Category: Democrats

Revenue Neutral? Hardly!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A couple of stories have recently come out that really put the lie to President Obama’s claims that “his” healthcare bill is revenue neutral. These on top of the original plan-killing news that came out of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office in July. In July the CBO said that Obama’s plan was clocking in at […]

 

Obamacare Gives Union Leaders Gov’t Power in Healthcare Bill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Kevin Mooney of the Washington Examiner has a piece from Sept. 2 that warns that H.R. 3200, the House healthcare bill, gives special consideration to union bosses for positions on various healthcare management boards. This means that Barack Obama is handing official government power to union bosses! Sections 123 and 2251 of H.R. 3200, the […]

 

ACORN Mob Attempts to Facilitate Child Prostitution, Tax Fraud

Posted on by Dave Blount

There really is nothing beneath Obama’s red-shirted goon squad ACORN — not even child prostitution: Officials with the controversial community organizing group ACORN were secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service and providing guidance on how to claim underage […]

 

‘Life Expectancy’ A Bad Measure of Successful Healthcare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Forbes Magazine will feature a report by the Hudson Institute’s Marie-Josee Kravis who points out the fallacy of tying a nation’s average life expectancy to its level of effective healthcare. In her estimation, life expectancy does not translate necessarily to good or bad healthcare and the left’s penchant for using it as a metric to […]

 

Obama Talks Healthcare Tonight and it Doesn’t Matter

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama is going to offer “his” healthcare prescriptions tonight at a special joint session of Congress. But why is he doing this now? After all, the bills are already written and most of the committees have already passed their versions out of committee. What is it that Obama will say that will make any […]

 

Democrat Truthers And Teaching 9/11 The Liberal Way

Posted on by William Teach

The New Republic admits what we already knew: Democrats are Truthers (via Jonah Goldberg) Jones was wrong, actually, in disavowing his support for 9/11 conspiracy theory. He signed the document, which can only mean that he supports the idea that 9/11 was planned, or that the Bushies knew something more than they have said, or […]

 

Paul Krugman Vs Sarah Palin On Health Care

Posted on by William Teach

Oh, my, with Congress back in session doing things to restrict and mess up our lives (unless you are basically a ward of Los Federales. Then you get free big screen TVs), it is getting hot and heavy in the opinion pages. Let’s start with Krugman But what is one to make of the practical, […]

 

Gov’t Refuses Transplant, NYTimes Says it’s Insurance Problem?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It is interesting to see how people will twist and turn reality in order to support President Obama’s socialistic healthcare program, but this story has to take the cake. It is the story as detailed in The New York Times of Eric De La Cruz, a young man who was sadly diagnosed with a heart […]

 

About That Bush I Education Speech

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Byron York points out that the Democrats investigated George HW Bush’s speech. This is delicious: Unlike the Obama speech, in 1991 most of the controversy came after, not before, the president’s school appearance. The day after Bush spoke, the Washington Post published a front-page story suggesting the speech was carefully staged for the president’s political […]

 

Obama’s Hate Speech: Team Obama Scrubs Website of Posting

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week, the MyBarackObama website forced a meet-up posting down the memory hole. Obama’s Organizing For America (his ground stormtrooper organization that evolved from his campaign army) section of his website had a posting for what was going to be a meet-up in Illinois to push Obamacare. Apparently, even the extremists that run Obama’s website […]

 

The Dumbest Ideas In DC #458: Passing Unpopular Legislation Helps You Win!

Posted on by John Hawkins

One of the oddest ideas floating around the fever swamps of Washington, D.C. is that parties benefit from passing wildly unpopular legislation because at least they’ve “done something.” Republicans during the Bush years were guilty of this sort of thinking at times — immigration and John McCain’s reaction to the financial crisis immediately come to […]

 

Are CCL Holders Dangerous? Columnist Thinks So

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A blogger for the Roanoke Times wrote a recent blog post breathlessly informing his readers that contrary to “false claims” concealed carry permit holders have, indeed, been responsible for acts of murder and mayhem. Dan Casey presents the report issued by what he claims is the “nonpartisan” Violence Policy Center. That report finds that seven […]

 

Say, About Those Shovel Ready Projects….

Posted on by William Teach

Where are they? Haven’t seen many so far, and, they do not seem to be available in the near future A forward-looking measure of hiring intentions dipped slightly in the United States even as it improved in many other countries, according to a quarterly survey by Manpower Inc. The global employment services company said its […]

 

The Next Stupid Health Reform Idea: Fees On Insurance Companies

Posted on by William Teach

Once again, Democrats are proving that they do not understand the free market nor the law of consequences A leading U.S. senatorseeking to forge agreement on healthcare reform will put forward a plan that includes sweeping insurance market changes and a fee on companies that will help pay to cover the uninsured, a source familiar […]

 

Teamsters Chief Says ‘Public Option’ Not Vital to Healthcare Reform

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

James P. Hoffa is now saying that if Obama pulls the “public option” out of his healthcare bill, it is not a deal killer as far as union support is concerned. Hoffa said that he was only interested in what was “doable” and that they need to “get something done… and declare a victory.” Now […]

 

Is Obama’s Commie ‘Green Czar’ A Quitter… Just Like Palin?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama made a huge mistake thinking that everyone in America hates their own country just like Reverend Wright, the killer Ayers, and now green czar Van Jones. But Obama was wrong. Some Americans still actually love their country. So, now that Van Jones’ apostasies have been revealed and he’s quit his president appointed position, I […]

 

Someone Get Out the Wetnaps, Van Jones Has Resigned

Posted on by Jimmie Bise

I’m guessing by now you already know that Van Jones, President Obama’s “Green Jobs Czar” tendered his resignation in the middle of the night last night and slunk back to the fevered swamps from whence he slithered. His resignation letter is a masterpiece of petulance and dishonesty, anchored by this sentence: On the eve of […]

 

Dem. Adviser Joe Trippi Admits Carter’s a ‘Failed Presidency’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Amusing note of the day: Well known Democratic advisor Joe Trippi called President Jimmy Carter’s a “failed presidency” on CNN yesterday. Trippi bemoaned what those nasty ol’ Republicans are trying to do to his Obammessiah but admitted that Carter was a failure as president. This is something we have not seen before coming from such […]

 

Van Jones Resigns After Apparently Having Done Nothing Wrong

Posted on by William Teach

Personally, I had thought he would not resign as long as the left leaning media ignored the story about his 9/11 Trutherism, his racism, his communism, his Marxism, his America hatred, etc and so on (I left a comment at Nice Deb to that affect). Fortunately, I was wrong White House environmental adviser Van Jones […]