Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It’s scary, but Mark Steyn is right: I’ve been saying for a year now, in NR and NRO, that the object for savvy Dems is to get this thing passed in whatever form because, once you do, there’s no going back. Kim Strassel in yesterday’s Journal gets it: So why
Continue readingThe 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
Continue readingOne 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
Continue readingEvery year, there’s that one December weekend when every event converges. This past weekend, which really ended only yesterday, was that weekend. Friday we went to the Cirque du Soliel. I’ve seen every show since the Cirque burst onto the national scene in the mid-1980s. This show was exquisitely beautiful,
Continue readingLiberals 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
Continue readingA 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
Continue readingBryon York puts it in perspective: The extraordinary thing about the dramatic events surrounding the health care bill in the Senate is that there is any drama in it at all. Lawmakers are simply voting to begin debate on their version of health care reform. Just begin debate — not
Continue readingNo matter how the NYT tries to spin it, the message is clear here: the burden that illegal aliens created on the dialysis clinic [thanks, Quisp, for clarifying that for me] in a 117 year old charitable hospital serving Georgia’s poor, forced the hospital clinic to close. With ObamaCare almost
Continue readingJust so you know, Britain, the ne plus ultra of single payer care, is having a little bit of death panel trouble: Liver cancer sufferers are being condemned to an early death by being denied a new drug on the Health Service, campaigners warn. They criticised draft guidance that will
Continue readingIt 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.
Continue readingTo protest against the Healthcare Bill, instead of a 60s sit-in, Bay Area Patriots will be having a “SICK-IN” We are sick to death of being ignored; We are sick to death over what the Health Care bill will do to us and our children; We are sick to death
Continue readingIt’s Sunday and there’s nothing I can do to change yesterday’s vote at this moment. I need to relax. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbKHDPPrrc[/youtube] Jennifer Rubin is also sanguine, bless her heart. UPDATE: The Anchoress urges us to be not afraid, even in the shadow of the jackboot.
Continue readingMaybe 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
Continue readingAside from being unconstitutional, I somehow doubt that the following is a winning formula as far as the American voter is concerned: PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail JCT Confirms Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail Friday, November 06, 2009
Continue readingI 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
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