December 4, 2013 – 9:16 am
I thought everyone was going to love this law? (CNN) Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, one of Obamacare’s architects and staunchest supporters, is also the only top congressional leader to exempt some of his staff from having to buy insurance through the law’s new exchanges. Reid and his personal staff will buy insurance through […]
December 4, 2013 – 6:53 am
No, really (The Hill) President Obama declared Tuesday that ObamaCare “is working” and that “we’re not going back,” as the White House looked to reboot its efforts to sell Americans on the president’s signature healthcare law. If he means that 5.5 million were supposed to lose their health insurance, that the bulk of people attempting […]
December 3, 2013 – 6:50 am
I wonder if he’ll mention the huge increases in premiums and deductibles, and that millions have lost their plans and doctors, with tens of millions scheduled to have the same happen to them? (The Hill) President Obama will hold an event Tuesday touting the benefits of the Affordable Care Act, as the White House looks […]
December 2, 2013 – 5:43 pm
The Washington Post’s Marc Thiessen echoes something I’ve been saying for weeks (though he gets paid to say it): it’s not the website Dems have to worry about Democrats are praying that this weekend’s relaunch of the Obamacare Web site will save them from an electoral bloodbath in 2014. Their hopes are misplaced. Here are […]
December 2, 2013 – 8:52 am
I have to hand it to him, this is a tough one for conservatives to carp against (USA Today) As a member of the Arizona Army National Guard, Gabriel Zermeño has been preparing for almost two years to be deployed oversees. But the country he signed up to defend also could one day deport his […]
November 30, 2013 – 2:55 pm
It’s all about shifting the goalposts (Washington Post) Administration officials are preparing to announce Sunday that they have met their Saturday deadline for improving HealthCare.gov, according to government officials, in part by expanding the site’s capacity so that it can handle 50,000 users at once. But they have yet to meet all their internal goals […]
November 29, 2013 – 10:57 am
Hey, this is what you Democrats voted for (CNN) Americans views on the state of the nation are turning increasingly sour, according to a new national poll. And a CNN/ORC International survey released Friday also indicates that less than a quarter of the public says that economic conditions are improving, while nearly four in ten […]
November 27, 2013 – 2:12 pm
The Politico’s Gary Bauer has an interesting story about When Presidents Lie, which wonders if Obama can recover. The answer is “probably not” For Richard M. Nixon, it was “I am not a crook,†for George H. W. Bush it was “Read my lips: no new taxes†and for Bill Clinton it was “I did […]
November 27, 2013 – 7:59 am
Anything to distract from the failure of his “signature legislation”, Obamacare (The Hill) The Obama administration on Tuesday moved to rein in the “dark money†groups that have spent millions of dollars in political campaigns without disclosing their donors. In draft guidance to be issued by Treasury and the IRS, the administration proposes new standards […]
November 26, 2013 – 7:05 am
Much like some of the big effects of Obamacare, Team Obama does not want the climate targets to come out and hurt Democrat election efforts. This was unintentionally exposed by Guardian reporter Fiona Harvey (via Tom Nelson) Weary delegates trudging home from an exhausting and sleep-deprived fortnight of climate change talks in Warsaw may be […]
