Category: Health

Jon Voight, the exception who proves the rule regarding Hollywood moonbattery, calls on fellow patriots to flood DC in opposition to the healthcare power grab: I am calling to all of you freedom-loving Americans to come once again to Washington D.C. to gather at upper Senate Park, across from the Capitol on Saturday, at 12 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

The Obama Administration’s demonization campaign against the insurance industry is proceeding apace with Kathleen Sebelius publicly carping about the companies: The head of the Health and Human Services Department is sketching out a stark choice for the nation’s insurers: oppose reform and eventually lose customers, or work with the Obama administration to improve the legislation. […]

What part of “We Will Kill Your ‘Fix’” do the Democrats not understand? Using reconciliation to try to pass socialized medicine is the nuclear option and it means all-out-political-warfare in the Senate. If the Democrats are going to play it dirty by going that way, the GOP is going to use every procedural trick in […]

Poll: Patriot Room bloggers Clyde Middleton and Bill Dupray say it’s dead. Steve Schippert of Threatswatch isn’t sure. I say that it could still pass. Who’s right? A form of the health care bill will be passed: Podcast here: Welcome to the second (and long delayed!) edition of the Liberty Pundits podcast. Melissa, Bill, Clyde, […]

First off, here’s the two-step Democrats want to execute on health care: 1) The House passes the bill that has already been approved by the Senate. At that point, Obama can sign the bill and it’s the law. However, ideally they will also pass a 2nd bill via reconciliation. 2) The House and Senate pass […]