe 2. Michelle Obama: Martyr 3. Sen. Max Baucus Requires Health Care Rationing 4. Blanche Lincoln Votes In Favor of Illegal Aliens Using Medicaid 5. Poor Alan Grayson 6. Read the Bill 7. Obama, Gandhi, and MLK: A Love Story 8.

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee’s ObamaCare legislation is as interesting for what it lacks as for what it contains. read more

Paul Hsieh, M.D. has an excellent op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor about the harms of mandatory insurance . It begins: In his recent speech to Congress, President Obama could have promoted healthcare reforms that tapped the power of a truly free market to lower costs and improve access. Instead, he chose to offer a national version of the failing “Massachusetts plan” based on mandatory health insurance. This is a recipe for disaster.

The word is out… the game is played… the man behind the curtain has been exposed… and it’s now as plain as the nose on your face. Obama and the leftists in Congress don’t want you to know what’s in ObamaCare… they just made it clear that they just may try to hide all the sordid details from you. But what’s even worse, Obama and the leftists in Congress may even be trying to muzzle, and intimidate, those who dare to speak out against ObamaCare.

One of the concerns of an actor is overexposure. You don’t want to be seen so frequently in so many roles that the brand becomes tarnished. That goes even more for the President who, in addition to being a politician, is also the head of state. Frequent public appearances, press conferences, grand formal speeches, televised productions, along with a deluge of discussions on more minor broadcast venues are fine during a political campaign. But once the campaigning stops and you assume the office, different rules apply.

The Senate Commerce Committee met again Thursday to continue “mark up” of it’s version of ObamaCare, written almost entirely by one man, Committee Chairman Baucus.  It was revealed last week that even after months of deliberations this the bill isn’t really a bill at all.  It’s merely a “conceptual paper.” Last week Republicans proposed an amendment that would have required the “bill,” such as it is, to be posted on the Internet 72 hours before the committee voted on it.  The Amendment was defeated by the committee’s Democrat majority, perhaps to avoid the embarrassment to Senator Baucus of the whole world seeing his pathetic “concepts” in print.

Scattercast is 63 … and it’s feeling a bit political in here. - Wi-Fi connected homes? Well, a Wi-Fi scale is a good start. - Are extended school days really the solution? - Perhaps we should just start with school uniforms ? - I finally comment on nationalized health care … I know, shocking. Here’s a link to the MP3 for those who wish to download it, subscribe to Scattercast via iTunes .

Americans worried that Obamacare will lead to de facto rationing of health care to senior citizens can stop worrying. It’s already here. Link to the original site

From Flopping AcesWill an Administration which campaigned on the principle of transparency stoop to such a low? You bet they will!“Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.” – Barack Hussein Obama, January 21, 2009Readers may also recall this promise which Obama made repeatedly during the campaign:To achieve health care reform, “I’m going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We’ll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators.

From the Desk of: Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org Alliance “You will face ONE YEAR in prison for resisting ObamaCare. It’s part of the massive lies and distortions designed to hide the real dangers of ObamaCare. Please see below.” –SteveYesterday, the Senate Finance Committee staged two votes on adding the “public option” to the Baucus version of ObamaCare.I say “staged” because Senate Democrats fully expected both amendments to fail. That was their plan.

President Obama and liberals in Congress seem intent on passing comprehensive health care reform, even though polls suggest it is unpopular with the American people. And despite the potential political risks to moderate Democrats, the President and left-wing leadership in Congress are determined to pass the measure using a rare parliamentary procedure. The Senate plans to attach Obamacare to a House-passed non-healthcare bill. Ironically, nobody knows what that legislation looks like, because it has not yet been written.

An analyst whose responsibilities include working with members of the U.S. Senate for The Heritage Foundation is suggesting that U.S. lawmakers are so intent on passing President Obama’s “comprehensive health care reform” that they will use procedural maneuvers and trickery to accomplish it. In an analysis posted on Human Events, Brian Darling, the Heritage Foundation’s director of U.S. Senate relations, outlines a four-step scenario he believes is possible. Share This

John and Elizabeth Edwards Getting Divorced? –Serial Cheater “Elizabeth was read portions of Young’s book proposal, and she flipped out,” a source told the Enquirer. “What really pushed her over the edge is Young’s allegation that John had other affairs with women on the campaign trail. Elizabeth basically told John that if she found out that was true, she’d have to divorce him because then he’d be a ’serial cheater.’” The Enquirer has another source that says John Edwards is denying the

Representative Tom Harkin: The G.O.P. Can Sit Back And Watch While We Pass ObamaCare Health Reform… Hey, no doubt — if you are one of those minority folks who belong to the incredible shrinking Republican Party, you absolutely DESPISE this guy, Tom Harkin (D-IA). Why, it was just… This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!

Well apparently we all have been the victims of the American healthcare Holocaust, what’s even better is the we did not know until this week. Its more than obvious that the Democratic party has overwhelmingly gone off the deep end and that Obama can’t even control his own party. The dumbass congressman from Florida has shown us all why they should never be in charge of anything. I and most of the country would rather see Washington do nothing regarding healthcare as opposed taking what the dnc is trying to shove down our throats.

Comments Reuters columnist James Pethokoukis: “Obama’s campaign promise to not raise taxes on households making less than $250,000 a year was always considered a joke here inside the Beltway. Maybe it was a joke inside the campaign, too.” President Obama is very serious about keeping to the letter of his pledge not to raise taxes for people who make less than $250,000, so he has fond the perfect way to ensure the implementation of his pledge, semantics .

Are Democrate stuck on Obamacare for illegal aliens or what? Their mouths say no, no, but their votes say yes, yes. Once again, the Dems refuse to require any normal identification to receive services.Senate Finance Committee Democrats rejected a proposed a requirement that immigrants prove their identity with photo identification when signing up for federal healthcare programs.Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that current law and the healthcare bill under consideration

With the rate the Liberal controlled congress is moving, will anarchy rear it’s ugly head in America? Madam Pelosi is on a path to water boarding the American people by forcing her brand of Liberal Socialism on America with the Dear Leader, Comrade Obama’s Obamacare. The American people will only take so much of this forced feeding by those in power. It should be a very interesting election year cycle coming.

Baucus’s Death Panel proposes reduced reimbursements to drs who prescribe expensive MC treatments http://bit.ly/raED1 ………………. “Faith expects from God what is beyond all expectation.” Andrew Murray ………………. Stimulus? 49% say US economy will be stronger in 5 years… down from 58% in Jul, 64% in Mar http://tinyurl.com/RR0660 ………………. Why Liberals are hypocrites > “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for.” H.Dean http://tinyurl.com/yajg8cu ……………….

I get a kick out of press secretaries for Obama like Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann. Tonight they were going on and on: how dare Michelle Bachman say that the public school medical clinics that Obamacare will install might promote and even provide abortions. Why, politicians who are joined at the hip with NARAL and Medicaid abortions would never, ever use tax dollars to provide abortions. And what about this: public school clinics are obviously designed to make the state the doctor to public school students, and further erode the parent-child relationship.

How the Senate wants things done. This was a “letter to the editor” in a Jackson, MS newspaper dated August 29: Dear Sirs: “During my last night’s shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with a shiny new gold tooth, multiple elaborate tattoos, a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and a new cellular telephone equipped with her favorite R&B tune for a ringtone. Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer status: Medicaid.

So. How’s that health care thing working out for you? Maybe not so damn good. Nothing for Everyone By Randall Hoven Just about all of us want some kind of health care reform.  But different people want different things from that reform.  One trouble with crafting legislation that would make some people happy is that it would make other people unhappy.  But the proposals put forth so far by Democrats, and supported by President Obama, have the unique gift of satisfying virtually no one.  ObamaCare, inasmuch as there is such a thing, is bound to disappoint you, no matter what you’d like to see in health care reform.

– The great thing about Celebucrats is that angling a microphone somewhere in their vicinity is pretty much the only effort required to get them to expose themselves as  race-obsessed, socialist, grievance mongers. CNSNews: “Socialized medicine is a good thing, and illegal immigrants should get health coverage under pending legislation, Hollywood actor John Leguizamo told CNSNews.com.   “Concerning the health care bills backed largely by congressional Democrats, Leguizamo said, “Come on, people calling it socialism.

Yeah.  I know.  The leftists never talk like this.  I know.  And the moron that started a prank Obama death call on Facebook was a right winger.  Right?  Right.  No.  It wasn’t a left winger acting like a schmuck or anything.  Right?  Right.  I get it now.  The Secret Service decided that it was just a “prank” and won’t be going after the futz.  Right?  Right.  I’ll believe that…one day.

I always knew that yellow bastard was a closet teabagger racist. It’s not quite “making jokes about The One” yet, but it’s closer.

First the video via Donald Douglas who has some great comments on this jackass who keeps lying through his teeth about Republicans having no plan. That is BS and Grayson knows it! Which is why he constantly talks over anyone trying to debate him.Michelle has more on Grayson’s oral dysfunction.More offensive than Grayson’s incivility is his promotion of that “Harvard study” — authored by avowed single-payer advocates – purporting to show that 45,000 Americans die every year because of lack of insurance.Reader Dale notes the methodology:1.

Filed under Pennsylvania by TaniaGail The White House is ramping up its message machine to ram government health care through Congress. While Obama diddles in Denmark, two trial lawyers for Obama have concocted a response to a bi-weekly show (Senate Doctors Show) hosted by Repulican Senators Coburn and Barrasso – both are physicians.

The White House is ramping up its message machine to ram government health care through Congress. While Obama diddles in Denmark, two trial lawyers for Obama have concocted a response to a bi-weekly show (Senate Doctors Show) hosted by Repulican Senators Coburn and Barrasso – both are physicians. Politico reports Secretary Sebelius and Senator Whitehouse – both are trial lawyers, not physicians – have crafted their own internet show to respond to Senators Coburn and Barrasso informative health care show.

A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows that a sizable number of Americans aren’t too thrilled with the President’s decision to get personally involved in the Olympic city selection process: Forty-three percent (43%) of Americans say it’s a bad idea for President Obama to go overseas at this time to help Chicago make its final presentation to the International Olympic Committee. But 36% disagree and think it’s a good move on the president’s part.

October 1, 2009 in ObamaNation, Politics | Tags: Anti-gun, Capitol Hill, Cloture, Corruption, Gun Control, Joe Lieberman, ObamaCare, Procedural vote, Senate, Tricks, Washington Corruption From Gun Owners of America:Charles Babington of the Associated Press reported yesterday about the Senate Democratic leadership’s latest sleazy maneuver to pass the anti-gun health care bill. And this is contemptible even by their admittedly low standards:White House and Democratic officials are quietly talking

In a recent letter to its customers, Medicare provider Humana urged its customers to contact their elected officials and express their worries about the fact that the most recent healthcare bill would eliminate important services currently available to seniors under the Medicaid Advantage program. Humana also created a website and a toll-free number to call [...]

If you think that Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck, and other pundit blowhards have even the slightest influence on the American cultural or political landscapes, then you’re reading way to many American political blogs. It’s impossible to say this too many times: there’s a whole wide world of people out there who really couldn’t give a rat’s ass about medicare reform in America, or what happens inside the Washington Beltway, or anywhere else in America for that matter.

Democrats may be blindsided by the whole debate, unless they start thinking about it now. Because they can be out there saying “things are great!” but unless they prepare for an onslaught of a perennial Republican refrain (”tax-and-spend Democrats!”), then Democrats run the risk of appearing all over the map on the tax issue at precisely the time when voters are making up their minds whether to send them back to Washington or not.

James Pethokoukis has a rather alarming column adding up signs that Obama may propose a European-style Value Added Tax . All trial-balloon tea-leaf reading at this stage, but at a minimum he definitely identifies a coordinated groundswell among people with the Administration’s ear. A VAT is arguably not as bad as our current system in terms of economic incentives, but (1) it’s more insidious politically - people feel the pain of income taxes directly, so they’re harder to raise; and (2) it’s likely that if Obama did push a VAT, it would be in addition to the taxes we already have.

Terry Jones of Investors Business Daily reports that 45% of physicians will quit their practice if the health care reform passes. Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were adopted, a new IBD/TIPP Poll has found. The poll contradicts the claims of not only the White House, but also doctors’ own lobby — the powerful American Medical Association — both of which suggest the medical profession is behind the proposed overhaul.

I posted last week on how the White House, starting last May, organized a grassroots lobbying campaign with the arts community in support of ObamaCare. Yosi Sergant, a former White House staffer who had recently moved over to the National Endowment for the Arts, was ultimately scape-goated and lost his job. But there should be no doubt that the White House, through the Office of Public Engagement, was completely behind this entire effort.

The so-called health care debacle, I mean debate. Is flush with partisan politics that have little if anything at all to do with health. With a fresh infusion of Chicago style politics this is becoming one of the biggest, if not most widespread scandal that has been seen in American politics in years… So what if ACORN changed it’s name? The words is out… the game is played… the man behind the curtain has been exposed… and it’s now as plain as the nose on your face.  Obama and the leftists in Congress don’t want you to know what’s in ObamaCare… they just made it clear that they just may try to hide all the sordid details from you .

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To cleanse the palate, operatic human tragedy courtesy of the hottest video on the web. Only one thing could have made my own epic athletic failure as a child burn more intensely than it did, and that’s having it preserved on YouTube for the cackling amusement of the entire country. Weep for this poor lamebrained kid.Exit question: Is this a metaphor for ObamaCare and 2010?

The media is ignoring S. 2028, the flu pandemic bill that was unanimously passed by the Massachusetts Senate TODAY. It will allow authorities to forcefully quarantine citizens in the event of a health emergency, compel health providers to vaccinate citizens, authorize forceful entry into private dwellings and destruction of citizen property and impose fines on [...]

1. To show that $50 billion bailout was really good for the economy, GM decided to shut down its Saturn plant. Bye-bye 13,000 direct jobs and 350 dealerships.GM would have done this without the $50 billion.This is what happens when you hire as treasury secretary a man who is too dumb to figure out Turbo tax.They have lost their minds in Washington.EVIL.2. Line of the day, from Glenn Reynolds: “Living without a pulse. No, it’s not about the Senate Ethics Committee.”GOOD.3.

The full quote from our Jessica Corry’s HumanEvents.com piece is, “ The Canada Health Act is responsible for more pain, more suffering, and more death than any other piece of domestic legislation in history,” he said. “Imagine a law that prevents you from taking care of yourself and preventing your own death.” That powerful quote comes from Rick Baker, a Canadian who helps fellow Canadians escape south to us in the States to get the medical care they need.

G reg Sargent and Adam Serwer’s (as well as liberal donation cheque books) have reacted approvingly to Rep. Alan Grayson’s, “the GOP wants you to die quickly” comments in regards to GOP foot dragging and obstructionism on health care reform. Said Sargent , What’s really going on is that the Dem rank and file, radicalized by years of watching Dems cowed by Republican rhetoric on patriotism, national security, and many other issues, just want to see Dems show some fight and some fearlessness, and not back down every time Republicans say “boo.” It’s really that simple.

As a resident of Taxachusetts my fellow residents can attest to what ObamaCare has in store for the rest of America. A lesson in RomneyCare is also a lesson in the danger of relying on so-called fiscal conservatives Republicans who will sell their allegiances in a heartbeat to further their political agendas. Beware of Romney and beware of Obama(Romney)Care. Primarily RomneyCare set out to cover our uninsured and while the jury is still out on how many remain uninsured, most will agree that a large number of people are now covered.

“America’s elderly are finally realizing that President Barack Obama’s healthcare changes are largely financed by cuts in Medicare and are rallying against his proposals in increasing numbers. The latest poll by Scott Rasmussen not only shows national opposition to Obamacare rising — now it is 41 percent to 56 percent against — but also shows the elderly moving against it even more strongly by 33-59 or almost 2-1. And well they should. Three-quarters of Obamacare is to be financed by slashing $500 billion from Medicare over the next 10 years.

“It’s so easy for me to fly for less, it’s like taking candy from a helpless baby! I spend almost next to nothing on all my travels, and my jaw drops every time as I watch what others just like you are paying for your tickets. At last, the shocking truth will be revealed in my explosive guide on how to travel for less - the same guide that my ex-boss is having nightmares about every day!”…Click Here! While you and I have been lounging around waiting for old folks to die needlessly because we’re against Obamacare, Michelle Obama has been doing the hard work on our behalf.

While you and I have been lounging around waiting for old folks to die needlessly because we’re against Obamacare, Michelle Obama has been doing the hard work on our behalf. She’s visiting Copenhagen . In her speech in Copenhagen today, First Lady Michelle Obama said her trip to Denmark, along with the travel of her “dear friend” and “chit-chat buddy” Oprah Winfrey, as well as tomorrow’s visit by President Obama, is a “sacrifice” on behalf of the children of Chicago and the United States.

The Washington Post offers some hard reality regarding Barack Obama’s never ending refrain that government-run health care won’t cut benefits for seniors. The Senate Finance committee, chaired by Max Baucus (D-MT), is proposing altering the popular Medicare Advantage program, which is an HMO-type program for seniors, in order to pay for whatever health care plan emerges from the upper chamber. The Post has performed an examination on this idea: The original idea was that such programs would be more efficient, and therefore cost less, than conventional Medicare.

Sick bastards Moron Hollyweirdos Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell Here’s your answer… Talking back to “Hollyweird” Blowhards So.  What’s the constitutionality of ObamaCare?

Comment: There are five opinion pieces picked for you today. 1) Corkery, for the WSJ, does a review of Paul Volcker on Charlie Rose. 2) Paul Hsieh, for Christian Science Monitor, issues a warning call concerning using the Massachusetts health care plan as a model for the nation. 3) Another healthcare article, this by Lawrence Delevingne for Business Insider, on out-of-control lobbyists and healthcare.

By Jennifer Haberkorn / The Washington TimesSenator Michael Crapo, Idaho, RepublicanSenate Republicans accused Democrats of violating President Obama’s campaign pledge not to impose new taxes on families making less than $250,000 in order to pass health care reform.They argue that proposed fines for failure to purchase health insurance and a reduction in the tax break available for medical expenses will amount to new taxes on all Americans, including the middle class.The Senate Finance Committee voted down a Republican proposal that would eliminate any new fees or taxes imposed on individuals making less than $200,000 or families making under $250,000.

I have to confess to finding these videos on the Gina Cobb blog (she’s excellent!). The vids contain horror stories by Canadians’ revealing the truth about their nationalized health care system. The speakers give you a sobering glimpse of life–and death–under Obamacare:

  President Barack Obama and his friends in Congress are running multiple con jobs in the nation’s capital, but don’t expect to hear about it from most of the homers for Big Government in the liberal media. The Media is letting Obama deceive the American people Just as some sports reporters never say anything bad about the home team, too many journalists see no evil at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue these days. Take the health care debate.

All of us have long known that poverty in America isn’t like poverty anywhere else in the world.  There really isn’t anything here comparable to the poverty in Haiti, or Calcutta, or large swathes of Africa.  Even poor people have televisions and phones.  And it’s apparent that a surprising number of people who are living on the thin edge economically still find money, not just for basic cell phones, but for fancy ones with lots of service; and are able to buy, not just basic clothes, but status conscious name brands.  Even when one is poor, one still makes choices.

October 1, 2009Leave a commentGo to comments Eagle Forum Action Alert The Senate Finance Committee is set to resume its consideration of the health care plan outlined by Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) today.Those in the mainstream media and Senator Baucus himself have tried to market this supposedly “new” plan as a more moderate, bi-partisan compromise, however, no other members of the negotiating “Gang of Six,” or any other U.S. Senator for that matter, was willing to stand beside Sen.

Michael Moore apparently stopped by a rally at the offices of Public Citizen yesterday to draw a line in the sand for any Democrats who oppose a government-run insurance plan as part of the ObamaCare legislation. See The Washington Post.“I and a lot of other people have every intention of removing you from Congress in the next election if you stand in the way of health-care legislation that the people want,” the beefy filmmaker roared.

Digging deep for nice things to say about the president, Charles Krauthammer offers: I will give him credit for one other thing, for having so depleted his political capital on health care that he really doesn’t have the charisma and political resources now to do a lot of mischief. Well, ObamaCare isn’t dead yet, but if one accepts that far less than what Obama’s liberal base had hoped for will get accomplished, it is worth examining exactly what Obama “lost” along the way to whatever face-saving, public-option-less health-care measure we wind up with.

I’m not sure that I like this line of thinking, but I’m starting to think that it’s true, so I’ll put it out there and see what people make of it in debate. It’s starting to look fairly certain that while a bill called “health care reform” will pass the congress and be signed some time before the 2010 elections (because the administration needs to sign something, even if it’s a fig leaf that does little and doesn’t go into effect until after 2012) what passes will not in any sense be a “comprehensive” health care reform package.

By now you’ve probably seen the public service announcement in which a gaggle of highly paid Hollywood actors (including Hiro from “Heroes”. WTF???) tell you how important it is to support ObamaCare. It was produced by actor Will Ferrell and MoveOn.org. God help us all. Now there’s a video retort…

Welcome to the finally-back-from-out–of-town edition: National Science Foundation: NSF or NSFW? What next for the public option? Chicagoans pretty pumped about maybe getting the Olympic Games. Palin is No. 1. Entrepreneur brings Costco to Manhattan. “In five or six or seven years,” said Christoph Westphal, Sirtris’s other co-founder, “there will be drugs that prolong longevity.” Nonsense, we can slow that down with Obamacare, for sure.

It looks like Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty is getting ready to run for President: Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has been quietly assembling the blueprint of a presidential campaign and will announce Thursday the support of a group of high-level political strategists and donors, complemented by a handful of top new media consultants, POLITICO has learned. Pawlenty, under the radar of D.C.’s political community, has locked up some of the key operatives who engineered then-President George W.

If there was any doubt in your mind that the mainstream media in the United States is bias toward the political left the very fact that two of the major broadcast networks in America recently refused to air any ads that were not favorable to ObamaCare should erase even the slightest among those doubts.

It’s hard to keep up with all the issues and facts in the Health Care Reform debates. Will reform kill Granny? Am I going to die while waiting for an MRI the way they do in Canada and Britain? Will we end up a socialist atheist society where soda and potato chips are taxed to pay for Obamacare? And what about those White House deals with PHARMA? Will the pharmaceutical industry go bankrupt and will we all die if we don’t PHARMA everything they demand? These are difficult questions and to be honest, it’s all just driving us crazy.

Senate Finance Committee Democrats killed an amendment by Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that would have required illegal aliens prove their identity with photo identification when signing up for federal healthcare programs. Given the high number of false and/or stolen identities these people have access to what the hell were they thinking? It appears Joe Wilson was right. Si? Without that requirement, the bill “remains dearly lacking when it comes to identification,” Grassley said.

I’ve been thinking a lot about responses to my post regarding the gal who is running for town council, the one who donated to Obama, and who nevertheless seems to be a fiscal conservative.  I asked how she can live with the cognitive dissonance.  Several of you pointed out, in one form or another, that it’s not cognitive dissonance if you don’t know facts sufficient to create that dissonance.  In other words, if this gal lives in the traditional liberal world, watching CNN or MSNBC, listening

Will an Administration which campaigned on the principle of transparency stoop to such a low? You bet they will! “ Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.” – Barack Hussein Obama, January 21 , 2009 Readers may also recall this promise which Obama made repeatedly during the campaign: To achieve health care reform, “I’m going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We’ll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators.

The health care industry has found another way to influence Obamacare: get their lobbyists to donate to the same politicians they do. A new report highlights just how hard the industry is going after key members of Congress as final decisions are made on health care reform. And it shows how the influence of a company can be multiplied by bundling contributions from the many K-Street influencers they employ.

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Hollywood and MoveOn.org had their say.Now, Americans who don’t drink the Obamacare kool-aid have theirs. Kudos!

How’s that party-switcheroo working out for Sen. Arlen Specter? Not so well, Politico reports: Don’t look now, but Pennsylvania GOP Senate hopeful Pat Toomey has erased Arlen Specter’s once-20-point lead and is now in a statistical dead heat with the Republican-turned-Democrat.A new Q Poll has the former congressman up by a 43-to-42 percent margin, within the poll’s margin of error—and virtually the same as Quinnipiac’s July survey. In May, right after Toomey drove him out of the GOP, Specter led by 20 points.

by Scott Gottlieb at The Wall Street Journal President Barack Obama deflects criticism that his health-care plan will bring on government rationing of medical care by arguing that insurance companies ration care. Everyone knows private payers limit access to some health care. But government does it in far more byzantine and arbitrary ways. Consider the $450 billion Medicare program. It provides a model for—indeed its bureaucracy could well end up running—the “public option” health plan that Mr.

by Ann Coulter at Townhall.com (This article is the sixth in a series. Click here for part one and part two, part three, part four and part five.) (17) America’s low ranking on international comparisons of infant mortality proves other countries’ socialist health care systems are better than ours. America has had a comparatively high infant mortality rate since we’ve been measuring these things, going back to at least the ’20s. This was the case long before European countries adopted their cradle-to-grave welfare schemes and all while the U.S.

In a roundtable with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer yesterday, Democratic freshman congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) had another episode of diarrhea of the mouth. Earlier this week on the house floor he accused republicans of wanting sick Americans to “die quickly.” He was quickly rebuked by Indiana 5th district congressman Dan Burton. During the discussion with Blitzer, Grayson said that Republicans are “foot-dragging, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.” So now, we’re apelike.

This is an article written by Paul Waldman for the THE AMERICAN PROSPECT that has the best explanation available on what the public option is, and what it will and will not do. Please note that this article is more than 10 months old (December 23, 2008), obviously written before the new Congress and President Obama were sworn into office. Foretelling the opposition to the public option by insurance companies and their (mainly) Republican allies in Congress, Mr.

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There are many reasons to oppose greater government influence over our lives.  We’ve pointed out over and over that government doesn’t do anything efficiently from delivering mail to running railroads.  Government waste has been with us since the dawn of time; it’s not news, it’s merely inconvenient.

Public Option Distortions and the Dangers of the Individual MandatePosted by SteveElliott on September 30, 2009 at 9:17am View Steve Elliott’s blog The Left Is Distracting Us From The Real Danger Of ObamaCare On September 29, the Senate Finance Committee staged two votes on adding the “public option” to the Baucus version of ObamaCare. I say “staged” because Senate Democrats fully expected both amendments to fail. That was their plan.

Remember this whenever a New York Times/CBS poll, or for that matter a Washington Post/ABC or a WSJ/NBC survey, attempts to declare what Americans think on politics while featuring double-digit differences between Democrats and Republicans.  A large-scale survey by Gallup of over 5,000 adults shows that the lead Democrats enjoyed over Republicans during the last year of the Bush administration has deflated significantly, and is at its narrowest since 2005:In the third quarter of this year, 48% of Americans identified politically as Democrats or said they were independent but leaned to the Democratic Party.

I wanted to pick up on your point, Jen , regarding Democrat Alan Grayson, who in the context of the health-care debate accused Republicans of wanting people to “die quickly” and, when asked whether he should apologize, said , “I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven’t voted sooner to end this holocaust in America.” For the record, and for those keeping count, Democrats have now accused critics of ObamaCare of perpetrating “lies” (President Obama), of being “evil-mongers” (Harry Reid), of using “un-American” tactics (Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer), of being members of “the mob” (DNC video), and have likened them to the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh (Brian Baird).

Only 29% of American voters strongly approve President Barack Obama’s performance.. Photo by White House.The Rasmussen Reports daily presidential tracking poll for today shows that 29% of American voters strongly approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President, 37% strongly disapprove, giving Obama a presidential approval index rating of -8.Only 33% say the nation is generally heading in the right direction.Overall, 50% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the

Firing a red-hot cannon blast at both parties and the excesses of America’s capitalist system, filmmaker Michael Moore’s latest documentary “ Capitalism: A Love Story ” is also his most stylistically and emotionally mature work to date. Launching with a string of film clips that parallel the fall of the Roman Empire to our present societal hot mess, the film serves up big laughs with its harrowing vision of just how far off the rails our present economic crisis has taken the nation.  Moore

A story earlier this week about a proposed tax deduction for pet expenses got me thinking about tax reform.  Every election cycle politicians of all stripes talk about simplifying the tax code or reforming the process, and yet the last time any serious effort was undertaken by Congress on this issue was over two decades ago — and it fell far short of success in the long term.  We spend over $250 billion a year in tax preparation and possibly more than twice that on tax compliance, according to

You remember Democrat Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida. A month ago, he was taking refuge in a union hall to shill for Obamacare in a cowardly last-minute meeting with angry constituents.As you know, he has now traveled down Demagoguery Road and accused Republicans of wanting sick Americans to “DIE QUICKLY.”The diarrhea of the mouth continued yesterday with Grayson trashing his political opponents as “knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.”The Democrat etiquette police, of course, are nowhere to be found.More

The massive, swaggering, greasy hypocrisy of Harry Reid knows no bounds. His ego is matched only by his corruption. For his latest shenanigans, which includes exempting Nevada from the costly parts of ObamaCare and shifting that burden elsewhere, this article on Politico.

President Obama made a huge blunder this summer when he said government run health care could never compete with private health care – and then compared Fed Ex/UPS to the US Post Office. He rightfully noticed USPS is in constant financial trouble and would probably be out of business if it had to compete with the myriad of private options. Back then, the evil of ‘profit’ was not such a big deal as it is today with the government run option facing rising opposition.