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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2009 3 Comments
Dan at Gay Patriot has an interesting post on how Ted Kennedy saved a girl from the Soviet medical system, which could not treat her disease. Fair enough, Teddy saved a girl (I’m resisting the urge to mention …. well you know). I am familiar...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2009 2 Comments
This is the second in a series of posts analyzing randomly selected provisions in HR3200, the House Democratic health care restructuring bill. In the prior post, I examined the almost incomprehensible section 1721 concerning payments to primary care practitioners. The page selected for this post,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2009 8 Comments
No one has been able to get a full grasp on the scope of the health care system restructuring proposed by the Democrats. I have written extensively on some of the more interesting tax provisions, but I only have scratched the surface. The pending House...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 29, 2009 4 Comments
Mathew Yglesias is one of the leading liberal bloggers pushing ObamaCare KennedyCare. Since every Senate vote counts, Yglesias and other KennedyCare promoters need to justify the Massachusetts legislature’s pending flip-flop on how to select a successor to Ted Kennedy, to allow the Democratic Governor to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2009 3 Comments
CNN and MSNBC have been covering the Ted Kennedy death virtually non-stop. But it’s not working out so well, per L.A. Times: Fox News maintained its top ranking among the cable news channels Wednesday as its competitors turned most of their coverage over to the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2009 0 Comments
Steve Benen at Washington Monthly’s Political Animal blog complains that conservatives are working off some pre-determined script as to Ted Kennedy’s death: “It looks like word went out yesterday about what leading conservative voices should say about Ted Kennedy’s death: complain about the memorial service...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2009 6 Comments
Four years ago, someone published photos of a guy dancing on Ronald Reagan’s grave. The photos were posted also at the “Princess Sparkle” blog, with this commentary: I’ve never met the sassy youngster in the above photos, but he’s a Pony Pal™ by default. What’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 27, 2009 7 Comments
As of August 24, 2009, the two Democratic draft health care restructuring bills were horrible monstrosities which contained a myriad of pernicious tax and other provisions which put at risk the well-being of hundreds of millions of Americans while doing precious little to help the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2009 47 Comments
How to react to Ted Kennedy’s death? There certainly is an initial inclination to react the way so many left-wing blogs reacted to the death of Robert Novak, such as this post at the prominent Crooks and Liars: Novak will perhaps be best remembered —...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2009 1 Comment
More tax mischief surfaces, once again, when the pending House health care bill is squeezed. This analysis by a tax lawyer at the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb shows that when various cross-referenced provisions are read together, the House bill limits the discretion of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 24, 2009 20 Comments
I can’t keep up with all the ways in which this administration is failing. From the health care restructuring proposals gone sour, to the slippage in Iraq and Afghanistan, to the appeasement of Hugo Chavez and Iran and the bullying of Honduras, to the end...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2009 17 Comments
A good example of how far off course Democrats in Congress have strayed on the issue of health care reform, are provisions in the Senate HELP Committee draft bill creating rules and regulations governing food disclosures at fast food restaurants and in vending machines. Titled...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2009 3 Comments
The House and Senate draft bills for health care restructuring are so odious that they are beyond repair. It’s nice that Max Baucus and some others are trying to squeeze some of the disastrous provisions out of the bills, but it is a waste of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2009 2 Comments
Scrolling through Doug Ross’ blog, Director Blue, reminded me of a name from the past who seems to have escaped mainstream media scrutiny, much less responsibility, for two of the largest fiascos in our recent history, the intelligence failures which led to 9/11 and the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2009 4 Comments
Why hadn’t I seen this before? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9GMKK_fWKg] (h/t Tysk) ——————————————–Related Posts:Bureaucracy Expansion Act of 2009IRS The New Health Care Enforcer Follow me on Twitter and Facebook

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2009 2 Comments
As much attention as the draft health care restructuring bills have received, so much has been missed in the thousands of pages of proposed legislation. It is not an exaggeration to say that these proposals create numerous and layered levels of new bureaucracies, on top...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2009 5 Comments
Tom Ridge’s bombshell — the allegation that he felt political pressure to raise the threat level in the run-up to the 2004 election — is not the real bombshell. The real story here is that Tom Ridge has joined Meghan McCain in the freakish side-show...
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