Rep. Parker Griffith Delivers Weekly Republican Address

It’s no secret that House Dems don’t like Harry Reid’s bill. That’s why it’s no surprise that they tried to bend the rules to pass it. Yesterday, the Senate parliamentarian foiled their plan to pass their government-run health care experiment without voting for highly unpopular provisions – like taxpayer funded abortions, middle-class tax hikes, and backroom deals – in Harry Reid’s bill. The latest special state carve-out to surface was for Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) to raid a trust fund for mine

It's getting kind of old, isn't it? President Obama started pushing his health care takeover nearly a year ago. 52 speeches later, he is still pushing it. Sometimes it seems like the President is so shocked by the public's refusal to just shut up and accept his Brilliant Enlightened All-Things-To-All-People Health Care Plan that he is actually incapable of changing the subject.

But there is a twisted logic at work behind the seeming chaos that's taken over the White House. The President does

Nancy Pelosi is the one person the President is depending on to deliver the needed House votes for his health reform proposal.  However, Speaker Pelosi is balking at the White House’s latest deadline on health care. “March 18th is a very interesting date,” Pelosi said, referring to the White House’s preferred deadline -- the date President Obama leaves for a foreign trip. “We will take up the bill when we are ready to take up the bill.”

Sounds like yet another arbitrary health care deadline