Lame Demagogue Session

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  December 2nd at 09:00 AM  | 

Republicans’ votes against Obamacare were actually votes in favor of retaining employer-based health care coverage…Rather, it is the Democrats who are tainted with the hypocrisy with which they accuse their opponents. Democrats have not reacted well to the “shellacking” voters administered to the party at the polls earlier this month. Far from doing any soul searching or introspection of any kind, Democrats embarked on a | Read More »

The State of Obama’s Union

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  January 27th at 12:00 PM  | 

As we approach President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address, it is worth taking a look at where Obama stands with the public one year into The One’s presidency. As previously discussed here, Obama began his term with higher approval ratings that any president since John F. Kennedy, and lower disapproval ratings of any president except George H. W. Bush.  But a year | Read More »

What a Difference a Year Makes

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  December 31st at 09:00 AM  | 

Just a year into the Obama Administration, things look very different than candidate Obama said they would last November.  Both in domestic and international affairs, the first year of Obama’s presidency must by any objective standard be judged a dismal failure.  His victories have largely been small and partisan, while his defeats have been large and bipartisan.  Obama has been ridiculed even in his moments | Read More »

Stuck on Stupak

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  November 9th at 08:45 PM  | 

In the wake of the House vote for President Obama’s government takeover of health care, some conservative commentators are asking what may have been had House Republicans decided to follow Rep. John Shadegg’s (R-AZ) advice to vote present on the Stupak-Pitts amendment.  The amendment prohibits the federal government from spending any funds to provide abortion under the plan’s public option and prohibits anyone receiving a | Read More »

White House Admits to Slow Gov’t Takeover of Health Care

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  September 12th at 12:30 PM  | 

MSNBC’s First Read reported last night that the Obama Administration is now saying that illegal immigrants will be specifically prevented from obtaining coverage under the president’s health care proposal.  The chage comes on the heels of Rep. Joe Wilson’s (R-SC) “You lie!” outburst during Obama’s health care address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.  Although the president denied from the rostrum of the | Read More »

The Speech Will be a Success

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  September 9th at 12:00 PM  | 

Mark it down.  President Obama’s “make or break” speech, as the media is portraying it, will be widely viewed as a success among the chattering class.  It will be groundbreaking, visionary, full of clarity, and a “game changer,” as CNN has already labeled it. But sit tight, that’s just for a while.  Patrick Rufini had it right on Twitter last night. Tmrw’s speech will be | Read More »

Democrats Created this Mess, Mr. President

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  August 14th at 01:00 PM  | 

Facing growing public skepticism and falling approval ratings as a result of his push for nationalized health care, President Obama told a group in Virginia last week that he didn’t want, “the folks who had created the [health care] mess to do a lot of talking, I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess.”  It was a | Read More »

The Change is Clear to See

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  August 7th at 04:30 PM  | 

The White House’s actions in the health care debate have made clear the fundamental change from the Bush administration’s way of doing things that President Obama has brought to the White House. The Bush administration treated America’s enemies as dangerous threats bent on destroying the country and used every resource at its disposal to defeat them while respecting American citizens’ right to disagree with its | Read More »

Kilpatrick: Public Option the Only Option for Blacks

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  July 30th at 05:30 PM  | 

There’s a revealing quote buried inside Politico’s account of a revolt by liberal members of the House Democratic caucus over the deal between Rep. Henry Waxmam (D-CA) and four members of the Blue Dog Caucus. Liberals are upset that the deal effectively guts the public option in President Obama’s healthcare takeover. And as is usually the case, when liberals get upset, the truth about the | Read More »

The Most Radically Pro-Abortion President in History

By: Mark Impomeni (Diary)  |  March 1st at 03:30 PM  | 

The Obama Administration will announce next week that President Obama has decided to scrap regulations put in place by President Bush designed to protect health care workers from being forced to participate in abortions, sterilizations, and contraceptive procedures on moral grounds.  The rules were intended as an enforcement mechanism.  They expanded on existing federal law protecting conscientious doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care workers | Read More »