Author: John Hawkins

House Republicans Step Up On Defunding Obamacare As The Senate GOP Prepares To Wimp Out?

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On Tuesday, I wrote a post pushing the idea of defunding Obamacare that got a lot of play around the blogosphere. By Wednesday morning, Dick Morris had out a column suggesting the same thing. Last night, while interviewing John Boehner, Megyn Kelly said, “there was talk of the Republicans just refusing to fund this.” John […]

 

Abortions For Your Child, Without Your Knowledge Or Your Consent? Beyond Unacceptable.

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Welcome to liberal America! It’s a new country! Full of change, hope, and a government that wants to take care of you — not like those mean, old Republicans who want you to take care of yourself. When there are tough decisions to be made, don’t worry, we’ll spare you all that hard work: The […]

 

An Interview With The Man Challenging John McCain: J.D. Hayworth

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Former Congressman J.D. Hayworth is taking on John McCain in Arizona’s Republican primary. It’s a close race. According to the latest Rasmussen poll, Hayworth is only down seven points to McCain. What follows is the slightly edited transcript of our conversation from last Friday. Enjoy! Now John McCain supported the bank bailouts via Tarp. Where […]

 

All Republican Candidates For Congress Need To Pledge To Repeal Obamacare

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Just for the record, let me say this: I will not support any Republican running for Congress who won’t publicly pledge to repeal Obamacare. I don’t care what district or state they’re in, I don’t care what their other views are, and I don’t care what their reasoning may be. If they’re not willing to […]

 

The Hawkins Strategy: Repealing Obamacare By Cutting Off The Funds

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The problem with doing a full repeal of Obamacare is that it will take a majority in the House, the presidency, and 60 votes in the Senate. Were I a betting man, I’d say condition one is very likely by 2012, condition 2 is definitely possible, but condition 3 is basically out of reach given […]

 

A Short, Obligatory Post About The “Slurs” At The Capitol Hill Tea Party

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If anyone at the Tea Party on Capitol Hill dropped the N-bomb, used any other kind of offensive slur like “f@ggot or wetback, or spit on anyone, I uncategorically condemn their behavior. Moreover, let me add that I don’t think it’s impossible that such things could have happened. The world’s full of idiots and it’s […]

 

Stupak’s Sell Out In Quotes: Even Liberals Admit The Executive Order Is Meaningless

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One of the things that happened yesterday when the health care bill was passed was that the pro-life Democrat was proven to be almost as much of a mythical creature as the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and:  the:  Loch Ness Monster. The Stupak block spent weeks of steadfastly opposing the Senate bill because they freely […]

 

John Boehner’s Awesome Speech Before The Health Care Vote

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Last night, right before the health care vote, House Minority leader John Boehner gave an absolutely inspired speech. It was one of the best I’ve heard in a while and so I asked his staff to send me a copy of his remarks. They complied and here they are: I rise with a sad and […]

 

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

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* 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 […]

 

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

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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 […]

 

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

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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 […]

 

Why You Should Oppose Obamacare: 32 Quotes From Democrats

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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 […]

 

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

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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 […]

 

If There’s An Obamacare Vote On Sunday, I Think The Dems Lose It

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I’ve been watching the flow of the blow in the House really carefully and despite what people are saying, I don’t think they have the votes. Moreover, let me go out on a limb here: People are saying that there’s going to be a vote on Sunday. If it happens, I think Obamacare fails. Why? […]

 

An Interview With America’s Toughest Sheriff, Joe Arpaio

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America’s toughest Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, made a name for himself by forcing inmates to wear pink underwear and work on chain gangs. Since Obama got into office, Arpaio has become a target of the White House and pro-illegal immigration members of Congress because his deputies actually enforce the immigration laws of the state of Arizona. […]

 

Democratic Health Care Fantasyland: Once People Know About The Bill, They’ll Like it!

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How out of touch with reality would you have to be to actually believe this? Dems can salvage political goodwill from the messy and electorally painful health care bill, but only if they invest the time and resources necessary to convince voters it was a good idea to pass the mammoth package, according to a […]

 

Surprise, Surprise: The Border Fence Isn’t Being Built

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One of the arguments people who are serious about securing our borders made against comprehensive immigration reform during the Bush years was that if we went that way, the illegals would get citizenship, but we’d never get the security. In fact, that’s exactly what happened when the country went that route during the Reagan years. […]

 

So, What’s The Liberal Answer To The Massive Shortage Of Doctors Obamacare Would Cause?

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Barack Obama has never even attempted to make an honest case for health care reform. Instead, he’s simply promised everything to everybody. If you believe Obama, you think socialized medicine is going to cover more people, reduce costs, reduce the deficits, and improve the quality of care. In other words, there are no drawbacks whatsoever. […]

 

The DNC Should Fire Its Health Care Pollster

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Obama’s pollster, Joel Benenson, has been making some utterly bizarre arguments for health care reform of late. If he really believes this stuff, he’s not competent enough to do his job. Of course, it’s entirely possible that he may be putting this nonsense out there because he believes Democratic Congressmen are stupid enough to buy […]

 

Liberal Violence: Five Names You Should Know

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Unfortunately, there are dangerous kooks, trigger-happy wackos, and lone gunmen out there. Bad people exist. Crazy people exist — and every so often, one of them snaps and there’s a resulting body count. To most people, this is just a tragic fact of life. However, to liberals in the media who are forever baffled by […]

 

Weekend At Bernie’s Health Care Reform Edition: This Dead Bill Is Looking Better Than Ever!

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All week-end long, we’ve been treated to House leadership and the White House confidently asserting that health care is going to pass. “We’ll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week,” said Robert Gibbs. Yahoo’s headlining an article “Pelosi confident House will pass health care bill.”. David Axelrod says Democrats […]