ObamaCare broke their back. The President says he will not “walk away from health care reform,” so, will he wheel away? Dem health care reform is so destructive, so toxic that everyone who touches it dies politically. Oh, and this happened last time too. But the Speaker and the President were too arrogant to respect 1994. It is like plutonium. There are dead bodies everywhere | Read More »
Notwithstanding all of the damage that health care has wrought the Democrats, AP is reporting the following statement this morning: “We have to get a bill passed,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. In what could be a clear reference to the psychological state of denial, in the same AP story just below the quote from the Speaker, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) said “People are | Read More »
The public is King Arthur — the Black Knight is the Speaker and the Trillion Dollar President. The Speaker and the White House just cannot stop themselves — more health care!
UPDATE — About an hour after this post, Pelosi admits she does not have the votes to pass the unamended Senate bill on the House floor. As soon as Senator McConnell objected to the appointment of the Conferees of on behalf of Senator DeMint, the Democrats in the House, each, individually, were given an unprecedented opportunity to influence the amendment that the House would vote | Read More »
“There is no plan B,” Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) said. “There are so many problems with the Senate bill from the House view that they wouldn’t get a 100 votes.” “After being filled in on the House negotiations with the Senate, Stupak said, “we’re looking at each other like, yeah, well that’s that’s good, but … even if you reach agreement, can you have it | Read More »
Raymond Flynn, former Mayor of Boston and Clinton appointee to the Vatican and pro-life Democrat, told XM radio listeners he voted for Brown. His diagnosis of what the heck is going on in Massachusetts, which Ben Smith of Politico reported, is: “[Massachusetts] Democratic liberals are against the Obama health care bill, because they already have coverage through the state plan we passed. They see this | Read More »
Their two recent health care columns and Scott Brown here and here, are, nice and gentle and well, little-girl-like-naive. First, each have done their own cheer leading for the Pagan god of health care reform inside the Dem cognoscenti — to the point of gloating that those inside the Democratic party that wanted to wait to do health care later were defeated by the White | Read More »
Via Newsbusters, this is what the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Dem-only, cram-down health care strategy has wrought: STEPHANOPOULOS: You know, there’s only one realistic option, and it’s a longshot. The idea that Democrats in the White House and Capitol Hill are working on right now is to convince enough House Democrats to simply pass the bill that passed the Senate, which is not exactly like the House bill | Read More »
The election is tomorrow today, and we should not (see comments below) in the words of earlgrey, “get ahead of ourselves.” Everyone in Massachusetts — GO VOTE! Having said that, this may be of interest: Via Drudge, from RealClearPolitics: Polls are overwhelmingly predicting a Brown win. The FiveThirtyEight model of predicting Senate races: “which correctly predicted the outcome of all 35 Senate races in 2008, | Read More »
When the lead paragraph in a story in the Boston Globe — owned by the New York Times — from a story titled “Obama here for Coakley, trailing a diminished aura,” reads: “The feverish excitement that propelled Barack Obama and scores of other Democrats to victory in 2008 has all but evaporated, worrying party leaders who are struggling to invigorate the base before Tuesday’s Massachusetts | Read More »
(H/T Gateway Punit and RedMass Group via beforeitsnews.com): The stated reason for Lieberman’s possible endorsement — Brown’s strong opposition to ObamaCare. Yet another log on the funeral pyre…
WaPo is reporting on the widely circulated quote from House member Van Hollen that the Dems still consider reconciliation an option. The House Member talking about a procedure used in the Senate to avoid a 60 vote threshold is, well, you know — not credible. I know Van Hollen was a Senate staffer, which gives him enhanced credibility to make this threat, but he is | Read More »
Correction: Since posting this I learned a lesson, do a Google search immediately before awarding any Member of Congress an award like — turns out that Rep. Anthony Weiner said last night he will vote against the Senate bill. The award for the U.S. House Member most foresaking his principles goes to Representative Anthony Weiner (D-NY) — Mr. We-Must-Have-a-Public-Option-to-Medicare-Buy-In-is-better-to-I’ll-vote-for-a-bill-with-no-public-option-and-no-Medicare-buy-in-but-I’ll-whine-about-it: “If you think about the three | Read More »
This is what happens when Congress and the White House enrage the electorate:
Watch the video here. Frank blames right-wing sources for spreading this rumor, like theAssociated Press: “The stakes are so high Democrats won’t rule out taking as long as a month to certify the election results — should Brown win — to prevent a Republican from assuming the seat until the Senate completes its work on Kennedy’s hallmark legislation.” A more recent AP story is here, | Read More »
I know this will come as a shock — sort of like the Pope being Catholic — but the Dems are admitting they have a “serious problem” with regard to the health bill negotiations, and do not expect to finish until February. From Roll Call: “We’ve got a problem on both sides of the Capitol. A serious problem,” Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) | Read More »
With a taxpayer financed abortions and a government take-over of health care at stake, so what? Maybe this is why Amy Walter writes in the National Journal “the “Facebook Women for Brown” group has over 1,000 members, while the “Women for Coakley” group has just 45.”
From the Washington Times: “This year, Mr. Obama’s search for a date stems from the White House’s desire to have a major legislative accomplishment to tout — in this case, health care. Steffen W. Schmidt, known as “Dr. Politics,” said Mr. Obama needs to have a pony before he can have a dog-and-pony show.”
Trende, who writes the horse race blog at RealClearPolitics is among the best in country, and here is his take on various polling data from the MA Senate race: Consider: PPP (D) has her at 47%. The Globe/UNH poll has her at 53%. Rasmussen has her at 50%. Even internal Democratic polling — which usually represents the Democrat’s best-case scenario — has her leading state | Read More »
RealClearPolitics has the key parts of Dodd’s statement in a video clip here and CBS News reports the Trillion Dollar President’s approval rating has hit a new low — 46%. Senator Dodd (D-CT) gives his normally rambling comments, among them: “If this is all about surviving politically, then we’re missing the whole purpose of what we’re supposed to be doing,” which is ironic and easy | Read More »
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