
Mar
As the Democrats prepare their final push on health care “reform,” I think we'd do well to remember the words President Obama once spoke, first as a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2004 and then as a presidential candidate: “[t]here’s not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America.”
Unfortunately for President Obama, the United States of America opposes his plan for government-run health care. The American people are united against the plan because of
Mar
Posted by: Jan Larimer
Earlier in the health care debate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave Republicans in Congress just hours to read a thousand page, trillion dollar health care bill before voting on it.
Now, according to news reports yesterday, she is laying plans to skip the trouble of voting on the bill altogether. By using a procedural trick called ‘deem and pass,’ Nancy Pelosi is setting the stage to pass a massive health care overhaul without ever having a vote on it in the U.S. House.
Constitutional
Mar
Is Obama’s Treasury Secretary playing chicken with our credit ratings agency? Today, at a House Appropriations Committee hearing, Tim Geithner was asked about Moody’s “warning shots” of America losing its triple A credit rating because of increasing deficits and debt, to which he responded:
There's not a chance that's going to happen to our country.
We hope for the sake of our country that Geithner is right, because as CNBC’s Trish Regan explained today on MSNBC, a downgrade in
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