One hour and forty minutes after the White House issued their Easter deadline for ObamaCare to pass Congress, Democratic House Leaders conceded “they may not meet President Barack Obama’s challenge for swift action.” Whenever the House Leadership moves a vote, it means they don’t have the votes. In Spanish, that’s mañana. With the White House issuing a deadline and the Dem House leaders immediately and | Read More »
This video (H/T Drudge Report) captures an important piece of recent history, when the GOP controlled the White House and the Senate. The Democrats repeatedly attacked the Republicans for attempting the “nuclear option.” Senator Reid described the Republican strategy as an arrogant power grab. Senator Dodd said he has never in his time in the Senate passed any bill of any importance that did not | Read More »
The Congressional Budget Office Director, in today’s blog, says CBO cannot “score” or provide a cost estimate for Obama’s health care plan because CBO needs more detail. It’s amazing, the Trillion Dollar President wants to change the world, but doesn’t have legislative language to do it. Not even to give to CBO. Where’s the bill? The CBO Director went out of his way today (in | Read More »
Micheal E. Hammond, former General Counsel of the U.S. Senate Steering Committee, is one of the preeminent experts on U.S. Senate procedure. Here is what he says about passing ObamaCare via reconciliation. February 22, 2010, 10:00 a.m. EST MEMORANDUM FROM: Michael Hammond RE: New Obama Health Care Draft As of this hour, there is an 11-page document on the White House web site outlining Obama’s | Read More »
Brian Darling of the Heritage Foundation has moved the entire health care world from refitting weapons and/or R & R to DEFCON Two with these two posts, here and here. Darling is not only one of the few real operational experts on Senate Rules, he is a highly effective operative for the good guys. If Darling says the Dems are going to try it, they | Read More »
Do not freak out about Sen. Snowe talking to the Dems. Senator Snowe has rejected moving forward on any health care bill with the Democrats using reconciliation. This is GREAT NEWS. Without reconciliation the Dems will be in a de novo — start at the beginning — situation, which is where they should start. If the desperate Dems try reconciliation, this time, they will have | Read More »
The will to act, which looked so resolute among the Democratic leadership during the Dark Days of the The Great ObamaCare Wars of 2009 and 2010, has left the campsite, with rank and file sneaking away along the stream lines leading away from the Crusader’s tents. What looked liked indomitable will to the rank and file faithful, now looks like willful blindness, strategic stupidity and | Read More »
Speaker Pelosi’s zero point zero House vote margin has eroded further during the week after the Red Tide flooded Central and Eastern Massachusetts. Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D – OH) said: “The senate bill is so totally flawed that I don’t think it can get the votes in the House to pass. I certainly wouldn’t vote for it.” Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) said he will | Read More »
In this story, you have this bright-eyed, bushy-tailed Freshman President who was a U.S. Senator for a year or two, and a two term President and ex-governor whose wife just got beat for the Presidency. Clinton and his wife were particularly sick of the arrogance and condescending tones about how the FNG was going to pass health care in the first year. The you’ve-had-your-turn-dismissal-attitude. And | 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 »
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 »
The corruption of using the public treasury as a check book to buy the votes of Senator Nelson and Senator Sanders — in the face not only overwhelming public opposition, but also in the face of a public that now wants Congress to do nothing on health care — means that extraordinary measures are needed to kill ObamaCare. This plan, if executed properly, will kill | Read More »
The Hill is reporting that Senator Sanders is a NO on ObamaCare: Asked by Fox Business Network’s Neil Cavuto asked Sanders if he could support the compromise bill. The senator replied “I’m struggling with this. As of this point I am not voting for the bill. And here’s why.” Sanders, who favors a single-payer healthcare system, said that he has informed the White House and | Read More »
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 »
ObamaCare is a political failure. The polling data has confirmed it — repeatedly, but recently, the already bad polls have taken a radical drop. You see the average of many, many polls put together by Pollster.com and it is frightening that the Democrats are still desperately attempting to pass something Americans do not want. ObamaCare’s political failure will lead to its legislative failure. The only | Read More »
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 »
James Pethokoukis of Reuters is at it again, subversion-via-blog. So in the little sit down with the President, the Chinese made clear they did not believe a word of the President’s promises about ObamaCare not adding to the deficit. The Chinese asked uncomfortable questions about the cost of ObamaCare: Guess what? It turns out the Chinese are kind of curious about how President Barack Obama’s | Read More »
For those attempting to figure out what is in the Senate ObamaCare bill, you are in the company of 99 U.S. Senators who have not seen the bill. At least that is what today’s New York Times is reporting: “frustration has been growing among some lawmakers over the delay, especially as they are asked repeated questions about a bill they have not yet seen. “I | Read More »
Scalpel! Senator Reid’s very qualified and really one of the best press guys in the city, announced yesterday that Senator Reid has filed the paperwork so the he will be able to proceed to the cloture motion on the motion to proceed next week. This means that if Senator Reid gets 60 votes, he can bring the House bill up before the Senate. If he | Read More »
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 »
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