After losing the Speaker’s Office and having more than 80 freshmen Republicans encamp in the U.S. House of Representatives, while watching moderate Dems retire at a fast clip in the Senate, it has not stopped the Dems from drinking more of the Jonestown Brigade Kool-Aid served up by the White House and the Minority Leader’s office. It’s a new flavor, they call it ObamaCare. The | Read More »
“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” And the voters are going to be on the receiving end of that fury when the Dems elect Pelosi Minority Leader. Too bad the Democrats do not have any man or any woman who can lead them out of the blunder they are about to commit. But voters and experts, operatives and Democratic card carrying members of | Read More »
Get this, Politico writes that Dem political consultants discovered that the Obama agenda “turned out to be radioactive to a wide swath of the electorate.” This is news? To who? How biased do you have to be for this to be news? Perhaps to political consultants who don’t listen to the public. Or political consultants who listen to the main stream media, who followed The | Read More »
Carol E. Lee of Politico writes about the days gone by of The One’s 50 state campaign, where he went deep into Republican territory. But not now. No, now The One is in an end-of-campaign attempt to save the deepest, bluest states from a public that is really focused on removing from him, his total control of Congress. “But Republicans, with help from a bad | Read More »
Once again, we see the lesson in politics, cowardice kills. Those Dems — as in all of them — who did not have the courage or the fortitude to really very seriously oppose Pelosi’s Jonestown Kool-Aid drinking party that lasted the entire Congress, and included cap and tax, ObamaCare, teacher’s bailouts, auto bailouts, bank bailouts, tax hikes and Medicare cuts are now paying the price. | Read More »
From Politico: “The six-month-old law is one of the key planks in the wave of anti-government, anti-spending sentiment that threatens Democratic lawmakers this fall. Just 38 percent of Americans supported the overhaul in a Pew Research Center/National Journal Congressional Connection poll released earlier this week.” So, instead of listening to the American people and changing their approach, policies or recognizing the political failure of ObamaCare, | Read More »
He does what his ideological desires push him to do, his friends and colleagues and allies be damned. In other words, he gives the public and his colleagues the middle finger, because he is right. This is obviously politically destructive and divisive. It shows The One’s disdain for everyone, except, of course, himself. Third, he yells fire in a crowded theater by siding with the | Read More »
ObamaCare could have been stopped if health care industries, the drug companies and health insurers, principally, had opposed the law from the beginning. Even with the now-retiring “pro-life” Stupak Double Cross, the bill only passed the House with three votes after double-crossing Stupak delivered nine. Now, Obama plans on a $125 million ObamaCare television-ad love-fest to protect Members of Congress who voted for the bill. | Read More »
I spent the day on Capitol Hill yesterday talking to House Dems and will be there all day today too. Here are seven reasons the Senate GOP, with Senator Byrd, are going to blindside the House Dems:
The Speaker’s flip-flops are catching up with her. And the strangeness is starting to show (see the video): we have to pass the Senate bill so the public can see what is in it. Her famed control over house members minds is fading: She supported Chairman Rangel right up until she dumped him. She did not have the muscle to impose upon the Ways and | Read More »
Senator Conrad, the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee said yesterday that reconciliation can only be used if the House passes the Senate bill first. As Sen. Conrad declared, “I don’t know of any way, I don’t know of any way where you can have a reconciliation bill pass before the bill that it is meant to reconcile passes.” Neither do I. Then, the kicker: | Read More »
The Dem-only, GOP stiff-arm that the Trillion dollar President has been treating the nation to for the last year on health care is supposed to go away in one televised meeting. After forcing the end of the only bi-partisan process in Congress and insisting that Congress go the Dem-only route — here are the 19 things the Trillion dollar President is really asking the GOP | Read More »
Senator Franken (D-MN), not known even in his short time in the Senate for his ability to play well with others, may have laid bare the lack of ability to pass legislation by the White House, which they mask as “we’ll let Congress decide.” (Senator Obama’s legislative achievements were, well, thin.) Franken was reportedly enraged by the President dictating to the Senate to finish the | Read More »
Drunk with delusion, will the Jonestown Kool-Aid Brigade go for it on ObamaCare? We’ll find out at the end of the week — but we have been hearing that for weeks. No decision, is in fact, a decision. The endless attempt to revive the dead, by practitioners who believe that one more adrenaline shot, one more “CLEAR!” with the paddles will re-awake ObamaCare to rise | 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 »
“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 »
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 »
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 »
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