Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi appear to have a new strategy for pushing health care reform through Congress… They’re going to demonize insurance companies: A day after formally delaying a vote on a healthcare bill and having to accept a further weakening of a public option to compete with private insurers, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi [...]
Is the Public Option Dead?
July 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’m hearing rumblings from various sources that the Democrats so called Public Health Insurance option is dead in the the Senate… The Associated Press is reporting that a bipartisan group of Senators is close to a compromise agreement that would eliminate the employer mandate and the public option, two of the Democrats top priorities from [...]
Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Sotomayor
July 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted largely along party lines to approve the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was the only Republican to vote in favor of sending Judge Sotomayor’s nomination to the full senate: The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-6 to approve Supreme Court nominee Sonia [...]
AP: Dodd, Conrad Told Mortgage Deals Were Sweetened
July 28, 2009 By 3 Comments
The Associated Press is reporting that Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd was told from the very start that hes was getting a VIP mortgage discount: Despite their denials, influential Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd were told from the start they were getting VIP mortgage discounts from one of the nation’s largest lenders, the official [...]
Chris Dodd Hates Lobbyists But Not Their Cash
July 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
What I’m about to say should come as no surprise… Chris Dodd is a populist hypocrite. Just days after his campaign manager Jay Howser was sending e-mail to Dodd’s supporters proclaiming, “But what about the forgotten victims of Chris’s efforts? What about the lobbyists? The lobbyists can’t get meetings with Chris. He won’t return their [...]
Obama Administration Putting Off Budget Update
July 20, 2009 By 1 Comment
The Associated Press is reporting that the Obama Administration is putting of releasing the annual mid-summer budget update until mid-August: The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap between its once-upbeat predictions about the economy and today’s bleak landscape. The administration’s annual midsummer budget update is sure to show higher deficits and [...]
Joe Biden: ‘We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt’
July 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
From CNSNews.com: Vice President Joe Biden told people attending an AARP town hall meeting that unless the Democrat-supported health care plan becomes law the nation will go bankrupt and that the only way to avoid that fate is for the government to spend more money. “And folks look, AARP knows and the people with me here today [...]
Lest We Forget: Darrell C. “Shifty” Powers
July 16, 2009 By 3 Comments
Staff Sergent Darrel C. “Shifty” Powers passed away at his home in Virginia on June 17, 2009. Staff Sergent Powers was a veteran of World War Two having served with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He received two Bronze Stars and a Combat Infantryman Badge. He in fought in [...]
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