The Senate is broken. Things have gotten so bad now that Obama will force through the current health care bill under an obscure parliamentary process called “Reconciliation.” (I never knew such an amazing thing existed) It’s something Howard Dean advocated a couple months ago and it got all the Democrats to laugh...
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Wall Slammed Senate (yes, it is a reference to torture)
Reconciling Politics and Policy
WASHINGTON–President Obama told Senate lawmakers today to move forward with reconciliation to pass health care reform, saying the plan deserves the same straightforward vote that SCHIP, COBRA and the Bush tax cuts received.
As the Senate prepares to take an up-or-down vote, the NRCC is applying pressure on undecided Democrats on the House side. Project...
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The Burden of ObamaCare
WASHINGTON–CNSNews.com reports the individual insurance mandate included in Barack Obama’s revised health care plan would violate the President’s campaign promise to not raise taxes on individuals who earn less than $250,000 per year.
Passed in December, the Senate version of the bill which Obama’s plan is based off of imposes a $750 fine on individuals...
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Niall Ferguson on the Economy
So recently I attended an event where eminent Harvard historian, Niall Ferguson, and senior fellow at Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, Jeff Madrick, spoke about the current economic crisis.
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Obama: a foreign policy schizophrenic
Barack Obama has been struck with a case of political schizophrenia. On a good day, Obama stands up to menaces like North Korea, calling upon the international community to take action and prescribe punishment. But on a bad day, the president switches into blame-America-first mode, begging for forgiveness at the feet of the G-20,...
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Obama poised to publicize sweeping health care reform
Keeping true to his campaign promise, President Obama is set to unveil a bold health care reform plan. Allocating $634 billion over ten years, Mr. Obama combines several key measures aimed at reducing costs and increasing affordability for the roughly 47 million Americans without health insurance.
But will it work?
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One Obama Over the Cuckoos Nest
President Obamas address to Congress tonight fits the definition of insanity quite nicely: he keeps repeating his economic policy over and over expecting the American people to change their opinions. Reiterating, yet again, the benefits of his plan as well as the urgency of the moment, I felt like a fourth grader being lectured...
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Hopeism, Obama, and $1,000,000,000,000 deficit
President Obama is set to announce a bold plan to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years. Mr. Obama, stop playing the American people for fools. Adidas may claim that Impossible is Nothing, but I doubt that even Adidas would endorse such a unrealistic plan. So to those of you...
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A Tale of Two Ideals
Don't fret conservatives, tomorrow is a new day.
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Vote Early and Vote Often: The Genius of the Obama Campaigns use of Text Messaging and Other Forms of Mass Communication
The origin of the phrase Vote Early and Vote Often is usually attributed to Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson, a highly corrupt Republican politician who ruled the city from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1931 to 1935. The phrase itself described how political partisans could easily game the democratic voting process. As verifying...
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