Category: Liberals

CNN’s Poll Vaulting

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A short report on CNN’s Political Ticker is interesting for what it doesn’t mention in the story as well as its admittedly misleading trumpeted headline that Obama got “double-digit post-speech jump” after his Sept, 9 healthcare speech to a joint session of Congress. First the headline: “CNN Poll: Double-digit post-speech jump for Obama plan.” Reading […]

 

Nasty Tennis Player’s ‘Anger’… Just Like Joe Wilson?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It was bound to happen, but it might have been the Orlando Sentinel’s TV reviewer Hal Boedeker that was first out of the gate to compare the obscenity laden tirade disgorged at a tennis match by Serena Williams to the no more than annoyed outburst of “you lied” from Representative Joe Wilson during President Obama’s […]

 

Reid: Stop The Government, Specter Needs Cash Now!

Posted on by Dan Riehl

Seriously, whose interests do these people serve anymore? They write complex bills no one can understand. They don’t even read them themselves. Then they have a WH that goes out and scares the American people so they can rush it through overnight and bankrupt the Nation. It’s always there can be no delaywhen Obama, Reid, […]

 

Mayo Clinic Loses Millions Because of Medicare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Anchorage Daily News has a very interesting editorial that reveals that the celebrated Mayo Clinic has lost millions because of Medicare over the last year. In its editorial the ADN is warning that the public option is “as unhealthy as Medicare” because of the artificially low payments the government remits to healthcare providers, doctors […]

 

Obama Dissembles Again About His ‘Responsibility’ For Healthcare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a new 60 Minutes interview, President Obama made a big show about telling correspondent Steve Kroft that he “owns” healthcare if it goes wrong and that because of this he has “every incentive to get this right.” But is this true? Will Obama face any real, personal consequences for any possible failures of Obamacare […]

 

The Congressional Apology Line Starts with John Murtha, Not Joe Wilson

Posted on by Duane Lester

Now that all of the problems in the United States have been solved, it’s time for Congress to focus on more minor matters, such as voting to passing a resolution of disapproval against Rep. Joe Wilson for blurting out, “You lie!” when President Barack Obama was lying. Rep. Wilson already apologized to the president for […]

 

California’s Mass Job Loss… Except in Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston A recent report by the Sacramento based California Budget Project shows that two out of five working-age Californians are out of work. The jobless rate has not been this bad since 1977. California’s unemployment rate is one of the worst in the country at 12 percent. Yet, union membership has grown […]

 

Federal Agency Fights Card Check For Its Own Employees

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As the president and Congress considers passing the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) in which the “card check” feature is still a major provision, a federal agency is trying to prevent its own employees from using the card check practice to organize. The Legal Services Corp., a congressionally chartered, taxpayer-funded entity has hired legal counsel […]

 

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 […]

 

‘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 […]

 

The Merger Of The Fringe & Mainstream On The Left

Posted on by John Hawkins

It’s no secret that Democrats are much more forgiving of the foibles of their own side than Republicans have ever been. Look to liberal heroes like Ted Kennedy (left a woman to drown to death), Robert Byrd (member of the KKK), and Barney Frank (had a prostitution ring running out of his house) for evidence […]

 

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 […]

 

Dead Man Walking?

Posted on by McQ

Marc Ambinder takes sophistry and spin to a new level in a post at the Atlantic entitled “How Obama Survived August”. Of course, for most of us, it isn’t yet clear he has survived August. We’ll see how he does tomorrow night and what, if anything, that brings before deciding if he’s still among the […]

 

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 […]

 

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 […]

 

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 […]

 

The Truth About the Balanced Budget

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Truth In Accounting had an incredibly important 50 state study that needs to be broadcast far and wide. It shows the mess that every state in the union is in with the budget. When the Institute for Truth in Accounting (the IFTA) began to design “The Truth about Balanced Budgets–A Fifty State Study” (the Study) […]

 

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 […]