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Here’s what I see going on and, please, correct me if I’m wrong:
Reconciliation is a red herring.  Right now, the House is being promised that, if it votes on the Senate bill, the Senate will fix differences between the two bills through reconciliation.  So everyone is focusing on whether the Senate will indeed have the [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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I want to be a journalist.  I mean, heck, who would want a job where you don’t have to think and you don’t have to research — all you have to do is emote.  That’s what emotive New York Times “journalist” Nick Kristof did when he wrote a sob story about a young man with [...]

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Liberals are very gung-ho for a health care bill that will see the government take over 1/6 of the American economy, that will dramatically raise taxes, that will (if all goes according to plan) destroy private sector insurance, that will force Americans to “buy” insurance or pay a penalty, that will force all Americans to [...]

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A message from William Kristol, one that I’ve already put into effect as to my own Senators (much good it will do, of course, as they’re Feinstein and Boxer):
I gather Rasmussen will report today that its latest survey shows support for the Congressional health reform legislation falling to a new low — 38 percent favor, [...]

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It wasn’t a huge turn-out, but it was an imaginative, committed, informed turn-out — and that, in the long run, will matter a great deal.  Check out The City Square for photographs of yesterday’s “Sick-In” in San Francisco protesting PelosiCare.

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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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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 [...]

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I just love Jennifer Rubin in the morning.  Let me just cherry-pick some paragraphs from her morning writing.
On Obama’s governing style:
James Capretta notices two developments in the health-care debate. First, the president is telling us to shut up again. (”President Obama said today that the debate on health care has gone on long enough, and [...]

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All of us have long known that poverty in America isn’t like poverty anywhere else in the world.  There really isn’t anything here comparable to the poverty in Haiti, or Calcutta, or large swathes of Africa.  Even poor people have televisions and phones.  And it’s apparent that a surprising number of people who are living [...]

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Obama lies.  He does not merely prevaricate, waffle, beg the question, evade, mince words or engage in any other delicate dodge around the truth.  When it comes to the health care bill he is trying to sell American, he and out and lies.  He tries to sell us big, fat, juicy, completely false representations of [...]

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Is Obama telling a true story or not?  I don’t know and with Obama’s credibility gap, it’s impossible to tell.  It doesn’t matter, though.  What does matter is that, by relaying this anecdote, Obama is keeping alive the Obama/Hitler analogy:
President Obama at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner last night, discussing false claims made about [...]

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Joe Wilson may have been reprimanded, and he may have been rude, but the man was right.  Obama lies.  This time, it’s not about illegal aliens, but about seniors and their Medicare.  Rule of thumb for Obama:  Don’t believe anything he says.

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Here’s a classic joke from the height of the Cold War:
Man 1:  Come the revolution, we’ll all be driving Rolls Royces.
Man 2:  But I don’t want to drive a Rolls Royce.
Man 1:  Come the revolution, you’ll have to.
And here’s the bottom line on ObamaCare, which Ed Morrissey neatly summarizes:
Not only can Obama not show how [...]

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What is it with these California political women?  In the morning, Pelosi calls insurance companies villain’s as if she’s in some Victorian melodrama.  And this afternoon, Dianne Feinstein arranges from the arrest of a bunch of senior citizens who were trying to speak with her.
It’s a little unclear just exactly what side of the political [...]

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Do you remember the words in my post title?  I sure do, and I wasn’t even very politically aware then.  That was George Bush, Sr., making a promise to the American people:  “Read my lips:  No new taxes.”  He broke that promise.
It looks as if Barack Obama is readying himself to break that promise too.  [...]

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