Obama: Senate on precipice of passing health care:
President Barack Obama met privately with Senate Democrats on Tuesday and then declared they were “on the precipice” of enacting health care legislation that has eluded administrations and lawmakers for decades.
Yeah, they’re on a precipice all right, Mr. President. And should they pass [...]
Sarah Palin, WaPo op-ed, December 9, 2009:
Meeting [carbon reduction] targets would require Congress to pass its cap-and-tax plans, which will result in job losses and higher energy costs... The last thing America needs is misguided legislation that will raise taxes and cost jobs.
It may all be coming down now to abortion.
With Sen. Joe Lieberman now saying he'll support health legislation, the Democrats' 60th vote may be Nebraska conservative Democrat Ben Nelson, who is...
That’s what the CEOs said after their big meet-up with Obama yesterday. Apparently their lobbyists had just skittered off unattended and ended up unduly influencing legislation, something the CEOs found quite disturbing indeed. They promised to chasten such renegade lobbyists should they ever attempt this foolishness [...]
Last week prospects for some kind of health insurance deform legislation were looking up with the introduction of the idea of expanding Medicare to uninsured people aged 55-64 — pending a CBO best-guess as to long-term costs. Over the weekend, however, CT Independent Joe Lieberman, who bids fair [...]
With Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Ct., saying he can't support the Senate deal on health care that would allow people 55 and over to buy Medicare coverage, passage of legislation by Christmas is growing...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is running out of moves as the Christmas holiday deadline nears and senators are still skeptical about pieces of his health reform legislation.
One of Reid’s major problems, Connecticut Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, says he’ll vote for the bill if lawmakers remove [...]
Rep. Jane Harman (D-Manhattan Beach, District 36) offered an amendment to a legislation that would have increased bank deposit insurance to $250,000...retroactive to July 11, 2008 for depositors of failed IndyMac Bank (now called One West Bank) according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.
What is interesting that only two of [...]
Taibbi slams Geithner, Obama, and the banksters
Not only are the mop-headed weenie of a Treasury secretary’s fingerprints on virtually all the gross giveaways in the new reform legislation, he’s a living symbol of the Rubinite gangrene crawling up the leg of this administration. Putting Geithner against the wall and [...]
In response to the debate in Uganda over legislation that would impose criminal penalties on gays and lesbians living in the African nation, Jimmy LaSalvia, Executive Director of GOProud, has called on the President to speak out:
If the President wants to start earning the Nobel Peace Prize he is [...]
[Guest post by DRJ]
Are you ready for some Congressionally-mandated and supervised college football playoffs?
“A House subcommittee approved legislation Wednesday aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine a national champion, over the objections of some lawmakers who said Congress had more pressing matters on [...]
The American Medical Association's former veteran lobbyist predicts Senate passage of the health care legislation by Christmas.
Julius Hobson, now a senior policy advisor at the law firm Bryan...
Sometimes there is good reason to run against the Republican establishment. When it taps candidates who favor big government initiatives and pro-union legislation, GOP leaders put their own interests ahead of the rank and file of their party. Yet, sometimes, some conservatives have come so much to scorn the GOP [...]
President Barack Obama is preparing legislation that he says will "jump-start" business hiring. I hope that will work. While the economy has been improving, that has not included getting more people back to work. Until the jobless rate is substantially reduced, the recovery will not hit middle America.
The White House [...]
With Obamacare legislation before the United States Senate, Carly Fiorina goes national.
Carly Fiorina is getting some national exposure Saturday after Senate GOP czar Mitch McConnell tapped her to give the GOP weekly [...]
The ten-year estimate of ObamaCare costs come in under one trillion dollars, because the legislation envisions taxing Americans for several years to support ObamaCare before ObamaCare services begin. That is, ObamaCare would accumulate hundreds of billions of dollars as a fund before being drawn upon to pay the costs of [...]
? Sen. Romero is working on legislation to block election losers from getting unemployment for their old elected offices.
? California progressives are leading the charge against the escalation in Afghanistan.
? The Sacramento Utilities Distrct got some federal grant money for n energy storage [...]
Jessica's Law, the landmark state legislation designed to keep convicted sex offenders away from children and the places they frequent, is under scrutiny for being so restrictive as to become unenforceable.
A new analysis in San Diego finds that More than 70 percent of registered sex offenders in San [...]
“In discussions with dozens of health-care leaders and economists, I find near unanimity of opinion that, whatever its shape, the final legislation that will emerge from Congress will markedly accelerate national health-care spending rather than restrain it. Likewise, nearly all agree that the legislation would do little or nothing to [...]
Having used creative bribery (with our tax dollars), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apparently has all sixty Democrats on board for a cloture vote to begin debate on his 2,074-page health care bill. While this vote will bring the legislation one step closer to passage, we still have a [...]
