Minnesota Sixth District Rep. Michele Bachmann and Andrew McCarthy team up to explain that Congress can stop the KSM trial. Congress can also stop Gitmo on the Mississippi, as this New York Times story suggests. But the Democrats are bent on giving us bread and circuses.
[...]I think that a lot of congressional Democrats are going to pay the price of Obamacare, but Andrew McCarthy highlights a key point:
The best thing about Mark Steyn's guest-host stint on Hannity last night -- other than Jonah's joining him on the panel -- was that Mark asked some [...]
The Democrats were determined to enact some kind of health care "reform" bill, regardless of its actual contents, because they thought the alternative was politically untenable. Perhaps, but so far voters certainly aren't responding favorably to the Democrats' power grab. Rasmussen finds that President Obama's approval index has plunged [...]
For those of you who supported President Obama and the Democrats - and "Hope and Change"....
Is this what you were hoping to get?
The bill contains unfunded mandates to states through the expansion of Medicaid but this time with new special treatment for the states of Nebraska, Vermont, and Massachusetts. [...]
Rep. Parker Griffith, an Alabama Democrat, is switching parties. Griffith is a medical doctor, so Obamacare provides him with a good explanation -- beyond mere opportunism -- for why he's switching now.
The conversion of an Alabama politician to the Republican party may not seem terribly significant and' [...]
Tom Scheck from Minnesota Public Radio is reporting that Rep. Michele Bachmann is leading State Senator Tarryl Clark by 18% points. The full story is here.
Below is a snap shot:
Public Policy Polling (a Democratic affiliated pollster) says GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann is leading her DFL opponents in Minnesota’s [...]
Detroit is a veritable museum of societal decay imposed by liberalism:Detroit is a veritable museum of societal decay imposed by liberalism:
Michael Barone writes that "we're seeing what happens when liberal dreams collide with American public opinion."
It's like what happens when a butterfly collides with the windshield of a speeding sport utility vehicle. Splat.
It's a nice image.
"What's really exceptional at this stage of Obama's presidency," writes Andrew Kohut, the' [...]
I went back to our GOP Senate source to ask if the Democratic victory lap over the status of Obmacare in the Senate might be premature. He comments:
It feels to me it's nothing short of journalistic malpractice that no one has talked to Jim Webb. He hasn't said a word [...]
The Washington Post continues its assault on Democratic members of Congress who stand in the way (however briefly) of Obamacare. First, the Post attacked Joe Lieberman for being venal, vengeful, and vain. It then attacked Ben Nelson as an opportunist and a show horse [...]
I asked our GOP Senate source whether, with the Democrats' purchase of the vote of Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson, Obamacare is now a done deal. He writes:
Well, the Democrats have been going around declaring they have 60, but I still have yet to see any new statement from Jim Webb.' [...]
There is an obvious parallel between the Democrats in Congress, racing against an artificial deadline in an atmosphere of hysteria to pass a bill relating to health care, and the "world leaders" assembled in Copenhagen who, likewise, have frantically tried to reach some sort of agreement before their conference comes [...]
The Democrats' desperate effort to enact a health care bill--any health care bill!--flies in the face of a growing consensus of the American people that the existing proposals are half-baked and that Congress should abandon the issue for now. The current Rasmussen survey finds that the percentage of voters' [...]
Now that the Medicare expansion has been stripped from the Democrats' health care legislation, we would do well to focus on the Medicaid expansion. The legislation would expand eligibility for Medicaid to those whose income equals 133 percent or less of the poverty level. According to Mississippi Governor ' [...]
Minnesota's Governor Tim Pawlenty was in New Hampshire yesterday. He gave a long interview to the Manchester Union Leader:
"President Obama was here in New Hampshire on New Hampshire primary night and said he was going to fix health care by bringing Republicans and Democrats together," he said. "Well, here" [...]
The handpicked candidate that the Washington special interests and Democratic leaders have selected to take on Rep. Bachmann (MN 6), Tarryl Clark, has received her official talking points machine from DC and it seems to be working just fine.
By now, perhaps we’re all a little used to seeing Bachmann [...]
Yesterday, Congressman Collin Peterson responded to our post and other media outlets about his possible retirement. Politics in Minnesota reported that in fact Peterson was hosting a fundraiser for his congressional committee that day at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters. Seems pretty standard.
However, I found it quite [...]
Fresh off their public humiliation at the hands of Lieberman, Obama and the Democrats were able to announce they are close to victory.
President Obama, surrounded by Senate Democratic leaders, said today “we are on the precipice” of major health care changes, though “there are still some differences that [...]
And in other news, it is cold outside.
Polinaut has the news that the Teacher’s Union has decided to back Tarryl Clark. Yep, that’s right, the tax and spend liberal from St. Paul who has been hand picked by the White House and DC Democrat elites is now getting your kid’s [...]
