Michael Barone compares the machinations employed to seek passage of Obamacare by Harry Reid in the Senate to those used by Stephen Douglas to secure the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise limiting the spread of slavery in favor of Douglas's' [...]
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' [...]
President Obama's kowtowing to anti-American dictators was a source of embarrassment throughout the first year of his presidency. Now, as his second year approaches, Obama's Carteresque tendencies are producing real-world consequences that border on the criminal.
Exhibit A is Lebanon. The freedom agenda of President Bush's first administration helped produce the' [...]
Detroit is a veritable museum of societal decay imposed by liberalism:Detroit is a veritable museum of societal decay imposed by liberalism:Jim Webb has finally released a statement declaring his position on the Obamacare bill pending in the Senate. Webb turns out to be about as big a mealy-mouthed disappointment as I feared:
Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) announced Sunday evening he will support Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) $871 [...]
We've written before about the Obama's administration's firing of Gerald Walpin from the position of inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). Walpin ran afoul of Obama because he investigated a charity operated by former pro basketball star and current mayor of' [...]
In response to our "Where's Webb?" post, many readers have written in offering good candidates for the state whose university health care facility will be the beneficiary of the $100 million payday under the mysterious provision at page 328 of the Obamacare manager's amendment that the Senate will be [...]
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' [...]
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.' [...]
Most of us who watched the McCain-Obama debates remember when then candidate Obama responded that acknowledging when life began was "above his pay grade." We all know that such an answer was essentially his way of refusing to answer this deeply complex and divisive [...]
The people of Israel of course strongly identify with the United States in its confrontation with the forces of Islamic extremism. President Obama to the contrary notwithstanding, the feeling is largely reciprocated among the people of the United States. A new 9/11 memorial built in Israel, designed by an Israeli, [...]
Over the weekend Redstate's Erick Erickson made an impassioned plea that Republican Senators avail themselves of every parliamentary device at their disposal to obstruct the nationalization of health care. We posted a long response from a GOP Senate source in "How is Obamacare to be stopped?" Today Republican [...]
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" [...]
I may have spoken too soon. The Obama administration is making a last-gasp effort to put together a deal in Copenhagen:
The United States today pledged support for a $100 billion annual climate protection fund in a move that could clinch a global deal just as the Copenhagen summit [...]
Latest and greatest news is just how much the public has soured on ObamaCare, even MSNBC polls are showing anemic support. Ann Althouse addresses part of the problem with :
People just don’t want this bill. I think the big mistake was skipping the step of winning public [...]
Yuval Levin points out that the way the health care legislative process has played out makes it easy to miss the forest for the trees. The trees were the public option, Medicare expansion, and abortion language; the forest is the legislation that exists now that nearly all of [...]
