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HHS Buries numbers — HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had report showing Obamacare would increase insurance costs a week before final votes

It’s now being reported that prior to the final Congressional votes on Obamacare, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius buried a report detailing the devastating affects that Obamacare would have.
The American Spectator reports that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was given the analysis by the Medicare actuary, which showed that Obamacare would [...]

7:15 am | Posted in All Whoppers, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories | Read More »

Tennessee lawyer files class action suit against Obamacare

Technically, it isn’t a class action suit yet, but is expected to be very shortly.
On Thursday Van Irion, a Congressional candidate and Constitutional lawyer, filed a lawsuit against Obamacare following the Tennessee Attorney General’s refusal to do so:
Third District Congressional candidate Van Irion said in just three days, more than 500 individuals and companies [...]

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Delaying the inevitable – GOP finds improper reconciliation language to force bill back to house

In a minor, and mostly symbolic victory, Republicans found a problem with the language of the House reconciliation bill that Senate Democrats have been trying to pass over the past 36 hours.
The Republicans found a provision that guaranteed Pell grants into the future without providing funding for them, leaving that to a future Congress.  As [...]

7:44 am | Posted in All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories, Reid Whoppers | Read More »

Breaking: 13 states file suit over Obamacare

13 states, Led by the Florida Attorney General, have filed a lawsuit in federal court. Their claim is that Obamacare is unconstitutional.  It’s expected that the individual mandate and unfunded Medicaid expansion will be the primary focus.
I am not able to list all the states that joined the Florida suit or provide a link to [...]

12:20 pm | Posted in All Whoppers, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories | Read More »

Strike I — Senate Parliamentarian Rules Against GOP Social Security Challenge

Yesterday, we reported how the Republicans thought they had a way to get the entire reconciliation bill tossed.
Their plan was to argue that the following statement by Steny Hoyer indicated that the Reconciliation bill violated the Congressional Budget Act Of 1974, which states that any bill that contains “recommendations with respect to” Social Security, will [...]

9:37 pm | Posted in All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories | Read More »

Dick Morris: Passing Obamacare was a suicide pact among Dems

It has been clear from almost the beginning of the Obama Presidency that President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid saw the election of President Obama as a far-left mandate.  They took that mandate and ran with it, completely blocking out Republican involvement from the early weeks of the Obama Presidency.
President Obama set the tone [...]

6:30 am | Posted in All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories | Read More »

Even the liberal Washington Post knows the individual mandate is unconstitutional

It’s been reported that at least 38 states have passed or are working on various legislation that will likely lead to constitutional challenges.
The most likely challenge to succeed, and the one most states are focusing on, is the individual mandate.  This would result in an unprecedented extension of federal powers, where by the federal government [...]

6:00 am | Posted in All Whoppers, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Media Whoppers, Newly Added Stories | Read More »

GOP Hail Mary? GOP claims entire reconciliation bill will be tossed by Parliamentarian UPDATE: Reid knows reconciliation could be tossed – his plan all along?

There is a lot of skepticism about this.
In essence, it seems that reconciliation cannot be used to impact social security in any way. However, in the reconciliation bill the House Democrats state that they will raise additional revenues for social security.
Presumably, this was added as one of the many ‘marketing’ clauses in the bill, [...]

5:07 pm | Posted in All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories | Read More »

Stupak trades in principle for party support – Obama’s Executive Order to help Stupak bloc during mid-term elections

Bart Stupak and his bloc have switched from no votes to yes votes on Obamacare.  Stupak claims that the Executive Order that President Obama will issue following the health care bills being enacted into law will counter the Senate Bill’s public funding of abortion.
Stupak claims that this executive order will address all concerns about public [...]

2:25 pm | Posted in All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories | Read More »

The Hill says Dems still short of 216 – Is Stupak back in drivers seat? UPDATE: Stupak schedules press conference UPDATE: Stupak bloc reaches deal with White House

This comes from The Hill via Ace of Spades.
First, it’s important to note that while this is a slim sliver of hope, Foxnews and many other agencies believe that Pelosi has 216, if not more.  They believe that Pelosi continues to try and win yes votes only to pad the numbers so that no Democrats [...]

1:22 pm | Posted in All Whoppers, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories | Read More »

Draft executive order on abortion funding – does it address Senate accounting trick?

I’m not a lawyer, and am not an expert at reading legislative language, but in a quick skim of this Executive Order, I have some doubts.
Not only have all the legal/legislative experts that I have seen claimed that an Executive Order will not trump the Senate bill once it becomes law, but in addition I [...]

12:21 pm | Posted in All Whoppers, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories, White House | Read More »

Is Stupak only looking for political cover? – legal experts say executive order won’t trump Congress UPDATE: Stupak bloc crumbling?

First, I want to say that Bart Stupak (D-MI) had earned my respect for the way he has handled himself.  Apparently until today, he has stuck to his guns and principles, refusing to vote for the Senate bill, which clearly provides for the public funding of abortion.
Back in December, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius explained that [...]

11:16 am | Posted in All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories | Read More »

Pelosi still short — Obama recruits Bill Clinton to call undecided Dems

The vote on Obamacare is less than 24 hours away.  Or is it?  This morning most reports indicated that Pelosi had her 216 votes, which is why the Democrats decided not to use their controversial deem-and-pass strategy.
As the day progressed, reports began to surface that Pelosi might still be short and that President Obama was [...]

10:47 pm | Posted in All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories | Read More »

Hope remains – latest count is 216 no votes UPDATE: Executive order on abortion?

According to Right Wing News, Zack Space committing to vote no, now puts the number of no votes at 216:
Just a quick update: despite what you may be hearing from Fox, which has strangely had a more optimistic count for Democrats than even liberal websites, Pelosi DOES NOT have the votes yet.

Update #1 (5:48 PM [...]

5:35 pm | Posted in All Whoppers, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories | Read More »

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

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 this mean?  Hard [...]

4:53 pm | Posted in All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories, Pelosi Whoppers | Read More »

Dems still short of 216 says Dick Morris – says source calls Sunday vote a suicide run

Again, I am hoping that Dick Morris will forgive my re-posting of his entire article, because I believe he will agree that the most important goal right now is getting the word out.  Morris says Pelosi and Obama are still short of the 216 House Democrats they need to pass Obamacare:
From a top level source [...]

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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

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 be [...]

12:58 pm | Posted in All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories, Pelosi Whoppers | Read More »

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

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 less than [...]

6:23 am | Posted in All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories, Pelosi Whoppers | Read More »

Obamacare to crush middle class families

Class warfare was not only a big part of the Obama campaign, but has also been how the Democrats have been trying to sell Obamacare.  Obama said during the campaign, it’s patriotic to tax the rich, and redistribute their wealth to others.
He promised that no families making less than $250,000 would receive a tax increase.  [...]

6:08 am | Posted in All Whoppers, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories, White House | Read More »

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

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 blatant examples [...]

7:09 am | Posted in All Whoppers, Congress, Featured Articles, General, Health Care, Newly Added Stories, Pelosi Whoppers | Read More »

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