It’ll be a white Christmas.
Racism? But then, isn’t everything these days?
Whitewash on health care debate.
It’ll be a white Christmas.
Racism? But then, isn’t everything these days?
Whitewash on health care debate.
HR 4154 is called the "Permanent Estate Tax Relief for Families, Farmers, and Small Businesses Act of 2009" act, but Tim Carney has the truth. Here is what this is about:
While senators debate health care, House Democrats have quietly moved to save the federal estate tax, scheduled to disappear [...]
The Optimistic Conservative isn’t feeling very optimistic at present. Among other things, he considers how the law of unintended consequences (as it come into play with the health care legislation) might well affect the futures of those of us who have non-governmental approach to schooling our offspring:
The criminal penalty [...]
Pupils with weight problems. What’s that got to do with reading, again?
Trying to make rail lines more answerable to the market?
Getting away to the Hills is popular this season.
Health care whatever bill overcomes remnants of good sense in Senate.
[...]Yesterday Harry Reid and his democrat cronies celebrated that they got the 60th vote for the health care bill. We are celebrating sending this country in massive amounts of debt that we have never seen before…
Here are things I don’t like about the health care bill.
1. It’s Free* to anyone [...]
Barring some last minute surprise, the Democrats will pass health care reform legislation. I didn't think they would be able to do it. It looks like I was wrong. Whatever else one may think about the process and the policy, it represents a remarkable act of courage.
What explains this' [...]
Earlier, I wrote that Senator Nelson of Nebraska had caved and was willing now to vote for the health care bill. Here’s more information, letting us see just how principled the good senator was:
In its quixotic attempt to ensure everyone has health insurance, the [...]
From the Republican Governor’s Association:
PENDING HEALTH CARE BILL CATASTROPHIC FOR STATE BUDGETS
Passage of federal healthcare legislation in its current form would have a catastrophic impact on state budgets, says Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, chairman of the Republican Governors Association.
On Thursday, Governor Barbour and four former governors who are now United [...]
Senator Nelson of Nebraska has sold out. It was a forgone conclusion (in my mind) seeing that Senator Landrieu of Louisiana had received what she needed from the majority leader–establishing a simple precedent.
The linked article in the WSJ also notes that the key vote is expected late Sunday or [...]
Someone should abort that hairdo
“The absolute refusal of Republicans in the Senate to support health care reform and the hijacking of the bill by defenders of the insurance industry [...]
Johnson and Thune prepare to cancel each other’s votes on health care insurance reform.
Basketball game involves more than shooting baskets.
Boxcutter in car puts student in jeopardy of school suspension.
Lawbreakers get early outs for good behavior.
[...] Perhaps its the warm weather down in DC (I jest) but the some of the senators are not quite so collegial as once was the case. In particular, Mr. Franken chose to ignore the evidence of Mr. Thune in a recent discussion on the health care bill:
Franken said he [...]
You should know up front that this appears to be several different videos spliced together to make Sen. Al Franken look good. As near as I can tell, all of the video is from Monday. Thune and Franken get into it at about the 1:00 mark, and Franken accuses [...]
Representative Herseth Sandlin was not among the 27 Democrats who voted against this:
While America was distracted by the arguments over health care, Copenhagen, terror trials in New York and a "jobs" summit, a new type of TARP proposal that would set up a tax-and-spend process involving hundreds of [...]
President Obama gives himself a B+ after his first 11 months in office. Talk about grade inflation.
Obama’s time as President has resulted in the following:
A health care initiative that is about to go up in flames. Cash for Clunkers which is its own clunker. A budget busting stimulus that Obama promised would [...]