Them Dems They Want it ALL… All Our Money, Anyway

April 8, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Free Trade, Government, Corruption, Harry Reid, House of Representatives, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, President, Public Employees Unions, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

If we just stand by and let them, they’ll take it all…

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Our Wonderful, Transformative President

April 1, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, House of Representatives, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, President, Republicans, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Are you serious? Are you serious?

April 1, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Health, House of Representatives, John Armor, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, President, Socialism, Taxes | Comments Off

-By John Armor

I’ve been preparing for a series of appearances as Benjamin Franklin at several different Tea Party events in Dayton, Ohio, from April 10 – 13. Despite his long and varied public career, Franklin had very little to do with partisan politics; Most of his service was as a diplomat, first in England and later in France.

There is one quality that all successful diplomats share. They know how to hold their tongues. Enemies now may become friends later, and vice versa. Therefore, effective diplomats make an absolute minimum of public, personal attacks on anyone in a position of power.

It was a proper choice for Franklin. It might just be a proper choice for this columnist in this time of crisis for the United States. With that said….

Last fall, a reporter asked Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, whether the proposals for Health Care “Reform” were constitutional. She responded, “Are you serious?” To show how absurd she considered the question, she repeated her dismissive reply, “Are you serious?”
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Bigger danger of healthcare bill: the arrogance of Congress

March 28, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Chicago, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Harry Reid, Health, House of Representatives, Illinois, Nancy Pelosi, President, Sam Adams Alliance, Senate, Socialism, State Government, Taxes, Tea Party, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Eric O’Keefe

Health care supporters in Congress clearly defied the will of voters. Will we hold them accountable?

We may never fully know the damage that will be done by the massive health care bill Congress passed on Sunday, but one thing is certain: It will lead to lower-quality care at higher costs.

Dozens of new health boards will come on line in the next few years, as bureaucrats gradually take control of our health care system. Who knows how many bright college students will decide to avoid medical careers because they don’t want to follow orders from these bureaucrats?
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Civil Disobedience

March 22, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Constitution, Dan Scott, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Government, Government, Corruption, Harry Reid, House of Representatives, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, President, Republicans, Senate, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Western Civilization | 1 Comment

-By Dan Scott

ObamaCare has managed to pass the House of Representatives and it is only a matter of a few days before they complete the package with their reconciliation bill. Those who passed the Law had very little respect for those they claimed to represent given they were unwilling to present themselves and their bill to the electorate in November for their judgment. So cowardly were the bill’s backers for a while they actually contemplated passing the Law without voting on it, however, with their fig leaf of deception exposed they realized such an action would give them no political cover. Obviously filling Washington, DC’s streets with protestors was not effective, neither was vocally opposing ObamaCare at Town hall meetings. Do we quit and give up to let the usurpers have their way? Or do we step up to the next level of expressing our discontent and opposition to this imposed Law against the consent of the governed?

Will making legal challenges in Court be sufficient? Are we really confident to leave such matters to the Courts when in the past they have repeatedly failed the American People (Kelo Decision, EPA to regulate CO2) when it concerns the consent of the governed? Yes there will be legal challenges, but in the meantime the most egregious parts of the Law will go into effect immediately such as the annual billions of dollars in taxes to further suppress the economy by robbing businesses and individuals of investment income.

Many of you now having woken up to a radical agenda that has been foisted upon the country may now consider either running for office or becoming volunteer staff at a local political campaign office this November. If you are upset at the outrage that occurred in the night hours of March 21st, then get involved at the local level in your county and purge those who are not faithful as representatives. Choose your political representative carefully, there were 34 Democrats in the House of Representatives who voted against this monstrosity and therefore deserve at minimum your consideration of the positions they hold on other issues. Healthcare was only the tip of the iceberg that will be foisted upon the country to its harm in the months to come. This November, some Senatorial Republicans may not deserve your vote and need to be removed during the primaries.
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Give ‘Em Hell, John

March 21, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Bill Clinton, Budget, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Health, House of Representatives, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi, Politicians, President, Republicans, Socialism, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Watch it and weep…

The United States of America was murdered today by a vote of 219 to 212.

I should note how ill-mannered the Democrats are by their hoots, catcalls, and generally immature behavior the evidence of which can be heard on this video.

Dems’ Chicago Playbook Fail: Federal Court

March 21, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Harry Reid, Health, House of Representatives, Liberals, Matthew J. O'Connor, Nancy Pelosi, President, Senate, Socialism, Taxes | Comments Off

-By Matthew J. O’Connor

Saying healthcare developments on the hill are anything less than fluid is a statement the deem and pass madame, Louise Slaughter (D., NY) herself would hardly make. However, this would be relying on pragmatic thought, on my part, and these days with the congressional democrats running the hill, pragmatism has been anathema to all things dems, including the political grand daddy of all, the Constitution.

So, on second thought, I’ll leave Rep. Slaughter out of the issue of fluidity, for now. But I will bring her back in on the subject of political strategy, in fact, lets also bring in Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as the two seem to share the same skills sets and a similarly high aptitude in the art and science of political deception.

There are many nuances in politics but when the strategy itself is purposefully moved from the nuance to that which has a big red bull’s eye on its back, it is easy to take the bait and start running in the direction chasing the bulls eye. I have fallen prey to such tactics and before long find myself chasing the allurement of the bulls eye, chasing after it with incredulity that the left could dare be so bold . . . but then it dawned on me.
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‘I Will Support and Defend the Constitution of the United States’

March 21, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Frank Salvato, Government, Government, Corruption, Harry Reid, Health, House of Representatives, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, President, Senate, Socialism, Taxes, The Law | Comments Off

-By Frank Salvato

“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.” – James Madison

As the American people stare down the barrel of a Progressive ideological coup in the form of the institution of so-called “healthcare reform,” it is tremendously important that we take heed of how Progressive Democrats are going about achieving their long sought-after goal. To be succinct, it has been an ugly and often times unconstitutional process. But the bribing of Senators with taxpayer monies, the bartering of favors by the White House and the threats of withheld support for Democrat candidates by President Obama himself, pale in comparison to the tactic soon to be employed by House Speaker and über Progressive Nancy Pelosi.

The Self-Executing Rule, better known as “Deem & Pass,” is an unconstitutional procedural tactic that exists in the US House of Representative’s rules. It is stunning that it exists and it is equally as stunning that it was ever allowed to be adopted as a legitimate procedure.

The Shot Heard Round the World

March 20, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Harry Reid, Health, House of Representatives, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Salvato, President, Senate, Socialism, Taxes | 1 Comment

-By Nancy Salvato

“By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Hence once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tension, leading to the deadly confrontation between British troops and an angry mob, better known as the Boston Massacre, had mounted for many months before violence erupted. The city was occupied by British troops tasked with enforcing tax laws. Townspeople worried troops would soon be quartered in their homes. Sailors feared being impressed into service by the Royal Navy; dockyard workers were frustrated by the loss of work to off duty soldiers. A lack of general security, combined with the new laws, fueled the flames of revolution.

Not everyone favored cutting the ties to Britain; however, King George III refused to entertain the concerns of the colonists and left them the choice of submitting unconditionally or declaring their independence.
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Keep Calling Washington to Dump This Healthcare Bill

March 19, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Harry Reid, Health, House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, President, Senate, Socialism, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Keep calling D.C., folks. This socialist healthcare bill will be the end of the United States as we know it and will be the beginning of the Euro States of America. We will no longer be a representative republic but a socialist-democratic tyranny.

This bill will destroy America as it is and materially alter the relationship between citizen and government.

Congress Switchboard: (202)224-3121
White House Switchboard: 202-456-1414

Isaac Hayes for Congress: Pelosi’s Blitzkrieg to Government Medicine

March 16, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Chicago, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Illinois State Government, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, Republicans, State Government, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Hays for Congress (2nd District) campaign…

CHICAGO: The following statement was released today by Rev. Isaac C. Hayes, GOP nominee for Congress in IL-2, in response to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s move to use the “self-executing rule”.

Speaker Pelosi has yet to secure the necessary votes in the House of Representative to pass the Senate’s version of health care reform. The Wall Street Journal reports the Speaker could ask the House Rules Committee to change the rules that would allow the House to vote on the reconciliation measures without voting on the actual Senate version.
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Video: Death Panels for Americans, Free Healthcare for Illegals… It’s In There

March 16, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Harry Reid, Health, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, Republicans, Socialism, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Big payoffs to unions, free healthcare to illegal aliens, death panels for Americans, limits and rationing to Americans… it’s ALL in the bill (HR 3200).

And remember, folks. We get taxed immediately but none of these wonderful “benefits” actually kick in for FOUR YEARS! So even if you liked this communist paradise you won’t get it for almost half the decade. It makes you wonder… how many dead people will Democrats be responsible for since this bill doesn’t kick in for so long, eh?

These are the things that Democrats want in a nationalized healthcare bill. These are the things that WILL end up passed if ANY part of Obamacare is passed.

This will materially alter the relationship between citizen and government and will put a tombstone over what was the United States of America. If Obamcare passes, the U.S.A. is dead.

Dear America, Admit That You’re Stupid! Love, Nancy

March 9, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Communism, Congress, Democracy, Democrats/Leftists, GOP, Government, Corruption, Health, House of Representatives, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, President, Senate, Socialism, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The founding fathers debated bills for weeks. They then wrote them, referred them to committee’s of style and prose, brought them back to the floor, debated them again, wrote newspaper articles about them, went home to their districts to discuss them, and finally passed them — or not — after much deliberation.

Today’s Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wants us to just pass a bill so that later we can “find out what is in it.”

Here’s what the zombie from San Francisco said about Obamacare today:

“You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention–it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s going to be very, very exciting. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”

Why can’t we know what’s in the bill before you pass it, Nancy? Or are you afraid that once people find out the horrors contained in this abortion of a bill they might not want it passed? In fact by nearly every accounting the American people don’t want this communist take over of one-sixth of the economy to proceed.

Of course, communists and socialists don’t care what the people have to say about anything. They, after all, know best, right? That’s why Nancy and her coven in D.C. just want us to shut up and let them pass this witch’s brew.

So let this Congress lumber forward like the living dead to pass a bill that will materially alter the relationship that citizen has to government in these great United States. Let Nancy “Fright Night” Pelosi destroy the United States as we know it…

On second thought, let’s not. Call your Congressman and Senator today and tell them you do not want this destructive bill passed in your name.
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Some Letters Beating Me Up Over My Tea Party Articles

February 9, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Communism, Congress, Conservatives, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Free Trade, Freedom, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Harry Reid, House of Representatives, Jobs, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, Nancy Pelosi, President, Rahm Emanuel, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Society/Culture, Taxes, Tea Party, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Well I’ve now written six — this makes seven — articles criticizing certain failures of the Tea Party movement thus far. They are all meant to be constructive criticisms, though, not dismissive nor derogatory of them. It’s measured introspection I employ in each of these articles. No name calling, no laughing, no hate. There is just no logical way to construe what I’ve written thus far as hate against the Tea Party movement. But this whole Tea Party thing reveals several things to me. First of all it shows that there is still a lot of passion for them and that is a very good thing. I want the Tea Party groups to succeed and I want them to become a force that can teach the GOP a lesson. The other main thing it shows me is that too many people can’t read for comprehension these days.

The sad thing is that these days even the slightest criticism of a thing is seen by too many as outright hostility. Everyone is so hypersensitive that even a mild criticism meant as an exercise in introspection is seen as an over-the-top attack. It doesn’t just happen on the right, either. Look at what happened to all those Hillary Clinton supporters during the run up to the 2008 presidential elections. The constructive criticism that Hillary fans offered the Democrats was pounded down so hard by the left that many Hillary supporters found themselves aligned — and some permanently — with the side they thought they opposed; the Republicans.

Naturally there’s the name callers and nay sayers always floating around out there. I had one guy, for instance, say, “who asked you for your opinion” of the Tea Parties? This same guy then went on to give me HIS opinion of them evoking the obvious rejoinder of just who the hell asked him for his opinion, anyway? Obviously he wasn’t bright enough to “get” that concept!
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The Obama Road to Serfdom

January 28, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Free Trade, Freedom, Government, Corruption, Harry Reid, History, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, Taxes, Thomas Brewton | 1 Comment

-By Thomas E. Brewton

During 2009 we travelled far along the downward economic spiral that Friederich von Hayek in 1944 accurately foresaw for Great Britain under the post-War socialist Labour Party government.

This Wall Street Journal editorial lays out the nauseating hypocrisy of Obama’s phony PR gesture in the direction of fiscal probity.

Only blind faith in the secular religion of socialism can explain Obama’s rush to subordinate every aspect of our lives to the control of socialistic ideologues like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, David Axelrod, Bill Ayers, and Bernadine Dohrn. Obama and his people presume to omniscience, because they have been “educated” by elite socialistic universities. They assume arrogantly that the American people are dunces who can’t find their way to the bathroom without guidance from the intellectuals. In their ideology the only just and desirable society is based upon what Franklin Roosevelt termed security, what in earlier periods of history was called serfdom.
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Shocking Video: Nancy Pelosi Reacts to Scott Brown’s Win

January 20, 2010 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Congress, Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Government, Corruption, Health, Hillary Clinton, House of Representatives, Liberals, Massachusetts, Nancy Pelosi, Republicans, Society/Culture, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

Man…. when did Nancy grow that cool little mustache?

Dems: Anti-Abortion Amendment to be Striped Out Later (Stupak Doesn’t Matter)

November 10, 2009 | Filed Under Abortion, Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, Health, House of Representatives, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, President, Society/Culture, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

At the last minute Representative Bart Stupak (D, Mich.) was successful in getting Speaker Pelosi and the House Democratic leadership to approve an amendment that would prohibit federal spending on abortion added to its nationalized healthcare bill passed and sent to the Senate over the weekend. But a senior Democrat says that the Stupak amendment will be stripped from the bill if the Senate returns the bill for approval.

Of course, the only reason that the House healthcare bill was passed out of the House at all was because of the Stupak Amendment, still left-wingers in Congress are vowing to strip the final bill of one of the only measures that appeals to moderates.

Far left Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D, Fla.) has vowed that the anti-abortion amendment will be gone by the time the bill comes up for a final vote after the Senate debate. Pro-abortion activist and Democratic Congressman from Colorado Diana DeGette has been passing around a letter to her far left colleagues vowing not to vote for a future healthcare bill that does not include abortion funding. She has announced that 40 House Democrats have signed her pledge.
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Nancy Counts on Corruption

November 8, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Communism, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Free Trade, Freedom, Government, Corruption, Health, House of Representatives, John Armor, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, President, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By John Armor

Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, has regularly accused the Republicans in the House of displaying “a culture of corruption.” Yet the critical vote to get the House version of the health bill out of the House, demonstrates that Speaker Pelosi not only likes corruption, she counts on it. Remember her middle name because it figures in the proof.

On 7 November at 11:15 pm House bill 3962 passed by a vote of 220-215. Votes in favor of that bill included the following: Norm Dicks (D-Wash), Jane Harman (D-Cal), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), Alan Mollohan (D-WVa). Jim Moran (D-Va), Charles Rangel (D-NY), Laura Richardson (D-Cal) and Peter Visclosky (D-Ind). If just three had voted against the bill, or had not been in the House to vote for it, the bill would almost certainly have failed.

Why that curious comment about not being in the House? A staffer for the House Ethics Committee put an internal document on a home computer with file sharing capacities. As a result, the complete list of Members of Congress under ethics investigations escaped into the press. These yes votes on the health bill were provided by Members who might have been expelled, had their possible ethics violations had been promptly and adequately examined, decided and acted upon.

Now, who has the power with a wave of her hand, to speed up or slow down the ethics investigation of any Member of the House? Why, that would be the ultimate power, Speaker, Nancy Pelosi. She’s been scrambling all this week to engineer the last few votes for passage.

Buy What Democrats Say to Buy or GO TO JAIL

November 7, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Business, Capitalism, Chicago, Communism, Congress, Constitution, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Health, House of Representatives, Illinois, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, President, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, The Law, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

It has come to this, America. Democrats have decided that if you don’t agree with their policies, you are to be fined. And if you don’t pay the fine, you are a criminal and will be sentenced to jail. That’s right, Democrats are criminalizing dissent.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has decided to leave language in her heatlhcare bill that criminalizes and prescribes jail time for any American that does not want to buy private healthcare insurance. Think of this, America. I am telling you that the U.S. Congress has decided to force you to buy the product of a privately owned corporation! The power of the U.S. federal government has never been used to purchase something from a private company but here comes San Fran Nancy to do just that. But, let’s face it. She is only taking her cue from the big guy and his “Chicago way” sort of political thuggery.

The Joint Committee on Taxation issued a letter (Download pdf file) in reply to Representative Dave Crump’s inquiry about the matter of the criminal penalties of refusing to buy healthcare insurance should Pelosi’s version of Obamacare pass.
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10 Facts Every American Should Know About Speaker Pelosi’s 1,990-Page Gov’t Takeover of Health Care

October 30, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Free Trade, Freedom, Government, Corruption, Health, House of Representatives, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, President, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Representative John Boehner (R-OH), Washington, Oct 29

Members of Congress and the American people are just beginning to look at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) 1,990-page government takeover of health care, but it’s already becoming clear just how costly and unsustainable this proposal is. From higher taxes on middle-class families to job-killing mandates on small businesses to cuts in Medicare benefits for seniors, here are 10 facts every American should know about Speaker Pelosi’s 1,990-page government takeover of health care:

1. RAISES TAXES ON MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES. Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill imposes a range of tax increases on families with income below $250,000, breaking a promise made by President Obama. Tax increases on middle class families include: an individual mandate tax of up to 2.5 percent of income for taxpayers earning as little as $9,350; repeal of a tax break on medicine purchased with funds from an HSA (health savings account); limits to tax relief through FSAs (flexible spending accounts); taxes on medical devices that will inevitably be passed on to consumers; and a new tax on all insurance policies.

2. MASSIVE CUTS TO MEDICARE BENEFITS FOR SENIORS. Despite grave warnings from CBO, FactCheck.org, and the independent Lewin Group that cuts to Medicare of the magnitude included in Speaker Pelosi’s bill would have a negative impact on seniors’ benefits and choices, Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill stays the course and cuts Medicare by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Democrats Healthcare Behind Closed Doors

October 23, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Business, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Government, Corruption, Health, House of Representatives, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, President, Republicans, Senate, Society/Culture, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | 4 Comments

What are the Democrats trying to hide and why is President Obama letting his claim to want transparency to go ignored?

House Speaker Lacks Democrat Votes for ‘Public Option’

October 23, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Free Trade, Freedom, Government, Corruption, Health, House of Representatives, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, President, Society/Culture, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Despite assurances to the contrary, Politico.com is reporting that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D, Calif.) does not have the votes to include the so-called public option in the House version of Obamacare making it more likely that a “trigger” will be included instead.

Politico also reports that Obama himself announced support for the trigger option.

Obama told Senate Democratic leadership at the White House Thursday evening that his preference is for the trigger championed by Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) — a plan that would allow a public plan to kick in if private insurers don’t expand coverage fast enough, a top administration official told POLITICO. It’s also sign Obama is interested in maintaining a sense of bipartisanship around the health reform plan.

Regardless of the Politco report, however, Speaker Pelosi came out today in a press conference and insisted that the public option will, indeed, be in the bill.

Whatever the final outcome will be, however, this shows that Speaker Pelosi is having trouble manhandling her caucus. This also means that voters still have a chance to affect this vote by calling their representatives and urging them to oppose the public option.
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Obamacare Lacks ‘Protection Against Treatment Denials’

October 20, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Freedom, Government, Corruption, Health, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, President, Senate, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The L.A. Times published a story that was probably meant solely as a bash on insurance companies, but still the report brings up several issues that Obamacare will only make worse if passed. The problem raised in the headline, “Healthcare bills lack protections against treatment denials, experts say,” isn’t the only problem the story touches upon — not that the L.A. Times dwells on them.

The headline problem is important, of course though the Times tries to phrase the problem as an evil failing of insurance companies. The fact is it is really but a common-sense inevitability. The Times reports that Obamacare will force an increase in denials of services to patients because of cost overruns.
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Healthcare Conference Call With Representatives Shadegg and Rodgers

October 14, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Blogging, Business, Capitalism, Communism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Free Trade, Freedom, GOP, Government, Corruption, Health, House of Representatives, Inernet, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, President, Republicans, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Technology, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Today at 4:30PM eastern a blogger conference call was held by Representatives John Shadegg (R, AZ) and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R, WA). The subject we spoke about was that of House Republican’s ideas and problems on healthcare reform issues in both the Senate and the House. The following are my notes of the call, any direct quotes are in quote marks but the rest is my summation of what was said.

The call opened with a welcome from Cathy McMorris Rodgers who introduced herself and Rep. Shadegg. Rodgers talked of the situation in the House and reminded us that 44 House Democrats said they’d vote no on the bill if it has public option and 57 said they’ll vote no if it doesn’t have the public option so the Democrats might not have the votes to pass H.B. 3200.

Shadegg reminded us that the CBO score on the Senate bill was made on 10 years of taxes being taken by the federal government but with only 7 years of coverage afforded, so it’s no wonder the bill sounds like it is paid for. Shadegg also warned of the political monkeying that is going on with the Baucus bill in the Senate. He mentioned that Harry Reid is down in the polls back home so he tried to slip through a sleight of hand way for four favored states to get special Medicaid provisions (including Nev., Oregon, Mich.) forcing the other 46 states to pick up the tab. This was Reid’s attempt to find success in his upcoming elections in Nevada.
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Pelosi Thwarting Transparency Measures, Won’t Allow Public to See Healthcare Bill

October 7, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, Health, House of Representatives, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, President, Republicans, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | 3 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

On September 25, we reported on the Walden Discharge Petition that Representative Joe Wilson informed us about in a conference telephone call. Wilson told us of a resolution that would force all bills that come before the House for a vote to be posted on the Internet for 72 hours before the members can vote on it.

Now it is becoming clear that the Democratic leadership is trying desperately to stop this effort at transparency.

From Wilson we found out that the rules change for procedures in the House of Representatives was about to be sent to committee but that the Walden Discharge Petition would send the resolution straight to the floor for a vote through the discharge petition process.

Today, Susan Ferrechio of the Washington Examiner details the effort to quash transparency by Democrats in the House.
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Pelosi Beats Her Dogs Down

September 24, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Freedom, Government, Corruption, Health, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, President, Socialism, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

No, blue doggie, bad, bad dog. No deal for you. Speaker Pelosi has now told her Congressional Blue Dogs it’s no deal. The Hill reports that Pelosi is “backing away” from a deal that the conservative Democrat group had thought the Speaker had agreed to.

Apparently, Pelosi only agreed to the Blue Dog’s policy ideas on H.R. 3200 so she could get the bill out of committee and out to the floor for consideration because now she is guiding the bill back toward the extreme left as the bill proceeds.

Pelosi had agreed to downplay the public option in the bill but now that its out of committee she is again pushing that policy back into it despite what Blue Dogs wanted. One aide said that for Pelosi it’s “full speed ahead.”

Pelosi is also pushing for a get-the-rich provision.

Pelosi has also told her fellow leaders she still wants an income surtax on the wealthy, rather than a tax on “Cadillac” health plans, as a means to help pay the $1 trillion cost of the bill. The rest is to be made up with savings in Medicare by eliminating wasteful spending.

If Republicans eying Blue Dog seats are smart they will use this as a hammer to beat down every center left Democrat in the country.
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23 Dems Say They’ll Vote No on Healthcare

September 8, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Health, House of Representatives, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Hill is reporting that 23 House Democrats are vowing to vote no on H.R. 3200 as the bill now stands.

Speaker Pelosi, however, can afford to lose 38 of her fellow Democrats and still pass the bill, according to reports.

One of the standout quotes from The Hill’s coverage is a Pelosi spokesman’s reply to reporters about the bill:
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Pelosi Says Surtax Could go for Deficit Reduction, too?

July 17, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Corruption, Health, Liberals, Nancy Pelosi, Socialism, Society/Culture, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

I’m sorry, I’m not much for name calling but this woman is an idiot. She is claiming that the oppressive surtax can “also” go to retire the Obama $1 trillion deficit if there is any “left over” after Obamacare is “paid for”!

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Democrats could use a proposed new tax on the wealthy to pay down the deficit, if there’s money left over after funding healthcare reform.

But, the CBO is claiming that Obamacare will cost in excess of $1 trillion and the surtax is “only” going to raise $544 billion. How, exactly, is there supposed to be anything “left over” after Obamacare is “paid for.”

I know, I just used a lot of quote marks, but they are deservedly derisory.

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