Democrats Reject Two Measures to Create Parity Between Congress’ Health Coverage and the Public’s

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 31st at 05:25 PM  | 

Bringing the Public’s Coverage to the Congressional Level House Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats voted 31-28 to reject an amendment from Reps. Roy Blunt (R-MO), Phil Gingrey (R-GA), and Lee Terry (R-NE) that would have opened up the multiple-plan health coverage options available to Members of Congress to the public at large. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), who spoke at length yesterday about the need to | Read More »

Tonight’s Obama Presser: More of the Same from the Self-Styled “Agent of Change”

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 22nd at 09:01 PM  | 

Tonight’s presser was simply more of the same from the self-styled “agent of change” and “post-partisan politician”: Pure politics, unwavering liberal ideology, appallingly transparent scare tactics, demonization of a nameless opposition, and an argument so thick with straw men that the President had better wait until he’s several hundred meters away to light his next cigarette, lest the entire building go up in flames. Obama’s | Read More »

Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO): If ‘Public Option’ is so Superfantastic, Surely the President and Congress Won’t Mind Replacing Their Current Health Care With It

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 21st at 07:52 PM  | 

After Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA)’s exasperated halting of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s health overhaul bill markup — done because of problems in negotiations that Waxman insists are going “well” — Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) took to the House floor to make his one-minute address. In a departure from the GOP theme of today’s minute speeches — “finding the jobs” — Blunt used his time | Read More »

House GOP Leaders Reach Across Aisle, Pledge to Support Obama if he will Attempt to Fulfill Promise of Fiscal Responsibility

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 6th at 02:06 PM  | 

Last Friday, ten House Republican leaders sent a letter to President Barack Obama. In it, they offered to work across party lines and Congressional divisions with the new president to achieve the latter’s stated commitment “to fiscal transparency and accountability and ensuring that [all] spending commitments are paid for without burdening our children and grandchildren with excessive debt,” and to “slash[ing] earmarks to no greater | Read More »

Blunt: Obama has turned the ‘Audacity of Hope’ into the ‘Audacity of Despair’ and ‘Audacity of Debt’

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 4th at 11:55 AM  | 

At 2:45, the Congressman from Mizzurruh has some pointed, and accurate, words for the President whose bailouts and budgets are assaults on capitalism, productivity, and responsibility, and whose every action has served to abort recovery, instead driving our economy further into a hole.