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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2010 8 Comments

The Missouri vote overwhelmingly approving a referendum opting out of Obamacare's mandate has left-wing bloggers scratching themselves with bewilderment.The reaction falls into three basic categories: (1) the folks just don't understand that this is good for them, (3) if only we had a public option...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2010 11 Comments

Yesterday a federal judge in Virginia released an opinion permitting the lawsuit by the State of Virginia, challenging the mandate provisions of Obamacare, to move forward. In legal parlance, the judge denied a motion to dismiss.Pro-administration commentators have bent over backwards to portray this opinion...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 01, 2010 10 Comments

I originally linked to this in the sidebar (via It Don't Make Sense), but have promoted it front and center because if ever there were a reason to fear government, this creepy video of Chevy VOLT dancers and the VOLT song is it.If a camel...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2010 5 Comments

Obamacare as we know it is not enough, Reid to Netroots: "We're Going To Have a Public Option":Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, seeking to console liberal activists who were disappointed by the final version of the national health care law, assured them that there would...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 18, 2010 13 Comments

There were two important developments recently in the continued unraveling of the Obamacare public relations BS.First, the Obama administration cemented its legal position that the health care mandate is a tax, which means that Obama is raising taxes on people making less than $250,000 a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 05, 2010 8 Comments

Rasmussen released earlier today another health care poll, finding that by almost 2-to-1 margins, Americans support repeal of ObamaCare: Sixty percent (60%) of voters nationwide favor repeal of the recently passed health care law, including 49% who Strongly Favor repeal. A new Rasmussen Reports national...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2010 4 Comments

Four months left until the November election. Time is running out on the Obama agenda.Not the time to ease up, but to push harder because soon it will be too late.Democrats are approaching ramming speed trying desperately to complete the picture, having taken over the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 21, 2010 6 Comments

Remember when "Medicare for All" (also known as "Single Payer") was the banner under which Alan Grayson and his followers in the left-wing blogosphere marched?Medicare for All would not have meant "Health Care for All" because the dirty little secret was that Medicare reimbursement rates...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2010 13 Comments

Alan Simpson, unlike Bob Etheridge, stayed and answered questions during a hostile ambush interview, and gave the questioner, Alex Lawson of Social Security Works (filming for Firedoglake's "live stream") an earful about the fallacies behind left-wing attacks on reforming Social Security and lowering the deficit.Lawson...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 18, 2010 1 Comment

Harry Reid crafted Obamacare without a Doc Fix built into the legislation so that Reid could get the CBO score he wanted. Now Reid admits that without additional spending, the legislation will create havoc:Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had warned Thursday night of the “havoc”...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 18, 2010 4 Comments

The pathetic, lie-infested legislation known as ObamaCare was based on phony numbers and unrealistic assumptions so that Democrats could sell the package to themselves and their delusional Democratic constituents.Those of us who followed the legislation called the Democrats out on it, but since Democrats had...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2010 12 Comments

There is so much wrong with how Barack Obama has handled the Gulf oil spill, it's almost hard to know where to begin.Put aside the ineptitude of the approval process and clean up response. For today, I'm focusing on the tentative settlement with BP. While...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2010 17 Comments

"Unexpected" has become the term of choice for the mainstream media to excuse the Obama administration's economic failures.Yesterday I read an article in The NY Times about something unexpected in Obamacare, and one term jumped out at me (emphasis mine):About one-third of employers subject to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 3 Comments

From the day Barack Obama took office, the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress have been obsessed and possessed.Everything took a back seat to passing Obamacare.And other transformative legislation and regulations intended to turn us into the failing West European economic model.Because "he recognizes his...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2010 8 Comments

And by "no one" I mean only the politicians who voted for Obamacare.Because they willingly ignored warnings that they were selling public policy based on phony numbers: Congressional Budget Office estimates released Tuesday predict the health care overhaul will likely cost about $115 billion more...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 02, 2010 4 Comments

That's what David Cameron (Conservative - U.K.) has made one of his campaign themes:In a Sunday Times interview, the Conservative leader revealed the four pieces of legislation that would dominate his debut Queen’s speech ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 28, 2010 14 Comments

Remember when Democrats fell all over themselves trying to prove that Obamacare would not cover illegal aliens? When Joe Wilson shouted "you lie" about coverage for illegal aliens, Obama and Democratic leaders assured the nation that illegal aliens would be excluded.Under the final Senate health...

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