Rolling the Liberals in the House — Updated with a summary & link to the Cantor Whip Count Memo (a must read)

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  January 8th at 10:07 AM  | 

When Lee Stranahan, an uninsured father and Huffington Post blogger, who supported President Obama, made calls and worked to elect him launches a youtube video attack on the Trillion Dollar President that chronicles how Obama (in his own words) has violated his promise of not taxing the middle class, violated the promise of allowing you to keep your plan if you like it, and violated | Read More »

Sen. Nelson (D-NE) Rejects Abortion “Compromise” — Not at Yes is the New No

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  December 17th at 07:07 PM  | 

The left-right-center squeeze is on. (See this post for the latest parade of liberal attacks on the bill.) Now, Senator Ben Nelson has rejected the abortion “compromise” language. It’s not just abortion either, Senator Nelson also cited other concerns he had with the legislation. So, if you are counting Senators who are not YES votes, that count would be: 1. Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) 2. | Read More »

Sen. Ben Nelson: I will not vote to end the filibuster

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  December 12th at 09:07 AM  | 

Everyone in the country closely following the ObamaCare saga have been waiting for Senator Nelson (D-NE) to give us a sense of where he is on the bill since his abortion restriction amendment failed last week. Yesterday, Senator Nelson — a long time pro-lifer — said: “I can’t support cloture [ending the filibuster] on the next round,” and that adds a second large monkey wrench | Read More »

“There is a worry that Sen. Nelson means business,” — Dem Aide says

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  December 6th at 02:47 PM  | 

And all the kings horses, and all the kings men, couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again…OK, we aren’t there, yet. But the left is starting to flex its muscles and are beginning to be annoyed, and really concerned about all the compromises that have been made thus far. The pro-abortion forces know that there is a good chance the bill will not go to conference, | Read More »

Pro-Abortion House Dems Solidify Opposition to Conference Report with Stupak Amendment

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  November 11th at 12:06 AM  | 

From the Hill: “More than 40 lawmakers vowed to oppose the final healthcare bill if the House language on abortion is not removed. Reps. Diana DeGette (Colo.) and Louise Slaughter (N.Y.) led the group of Democrats in writing to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) threatening to withhold support for a final conference report if it strictly prohibits federal funding for abortion services. “We will not vote | Read More »

Finally! MSM Admits the Health Bill is not just a Health Bill

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  November 10th at 12:12 PM  | 

From ABC NEWS “Brushfires and Fantasies” by Rick Klein: In a thousand-cuts kind of bill, some of the cuts are self-inflicted. The bleeding now, over abortion rights, adds to the long list of complications for Democrats who are balancing tricky math on the Hill. “An attempt at healing, though after the fact: “This is a health care bill, not an abortion bill,” President Obama told | Read More »

FireDogLake Attacks Sen. Nelson’s Demand to include Stupak Amendment

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  November 10th at 09:47 AM  | 

Like wolves on a fresh killed deer, the liberals keep tearing up Democrats over Representative Stupak’s amendment, which forces pro-abortion Dems to vote for pro-life protections for the innocents. This has sites like FireDogLake completely bent: “Is there anyone who did not see this coming, besides the over hundred Democrats in the House who call themselves pro-choice? Ben Nelson (D-NE) is now demanding the Senate | Read More »

I voted for it, to improve it

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  November 6th at 06:50 PM  | 

They could have saved themselves, but instead, they followed a tortured inside-the-beltway logic that will be lost on the likely voter — I voted for it, to improve it. Uh-huh. Did members cut spending? End funding of abortion? Enforce the prohibition against illegal immigrants getting the new health care benefit? Cut the $759 billion in new taxes? Curtail the gun health care database? Stop the | Read More »

Political Genius Defined

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  November 6th at 11:02 AM  | 

While the nation is going through the worst recession in modern history, our dollar is deflating because of government debt and we are electronically printing a trillion dollars; unemployment is at 10.2%, let’s tax the American people $752 billion (three quarters of a trillion dollars) and create a new entitlement and spend $1.8 trillion on something less than one in five Americans think is their | Read More »

Why is the House Voting First? Price Tag Hits $1.2 Trillion witout Doc Fix — $1.45 With Doc Fix

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  November 3rd at 11:53 AM  | 

The news keeps getting tougher for the House Leadership in their irrational quest to pass their ObamaCare bill. First, the Associated Press is reporting the bill will cost $1.2 Trillion without the doctor fix of $250 billion. The new total will be $1.45 trillion — because the House Leadership intends to create a “self-executing rule” that would pull the doctor fix apart from the House | Read More »

Abortion and Immigration Could Kill the Bill — Dems say both Issues Not Resolved

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  October 30th at 11:17 AM  | 

From “Blue Dogs Aren’t There Yet on New Health Bill:” “Staunch anti-abortion Democrats want explicit language barring any new sources of federal funding for abortion except in cases of rape, incest or when a woman’s life is in danger. Some were upset this summer when the House Energy and Commerce Committee included a provision in its bill that would permit certain abortion services to be | Read More »

In the NYT’s, the Number One Health Reform Bill Killing Issue Gets One Sentence

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  October 26th at 11:45 AM  | 

The abortion issue, you may recall, was described by George Stephanopoulos as “the gravest threat” to the health reform bill. The largest concentration of Democratic NO votes on health care reform are because of the abortion issue. So, naturally, in an article about Speak Pelosi’s efforts to rally votes for ObamaCare, the New York Times actually talked about other issues besides the public option as | Read More »

Obama in New York: Vote for ‘the bill you least like’

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  October 22nd at 09:02 AM  | 

Apparently the secret to passing ObamaCare is for the President to acknowledge that all Members of Congress have something they don’t like about the bill, but to vote for it regardless: AP reports the President said in New York yesterday: “The bill you least like” improves coverage for millions, he said in New York. “Let’s make sure that we keep our eye on the prize.” | Read More »

Snowe’s Yes Vote and ObamaCare’s Future

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  October 14th at 01:17 PM  | 

While Senator Snowe’s yes vote in the Senate Finance Committee was a shock to liberals and conservatives, it is neither a defeat for conservatives nor a victory for liberals. The bill would have passed Committee regardless of how Sen. Snowe voted. Senator Snowe, in her own words, said her vote was a maybe on the Senate floor. Smart political observers like Carrie Budoff Brown at | Read More »

46 Liberal Dems Tell Speaker: Medicare Plus 5% or We Vote No

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  October 2nd at 11:07 PM  | 

The DailyKos is reporting that out of the 83 signatories to the we will vote no if there is no public option pledge, only 46 remain standing firm. The rest of the progressives have caved. For these 46 liberal Members, a robust public plan means a Medicare plus 5 percent reimbursement rate for providers. However, the Blue Dogs are pushing a rival “negotiated provider reimbursement | Read More »

Public Option Vote Forces “the Reveal” of the War Going on Inside the Democratic Party

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  September 30th at 04:42 PM  | 

Slate’s John Dickerson has finally said what has been so glaringly obvious for so many months, but has been ignored, not discussed and generally denied by the MSM and the supporters of ObamaCare with great discipline: the internal divisions inside the Democratic Party over specific policy issues contained inside ObamaCare could cause it to collapse: “With nearly all Republicans opposed to the president’s plan, the | Read More »

The Land of the Whopper

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  September 21st at 06:24 AM  | 

It is hard to know where to begin, other than to say the President told a Whopper on national television about health care — again. The most disturbing thing about his health care Whoppers is that he does it with such ease and grace. He practices telling Whoopers. He enjoys telling Whoppers. He makes Whoppers up. Right in his own house. Makes them right on | Read More »

Obama: Make Illegals Legal to give them ObamaCare

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  September 18th at 09:10 AM  | 

After Rep. Joe Wilson captured what many Americans were thinking during Obama’s Joint Session of Congress speech, I talked to an illegal alien to ask them, what do you think? Do you think if Obama’s plan passed you would get health care? The first answer was, Yes, ObamaCare will give me health care because I get it now, paid for by the State, and I | Read More »

Abortion is Lethal — Not Only to Babies, but also to ObamaCare

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  September 15th at 03:24 PM  | 

The hero of the innocents, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), issued a clear and credible threat to the Speaker earlier this week, which resulted in the White House telling HHS Secretary Sibelius to say the President wants an explicit ban on abortion in ObamaCare. From The Hill: A leading pro-life Democrat in the House is threatening to block healthcare reform if Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) doesn’t | Read More »

Did Pelosi Roll Obama?

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  September 9th at 01:06 PM  | 

Politico is reporting that the President will back a public option in his speech before the Joint Session of Congress tonight. This means that the President will not get his public option through the Senate, nor will he likely have the votes in the House, since by including the public option, the political price for a yes vote became very high for moderate Democrats. Add | Read More »