Tag Archive 'Congress'
Bookworm on Mar 19 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Health
Victor Davis Hanson sums everything up in one paragraph:
The president is pushing legislation that a clear majority of the people dislike, and whose details neither he nor his supporters can explain in simple language. Its ends-justify-the-means passage will require legislative gymnastics that border on the unconstitutional, and in Orwellian fashion are [...]
Bookworm on Mar 16 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Congress
You’ve all heard by now about the 2300 “reconciliation” bill that the House won’t vote on but will simply deem passed, thereby, in a completely unconstitutional way, making the bill a law. (Ahem.)
But did you know that Pelosi has been busy sticking in more than just student loan relief so that we can have fully [...]
Bookworm on Mar 11 2010 | Filed under: Congress, Democrats, Health
Pride can make us do very stupid things. Once we’ve committed to something (a job, a marriage, a principle, whatever), and once we’ve touted that commitment to the world as the most wonderful thing evah, it is extremely difficult to stand up to that same world and admit “I made a mistake.”
I’ve been thinking about [...]
Bookworm on Mar 10 2010 | Filed under: Congress, Democrats, Health
Perhaps it really is true that Pelosi doesn’t have the votes for Obama Care. After all, if she did, why would the Democrats be considering the “Slaughter Option” something that involves bypassing votes altogether:
The Slaughter Solution is a plan by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the Democratic chair of the powerful House Rules Committee and [...]
Bookworm on Mar 09 2010 | Filed under: Congress, Health
The American Thinker spells it out:
Richard Baehr, ace political watcher, thinks the odds are that Nancy Pelosi, through brute force, will get Obama Care through. Once that happens, of course, it’s the law, and “reconciliation,” which is ostensibly meant to smooth away any lingering roughness, will die a’bornin’
Christopher Chantrill explains what government will look like [...]
Bookworm on Mar 05 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, Health
I believe more and more strongly that reconciliation is a red herring, meant to induce the House to pass the Senate bill. Once that’s done, this so called “reconciliation,” an alleged second bill that will smooth away the differences between the two chambers (especially the House’s demand that abortion, which is [...]
Bookworm on Feb 23 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Congress
Hear me out. Sure, the public is indignant about our current state of affairs, especially the mushrooming deficits that have pretty much sealed our national bankruptcy (in my humble opinion). What worries me, though, is what needs to be done to fix the problem. I personally don’t see any solution except to administer massive haircuts [...]
Bookworm on Jan 29 2010 | Filed under: Congress, Democrats
As part of a longer post about the Democrats’ anti-democratic tendencies, Peter Wehner has this to say:
If you wanted a sound bite that embodied much of what is wrong with contemporary liberalism, you could do worse than listen to the words of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on health care:
We’ll go through the gate. If the [...]
Bookworm on Dec 27 2009 | Filed under: Congress
Compare and contrast:
No wonder our government functions like a bad comedy. At least Foster Brooks was talented. Baucus is just a hack — with your life in his hands.
Bookworm on Nov 14 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Congress, Conservative ideology, Democrats, Republicans
In the wake of the 2008 election, Republicans and conservatives were paralyzed. They’d been trounced, not so much by sweeper percentages (that is, the elections were all just over the slightly 50% mark), but by huge numbers of elections in which Democrats edged out Republicans by those few percentage marks. If there are 100 races, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 12 2009 | Filed under: Congress
That Nancy Pelosi is a pistol. Here she is, a terrible public speaker, but still arguing strongly that it’s absolutely unconscionable for Congress to sneak bills through committee, to vote on things they haven’t read and don’t know, to vote on bills that the American public hasn’t had to read, to have bills in the [...]
Bookworm on Nov 08 2009 | Filed under: Congress, Health, Just Because Music
It’s Sunday and there’s nothing I can do to change yesterday’s vote at this moment. I need to relax.
Jennifer Rubin is also sanguine, bless her heart.
UPDATE: The Anchoress urges us to be not afraid, even in the shadow of the jackboot.
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Bookworm on Nov 07 2009 | Filed under: Congress, Health
Maybe she got those Dems to vote yes because she assured them that, at the end of the day, the Senate will vote no. Or, maybe, we’re screwed:
The US House of Representatives has approved the broadest US health care overhaul in a half-century, handing President Barack Obama a major victory on his top domestic priority.
After [...]
Bookworm on Nov 04 2009 | Filed under: Congress, Democrats, Health
I like how clearly Karl Rove sums up the economic pain the Democrats’ proposed health care plan will impose on the economy as a whole and on individual Americans:
For starters, the bill is a lot more expensive than advertised. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) pegs its cost at $1.055 trillion over 10 years, not the [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2009 | Filed under: Congress, Democrats
The way this attack ad against rising star Doug Hoffman (in NY’s 23rd district) is framed, it’s clear that Hoffman’s sin is being wealthy:
I think that’s a marvelous standard by which to disqualify people from political office, at least this year. (And we know from what happens in Massachusetts that you can change the rules [...]
Bookworm on Oct 23 2009 | Filed under: Congress, Democrats, Health
Bookworm on Oct 23 2009 | Filed under: Congress, Health
Got the following email from a friend, which is an appropriate follow-up to the post I did about Michele Bachmann’s recommendation that you call your Congress person daily to protest Obama Care:
Hey, all! When you make those phone calls to senators and congresspeople in response to Michelle Bachman’s call for help, Roberto suggested we do [...]
Bookworm on Oct 11 2009 | Filed under: Congress, Health
Just got the following message:
Citizens in Action is providing Americans who are opposed to the proposed health care legislation with an easy and effective way to fax the 31 Senators who could vote one way or the other on health care reform. Because the first important Senate vote is Tuesday, the time to [...]
Bookworm on Sep 21 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, Military
My mind is full of Fleet Week events. As in the past two years, it promises to be a very exciting week for me and my family. I know I’m going to be on a Coast Guard boat on the Bay when the Blue Angels fly, I know I’m going to a reception to meet [...]
Bookworm on Aug 06 2009 | Filed under: Democrats
AllahPundit explains what’s really and truly going on in Washington, D.C.:
Let me remind you again: They can pass any bill they want any time they want. Conservatives can scream their heads off at these things and there’s not an ounce of good it’ll do if Democrats are united. This whole partisan “war” Obama and Axelrod [...]
Bookworm on Jul 08 2009 | Filed under: Congress
The National Republican Senatorial Committee puts out this timely public service announcement:
I’ll echo Laer, at Cheat-Seeking Missiles (which gets the hat tip for this video): “Yeah, I know the GOP is hardly perfect and has a ton of lessons to learn, but I have to say, this message motivates me to open my wallet.”
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Bookworm on Jun 18 2009 | Filed under: Congress, Taxes
Rep. Michele Bachmann has set up an online petition in which you can add your name to the list of people who want Congress to stop funneling money to ACORN.
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Bookworm on Jun 16 2009 | Filed under: Congress, Democrats
The Democrats, corrupted by power, are now seeking absolute power. Here’s the story from the horse’s mouth, the horse in this case being Minority Whip, Eric Cantor:
In a completely unprecedented fashion, House Democrats have used their power as the majority party to shut out floor amendments from the minority party on spending legislation.
Right at the beginning of the [...]
Bookworm on Apr 27 2009 | Filed under: Congress
Michelle Malkin has caught on to the fact that the Left side of the blogosphere has a new meme: they contend that, should there be a pandemic, it can be traced to the always evil GOP because Rove/Collins opposed flu pandemic funding in the porkulus bill.
The only problem with this is that it’s a lie. [...]
Bookworm on Jan 19 2009 | Filed under: Congress, Economics
From Minority Leader John Boehner, a little information about the House Democrats’ $825 billion “stimulus” bill.
A Dozen Fun Facts About the House Democrats’ Massive Spending Bill
1. The House Democrats’ bill will cost each and every household $6,700 additional debt, paid for by our children and grandchildren.
2. The total cost of this one piece of legislation [...]
