The health care bill now being pushed by the White House would fundamentally rewrite a full sixth of the economy of the United States.  It would grant the government unprecedented control over how our health care is paid for, which doctors we are allowed to see and what treatment options we are able to consider. 

A fundamental change to such a significant sector of our economy SHOULD require sixty votes in the United States Senate for passage into law.  Yet today the White House is threatening to use the reconciliation process to force a simple majority vote and silence the Republican voices speaking out against this deeply flawed proposal. 

Incredibly, just a few years ago it was then Senator Obama and Majority Leader Harry Reid who spoke out loudly against the reconciliation process.  At the National Press Club on April 26, 2005, then Senator Obama said when talking about reconciliation, “You know, the Founders designed this system, as frustrating it is, to make sure that ... more

Exactly eight months from today, the American people will go to the polls.  What we do over those next eight months will decide whether we elect a common-sense, conservative Congress or hand the Democrats another two years to try to give the government more control over our health care, our jobs and our lives. 

If a day is an eternity in politics, you can imagine what can happen in eight months.  Yet, the way forward for our Party is clear.  The lessons we should take to guide us until Election Day are those that we learned in the months since the 2008 election. 

With President Obama’s inauguration, the media and the pundits took great pleasure in declaring the Republican Party a thing of the past.  The president’s approval ratings were high, and Democrats held large majorities in both houses of Congress.  Unfortunately for Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and the pundits in Washington, the American people have a funny way of making their voices heard when they feel their liberties ... more