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    Pelosi dumps deem and pass — does this mean she has the votes?

    by  • March 20, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories, Pelosi Whoppers • 0 Comments

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    The reports are that Nancy Pelosi has decided not to use deem-and-pass, also being referred to as the Slaughter rule, in order to coax reluctant Democrats into voting for the wildly unpopular Obamacare. Ed Morrissey of Hot Air lays out a couple reasons that Pelosi may have dumped the deem-and-pass strategy: So what does...

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    Dem talking points – don’t mention doc fix, passing it now will kill illusion of deficit reduction UPDATE: Dems claim memo is a GOP fake

    by  • March 19, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories, Pelosi Whoppers • 2 Comments

    As reported by Ed Morrissey of Hot Air and Christ Frates of Politico, a memo was sent from Democratic leadership to staffers on the Hill. The memo tells them what to say and what not to say. For instance, they are instructed not to use the total of 23 million people that will still...

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    Pelosi lie exposed – real cost of Obamacare is $2 trillion over first 10 years

    by  • March 19, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories, Pelosi Whoppers • 1 Comment

    Yesterday I wrote about Obama’s CBO lie.  That was posted shortly before the CBO score was released on the House’s reconciliation bill. In that article, I outlined two major manipulations that President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have been utilizing to force the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to score the bill as costing...

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    Obama’s CBO lie – Obama, Pelosi and Reid guilty of blatant manipulation of the CBO score to get ‘their’ number

    by  • March 18, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories, Pelosi Whoppers • 1 Comment

    The gang of three (Obama, Pelosi and Reid) are guilty of what is tantamount to lying to the American public.  They have crafted and re-crafted their health care bills, until they get CBO (Congressional Budget Office) scores that they can ‘sell’ as reducing the deficit over the next 10 years. Two of the most...

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    Virginia AG readies for Supreme Court challenge — advises Pelosi not to use deem-and-pass

    by  • March 18, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories, Pelosi Whoppers • 0 Comments

    Kenneth Cuccinelli, the Republican Attorney General for Virginia, has sent a letter to Nancy Pelosi warning her not to use deem-and-pass as an attempt to shield her members from having their votes recorded in favor of passing the Senate health care bill. Cuccinelli warned Pelosi that her parliamentary trick might be unconstitutional, laying the...

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    700,000 jobs will be lost if Obamacare passes — Hot Air exclusive first look at new study

    by  • March 17, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories, Pelosi Whoppers • 3 Comments

    Once again, one of the Democrat’s false Obamacare claims is being. fact checked.  Nancy Pelosi claimed that passing Obamacare would immediately create 400,000 jobs, which was based on a report by a left-wing advocacy group. Hot Air has an exclusive first look at a new study that uses the same accounting method that Pelosi’s...

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    CNN: Pelosi is beyond sleazy — Pelosi’s plan to pass Senate health care bill without a vote even riles up CNN

    by  • March 17, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories, Pelosi Whoppers • 0 Comments

    You know things are getting bad for Pelosi when you hear she is beyond sleazy when watching CNN.  What’s next? Olbermann admitting to his man-crush on George Bush. During today’s Situation Room on CNN, Jack Cafferty launched an attack on Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats.  Calling them out on the underhanded and cowardly tactics...

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    Close hospitals on Saturdays to save money? Will health care fail like Detroit and the post office?

    by  • March 16, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories • 1 Comment

    It seems that regardless of the public outrage, President Obama and the Democrats in Congress are going to use every devious, parliamentary trick in their book to get Obamacare passed.   From openly lying about the contents of the bills and its impact on the deficit, to using a trick called deem-and-pass to pass the...

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    Dems lucky to have 200 votes — Stupak says Pelosi isn’t close to having enough votes

    by  • March 16, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories • 0 Comments

    In an interview with Greta van Susteren yesterday, Bart Stupak (D-MI) said “they need 216. I’d be surprised if they have 200,” when asked if Pelosi had enough votes to pass the Senate health care bill. While Stupak’s primary concern is the Senate bill’s public funding of abortion, that isn’t his only concern.  He...

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    Video: Senator Byrd blocked Clinton’s attempt to use reconciliation to pass Hillarycare

    by  • March 12, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Newly Added Stories • 0 Comments

    This video speaks for itself, so it doesn’t require much introduction.   The biggest thing you will see, beside Senator Byrd clearly stating reconciliation should not be used for passing health care reform, is that he also states how legislation that effects every man, woman and child in the United States should be debated and...

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    You know it’s an election year — Senator Lincoln (D-AR) was for health care before she was against it

    by  • March 11, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Newly Added Stories • 0 Comments

    Senator Blanche Lincoln is in the Senate fight of her life.  Not only is she up against eight Republican candidates, headed by Representative John Boozman (R-AR), lined up to challenge her in the fall, but she now has the DNC and left wing organizations like MoveOn.org supporting Lt. Governor Bill Halter’s (D) bid to...

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    Joe Biden says the stimulus bill was designed not to create jobs until the election year

    by  • February 17, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Newly Added Stories • 3 Comments

    The fact that it was done isn’t too surprising, the fact that Vice President Biden would be so honest about it is. Joe Biden, speaking on the CBS Early Show, stated that the Stimulus Bill was designed in two stages, with the job creation portion of the bill in the second stage, which will...

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    Dems off base on attacks of Republicans who took stimulus money

    by  • February 17, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Newly Added Stories • 0 Comments

    While it isn’t a new form of attack, it’s clearly made it to the top of the Democratic talking-points list that members of Congress and Democratic strategists use during their interviews, as the tactic is being used more and more of late.  The strategy is to  call Republicans whose districts received stimulus money hypocrites...

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    Union fail — Rhode Island teachers refuse to work an extra 25 minutes, so instead lost their $80k a year jobs

    by  • February 16, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Newly Added Stories • 2 Comments

    Here is an example of the end result of what President Obama and his buddy Andy Stern of SEIU are trying to push on America: A school superintendent in Rhode Island is trying to fix an abysmally bad school system. Her plan calls for teachers at a local high school to work 25 minutes...

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    A jobs bill that doesn’t create jobs?

    by  • February 11, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Newly Added Stories, Reid Whoppers • 0 Comments

    When the Associated Press points out that Reid and Obama’s new stimulus bill jobs bill is unlikely to create many jobs, you know it must be bad. The Senate proposal, which is more narrow than the one analyzed by CBO, is estimated to cost about $10 billion. That would add 80,000 to 180,000 jobs...

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    Dick Morris says Republicans could take control of Senate in November

    by  • February 10, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Newly Added Stories • 3 Comments

    There is still a lot of campaigning and liberal spinning to do between now and the November elections, but based on current polling the Republicans are in a very good position to either take control of the Senate, or failing that, leave Democrats with only a two or three seat majority. Dick Morris says...

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    Scott Brown — The last stimulus bill didn’t create one new job

    by  • February 5, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Newly Added Stories • 1 Comment

    Scott Brown was finally sworn in yesterday.  Of course, not before Paul Kirk was able to be the 60th vote on several party line votes in the Senate, even though there is some question as to whether Kirk was legally allowed to cast those votes in the Senate.  Regardless, the Kennedy and Kirk era...

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    House follows Senate in voting to raise debt ceiling by $1.9 trillion

    by  • February 4, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Newly Added Stories, Pelosi Whoppers • 0 Comments

    Today the House voted to raise the United States debt ceiling by $1.9 trillion to $14.3 trillion.  The Treasury department had said that if the ceiling was not raised that we would hit the debt cap sometime in February. Rather than reign in spending, Democrats in Congress simply voted themselves a credit line increase,...

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    Stimulus II – aka The Jobs Bill — Once again Dems schedule congressional vote before even introducing the bill

    by  • February 4, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Newly Added Stories, Reid Whoppers • 1 Comment

    In what is becoming business as usual for Reid and Pelosi, Democratic leadership has stated that they will schedule an initial vote for the Second Stimulus Bill Jobs Bill on Monday.  In order to accomplish this, Reid will move to cut off debate on the bill, which has yet to be produced, on Friday...

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    Washington Post: Obama administration does regarding terrorism that makes me feel safer

    by  • February 2, 2010 • All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Newly Added Stories • 0 Comments

    Richard Cohen of the Washington Post details the Obama-style naivete that permeates the administration’s position on dealing with terrorists. There is almost nothing the Obama administration does regarding terrorism that makes me feel safer. Whether it is guaranteeing captured terrorists that they will not be waterboarded, reciting terrorists their rights, or the legally meandering...

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