About two hours ago I read E.J. Dionne’s email, about his post, which he wrote to RS in response to my post. Dionne’s email says: Greetings. You recently posted a critique of a column I wrote this week and I chose to reply to it on the Post’s blog because I thought your writer misconstrued what I had written and also because I disagreed with | Read More »
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 »
Turns out that the interpretation that the Dems are bluffing on reconciliation is a charitable interpretation. It assumes they have a plan. The other alternative view, that the President really is serious about reconciliation, is so unserious that most in D.C. don’t take it seriously. (Read Eric Cantor’s House Whip Count Memo here about why the Dems do not have the votes in the House | 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 »
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 »
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 »
(And now for something completely different) today’s news that the Vatican is searching the Heavens for alien life follows previous announcements by the Vatican that belief in the existence of alien life and belief in Christianity are not incompatible. Wow. Yeah. So if you are the head of one of the world’s largest religions, and your leadership believes (presumably given the careful and slow nature | Read More »
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