Whatever passes the House to repeal and replace ObamaCare, and/or defund it, will face Senate Democratic no votes or filibuster in the Senate, such is the conventional wisdom. However, the 23 Democratic Senators up in 2012 may now find that they want to distance themselves from radioactive-Nancy, or I-did-a-bad-job-of-selling-socialism-Obama, or t Passage out of Congress to force The One to either sign or veto, will | 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 »
Like wolves on a fresh killed deer, the liberals keep tearing up Democrats over Representative Stupak’s amendment, which forces pro-abortion Dems to vote for pro-life protections for the innocents. This has sites like FireDogLake completely bent: “Is there anyone who did not see this coming, besides the over hundred Democrats in the House who call themselves pro-choice? Ben Nelson (D-NE) is now demanding the Senate | Read More »
First, let me apologize to RedState readers for taking so long to write and post this overdue piece, the time I allocated to write this was the same time the site was down for maintenance over the weekend. Regardless, my predictions of winning the House floor vote were wrong. Simply put, the pro-lfe amendment by Rep. Stupak moved enough Dems into the yes category — | Read More »
The Speaker of the House and the President have two options right now: hold and lose the vote in the House, or wait and vote after the Senate. By my own count the Speaker and the President are light at least ten votes — and could be light as many as twenty three — depending on the dynamic on the House floor. The problem is | Read More »
The totals below, I am told by the Heritage Foundation, do NOT include the $250 billion extra spending on Medicare to buy off the American Medical Association for their support of the U.S. House bill. The Democratic House Leadership has completely lost touch with fiscal reality. The following is a cut and paste of a media statement by the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget | Read More »
They could have saved themselves, but instead, they followed a tortured inside-the-beltway logic that will be lost on the likely voter — I voted for it, to improve it. Uh-huh. Did members cut spending? End funding of abortion? Enforce the prohibition against illegal immigrants getting the new health care benefit? Cut the $759 billion in new taxes? Curtail the gun health care database? Stop the | Read More »
While the nation is going through the worst recession in modern history, our dollar is deflating because of government debt and we are electronically printing a trillion dollars; unemployment is at 10.2%, let’s tax the American people $752 billion (three quarters of a trillion dollars) and create a new entitlement and spend $1.8 trillion on something less than one in five Americans think is their | Read More »
In every election-changing close vote on legislation that passes in the U.S. House, there are two or three U.S. House Members who switch their vote at the last minute. Usually, these are newbie House members, freshmen or sophomores who succumb to pressure from their leadership. They forget their own districts, and what they need to do to keep their jobs. Thus, we are reminded of | Read More »
From the NY Post’s “Prescriptions for Disaster” — when CBO scores the first ten years of spending, then we see the true cost of the House and Senate ObamaCare bills: “Each bill is routinely “scored” for its 10-year costs from 2010-19. Yet this includes several years when the spending wouldn’t yet have kicked in. According to the Congressional Budget Office, fully 99.9 percent of the | Read More »
I confess, it makes zero sense to me. I’ve done the math and the political calculus keeps coming back a broken equation. In general, if the strategic political forces are aligned properly, then the tactical level concerns resolve themselves. This mathematical rule in politics (it is very close to applied chaos theory) regularly produces victory for those applying the rule. There are oh so very | Read More »
From Bloomberg: A survey of 4,518 likely voters by Zogby International Aug. 28-31 put Obama’s approval rating at a record-low 42 percent; it also showed he’s well liked. “He’s got to get control of his presidency,” said John Zogby, president of Zogby International. And the Washington Post has the following assessment for Obamacare: With health-care reform, the administration appears to have two options, one of | Read More »
So, here it is, the first signs that the Carville-let-health-reform-die-in-the-senate-and-blame-the-republicans-strategy is being pursued. The quote is from a Politico article saying how the Democrats in the House are confident they will have the votes to pass their health care reform, after they make changes to the bill. (What else would the Democratic House leadership say?) However, at the very end of the Politico article is | Read More »
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