While I was fishing, the White House decided on a new strategy. Admit the truth. This is a reflection of the fact that Obama, the President, has lied so much and so often, that only the truth has a real shot of being given any attention. Recent lies include all of the aforementioned health care whoopers (you can keep your plan and the ObamaCare entitlement | Read More »
A few months ago, a Republican U.S. Senator told me that he pleaded with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to pressure the HELP Committee Democrats to let the Republicans negotiate and help shape the bill, since the Democrats were not listening or including the Republicans in any discussions. Senator Kennedy’s staff told the Republican Senator to take a hike. No one told Senator | Read More »
The President’s most trusted advisor, David Axelrod told Politico: “I think it’s fairly obvious that we’re not in the second inning. We’re not in the fourth inning. We’re in the eighth or ninth inning here, and so there’s not a lot of time to waste.” That is about as good as it gets in terms of any admission from the White House that their signature | Read More »
The number of likely voters who approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President is at 45 percent. (Note: other pollsters poll “Adults” instead of likely voters. Polling adults inflates President Obama’s approval rating.) The President’s continued pushing of a politically lethal health care plan is to blame. But the three horsemen of the Democratic Party’s Apocalypse: Speaker Pelosi, Chairman | Read More »
The Washington Post is reporting that Senator Grassley, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, has been convinced by his August recess experience (like this one) to stand-down on broad spectrum health care reform. The Post also quotes Senator Snowe, one of the three Republicans that make up the Gang of Six negotiating health care reform with the Chairman Baucus, the Chairman of the | Read More »
SWAY is a fascinating book about irrational human behavior, hence its title: SWAY, The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior, by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman (2008, published by Broadway Books). In particular, the lessons painted by the book are clearly applicable to the health care debate engulfing the United States, the Congress and the White House. Prior to making the intellectual lash ups between the | Read More »
…Then all of the political consequences that both he and Speaker Pelosi are now experiencing make sense. It explains the most inexplicable thing to me: why did the President over-rule his Chief of Staff on the question of siding with MoveOn.org early on in the health care debate over the public option? Because President Obama has always wanted a single payer system. The media refuses | Read More »
Note to historians, the following is a list of strange consequences from Obama’s self-destructive health care reform obsession: i) Spooked the conservative Democrats who are disrupting the Committee on Energy and Commerce markup and pending floor vote because of their policy concerns about the government option; ii) telegraphed to the moderate Republicans and moderate Democrats that President Obama agrees with Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator Chris | Read More »
Blue Dog leader, U.S. Representative Mike Ross (D-AR) confirmed today that he has the votes to block President Obama’s Health Reform bill in the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Also, Majority Leader Hoyer said today, there is NO WAY, the U.S. House of Representatives are staying in session during the August recess. These two developments are in addition to the many other intra-Dem | Read More »
The powerful Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, Henry Waxman said today that the U.S. House nor the White House are bound by the three deals that the Hospitals, Pharma and the AARP have made with the U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus. As the WSJ reports: Some Democrats are questioning the recent $80 billion deal between the | Read More »
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