First, watch Nancy Pelosi give her rational for Placebocare:
Did you catch that explanation?
Well, the point is that we want to make sure that everyone has access to health care. For a long time now people who haven’t had health care or provided it had placed the burden on others. Everybody [...]
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mi) is not your ordinary household name. But, he is a true pro-life hero. By insisting over and over that no federal funds should be used for abortion, essentially sticking it to Speaker Pelosi and President Obama, Stupak was able to win approval for a vote on [...]
From Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update":The House of Representatives just passed Pelosi Care. Fascism is alive and well, in the American Democratic party.
Feel free to leave your thoughts.
[...](Or Dumb Things Jay Bullock types without thinking...)
Reagan-era unemployment numbers mean we should be demanding a return to Reagan-era tax rates.
Yes, lower them from the current 36% (or is it 40% once Pelosi lets the Bush tax cuts expire?) to the 28% for the [...]
Madame Speaker must really be bleeding votes if it had to come to this for her; as she's now allowing the U.P.'s Bart Stupak amendment to strip the House Health Care Bill of any federal funding of abortion.
(You know, that thing both President Obama and Congressman Steve Kagen kept lying [...]
PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail
Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in [...]
Read Wisconsin Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner's weekly column below or Read the column on Congressman Sensenbrenner’s website here.
"The health care overhaul bill is getting bigger. With the addition of Speaker Pelosi’s Manager’s Amendment, it’s now up to a whopping 2032 pages, and still growing, but it’s not getting" [...]
This is probably going to be a busy Weekend Open Line, there are lots of things to talk about, PelosiCare, Cap & Trade, local & state politics & more.
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[...]Pelosi breaks yet another transparency pledge. What are Pelosi and Congressional Democrats so afraid of that they feel the need to rush their bill to a vote on a Saturday before anyone can read it?
From the Weekly Standard:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow [...]