CNN reports five more House Democrats said Tuesday that they will vote against the Democrats’ Senate Obamacare bill. According to CNN, the Democrats are 11 votes shy of passing Obamacare. Friday, we reported that the Democrats were within four votes of passing Obamacare. Monday we were told that the Democrats picked up four votes. Was that just propaganda to make it appear that passage of | Read More »
Friday, we reported that the Democrats were within four votes of passing Obamacare. Today, we are told that four Democrats are changing their votes from “NO” to “YES” on Obamacare: Boccieri, OH – (202) 225-3876 Altmire, PA – (202) 225-2565 Gordon, TN – (202) 225-4231 Baird, WA- (202) 225-3536 On the other hand, the corner reports the Democrats are still about 10 votes of the | Read More »
Yesterday we wondered whether President Obama would support Britain in the latest dispute with Argentina over the Falkland Islands? Today we learn Obama decided not to support Britain, our closest ally. According to the Times, The Obama/Hillary State Department insisted that the U.S. position was one of longstanding neutrality: “We are aware not only of the current situation but also of the history, but our | Read More »
The Senate version of the Democrats’ so-called health care reform is so unpopular, Nevada’s Harry Reid finds it necessary to vote on it at 1:00 a.m. David M. Herszenhorn reports the Democrats must conduct six votes to pass their Obamacare — one of the crown jewels of Obamaism: 1 a.m. MONDAY – To end debate on “a manager’s package” that includes all the latest changes | Read More »
Interest in the recent spat of Democrat retirements from the House of Representatives has highlighted interest in a House Retirement Watch. So far, 23 members of the House — 11 Democrats and 12 Republicans, have announced plans to leave the House by the January 3, 2011 end of the 111th Congress: DEMOCRATS Neil Abercrombie (HI) Resigning to run for governor of Hawaii. Brian Baird (WA) | Read More »
Rasmussen reports Sunday’s Obama’s Presidential Approval Index, fell to -19. Only yesterday, we noted Obama’s approval index fell to -16. There is no good news, but lots of bad news, for Obama in the collapse of his approval numbers: Among those who consider fiscal policy issues the most important, only 1% Strongly Approve and 81% Strongly Disapprove.
Rasmussen finds former GOP Congressman Rob Simmons is still Dodd’s toughest opponent, leading Dodd by 13% — 48% to 35%. The newest candidate in the race, Linda McMahon — the ex-CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, also leads Dodd 44% to 38%. But Dodd is now so unpopular, even “long-shot” candidate Peter Shiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital, leads Dodd — 40% to 39%. What is | Read More »
President Obama’s big speech announcing, after three months of indecision, that he will give Gen. McChrystal only three-quarters of the 40,000 additional troops the general told Obama he needed to achieve victory in Afghanistan left a lot to be desired. Like Obama has done with issue after issue, his new “strategy ” for the War in Afghanistan tries to have it both ways. Obama’s strategy | Read More »
Rasmussen reports Obama’s Presidential Approval Index fell to -15. Another record low. Rasmussen’s Obama Approval Index has now been in negative double digits for nine straight days. Last week the index stood at the previous record low, -14, for three consecutive days. According to Rasmussen, support for the Democrats’ Obamacare has fallen to a new low of 38%. Sixty percent of voters believe passage of | Read More »
Patients First goes after President Obama’s broken promises of transparency in the health care reform process: Presidential candidate Obama promised time and again not to negotiate health care reform behind closed doors, to bring all parties together and to broadcast health care reform negotiations on C-SPAN. It is truly unfortunate that President Obama did not keep those promises, but instead, chose to meet privately with | Read More »
The House Republican Conference has compiled the following list of the 110 new Obamacare boards, bureaucracies, commissions, and programs created in H.R. 3962, Speaker Pelosi’s legislation for a government takeover of health care: 1. Retiree Reserve Trust Fund (Section 111(d), p. 61) 2. Grant program for wellness programs to small employers (Section 112, p. 62) 3. Grant program for State health access programs (Section 114, | Read More »
Obama spent the day golfing instead of making his long awaited decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan. For weeks, President Obama has been indecisively dithering about whether to send more troops to Afghanistan to fight what he correctly calls a “war of necessity.” General Stanley A. McChrystal’s report, in which he requests more troops, was issued at the end of August. The Commander in Chief, | Read More »
The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, the government watchdog which oversees how the stimulus monies are spent reports contractors who received money from President Obama’s failed $787 billion stimulus program created or saved 30,383 jobs by the beginning of October. According to the Wall Street Journal, this report covers only spending on infrastructure and social programs being carried out by private companies, which were awarded | Read More »
The Director of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas W. Elmendorf, told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that the House-passed Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade tax climate change legislation – would slow the economy and would cause “significant” job losses in fossil fuel industries: We want to leave no misunderstanding that aggregate performance — the fact that jobs turn up somewhere else for some people — does | Read More »
With members of President Obama’s brotherhood of community organizers, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, more commonly known “ACORN,” caught on video while they gave advice on how to skirt federal laws to buy a home to use as a brothel and how to cloak the status of underage “sex workers,” Obama renews his effort to distance himself from ACORN. During Sunday’s talk | Read More »
Add George Will to those calling for a new strategy for Obama’s war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In a column entitled “Time to Get Out of Afghanistan,” Will expands upon comments he made on ABC’s “This Week” and argues we should reduce our forces in Afghanistan and “do only what can be done from offshore, using intelligence, drones, cruise missiles, airstrikes and small, potent Special | Read More »
President Obama’s campaign organization, Organizing for America, goes way, way too far. Team Obama wants to use 9/11 to push back against protesters, referred to as “Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists” by calling Senators in support of the Obamacare public government option. Today, the Obama campaign folks sent out a notice to “grassroots” supporters about the planned 9/11″health care organizing event”: What day? Our US Senators return | Read More »
Moe has posted about the DNC’s pushback to the Cheney interview. But there is much more to former Vice President Dick Cheney’s interview than Cheney’s statement that the enhanced interrogation techniques worked. During an interview on “FOX News Sunday,” Chris Wallace asked former Vice President Dick Cheney if he thinks Democrats are soft on national security? Cheney responded affirmatively, then added that in recent years | Read More »
There he goes again. President Obama bears “false witness” as he complains about others bearing “false witness” against Obamacare. A “scripted” online discussion about Obamacare conducted with a “friendly audience” of religious voters and pastors Wednesday, ended with Obama “bemoaning those who bear ‘false witness’ against his plans — and then making a claim of his own that’s been widely shown to be false”: “There’s | Read More »
Saturday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the members of the “Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research” (“CER”), which was stealthily included in the Obama boondoggle stimulus — one of those bills the Democrats passed without anyone having a chance to read it. According to George Will, the draft report on the so-called stimulus bill states the CER will identify medical “items, | Read More »
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