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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2009 2 Comments
Latest tracking poll from Rasmussen shows Obama at -14% on the strongly approve/strongly disapprove index. Look at the chart, and it shows a steady rise in negatives and steady fall in positives, for month after month since the Democrats rolled out their health care plans....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2009 4 Comments
Harry Reid wants a Saturday night vote to open debate in the Senate on Reid’s 2,074 page attempt to restructure the health care system. What will the Senator then do? Actually start debate? No, they will leave for the Thanksgiving break. So what’s the hurry?...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 18, 2009 14 Comments
Harry Reid and his Democratic band of friends want to impose a 5% excise tax on all elective cosmetic surgeries (those which are not needed to repair deformaties or injuries caused by an accident or disfiguring disease). It’s all in Section 9017 of Harry Reid’s...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 18, 2009 0 Comments
Any day (minute, hour?) Harry Reid will release his health care restructuring plan. If reports are true, Reid plans to start debate as soon as he can get the necessary votes, and have the Senate work Saturdays until Reid gets his up or down vote...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 11, 2009 4 Comments
Harry Reid has a big announcement: Debate will start on Monday on the health care bill! (Assuming Reid gets enough votes to start debate). Which health care bill? We do not know. Reid has not released the bill. He’s keeping it in his rather-large back...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 11, 2009 8 Comments
Is it possible to pay more than 100% of your last dollar of income in taxes? And if it were, would you bother to earn that last dollar? Herein lies the key to how Democrats will obtain a permanent, economically-enslaved majority if universal income-based health...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 10, 2009 9 Comments
Barbara Boxer (D-Ca) is proclaiming she has enough votes in the Senate to block the equivalent of the Stupak Amendment from being attached to any Senate health care bill. Ok, then what? The only reason the House was able to pass a health care bill...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 10, 2009 11 Comments
A group of prominent gay-rights bloggers, activists, and fundraisers, led by AMERICAblogGAY, is launching a boycott on contributions to the Democratic National Committee and Obama’s campaign apparatus: We are asking voters to pledge to withhold contributions to the Democratic National Committee, Organizing for America, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 08, 2009 14 Comments
I’m not sure the fallout from the Stupak Amendment passing has been fully felt. Reproductive rights is the heart and soul of the Democratic Party. Democratic activists take as a given that Democratic politicians will protect a women’s right and ability to choose. Last night...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 08, 2009 6 Comments
Bruni de la Motte explains in The Guardian why East Germans were better off before the Berlin Wall fell: On 9 November 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down I realised German unification would soon follow, which it did a year later. This meant the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 08, 2009 5 Comments
The NY Times is naming names of House Democrats Who Voted Against the Health Care Bill. It’s all public record, so it’s not “outing.” But it is interesting that The Times feels the need to go into such detail to highlight the Democratic heretics. The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2009 23 Comments
First impressions and reactions can be dangerous, but here goes: Passing the monstrous health care bill by just 5 votes in the House is a pyrrhic victory. Yes, it is a victory tonight for Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama, but at an enormous political price....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2009 1 Comment
The attempts by Nancy Pelosi to cajole and/or threaten House Democrats into voting for the House health care restructuring bill has a surreal quality about it. Pelosi reminds me of a suicidal jumper on a ledge, with Republicans trying to talk Pelosi down since if...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 06, 2009 4 Comments
Don’t have much time this morning to comment further, but note the irony that today the jobless rate hit a 25-year high at 10.2%, and tomorrow night Democrats in the House of Representatives are planning to push through a health care restructuring bill that is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 05, 2009 1 Comment
No, not really. But neither did the Democrats on Tuesday, notwithstanding Nancy Pelosi’s proclamation on Wednesday that “We won”: “From my perspective, we won last night. We had one race that we were engaged in — it was in northern New York. It was a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 30, 2009 3 Comments
The Congressional Budget Office has released its “scoring” of the House health care restructuring bill. The CBO is required to score bills the way they are drafted, even if the assumptions in the legislation are unrealistic or politically unlikely to be fully implemented. Accordingly, the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 23, 2009 9 Comments
Joe Klein is a concern troll. In purporting to criticize Obama’s attacks on Fox News, Klein devotes most of his latest post to attacking Fox News: Let me be precise here: Fox News peddles a fair amount of hateful crap. Some of it borders on...
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