The president has spoken: get a deal done before Christmas, whatever the cost — whatever deals must be struck or compromises made. There are reports from multiple Senate sources that Rahm Emanuel told Senate Democrats that the President wants a health care bill passed, and that passage is the only thing that is non-negotiable. That [...]
Yesterday, we covered Keith Olbermann’s nonsensical Monday night rant, where he lashed out at Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others. Not only did he go on about how there is no liberal media bias, but he also went on to say “comparing them to disease gives disease a bad name.” Another night and [...]
President Obama met with Senate Democrats today to rally support for the health care bill. His public comments afterwards made it clear that the message was “we need to pass something, even if it isn’t perfect.” Monday he ordered Harry Reid to pull the expansion of Medicare and any public option from the bill, so [...]
Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) early on was a Republican Senator that seemed very likely to vote with the Democrats on the health care bill. She is seen as a liberal Republican and pushed for a ‘trigger’ option to be added to the health care bill, which would have triggered a public option to be implemented [...]
Senator Ben Nelson has said that he will not vote for a health care bill unless it included an amendment forbidding the use of federal funds for abortion. Now that Joe Lieberman’s vote is in the bag with the expansion of Medicare being removed from the bill last night, it appears the Senate is prepared [...]
It would appear that the reports that Obama told Reid to pull Medicare expansion out of the health care bill in order to get Lieberaman on board are true. TPM is reporting that Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) has said that the Medicare option is going to be pulled: Asked by a reporter if the Medicare [...]
UPDATE: After we posted tax cut story this morning, we received this email: If you look at on 09 return you will see that the making work pay credit appears separately as a 400 or 800 dollar credit. It isn’t meant to be in the tax tables. So, actually you are getting the usual adjustment [...]
Under the heading of “does it get more ironic than this”, Keith Olbermann who was removed as the MSNBC co-anchor during the 2008 general election, because of the backlash over his and Chris Matthews partisan reporting, has now declared there is no media bias. It’s all conservative whining over nothing. Newsbusters recaps Olbermann’s Monday evening [...]
In an effort to ‘close the deal’, President Obama first ordered Harry Reid to drop the public option/Medicare provision so that they could get Joe Lieberman’s vote, and now he is calling them to the White House to rally support. Over the weekend, the President gave a pep talk to the Senate Democratic caucus on [...]
In our continuing look at President Obama’s promise to be fiscally responsible, live within our means and tell Congress they can only spend a dollar if they save a dollar, we bring you this. We saw the House and Senate vote to raise the debt ceiling by nearly $2 trillion, and here’s why. The Washington [...]
The Department of Energy has sent a “litigation hold notice” to all employees at the Department of Energy Savannah River unit instructing them to preserve all documents related to “global warming, the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia In England, and/or climate change science.” It is not clear what has prompted this, [...]
Gitmo detainees are on their way to Illinois. Following the leaked draft memo posted on conservative websites on Friday, the White House has decided to make a public announcement, after initially skirting questions about the transfer of the terrorists. Foxnews reports that an official announcement will be made on Tuesday: Taking an important step on [...]
Al Gore is at it again. Last week he claimed the most recent Climategate email was over 10 years old, when in fact the most recent one was just over a month old. Today, while giving a speech in Copenhagen, Gore misrepresented the research of Dr. Wieslav Maslowski. Wizbang might be right when they say, [...]
The White House said it was just Republican fear mongering. Concerns that the government recommendation to raise the age to 50 before women should receive mammograms would lead to insurance companies and health agencies to limit mammograms for women in their 40′s. They told us it wouldn’t happen. Yet another liberal whopper. Valley News had [...]
Is Harry Reid being ordered to do whatever it takes to get Lieberman on board? Politico is reporting that the White House is ordering Reid to cut a deal with Liberman, which could include removing the Medicare expansion from the bill: The White House is encouraging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to cut a [...]
Following last weeks announcement from Gallup saying that President Obama now has the lowest approval rating of any President at this point in his term, President Obama announced that he has given himself a “solid B+” when grading his first year in office. The American people clearly don’t agree, as his approval ratings keep hitting [...]
For most of us, we sit in shock at how a clearly partisan organization can continue to receive federal dollars to pay for those partisan activities, and are allowed to keep their tax exempt status. Matthew Vadum of Big Government has a nice story outlining some of their lobbying shenanigans: This is important because, as [...]
One of the major factors in the 2008 primaries and general election was that President Obama was able to get young voters excited. Young voters, especially those in college, tend to be very idealistic and have a highly socialist view of the world. A belief that the rich shouldn’t have all that money; corporations are [...]
Apparently President Barack Obama and the citizens of the United States view his Presidency far differently. While his approval rating is in a free fall, and he is being criticized by the left, middle and right, he gives himself a “solid B-plus.” It would appear President Obama is used to being graded on a curve. [...]
While Harry Reid has been touting replacing the public option with an expansion of Medicare (lowering the eligible age to 55), many see it as yet another attempt to take a step towards a single payer system. Far from a true compromise. Joe Lieberman’s comments on the proposed ‘compromise’: “Though I don’t know exactly what’s [...]