Following the bait and switch passage of Obamacare, which was followed by a PR and sales campaign by the White House and President Obama, the President received a small bump in his approval rating which he held for a couple months.
It would appear that small bump is gone and he has began his downward spiral [...]
Using the words socialism and President Obama in the same sentence has become so overused at this point, that many immediately discount it as more right-wing rhetoric. However, in this case it might pay to take a look at where Morris goes with this.
After Republicans made news several weeks ago by filibustering a vote to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Obama administration, along with Democrats in Congress and the liberal media, appear to be on the same page with how to deal with the Tea Party movement. Paint them as far-right, uneducated, racist and violent.
This characterization has been evident for a while, but since Obamacare passed, it has become clear that attacking the Tea [...]
It won’t come as a shock to too many people, but Pelosi and company, along with the Obama administration approving grant requests, are funneling money into Democratic districts and over twice the rate of the Republican districts.
From the National Review Online, comes details of this latest abuse of power by the Democrats:
Second: On average, Democratic [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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Update #1 (5:48 PM [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It was just this morning that we reported on yesterday’s Rasmussen Reports poll that showed that an amazing 43% of Americans strongly disapprove of President Obama.
When President Bush left office, 43% of people strongly disapproved of his job performance. This was after years of fighting two unpopular wars, and a presidential campaign that saw Obama, [...]
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 [...]