Category: Democrats

NBC’s Gregory Assumes Liberal Argument for Healthcare, Raises ‘Right Wing Conspiracy’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a Meet the Press interview with Bill Clinton on September 27, NBC’s David Gregory seemed to assume as accepted fact that the only way to fix healthcare was for Americans to “pay higher taxes.” He also asked the former chief executive if the “vast right wing conspiracy” that his wife bemoaned in 1998 was […]

 

Democrats Kill Public Option In Senate

Posted on by McQ

Not that I’m complaining. Max Baucus’ Senate Finance Committee voted on Jay Rockefeller’s public option amendment. No joy for public option supporters: After five hours of debate, the Senate Finance Committee this afternoon voted down Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s proposal for a public option to compete with private insurers. Though a majority of the committee’s Democrats […]

 

Democrat Who Received Sweetheart Countrywide Deals Blocks Investigations

Posted on by William Teach

Shocker, eh? California Republican Representative Darrell Issa is another public figure hot on Bank of America’s tail. And this time it doesn’t have anything to do with the Merrill acquisition, which is what most folks are concerned with. His concern is Countrywide’s old and controversial “VIP” program, which channeled sweetheart loans to influential figures.:  Issa […]

 

Waxman-Markey: 397 New Regulations And 1,100 New Mandates

Posted on by McQ

This story slipped quietly under the radar last week as we had the UN speech, the Iran revelation and the G20. An examination of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade legislation finds it contains 397 new regulations and 1,100 new mandates. And you’ll be pleased to know it will simplify your life, make child birth pleasant and cost […]

 

Unions Threatened by New House Healthcare Provision?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Democrat leadership of the House of Representatives now wants to pay for H.R.3200 — the House healthcare bill — by charging a tax on the so-called Cadillac healthcare plans. This surtax is something that has been talked about in the Senate and forms an integral part of the Baucus bill, but this is the […]

 

What’s the Difference Between a Conservative and a Liberal?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

People often wonder what is the difference between a conservative and a liberal. The simple fact of the matter is that the major difference is that conservatives wonder first what it is they are responsible for while liberals wonder first what everyone else should be doing for them. Here are some brief rules of thumb: […]

 

Capital Hill Switchboard Illegally Being Used to Push Obamacare? (Question Solved)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

**UPDATE** NUMBER IDENTIFIED** I have finally tracked down what this number is. Apparently it is a left-wing group that uses this 1-800 number as a re-direct to the Capitol Hill switchboard. You call the number, hear the message, and then it re-directs you to the real switchboard. The message is not being hosted on the […]

 

FireDogLake’s Weak Reply to Obama as Jesus School Song Video

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

**Update** below from children’s book author Charisse Carney-Nunes As school kids in New Jersey are being indoctrinated to think that Barack Hussein Obama is a suitable replacement for Jesus of Nazareth, the extremist leftist website FireDogLake rose to defend the propaganda. But even the left-wingers over at FDL must realize how indefensible their support of […]

 

Joe Wilson: Petition to Put Bills On Line for 72 Hours Before House Vote

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I was part of a small number of bloggers and Internet writers invited to speak with Representative Joe Wilson (R, SC) Friday afternoon. Rep. Wilson wanted to alert us all to a resolution that would provide that all bills that go through the House of Representatives would be posted on the Internet for 72 hours […]

 

Criminalizing “Choice”

Posted on by McQ

What were the twin goals President Obama’s reform given in his speech to a joint session of Congress? Oh, yeah, he wanted there to be “competition” so the consumer had a “choice”. That’s become a Democratic talking point now. But choice, apparently, doesn’t extend beyond the faux choice of the public option. If you choose […]

 

Drop the gag order, Sebelius.

Posted on by Tabitha Hale

Who knew they still had a spine? Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) — Senate Republicans vowed to block President Barack Obama’s nominee for surgeon general and other health officials unless the government drops what they said is a “gag order” barring insurers from lobbying their Medicare policyholders on the health-insurance overhaul. The move by Senate Minority Leader […]

 

GOP: Standing in the way of Utopia.

Posted on by Tabitha Hale

Because clearly they’re entirely too accomodating to dissenting viewpoints. If anything, the Democrats’ problem is that they permit too much dissent–unlike the Republicans, who demand “lockstep marching.” In fact, if Democrats would learn to be just a little less tolerant of dissent, they might get a lot more done. Yeah, they just get STEAMROLLED. Poor […]

 

Obamacare Mandates Will Cost Business $49 Billion a Year

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It has been estimated that employer mandates forced on businesses by H.R. 3200 and the other legislation barreling through Congress will cost America’s businesses $49 billion a year if passed. According to the Heritage Foundation the mandates in the bills now under consideration will force employers to buy healthcare insurance for their employees or pay […]

 

I Agree: Birth Control COULD Save the Planet

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This may shock many of my conservative fans, but I cannot remain quiet about my support for the singularly brilliant idea that Obama’s so-called science czar offered in the 1975 college textbook Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment. Birth control, it was theorized, could save the planet. I have to say that I wholeheartedly agree. In 1975, […]

 

Union Rules: Teachers Paid Not to Teach

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Here is yet another story where union members undergoing disciplinary procedures can sometimes spend years being paid their full salary to sit home and watch TV, doing nothing, working not a minute of their day. In this case it is costing a local school system at least $2.25 million to pay teachers that aren’t teaching. […]

 

Obama to Waste More Growing Welfare in a Year Than Bush Spent on Entire Iraq War

Posted on by Dave Blount

When liberals whine that the war to liberate Iraq cost too much, they make an argument that would be reasonable — but only if someone else were making it. We now know that their Teleprompter Messiah will flush more money down welfare in the next year than Bush spent on the entire war. During the […]

 

Democrats Tell The Truth About Afghanistan

Posted on by William Teach

Hullabaloo comes out and tells us what most Democrats/Liberals/Progressives think about Afghanistan Escalation is a bad idea. The Democrats backed themselves into defending the idea of Afghanistan being The Good War because they felt they needed to prove their macho bonafides they called for withdrawal from Iraq. Nobody asked too many questions sat the time, […]

 

Obama OK, Democrats In Trouble

Posted on by McQ

Charlie Cook, one of the most respected of the political prognosticators, continues to sound the alarm for Congressional Democrats. Since August, Cook has been telling them they’re headed for electoral disaster in the 2010 midterms if they don’t change their ways. Most of the erosion of support has taken place among independents. Although the country […]

 

Obama is ‘Concerned’ About Blogosphere

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Hill is reporting that Obama is now “open” to a newspaper bailout. Well, welcome to the state run media. Not long ago Senator Ben Cardin (D- Md.) introduced S. 673, the Newspaper Revitalization Act. It is supposed to give news media tax breaks if they restructure as a non-profit corporation. So far, though, the […]

 

School Pensions Making Millionaires out of Retiring Employees

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Bill Zettler recently submitted a Freedom of Information request on the pensions of 13 retiring public school employees from District 211 in Palatine, Illinois and he found that the people of Illinois are on the hook for over $50 million in pension benefits promised to people retiring at the average age of 58. Zettler found […]

 

Just another $292 Million…

Posted on by Tabitha Hale

It hurts my heart a little to admit that $292 million doesn’t sound like a whole lot right off hand. But it IS a lot of money. And another NYC scumbag has bilked the banks. Meet Hassan Nemazee. A federal grand jury charged Hassan Nemazee, a New York businessman who has ties to prominent politicians, […]

 

Is it American to be Forced Into a Union? In Obama’s America it is!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Welcome to Obama’s America where you are forced to become a union member even if you had no idea you were being inducted into one. In fact, in Obama’s America you won’t even know you are IN a union until you notice union dues are being withheld from your checks. This is the case in […]