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Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2010 22 Comments
Obama’s campaign organization has released a 2-minute video in support of Martha Coakley (via Politico). The video is very strange. It is way too long for a television commercial, although the Coakley campaign could edit it. If Obama really wanted to put himself on the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 12, 2010 5 Comments
Scott Brown’s Money Bomb yesterday raised over $1.3 million in 24 hours, mostly in small donations. Consistent with his theme that this is the People’s seat, not the Kennedy or Democrats’ seat, Brown sought support from the people who feel shut out of the political...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2010 17 Comments
Scott Brown’s Money Bomb is today. The special election is a week from tomorrow. If you’ve read this blog, you know that there is a chance of victory for Brown if he keeps surging. But he needs money to do that. A Scott Brown victory...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2010 6 Comments
Want to know how misinformed and bewildered the American feminist movement is on the state of the Democratic Party? Check out this post at HuffPo by blogger Amy Siskind, calling on Martha Coakley to change her position on backing the health care bill since the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 02, 2010 11 Comments
Martha Coakley just returned from six days on vacation in the middle of a special election. Ever since the December 8 primary, Coakley has attempted to portray an air of inevitability, by seeming not to care about Scott Brown’s candidacy, refusing to debate him one-on-one,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2009 12 Comments
There is a fiction about health insurance which simply will not die. It’s the fiction which inspired Alan Grayson to proclaim that Republicans want patients to die, and which surfaces in almost every pro-Obamacare talking point. The fiction is that 45,000 people (or thereabouts) die...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2009 12 Comments
As reported by Jules Crittenden, the national GOP has all but abandoned Scott Brown in his bid for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in the January 19 special election. Brown’s opponent, Martha Coakley, is a down-the-line liberal who is vulnerable because she will be a puppet...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2009 3 Comments
Bob Herbert, in the NY Times, finally is waking up to the fact that the Senate health bill passed on Christmas Eve is all smoke and mirrors. Herbert, who backed Jimmy Carter in excoriating opponents of Obamacare as racists, now admits that the supporters of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2009 11 Comments
TMZ fell for a hoax regarding a supposed photo of JFK on a boat with lots of naked women. Before the hoax was revealed, Andrew Sullivan authored a post on the subject, which has been pulled completely. Here is what remains on Sullivan’s blog: The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2009 5 Comments
Yet more utter nonsense spread in the left-wing blogosphere, this time about how Joe Lieberman wants the U.S. to “invade” Yemen. In fact, Lieberman said that we needed to act “preemptively” against al-Qaeda in Yemen to avoid Yemen becoming the next war, and said nothing...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 23, 2009 18 Comments
One idea being floated on the internet is a “National Strike” on January 20, 2010, to protest Obama’s State of the Union address in light of the irresponsible health care legislation and out-of-control spending. I completely sympathize with the emotion behind the idea. But the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2009 15 Comments
I have been warning since early June about the danger of the Independent Medicare Advisory Board. IMAB is a board appointed by the President with congressional approval, to submit recommendations on Medicare payments and costs. IMAB is modeled, somewhat, on the Base Closing Commission which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 20, 2009 10 Comments
In order to get large pharmaceutical companies behind Obamacare, including getting the drug companies to advertise, the Obama administration cut a deal, among other things, that the re-importation of drugs would not generally be permitted. Unlike some issues, there are legitimate points on each side...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 19, 2009 63 Comments
I was in the car most of the day, so I haven’t had a chance to post on the Ben Nelson sellout. So here are some initial thoughts: Yes, it is that bad. The Democrats are about to put in place the legislative, regulatory and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2009 3 Comments
Not Sarah Palin, Not Republicans in Congress. Nat Hentoff: I try to avoid hyperbole, but I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had. An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2009 8 Comments
Michael Moore is calling for a boycott of Connecticut because of Joe Lieberman. Yes, the whole state is persona non grata because Independent Joe acted like Independent Joe: “People of Connecticut: What have u done 2 this country? We hold u responsible. Start recall of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 30, 2009 7 Comments
Another day, another exposé by a British newspaper about the failure of nationalized health care. This time, it’s the left-wing The Guardian reflecting on how delays in cancer care cause 10,000 unnecessary deaths each year compared to other European countries: Up to 10,000 people die...
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