Bookworm on Mar 20 2010 | Filed under: Abortion, Democrats, Health
Stupak’s going to make his much awaited statement while I’m off working out. So far, he’s had a spine and has distinguished himself from other Democrats by actually letting a principle guide him. I suspect, though, that his 11:00 press conference will be a weasely explanation of why he’s caved completely on his pro-Life stance. [...]
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 15 2010 | Filed under: Health, Israel
Family commitments meant that I spent, perhaps, 5 minutes at my computer this weekend. That wasn’t what I’d planned, but that was what I ended up with. In today’s news cycle, of course, two days can be the equivalent of two decades. Certainly, when I turned the computer on this morning and checked out the [...]
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 27 2010 | Filed under: Democrats, Iran
Several years ago, when Bush Derangement Syndrome was at its peak, I tackled the “he’s got his finger on the button and he’s going to blow up the world” meme that anti-war activists were so shrilly screaming. I pointed out that there was no evidence whatsoever to indicate that George Bush was an apocalyptic person. [...]
Bookworm on Feb 25 2010 | Filed under: Health
Obama is so insulated behind his compliant media and his worshipful staff, I wonder if he’s ever heard before the facts Ryan spells out so clearly here:
My favorite line: “Hiding spending does not reduce spending.” Brilliant core statement about the myriad flaws in the bill. Also, he drills in on the core difference between the [...]
Bookworm on Feb 22 2010 | Filed under: Health
Many pundits opined that Obama, being a bright guy, would learn from his myriad failures in 2009. Over here at Bookworm Room, however, I repeatedly said that Obama is the type of malignant narcissist who will never learn from experience. Unlike a social narcissist — that would be Clinton — who desperately craves approval and [...]
Bookworm on Feb 09 2010 | Filed under: Health
One of the bludgeons used to beat opponents of socialized medicine is the claim that everybody in Canada/England/Northern Europe/Etc., is soooo much happier with health care than we are. A doctor friend of mine has been scouring the literature, and she’s discovered that this isn’t true. Polls show that people in countries with socialized medicine [...]
Bookworm on Jan 22 2010 | Filed under: Health
Rep. Lynn Woolsey is a liberal among liberals, a Leftist who calls affluent Marin County her home (and Marin voters have sent her back to D.C. over and over again, with about 70% of the vote). She’s not a very bright woman, but I give her credit for focusing unerringly on what’s wrong with the [...]
Bookworm on Jan 18 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Health
From Fox New’s Sunday Roundtable, this is Charles Krauthammer’s take on the profoundly corrupt process behind the health care bill, and the way this process reflects on Obama:
It is a bribe, and that’s why it is so unpopular. Look, it’s not just a question of it depriving the Treasury of revenue. It’s question of equity.
You’ve [...]
Bookworm on Jan 14 2010 | Filed under: Bureaucracy, Government, Health
Last night, I went to hear Atul Gawande give a talk promoting his new book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. The book’s premise is a simple one: In an increasingly complex world, even experts benefit from a routine checklist that requires them to focus on the essentials necessary to their task. The [...]
Bookworm on Jan 10 2010 | Filed under: Congress
First, here is Scott Brown’s latest ad:
Second, not only should conservatives and independents in Massachusetts vote for him, but so should progressives. After all, the latter hate the proposed health care bill as much as the former do. Conservatives and independents hate the bill because it vests power in the government; progressives hate it because [...]
Bookworm on Jan 09 2010 | Filed under: Congress, Corruption
I’ve got a matched set of posts for you today. The first is an American Thinker article by John Gaski, in which he advances the argument that the Democrats are tuning out the American voters, not because they are blinded by ideology, but because they have a well-advanced system in place for permanent one party [...]
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 Dec 26 2009 | Filed under: Health
You can’t summarize the whole fiasco better than Mark Steyn did:
We were told we had to do it because of the however many millions of uninsured, yet this bill will leave some 25 million Americans uninsured. On the other hand, millions of young fit healthy Americans in their first jobs who currently take the entirely [...]
Bookworm on Dec 26 2009 | Filed under: Health, Liberal blogs
Christmas dinner (which was lovely), included in a brief foray into discussing the Senate’s health care bill. A liberal friend let loose with this terrific line after I said that the Senate had raided Medicare and Medicare Advantage to make the bill ostensibly revenue neutral: “I don’t know anything about the bill, but I know [...]
Bookworm on Dec 24 2009 | Filed under: Government, Health
The holidays continue to make demands on me that take me away from my beloved computer and my blog. I’ve managed to track enough news, though, to know that Reid managed to get his vote. My question for you, and one I can’t answer myself, is this:
Will the health care bill, even if it destroys [...]
Bookworm on Dec 17 2009 | Filed under: Health
The Heritage Foundation has an excellent summary of the way in which the Left has finally caught on to something the Right figured out long ago; namely, that it’s unconscionable (and probably unconstitutional) for the government to force citizens to buy a product from a private purveyor:
Explaining why he would vote against the Senate version [...]
Bookworm on Dec 16 2009 | Filed under: Democrats
There is something deeply, deeply wrong with the Obami and the Congressional Democrats. Or maybe not. Maybe they are just all too human and are living out that saying that “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” In this case, the corruption isn’t necessarily monetary (although that’s there too). Instead, it’s a rot of the [...]
Bookworm on Dec 15 2009 | Filed under: Health
One of the things that ObamaCare proponents keep saying (and please add a whining note in your mind as you read the following) is that “the current system isn’t fair.” It’s not right, they say, that, in a rich country, some people have premium health care, while others are forced to go to a free [...]
Bookworm on Dec 08 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England
Britain’s NHS, which is government-run (i.e., Communist) medicine, has, unsurprisingly, Communist outcomes. Lots of people die unnecessarily in England under the government’s beneficent care:
British health care is little better than that of former Communist countries, which spend a fraction of the billions poured into the NHS.
A survey published yesterday by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation [...]
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