Category: Democrats

8 Dem Senators Push Reid for Transparency on Health Bill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As reported earlier, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has been fighting against efforts to institute transparency in the healthcare debate by posting SB3200, the House healthcare bill, online for at least 72 hours before the bill comes to the floor. Similarly, efforts to bring transparency to the Senate’s Baucus bill are also in the […]

 

How ACORN Hides Behind Fake Names

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Many states have ways to look up the businesses, organizations and people with whom the state does business. Illinois has such a service on the Secretary of State’s website. In Illinois there is a way to search the folks the state does business with on a page titled Corporate/LLC Search / Certificate of Good Standing. […]

 

Darnell Nash: Another ACORN Community Activist Finds Fame

Posted on by Dave Blount

Comrade Obama isn’t the only big success to come out of ACORN. There’s also the self-proclaimed “Queen of Cleveland Gender Benders,” Darnell Nash: The activist group ACORN, which has long worked with criminals as it preys on the weak and the troubled, is on the verge of yet another public relations catastrophe. That’s because a […]

 

Obama’s Muslim Advisor Says Sharia Law ‘Misunderstood’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It has been used to excuse the chopping off of hands and feet, it has been used as an excuse to stone women that have been victims of rape, and it has been used as an excuse to jail women merely for wearing a pair of pants, driving a car, or smoking a cigarette, but […]

 

Obama’s Stimulus for Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Stimulating the economy isn’t nearly as important to President Obama as putting federal dollars into the pockets of his union cronies. Because of Obama’s PLA Executive Order, thousands of jobs are going to unions in states that have few union members. The Washington Times, for instance, reports that Obama has grandiosely given a $35 million […]

 

Associated Press and Misleading Rhetoric on Afghanistan

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Associated Press employed some interesting rhetoric in its recent wire story on Obama’s coming decisions on the war in Afghanistan. It is rhetoric that might mislead a casual reader as to how many casualties the U.S. has incurred in Afghanistan and just when they’ve occurred as well as both Obama’s and the Bush administration’s […]

 

ObamaCare And The “New Mommy Tax”, Ie “Why Does Obama Hate Women, Children and Minorities”

Posted on by William Teach

Yeah, yeah, I know I really shouldn’t call it ObamaCare, since, like virtually every other policy, Obama gives a speech then votes “present!” In this case, he has outsourced all the health system destruction legislation out to Congress. We’re still waiting for Obama’s actual plan, which he said weeks ago he would supply. Anyhow, Amanda […]

 

CBO Says Baucus Bill Won’t Add To Debt – But It Will Leave 16 Million Uninsured

Posted on by McQ

The Washington Post’s “Capitol Briefing” breathlessly announces: A health-care reform bill drafted by the Senate Finance Committee would expand health coverage to nearly 30 million Americans who currently lack insurance and would meet President Obama’s goal of reducing the federal budget deficit by 2019, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. The bill would cost […]

 

Pelosi Thwarting Transparency Measures, Won’t Allow Public to See Healthcare Bill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On September 25, we reported on the Walden Discharge Petition that Representative Joe Wilson informed us about in a conference telephone call. Wilson told us of a resolution that would force all bills that come before the House for a vote to be posted on the Internet for 72 hours before the members can vote […]

 

NAACP Registers Inmates to Vote

Posted on by Dave Blount

ACORN isn’t the only militant moonbat outfit that uses felons to advance Democrat chances at the polls. The NAACP is registering voters at prisons in Maine, one of just two states that allow all inmates to vote while behind bars, in what is apparently the nation’s first such statewide drive. … Though prison inmates tend […]

 

The Obama Justice Department’s Secret Blogging Team… Is it Illegal?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, has apparently hired a cadre of left-wing, Democrat campaign bloggers to troll through the Internet looking for news stories and blog posts that denigrate the Obama agenda. After such websites are found it is the job of these secret lefty bloggers to leave comments that come to the support of […]

 

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Demonizing Private Insurance Companies

Posted on by William Teach

Over the past few months, we have heard and read about Democrat leaders doing their typical “hey, let’s insult, demean, damage, and demonize yet another private entity” in regards to the health insurance industry. They tell us that the private health insurance companies should be more like the selfless government run Medicare. Yeah, about that […]

 

Dems False Talking Point of 80% Agreement

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama has repeatedly been heard to say that Congress agrees on “about 80% of what needs to be done” on healthcare. And many Democratic congressmen have been echoing this since Obama’s Sept. speech. The meme has been used to present their case as if Obamacare is somehow mostly acceptable by all concerned. Even some Republican […]

 

Nanny State Update: New York District Bans Kids From Riding Bikes to School

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

America’s kids are too fat. Right? Don’t we hear that all the time? Isn’t it a steady mantra from the left that America is suffering from an “epidemic” of obesity? So, shouldn’t we want to encourage kids to get outdoors? Wouldn’t it be a good thing if kids rode a bicycle to school? Not to […]

 

Resolution Denouncing Alan Grayson (D) Coming?

Posted on by William Teach

Catching up on the Alan Grayson affair from yesterday, in which I figured that there would be no condemnation resolution submitted by the GOP, well………. House Republicans changed course: on Wednesday and decided not to move forward with a resolution condemning Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Florida, for saying that the GOP health care plan calls for sick […]

 

Democratic Self-Delusion

Posted on by McQ

I love quotes like this because it gives you a little hint about the level of the left’s self-delusion and intellectual bankruptcy. “A Primer on Reconciliation,” put together by Ken Strickland of NBC at First Read does a nice job of explaining the arcane process and some of the limits that will make it both […]

 

Lefty Outrage at ‘Conservative’ Article Misses Key Fact, Writer Isn’t Conservative

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The left is in an uproar today. They got their panties in a bunch over a piece that ran on the conservative newsblog NewsMax.com where it was suggested that Obama’s irresponsible actions as president could result in a military coup that would “restore” the Constitution. Not completely without reason, many lefty blogs have lost their […]

 

Federal Recovery Tracking Website Hides $$ to ACORN

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We are discovering that Obama’s promised transparency only goes so far in reporting where stimulus money ends up going. The new tracking website, Recovery.gov, is supposed to let us all know where the federal “stimulus” money is going but apparently will not track money that goes to groups like the Association for Community Organizations for […]