The media, in the form of E.J. Dionne (who now wants everyone to ignore the two trillion the are Dems will spend from the Treasury on ObamaCare) who is now writing about how Republicans must balance the budget, or the others in the left-wing media who somehow think the public gives a “rat’s patootie” about the START agreement or that they can somehow intimidate the | Read More »
It is almost pathetic to watch the Democrats delude themselves about health care reform. It starts with The One and Pelosi. They said if they pass health care they will avoid the fate of former President Clinton, who lost 54 seats in 1996 because he did not pass health care reform. Turns out, even with the massive demographic changes in the U.S., the Dems are | 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 »
Rep. Pomeroy (D-ND) is a coward. And truly, I cannot stand cowards. They are contemptible, weak and usually whine a lot. But most of all, when you really need them — they fold like a card table. You know, look at their feet a lot and wring their hands. And the coward Pomeroy did not stand to, he folded. He bears substantial responsibility for the | Read More »
Now this is what passes as conventional wisdom among the Democrats, as reported by the MSM CBS News: “Smith asked his guests to try to identify the source of the discontent: “From your experience on the Hill, have you heard any Democrats in private conversations say, ‘You know what? We went down the wrong road. We went after health care. We went after so many | Read More »
Now that the failure of the ObamaStimulus has been laid bare — 41,000 private jobs in May created, but 400,000 plus temporary government census jobs on the books — it is clear that the Trillion Dollar President is out of arrows in his lets-spend-and-borrow-our-way-out-of-the-recession quiver. Liberals who are now calling for more stimulus spending get it. They are scared because it is obvious to all | Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
“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 »
Via Newsbusters, this is what the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Dem-only, cram-down health care strategy has wrought: STEPHANOPOULOS: You know, there’s only one realistic option, and it’s a longshot. The idea that Democrats in the White House and Capitol Hill are working on right now is to convince enough House Democrats to simply pass the bill that passed the Senate, which is not exactly like the House bill | 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 »
Trende, who writes the horse race blog at RealClearPolitics is among the best in country, and here is his take on various polling data from the MA Senate race: Consider: PPP (D) has her at 47%. The Globe/UNH poll has her at 53%. Rasmussen has her at 50%. Even internal Democratic polling — which usually represents the Democrat’s best-case scenario — has her leading state | Read More »
Problems, or P to the sixth power, is what Speaker Pelosi faces. She tells her caucus on a conference call not to believe reports that she has decided that the House will OK all the major positions of the Senate (read: cave to the Senate) — but in order to defeat the Senate position, she needs to show the White House and the Senate leadership, | Read More »
(At 11;59 PM on 1/8 Moe Lane posted on this story, here. I’m just adding another log to the fire.) In a clear demonstration of the Speaker’s comment that we will do “almost anything” to pass health care, the Democrats have said they will delay seating Scott Brown, the GOP candidate for Senate in Massachusetts if he wins the race for former Senator Kennedy’s Senate | Read More »
Among other very high prices to be paid for the Dems health reform jihad, it will cost them control of the U.S. House. Here is the Generic Ballot from Gallup from 1994, the year the Republicans took 50+ seats and control of the House, right after the failure of HillaryCare. (H/T the Marston Chronicles) But it is worse now, than it was then (see 2010 | Read More »
To the Democrats, the ends justify the means to pass health care. Speaker Pelosi is widely rumored to have told an assembled K Street cognoscenti that she would sacrifice 30 Democratic House seats to get health care reform passed — and, of course, she said “We would do almost anything to pass a healthcare bill.” The White House has convinced itself that it in the | Read More »
As third in line for the Presidency, and a woman to boot, if you were the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives would you say: “We would do almost anything to pass a healthcare bill.” OK, just wondering.
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