Year: 2010

Quasi-Live Blogging The Health Care Vote: This Is The Day

Posted on by John Hawkins

* One of the Stupak block, Marcy Kaptur just became an ex-pro-lifer by supporting the health care bill. That’s a key pick-up for the pro-health care side. * Ron Kind came out in favor of Obamacare, too, although most people thought he’d go that way. * Supposedly Loretta Sanchez is going to make the vote […]

 

Some Interesting Healthcare Tweets

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Of course, nothing could be better than the Tweet I saw from Sky_Bluez: “Stupid is as Stupak does.” That about sums up the whole day so far. But here are a few others from various folks on my Twitter feed that are worth noting… buelldawg said: “Tea Party protesters who gathered on the Capitol lawn […]

 

Lord of the Rings Updated for 2010, The Dark Lord ACORN Lives

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The last book of the famous Lord of the Rings Trilogy is ripe for some updating, so here’s a proposal to that end. The Dark Lord Sauron is a perfect evil villain, of course. He’s shadowy, unseen, hard to grasp, but pervasive and the personification of oppression and evil. But his name needs to be […]

 

Wanna meet the next Governor of Wisconsin?

Posted on by TrogloPundit

It’s going to be one of these two guys. Scott Walker, currently Milwaukee County Executive: The highlights: Walker was a conservative member of the State Assembly, then ran for County Exec after a big pension scandal both ruined the prior Exec’s career and made County Executive something people actually paid attention to. Since then, he’s […]

 

Democrats Don’t Care About ‘Health,’ It’s All About Politics

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Robert Creamer of the HuffyPost penned a very revealing piece that proves that Democrats simply don’t care at all about anyone’s “health,” but that this whole fiasco is solely about political “wins” and power. If someone happens to get a little healthcare out of the thing, that is purely incidental to the actual purpose of […]

 

Democrats Predict Historic House Vote On Health Destruction

Posted on by William Teach

Today is the day they are finally going to put the economy and jobs as priority #1. Just kidding, of course. Though these ObamaCare twits actually believe that this will generate large amounts of jobs. To be fair, it will. Government jobs. Jobs for bureaucrats. Jobs for IRS agents, who are expected to increase the […]

 

Quasi Live-Blog: Less Than 24 Hours To Go And They Still Don’t Have The Votes

Posted on by John Hawkins

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. “They’re still short on votes. There’s still time and they still need votes.” — Rep. Dan Lipinksi (D-Ill.) Lipinksi is right. The […]

 

So lemme get this straight: first they deem it, then they reconcile it…

Posted on by TrogloPundit

…and then they pass it? Is that why it smells so bad? I was just getting to understand the whole “deem and pass” (or, if you must, “demon pass”) thing when the news broke: the Democrats have dumped “deem and pass” and will instead take an up-or-down vote on the bill… …um, which bill? The […]

 

I’ve Had Enough of the “Tea Bagger” Slur, Haven’t You?

Posted on by Jimmie Bise

Mark Knoller, the award-winning White House correspondent for CBS News, was in Washington today covering the President’s attempt to rally Democrats to pass his government-run health care plan. In the course of describing the scene, Knoller shucked off his role as objective reporter so he could drop a casual slur on a significant chunk of […]

 

Most Awesome Billboard: Obama Worse Than Carter

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Image courtesy of storyballoon.org Poor Jimmy Carter, bless his bitter, old, anti-semitic heart. President Barack Obama has totally stolen his thunder. First, Obama had to horn in on Carter’s “I received a completely unwarranted Nobel Peace Prize” mantle. Now, this! What does Carter have left now? A few rancid cases of Billy Beer? From Story […]

 

If The Health Bill Is Just So Darned Super Wonderful………

Posted on by William Teach

Why do we need bribes, threats, and possibly illegal emails? Undecided Democrats are being promised campaign perks and lucrative committee assignments. They are being threatened with decreased fund-raising support, primary opponents and the loss of committee chairmanships. President Barack Obama has even lobbied members one-on-one aboard Air Force One. The White House Office of Health […]

 

Coming Down To The Wire On Obamacare: Is The Stupak Block About To Cave?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Nancy Pelosi, I think, has got them all liquored up on sake and you know, they’re making a suicide run here. — Lindsey Graham I’ve been extremely skeptical that Nancy Pelosi could pull in enough votes to pass Obamacare by Sunday. That’s in large part because up until yesterday, they were having very little luck […]

 

Restrained No More’s — Nurse Betty Does Hollywood

Posted on by Sharise Parviz

Nurse Betty – Does Hollywood; as Health Care continues to be the only agenda Obama wants on the TV screens non-stop – here is episode #2 of Nurse Betty. Showing the hypocrisy of the Liberal Hollywood Elites on the subject. For other episodes of the show or more info check out- http://www.restrainednomore.com/

 

Obamacare: Go, confront the problem! Fight! Win! — Edna Mode, The Incredibles

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

And also, to mix my metaphors: There’s no crying in baseball. The Democrats want you to believe it’s all over. And really, if they didn’t suck so bad, they’d have the votes. But this vote and their philosophy and their means and their actions DO suck that bad and so, still, after all these months, […]

 

Democrat Memo Reveals: Lies, More Lies and Damnable Lies

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

A Democrat memo reveals that the Democrats are intentionally misleading the public on the CBO analysis of Obamacare. While we knew this, this is proof that they know it and are purposefully lying. RedState has the memo, scanned into pdf format. You can find it here. Key excerpt (emphasis by Ed Morrissey at Hot Air) […]

 

Who is the reactionary now?

Posted on by McQ

Ezra Klein has this to say about “the process” now under fire by Republicans: So far in the health-care debate, Republicans have attacked the legitimacy of private negotiations, parochial dealmaking, the budget reconciliation process, self-executing rules, the Congressional Budget Office’s analyses, and even the constitutionality of the legislation. It’s a good theory: Make people hate […]

 

Obama Turns Over Our Oil to Russia

Posted on by Dave Blount

Yet another example of the consequences of putting a moonbat ideologue who doesn’t particularly like this country in charge of it: oil in the Gulf of Mexico has been surrendered to Russia: The Obama administration is poised to ban offshore oil drilling on the outer continental shelf until 2012 or beyond. Meanwhile, Russia is making […]

 

VP Biden Says Obama Plans to ‘Control Insurance Companies’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The indispensable Jake Tapper of ABC News took an interview with Vice President Joe “Foot in Mouth” Biden that contains a nugget of information that tends to prove that Barack Obama intends to destroy America’s insurance industry and place it under the full control of the federal government. Tapper asked VP Biden what he’d been […]

 

Obama Set to Create More Joe Stacks

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Republican members of the House Ways and Means committee today alerted the country to the appalling fact that Obama and his Democrat cohorts will be creating 17,000 new IRS agents with the President’s signing of Obamacare. With animosity against the Internal Revenue Service growing, it seems clear that Obama is creating more Joe Stack […]

 

California’s Brown Tells Unions to ‘Attack’ His GOP Opponent

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

You couldn’t get any better proof that unions are little else but hatchet men for the Democrat Party than Jerry Brown’s recent visit to a labor group meeting in California this week. At a meeting of the Laborers’ International Union of North America in Sacramento, Brown gave marching orders to the unions in his race […]

 

Why Are Obama And The Dems Incompetent? Climate Change!

Posted on by William Teach

This is so cute. Reuters allows Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S.-based environmental activist organization, to pen an amusing editorial, which, like so many others from climate alarmists, is long on alarmism, and short on reality and science. The best quote is Indeed, climate change has begun to affect the […]

 

Why You Should Oppose Obamacare: 32 Quotes From Democrats

Posted on by John Hawkins

The problems with health care reform are legion. It’ll raise premiums, unconstitutionally force people to buy health care, cause the deficit to skyrocket, slash Medicare spending to create a new entitlement, lead to rationing, cause a significant number of doctors to quit or retire early, and destroy the quality of care in America. The process […]

 

Media Tries Projection Over 11 Year Old Sob Story

Posted on by William Teach

One of the important things to understand about Lefties is that no matter what happens, they think in terms of how they would act/think. They are unable to stretch their sheepled minds out to understand that what happened is something different from what they themselves would do. Therefore, they end up projecting quite a bit. […]

 

District By District On The Undecided Obamacare Votes: Why The Dems Are Still In Big Trouble

Posted on by John Hawkins

If you look at the best whip count out there, at The Hill, the Dems have 36 votes that are “Firm No, Leaning No, Likely No.” After losing lefties Dennis Kucinich and Luis Gutierrez from that list, the remaining 36 votes look pretty solid. That’s problematic for the Dems because they can only have a […]

 

Big Labor Play Number 1: The Back Door

Posted on by Brett McMahon

The mainstream media is already declaring defeat of the Big Labor agenda during Obama’s first year in office. With the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) dead on arrival, the stalled nomination of SEIU attorney Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board and certain union sweetheart deals now absent from the latest health care […]

 

Read HR4872, Healthcare Bill Online

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

OpenCongress has online the healthcare bill that will soon be facing a vote in the House of Representatives. Health Care Bill Summary – by OpenCongress: this is the full text of H.R. 4872, the Reconciliation Act of 2010. This bill would amend the Senate version of the health care reform bill to bring its provisions […]