Posts about Obama Health Care Failure as of October 28, 2009

By Patrick J. Buchanan, CNSNews,  October 27, 2009   Patrick J. Buchanan “Sometimes party loyalty asks too much,” said JFK.   For Sarah Palin, party loyalty in New York’s 23 rd congressional district asks too much. Going rogue, Palin endorsed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman over Republican Dede Scozzafava.   On Oct. 1, Scozzafava was leading. Today, she trails Democrat Bill Owens and is only a few points ahead of Hoffman, as Empire State conservatives defect to vote their principles, not their party.

New York Times — U.S. to Protect Populous Afghan Areas, Officials Say At what point does dithering become stalling? It’s already the deadliest month for U.S. forces since the November 2001 invasion of Afghanistan—eight more GIs were killed in bombings Tuesday to bring the total to 55. Taliban militants brazenly attacked the UN compound in downtown Kabul and across the border in Pakistan, suspected Talibani killed at least 90 people with a marketplace bomb on the day that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived to try to soothe anti-American sentiments.

Sadly, for America, it looks like some version of Obamacare will be a reality. The wishes of the citizens don’t matter, for we have a man in the White House who was suckled on the milk of radical socialism.

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Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Former Congressman Duncan L. Hunter was kind enough to interrupt his hunting and fishing vacation in Idaho once more to call in and answer a few more questions. Unfortunately, he has been mostly out in the woods and has paid scant attention to the political news of the last couple weeks. He’s actually enjoying that aspect almost as much as bagging elk and landing steelhead. This series will continue, whether he’s on vacation or not, during the weeks ahead.

While the wonks are hand-wringing over “public options,” state-subsidized abortions, and coverage for illegal aliens, the more pressing health care reform issue has gone unaddressed in Washington. To wit:  What about plastic surgery?  Will my shiny new health care plan come with cosmetic coverage? Because right now I’m young and well, and so I have no use for, say, a new knee … but a new nose? That I could use.

No Free Lunch: The True Cost of ObamaCare Report Released Source: National Center for Public Policy Research Far from providing “affordable” care for everyone, ObamaCare would result in higher insurance premiums, more and higher taxes, fewer jobs, lower wages, a reduced standard of living and an erosion of privacy and individual liberty. This is the conclusion of a new report, “No Free Lunch: The True Cost of ObamaCare,” by policy analyst Matt Patterson, just released by the National Center for Public Policy Research.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln says she’s reluctant to support health care legislation that would include a government-funded insurance option.Related Posts:Politico — Charles Schumer guarantees passage of DC-run government health careHealth care, “public option” is like Sesame Street: One of these things is not like the other — Charles StewartPelosi: There will be public option in House health care billInvestor’s Business Daily: Doctors Fight BackDave Helling on Pat Roberts,

States like Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts and New Hampshire that have imposed ObamaCare-style regulations have seen premiums jump for everyone. If people can wait to get sick until they obtain insurance, fewer healthy people will carry insurance. The cost of an older, sicker insurance pool naturally rises. To prevent this spiral of “adverse selection,” ObamaCare imposes a mandate requiring all adults to buy insurance. But Senate Finance Committee Dems — sensitive to its politically unpalatable requirements and fines — watered it down.This only stokes the cost problem.

Okay, all you TEA Party protesters, 9-12ers, independents, Constitution Party, Libertarians, etc. people out there, here is the chance you have been asking about and waiting for. This is where the rubber meets the road. You either walk your talk or go back to being controlled by the establishment, knowing you did not do when you were actually given a chance to do. Your choice, it is either the red pill or the blue pill.

October 27, 2009 Another pig gets caught on talk radio – only he said it a month ago. Imagine what they say when they’re sure no one’s listening. It’s the same Democrat, Rep Alan Grayson (R-FL), who on the House floor, dramatically revealed the Republican’s healthcare plan, which he basically equated to death panels. REP GRAYSON: The Republican’s healthcare [...]

Dem Rep. Alan Grayson Stands by “K Street Whore” Comment Outspoken Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson is under fire from both Republicans and Democrats after a month-old radio interview was posted online in which Grayson is heard calling an adviser to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke a “K Street whore.” You can hear Grayson making the comment about the Bernanke adviser, who is named Linda Robertson, here. “This lobbyist, this K street whore, is trying to teach me about economics,” he said.

Senator “I Caucus With The Democrats Unless There Is An Opportunity To Become Even More Famous By Abandoning My Principles” Lieberman Promises To Stand In The Way Of Senator Harry Reid, President Obama And The American People By Opposing Healthcare Reform… I doubt even very many… 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!

From Flopping AcesMan, the lefties must really be hating Liebeman nowadays:“We’re trying to do too much at once,” Lieberman said. “To put this government-created insurance company on top of everything else is just asking for trouble for the taxpayers, for the premium payers and for the national debt. I don’t think we need it now.”…Lieberman did say he’s “strongly inclined” to vote to proceed to the debate, but that he’ll ultimately vote to block a floor vote on the bill if it isn’t changed first…“I can’t see a way in which I could vote for cloture on any bill that contained a creation of a government-operated-run insurance company,” Lieberman added.

from Michelle MalkinDoug Powers takes a closer look at Harry Reid’s state opt-out sop.There’s no there there: I haven’t seen this section of the bill, but one thing is certain: It will be easier to get Michael Moore through the eye of a needle that for states to opt out of Obamacare. There will be countless additional funding measures attached so as to ensure that if states opt out, they’ll go even more broke than they already are.

But today, I’ve found interest. Robert Stacy McCain : Today, I had the same reaction when I found a couple of commenters squabbling about Hoffman’s position on immigration. Here’s the thing: What’s the deluxe enchilada plate we’re looking at now? ObamaCare. If that passes, we’re doomed. Period. Good-bye, US of A. Hello, Sweden. Doug Hoffman is a sworn opponent of ObamaCare. If a guy like that wins, in an underdog third-party bid where nobody gave him a snowball’s chance two weeks ago, what’s the message? The message is that Democrats had better watch out in 2010.

According to insider reports, Speaker Pelosi faces a divided Democratic party and can’t muster the 218 votes she needs to pass the House version of ObamaCare, including a new government owned and operated insurance company. Democrats know most Americans, for good reason, distrust massive government run schemes, so they’ve tried to minimize the blow-back by pasting a lipstick label on their government run insurance pig: “the public option.” But six months of acrimonious debate and chaos in Congress have made cynics of even the most naive citizens.  Some 40 – 50 Democrats believe their constituents will dump them next Novermber if they vote yes on”the public option.

When you add Lieberman’s threat with Olympia Snowe’s vow to vote no on any opt-out public option it equals 41 votes. “We’re trying to do too much at once,” Lieberman said. “To put this government-created insurance company on top of everything else is just asking for trouble for the taxpayers, for the premium payers and for the national debt.

“For, according to Gallup, 40 percent of Americans now identify as conservatives — only 20 percent as Republicans. If the GOP is not the conservative party, it will never be America’s Party. But what does ‘conservative’ mean in 2009? And where do conservatives come down on the great issues? For what the right is against — any repeal of the Bush tax cuts, the $787 billion stimulus, Obamacare — is much clearer than what the right stands for.

CNSNews.com reports : Rep. Bart Stupak (D.-Mich.) told CNSNews.com that President Barack Obama told him in a telephone conversation that when he said in his Sept. 9 speech to a joint session of Congress that “under our plan no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions” he was not talking about the actual bill drafted in the House but about the president’s own health care plan—which has never been written .

Verrrry curious given that most of the other numbers on ObamaCare are either flat or getting worse. Support for the plan is negative at 38/42 (last month it was 39/41), many more think the quality of health care will get worse than get better (40/21 versus 36/19 last month), and 47 percent think costs will go up versus just 13 percent who think they’ll go down. Obama’s handling of the issue stands at 43/48, which is also a slight decline from last month.

Looks like hangdog Harry’s Reid’s public government consumer socialist zombie option is on the ropes again. Democratic moderates who control the balance of power on health care legislation balked Tuesday at a government-run insurance option for millions of Americans, underscoring the enormity of the challenge confronting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid one day after he unveiled the plan as a consensus product. Republican opposition stiffened, and party leaders announced they would attempt to strangle the bill before formal debate begins.

As Obama tears apart our economy and uses (so-called) Stimulus Bill money like it was his own, shreds Small Businesses and has no answer to Afghanistan, he has time to seek to support a Liberal Democrat’s bid for a Governor’s Office in states that supported him in 2008. At the same time Joe Biden, our very weak Vice President, opens a new GM plant in his home town; Barney Franks  states his desire to grow government as he talks down Free Enterprise; Harry ‘Hands Up’ Reid bows to the will of

He’s not in favor of the public option at all:”We’re trying to do too much at once,” Lieberman said. “To put this government-created insurance company on top of everything else is just asking for trouble for the taxpayers, for the…

As the various health care reform bills swirl around the Capitol, it seems that the Democrats have reached unanimous agreement on only one point: Whatever legislation they finally enact will not take effect until 2013. This approach seems backward and defies common sense. When a company or a military unit or a head of household faces a serious obstacle, don’t they usually consider all the options, consult whatever experienced experts they can find, make a decision, and only then take action.

Posted in Anti-Capitalism, Barack Obama, Delusional Dupes and DUmmies, Democrats, Economy, Government, Government corruption, Government malfeasance/misfeasance, Healthcare, House, Journalistic Malpractice, Liberal Media/Bias, Liberal World, President, Senate, conservative, liberalism-By Warner Todd HustonThe Associated Press posted an interesting piece revealing that the health insurance industry is far from the image that Democrats and other leftists want to present.

Posted in Anti-Capitalism, Barack Obama, Delusional Dupes and DUmmies, Democrats, Economy, Government, Government corruption, Healthcare, House, Liberal World, President, Senate, conservative, liberalism-By Warner Todd HustonDoctor Jacquelline Perlman has had it. After a 12-year career as an OB-GYN doctor she his quitting her practice. One of the major reasons is the exorbitant costs of malpractice insurance. “I’ve decided to retire from obstetrics,” said Perlman, 42. “It breaks my heart.

USA Today reported that the General Accounting Office looked into Medicaid fraud and found “about 1,800 prescriptions written for dead patients and 1,200 prescriptions ‘written’ by dead physicians.”Now all this is fun and games until one realizes that the dead doctors are writing prescriptions for Oxycodone and the like, medications that become Hillbilly Heroin on the black market.So how was this report of massive fraud and criminality within the government-run, socialist Medicaid program spun?USA Today reported:The report, by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), represents “an enormous opportunity to save money,” says Sen.

It’s starting to look like the Democrats don’t have the votes for the public option.  An internal Democrat memo today shows that the Democrats in the House of Representatives have less than 200 of the 218 votes needed to pass Health Care Reform with a public option.  Similarly, in the Senate, Joe Lieberman announced today that he would join a filibuster of any Health Care Reform Bill that contained a public option .  This, along with Olympia Snowe’s declaration that she will not support Harry Reid’s Public Option, means no public option in the Senate, either.  This doesn’t even take into account Sens.

Miscellany on this warm autumn Tuesday in Des Moines.  Sunny fall days are awesome! Al Mohler: The Idolatrous Religion of Conscience – A Lutheran Lesson for Us All Sarah Palin: East Coast Races Impact All Americans WSJ: Is ObamaCare Pro-Life? by James Freeman Annuit Coeptis: Sarah Palin’s Call to Arms (HT: Josh Painter ) Tim Challies: Sex Detox -  Pornifying the Marriage Bed and Breaking Free George Will: The Bachmann burr (HT: Wintery Knight )

Couple this with Hoffman’s maybe-yes-maybe-no lead in NY-23 and you’ve got the makings of a conservative thunderbolt next week, which would be spectacular in how it might affect the health-care debate. Christie doesn’t even have to win his race to throw a scare into the Blue Dogs; the fact that he’s ahead this late in a deep blue state despite his own less-than-scintillating appeal should be enough.

The Hill reports that Senator Joe Lieberman announced Tuesday that he will not vote for a health care reform bill that includes a government-run insurance plan. This means that as things now stand, Democrats will not have enough votes to pass healthcare reform with a so-called public option unless Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) can pick up unexpected GOP votes. Sen.

Combine this with Snowe’s declaration that she’s not voting for any opt-out public option either and you’ve got 41 votes to kill it. And maybe, given the rumblings coming from Blue Dogs like Ben Nelson and Landrieu, a few more than that.I’ve got a crazy hunch that the media’s strange new respect for free-thinkin’ independent-minded centrists like Snowe and Susan Collins won’t be extended to Joe Liebs.“We’re trying to do too much at once,” Lieberman said.

The more fiscal details of the healthcare bills emerge, the more appalling they seem. The Senate Finance Committee bill includes a broad provision taxing all manner of medical devices. This tax includes such frivolous luxuries as pacemakers, stents, artificial heart valves, defibrillators, automated wheelchairs, mechanized artificial limbs, replacement hips and knees, surgical gurneys, laparoscopic equipment, and the like .

Stumbled across two pieces (of course) well-worth the reads at Big Hollywood. Now, I’m NOT a big TV watcher anymore. Haven’t been for s few years now. Have Fox News on in the background most of the day, and will tune into Cold Case in first runs on Sunday nights (CBS), and in reruns on various stations. Usually I have the case solved before the end of the first half hour. Anyhow, I’ve also gotten (unfortunately) hooked on ABC’s “FlashForward” … which, I think, I may also have figured out … but won’t spoil it for anyone.

Krugman: Obamacare Will Work, Just Like It Does In Massachusetts: Everyone and his mother wants HIS hospital cl.. http://bit.ly/4tdMV7 Share and Enjoy:

So much for Harry Reid’s stunt. Politico reports: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill. Lieberman, who caucuses with Democrats and is positioning himself as a fiscal hawk on the issue, said he opposes any health care bill that includes a government-run insurance program — even if it includes a provision allowing states to opt out of the program, as Reid’s has said the Senate bill will.

October 27th, 2009 Comment On: Josh Gerstein in POLITICO: A four-hour stop in New Orleans, on his way to a $3 million fundraiser. Snubbing the Dalai Lama. Signing off on a secret deal with drug makers.Freezing out a TV network. Doing more fundraisers than the last president. More golf, too.President Barack Obama has done all of those things — and more.What’s remarkable is what hasn’t happened. These episodes haven’t become metaphors for Obama’s personal and political character — or consuming controversies that sidetracked the rest of his agenda.

Three posts at Memeorandum today: here , here and here .  The articles? Brian Beutler at TPMDC: Lieberman: Sure, I’d Filibuster A Health Care Reform Bill Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) told reporters today that he would in fact filibuster any health care bill he doesn’t agree with—and right now, he doesn’t agree with the proposal making its way through the Senate. [...] Manu Raju at Politico: Lieberman: I’ll filibuster Reid plan Sen.

From the Desk of: Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org Alliance     As I write, Ron De Jong and dozens of Grassfire friends     are on Capitol Hill delivering petitions and visiting Senate     offices. Ron tells me the resistance to our grassroots efforts     is growing as the healthcare votes near. See below.                                  –Steve Desert Conservative Visitor, Yesterday, Harry Reid announced that his super-secret (yet-to- be-revealed) version of ObamaCare will, in fact, include the public option.

By PoliPundit ~ October 27th, 2009 @ 11:32 am Why would Harry Reid include a public option in his bill, knowing that Olympia Snowe was very much against it, and Joe Lieberman had vowed to filibuster it?Either Reid is the worst vote counter in the world, or there’s something else at work… Does Harry Reid want to lose on Obamacare?There is no other explanation for pushing a bill that he knows cannot be passed.There are reasons for Reid to want to lose. Passing Obamacare would probably cost Democrats quite severely in the 2010 elections.

Right to Work President Mark Mix explains the forced unionism provisions buried deep within health care reform bills.

By PoliPundit ~ October 27th, 2009 @ 11:16 am Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT), on Harry Reid’s version of Obamacare:“I told Senator Reid that I’m strongly inclined–i haven’t totally decided, but I’m strongly inclined–to vote to proceed to the health care debate, even though I don’t support the bill that he’s bringing together because it’s important that we start the debate on health care reform because I want to vote for health care reform this year.

16 top physicians assembled by patient advocate Dr. Betsy McCaughey speak out against the Democrats’ health care reform and explain why it endangers their most vulnerable patients.

A friend of mine asked me if I had seen” CSI: Miami” last week. I had not, but he suggested I take a look. He thought I might find something interesting. Warning: Spoiler Alert. Not all television shows have blatant straw men capitalists cast as Beelzebub incarnate. In fact, many stay away from this topic. Although I have not done a count, there are still too many of these shows.

-By Warner Todd Huston Doctor Jacquelline Perlman has had it. After a 12-year career as an OB-GYN doctor she his quitting her practice. One of the major reasons is the exorbitant costs of malpractice insurance . “I’ve decided to retire from obstetrics,” said Perlman, 42. “It breaks my heart. Malpractice costs are a big part of it. It’s a very sad story.” Last spring her insurer dropped her and several of her fellow doctors because of the high risk of covering OB-GYNs. Dr.

-By Warner Todd Huston The Associated Press posted an interesting piece revealing that the health insurance industry is far from the image that Democrats and other leftists want to present. Insurance companies are so often presented as rapacious, fat-cats ripping off all their customers and growing fat on profits. But the AP finds that reality does not quite fit the left-wing image. In fact, the insurance industry makes far less profits than other industries.

WAPO By Bill Kristol The Gallup poll released Monday shows the public’s conservatism at a high-water mark. Some 40 percent of Americans call themselves conservative, compared with 36 percent who self-describe as moderates and 20 percent as liberals. The conservative number is as high as it’s been in the two decades that Gallup has been asking the question. What’s more, fully 72 percent of Republicans say they’re conservative.

Yesterday, I wrote a post taking issue with right-wing outlets that were claiming that people were giving Matt Barber’s new book, ” The Right Hook: From The Ring To The Culture War ,” negative reviews without have read it, claiming that the book isn’t even going to be released until next week. As I noted, I  already received a copy that I ordered from Amazon last week.  But now that I’ve started to read it, I made an interesting discovery: namely, that anybody who has read his columns doesn’t need to actually read the book before they review it …

Many savvy observers don’t think Harry Reid knows what he’s doing on health care. The Wall Street Journal reports that “the final shape of the bill remains in doubt, and Republicans swiftly condemned the Reid plan.” Moreover, it isn’t at all clear that he has the votes: Republicans say they will filibuster the Senate motion to proceed to health-overhaul legislation. Assuming all Republicans join the filibuster attempt, Mr. Reid will need all 58 Democrats and two independents to overcome the filibuster and bring the bill to full debate on the floor.

Today’s Los Angeles Times describes the battle over New York’s 23 rd House Seat as the epicenter of a “GOP Mutiny.”  As I said on MSNBC Live Saturday morning, the media can call it what they will – mutiny, infighting, soul searching – it doesn’t change the underlying issue: conservatives are turned off by the status quo Republican Party.  And many New York voters are willing to throw their weight behind the more principled Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman even if it means turning their back on the GOP.

Rich Lowry: T he public option is back. Its Lazarus act is hailed as a sign of how rosy the health-care debate looks for Democrats. August is but a sepia-tinged memory. Passage of a sweeping bill is now considered a lock by the wisest and most conventional Beltway pundits. And legislation may even include the most shining prize of all, the public option that liberals — no matter what the talking points for public consumption — consider a way station to the Valhalla of a government-controlled system.

The U.S. Senate’s final version of health care reform will include a “public option” that allows the U.S. government to compete in a market that it also regulates – a move that could pave the way for nationalization of the health care industry in America. After two weeks of negotiations with Obama officials that were conducted behind closed doors, Senate President Harry Reid announced that the “public option” would be included in the bill, although he hinted that states might be permitted to “opt out” of that part of the plan.

So, I just found out today that a completely un- or under-publicised piece of legislation was signed into law by President Obama way back in June. You’d think that the Democrats would have been more vocal about having actually gotten something done all things considered. But no, this was kept pretty much under wraps, and the general public, myself included, has been nonethewiser.

I knew this was going to be a nix and ReidCo knows it as well.  It is just another Progressive POS coming to screw us all. Doug Powers: Reid Between the Lines: States Won’t Be Able to ‘Opt Out’ of Health Care Read this post: ReidCo and His Unconstitutional Plan [...] We ended that post with Obama not having aclue and now we have ReidCo the War Is Lost mutants saying what, now?  An opt out?  The States might opt out but what about the rest of us?  And then, the States will have to pay for it all anyway.  I don’t see that anywhere in the United States Constitution.  Do you? [...] From Doug Powers…

Doug Powers takes a closer look at Harry Reid’s state opt-out sop.There’s no there there:I haven’t seen this section of the bill, but one thing is certain: It will be easier to get Michael Moore through the eye of a needle that for states to opt out of Obamacare.There will be countless additional funding measures attached so as to ensure that if states opt out, they’ll go even more broke than they already are.Technically states can opt out of federal education guidelines and run their own public

If you want to read some scary stuff this Halloween, check out the latest “retirement risk” data compiled by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.  The National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI) focuses on data indicating how well-prepared American adults are for retirement. Here are some key NRRI findings and metrics and further commentary by Nationwide Insurance, the NRRI underwriter: Fifty-one percent of Americans would be unable to maintain their standard of living if they retired at age 65, compared with 44 percent in 2007.

The speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi, can’t believe someone would ask her where it says in the constitution Americans must be forced to buy health insurance – and certainly doesn’t think the question is worth answering. Posted in Democrats Tagged: Obamacare, The Constitution, Universal Health Care

*** WNO SOUNDBITE ADVISORY ***   Video: Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D. Says Government Bureaucrats Will Decide Your Health Care “What will happen, ultimately, is you will move to a public option which will decrease the number of people with private insurance, number two it’ll raise the cost of those that are left with private insurance, and ultimately a government bureaucrat will decide what kind of health care you get.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwB1SWwCJ8c   Who : Senator Tom Coburn, M.D.

“The nation does not need a ‘public option.’ As Senator Landrieu points out, the unsustainable public options we have are already rapidly driving the nation into bankruptcy.  What Congress ought to be focused on is entitlement reform, not entitlement expansion.” — ALG President Bill Wilson .

Health Insurance Mandates Could Leave Many Worse Off :  Americans seem to like the idea of broadening health insurance coverage, but they may not want to be forced to buy it. With health care costs high and rising, such government mandates would make many people worse off. A Clear-Eyed View of the Obama Regime :  Whether by ignorance or design, the first ten months of the Obama Administration have put the very security and prosperity of America in grave jeopardy.

In what seems to be a highly appropriate analogy, Betsy McCaughey reports that the Senate Finance Committee health bill released last week could turn seniors into clunkers – disabled, worn out patients, parked in wheelchairs or nursing homes , like used-up parts no longer needed or wanted ( my words not hers ). It controls doctors by cutting their pay if they give older patients more care than the government deems appropriate.

…The famous “46 million” is more like 10.6 million, and there are far better ways than Obamacare to provide for them — and the rest of us…. By Duncan Currie, National Review, October 26, 2009 T he American health-care debate is a blizzard of numbers, but few get tossed around as frequently as “46 million.” According to the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS), that’s roughly how many people (the more precise figure was 45.7 million) lacked health insurance at a given moment in 2007 — nearly one-sixth of the entire U.S.

Despite months of outcry from the public that we do not want government-controlled healthcare and sinking poll numbers, Senator Harry Reid has decided to go forward with the public option with a state opt out feature.  He has decided that the trigger idea that is supported by Republican Olympia Snowe will not be a part of the plan crafted by the Senate.Reid claimed that this is the “fairest way to go” and that “we are going to have to move forward on this.”  Between 56 and 57 Senators support this

In the latest poll from the “we-tried-our-hardest-to-boost-Deeds” Washington Post , Bob McDonnell leads now by 11 points in the Virginia gubernatorial race. And that’s not all: McDonnell holds double-digit advantages when it comes to dealing with the economy (plus 17 percentage points), transportation (16 points), taxes (25 points) and has overtaken Deeds as the one more trusted to handle issues of special concern to women (7 points).

I t’s quickly starting to appear that Newt flat-out blew it. .. along with the local GOP in NY-23 that saddled the district’s majority-conservative voters with the unfortunate choice of having to abandon the Republican candidate to get anything like what they want. Perhaps Gingrich was in a cave in North Korea or something when the TEA parties were raging across the country- he sure seems to have missed the message.

Just look at Amtrak for the reason why we should keep them as far away from our Health Care as we cam can manage as we know anything the government runs ends up in the red. And just who is it that ALWAYS gets the bill for these gargantuan mistakes with our money?  Well, In Amtrak’s case it’s you and me to the tune of about $32 freaking dollars for EVERY  SINGLE PASSENGER that rides the rail daily which includes the Vice President before he became the Vice President …EVERY SINGLE ONE we subsidize up their trip again chipping in close to $32 per passenger!! FOUR TIMES THEIR ESTIMATES BY THE WAY …!!! 41 of 44 Amtrak rail routes LOST MONEY.

Carly Fiorina watch: Former HP CEO heading to Coach Madden’s turf for her first play he’s got Hall of Famer former coach John Madden’s fancy Goal Line Productions in Pleasanton lined up, the invitations are out, and you can mark the date: almost exactly a year until the 2010 election, and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina looks ready to officially enter the U.S. Senate race against Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer. Our buddy Lisa Vorderbrueggen at the Contra Costa Times got the blast email from the Tri-Valley Business Council regarding a Nov.