August 13, 2009 – 5:33 pm
The Hill Is reporting The Senate Finance Committee will drop a controversial provision on consultations for end-of-life care from its proposed healthcare bill, its top Republican member said Thursday. The committee, which has worked on putting together a bipartisan healthcare reform bill, will drop the controversial provision after it was derided by conservatives as “death […]
August 12, 2009 – 8:41 am
While other papers may have run the story on Obama’s heavily scripted health system change town hall on the front page of the print and Internet, the Paper of Record, the New York Times, just can’t muster the fortitude to give him the coverage, instead, burying it on page A14. I guess even the cheerleaders […]
August 11, 2009 – 7:33 pm
Ezra Klein is seemingly all over the map with his latest post It Is Democracy, Not Health-Care Reform, That Is Sick. Too start with As Josh Marshall says, we’ve reached a point in the health-care reform discussion where logic has fallen apart. Consider, for instance, Danielle Allen’s op-ed this morning. Discussing the insistence of some […]
August 11, 2009 – 8:23 am
One of the talking points we keep hearing from Democrat talking heads and other sheeple is that Obama was overwhelmingly elected along with a mandate to completely change the health system. Of course, he only beat McCain 53% to 46%. So, does this Rasmussen poll mean there is even more of a mandate to NOT […]
August 10, 2009 – 3:57 pm
So says Steny Hoyer and Nancy Pelosi in a USA Today column penned by the two, which, you probably have heard about at this point, but, Real Life, in the form of a monthly inventory count, kept me from commenting on However, it is now evident that an ugly campaign is underway not merely to […]
August 10, 2009 – 8:23 am
At one point, the Obama voters were grassroots. But, ever since he started gaining traction during the primaries, the organization has grown stronger and more controlling, especially when you add groups such as ACORN and SEIU into the mix. I’m just wonder if Pete Wallsten of the LA Timeseven read what he wrote. We all […]
August 9, 2009 – 5:08 pm
One thing I have been saying and writing for a long is that no one is actually saying exactly HOW any of the Democrat plans, particularly Obama’s, will reduce health costs. I’ve emailed my Dem Congress Critters, Brad Miller (NC-13) and Senator Kay Hagen. So far, crickets. None of the grasshopper upporters of the plans have […]
August 8, 2009 – 8:26 am
Poor Brad Miller, he of the “I was threatened by one nut so I won’t hold the town halls I wasn’t going to have anyhow” thought he was home free, alas….. The health-care debate spilled onto the streets of Raleigh on Friday, with more than 600 people picketing the office of Democratic Congressman Brad Miller, […]
August 7, 2009 – 9:31 am
If you guessed “the cost of universal government run health care,” the tequila is on me France Fights Universal Care’s High Cost France claims it long ago achieved much of what today’s U.S. health-care overhaul is seeking: It covers everyone, and provides what supporters say is high-quality care. But soaring costs are pushing the system […]
August 6, 2009 – 8:49 am
Pawned! National Republicans turned the tables on their political counterparts Wednesday by redirecting angry telephone calls coming into their switchboard to the Democratic National Committee. The DNC released a Web video early in the morning accusing the GOP of inciting mob activity at town hall meetings. At the end of the video, the DNC instructs […]
