Congressional Democrats to AMA: Go Pound Sand
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | January 24th at 05:14 PM |
Here’s a completely unsurprising and predictable story. Do you remember how many conservatives spent months trying to figure out why the leadership of the American Medical Association signed the nation’s doctors up in support of Obamacare? Many conservatives argued that the AMA was being shortsighted – that Congressional Democrats would ultimately betray the AMA, despite the powerful group’s consistent advocacy of the president’s health care | Read More »
Democrats Speak Against Corporate Welfare, Vote to Continue TARP Bailouts
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | January 22nd at 05:04 PM |
Gee, in the week that Democrats suddenly decided that they needed to rebrand themselves as populist crusaders, you’d think that a massive vote in favor of more corporate bailouts would attract some attention: The Senate Thursday killed a Republican attempt to shut down the Wall Street bailout program. The defeated proposal would have barred the Treasury Department from releasing any funds remaining from the $700 | Read More »
DCCC Chair VanHollen: We Might Pass Health Care With Reconciliation
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | January 15th at 05:30 PM |
Is this another bone being tossed to the liberals, or is VanHollen signaling a potential change in strategy? Even if Democrats lose the special election to pick a new Massachusetts senator Tuesday, Congress may still pass health-care overhaul through a process called reconciliation, a top House Democrat said. That procedure requires 51 votes rather than the 60 needed to prevent Republicans from blocking votes on | Read More »
Blue Dog Boren: America Benefits When Democrats Lose
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | January 10th at 01:25 PM |
Dan Boren is not making any friends within the House Democrat caucus: U.S. Rep. Dan Boren, Oklahoma’s only Democrat in Congress, predicts his party will lose seats in elections later this year. While such a statement falls in the category of conventional wisdom that historically has the party in power losing congressional seats in mid-term elections, Boren parts company with others within his own party | Read More »
New York Democrats: Trying KSM in NYC is Kind of Risky
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | January 9th at 10:37 AM |
Remember back when Charlie Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, and the rest of the New York Democrats thought that trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City posed no significant security risk? Remember how they said we could easily guarantee the safety of New Yorkers whose memories of 9/11 remained fresh? Well, apparently they’re suddenly worried, because now they’re concerned enough about costs that they’re demanding the | Read More »
Nelson: Everyone Will get the Cornhusker Kickback
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | January 7th at 03:15 PM |
Senator Ben Nelson (D-DeadMeat) continues to try to distance himself from his Obamacare bribe and his vote for the bill: “At the end of the day, whatever Nebraska gets will be available to all states,” Nelson said during a conference call with reporters. In exchange for his crucial support of the reform bill, Nelson was promised federal funding to cover Nebraska’s entire cost of a | Read More »
Why is Harry Reid Killing Construction Jobs?
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | December 28th at 11:10 PM |
Note that the question here is why he’s out to get construction jobs per se. It’s already clear that the Senate Democrat leadership is deeply in love with measures that destroy jobs – be they tax increases, employer mandates, more stringent regulations, costlier electricity, empowerment of unions, etc. But all those things destroy jobs on more or less an equal opportunity basis; they’re just about | Read More »
The Thugs are Back in Town
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | September 23rd at 06:30 AM |
Update: Several Republican Members of Congress are beginning to call the Democrats out over this. Congressman Dave Camp wants to know why the White House is censoring companies – especially while leaving supporters of the president’s plan alone. And Mitch McConnell is calling out Democratic colleague Max Baucus. I’ve not had the chance to comment on this yet (except on Twitter), but the thuggish tactics | Read More »
Waxman: I Won’t Tolerate Bipartisanship
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | July 24th at 02:49 PM |
Congressman Henry Waxman is in charge of developing health care overhaul legislation that can pass the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He’s not having much success, as a few moderate Democrats have insisted on cost-cutting measures. Today Waxman made clear that he’s willing to make en end-run around the moderates, and bring his radical legislation straight to the House floor. In doing so, he made | Read More »
Rep. Carnahan Lies to Constituents About Cost of Obamacare
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | July 21st at 02:33 PM |
It’s obvious why he’s lying, of course: if Carnahan admitted how costly the House Democrat health bill will be, he would get a far worse reception. Congressman Carnahan tells his constituents that the CBO has scored the House Democrat health bill and concluded that it produces a $6 billion surplus. That’s an out-and-out lie. You can find the CBO score here. If you look at | Read More »
WPost: GM Will Probably Never Pay Back Its Loans
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | July 1st at 12:04 PM |
I suppose there are few of us who hadn’t guessed this, but it would have been nice to have it reported before the administration committed to a bailout: It’s sure to be a stretch. For the United States to fully recover its investment, the value of General Motors stock will have to reach levels it has never before attained. “I’m not going to predict it | Read More »
In New York, They Call this Chutzpah
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | June 15th at 05:38 PM |
How’s this for shameless. The unions who support eliminating the secret ballot are trying to promote their cause by linking their effort to Iranian protesters angry at having their secret ballot stolen. Or maybe I’m being too pessimistic. Perhaps Card Check’s supporters have turned over a new leaf – impressed and moved by the videos from Iran of thousands of protesters insisting on the sanctity | Read More »
Democrats Seek to Kill Health Care Program Obama Praises
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | June 15th at 04:05 PM |
Today the Wall Street Journal covers the innovative private-sector health care program which Safeway offers to its employees. It sounds like a model for how market incentives can encourage workers to live healthier and more active lifestyles: Safeway’s plan capitalizes on two key insights gained in 2005. The first is that 70% of all health-care costs are the direct result of behavior. The second insight, | Read More »
It’s Not Just Bill Ayers
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | June 15th at 01:27 PM |
After the shooting at the Holocaust Museum, and the shooting of George Tiller, the Left tried to make a case both that: the offenders in each case were conservatives; and, the right’s political culture encouraged them to violence That argument has a host of problems – the Holocaust Museum shooter didn’t fit anyone’s profile of a conservative, the theory ignored criminals on the Left, etc. | Read More »
Baucus (D-MT) Resorts to Blackmail to Pass Obamacare [UPDATED]
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | June 11th at 08:38 AM |
Unbelievable. Can you imagine the reaction if a Republican had tried this? Top aides to Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) called a last-minute, pre-emptive strike on Wednesday with a group of prominent Democratic lobbyists, warning them to advise their clients not to attend a meeting with Senate Republicans set for Thursday. Russell Sullivan, the top staffer on Finance, and Jon Selib, Baucus’ chief of | Read More »
Democrats Treating Car Dealerships as Jobs Program
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | June 10th at 06:06 PM |
Roll Call reports that Democrats in Congress are starting to get serious about forcing the Obama administration to reduce the number of auto dealership closings: Lawmakers concerned about car dealerships being forced to close amid General Motors and Chrysler restructuring moved fast this week to shine the spotlight on the matter — and seem to have gotten the attention they wanted. The House Energy and | Read More »
The PayGo Bait and Switch
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | June 9th at 05:43 PM |
Today is a big day for the Blue Dog Democrats. They’ve spent the first 6 months of this administration supine, voting for whatever spending Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi told them to. As a result, the federal deficit is approaching $2 trillion – with nothing to show for it. All along, Barack Obama has paid lip service to the Congressional budget rule known as PayGo. | Read More »
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Slated for Fall Action
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | May 25th at 10:05 AM |
According to the Hill, Congressional Democrats are planning to run up a trial balloon on comprehensive immigration reform in June, and then take a crack at passing a bill late this year or next: Senate Democrats may be close to 60 votes on a measure that would represent the first step towards immigration reform under President Obama. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors | Read More »
Why Didn’t Pelosi Act?
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | May 14th at 05:12 PM |
Speaker Pelosi claims that the CIA lied to her about its handling of terrorist detainees held by the United States. She claims not to have been informed about the methods being used to get information from prisoners. Obviously, this is almost certainly false. Why would the CIA have informed other lawmakers about interrogation methods, but not Pelosi? But even if we take her at her | Read More »
Napolitano’s Secret Apology on Domestic Terrorists
By: Brian Faughnan (Diary) | May 7th at 09:14 AM |
Secretary Janet Napolitano has gotten a heap of well-deserved criticism for the report that her office rushed out, naming veterans, believers in gun rights, low-tax advocates, and other conservatives as possible terrorists. So far she has failed adequately to explain how her Department issued a report that slanders our military, our law enforcement agencies, and millions of average Americans. Roll Call reports today that Napolitano | Read More »
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