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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 17, 2010 11 Comments

At 10 a.m. this morning Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has a press conference at which he will announce whether he will vote for or against Obamacare.Until now, Kucinich has been a principled progressive. You may not agree with his principles, but at least like Jane Hamsher...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2010 33 Comments

Take your pick of the name to call the apparent Democratic Party plan to pass the Senate health care bill by not voting on it.Democrats plan to use a procedure where a separate reconciliation bill, which would be subject to a vote, would contain language...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2010 9 Comments

The Democrats have decided to include a government takeover of the student loan business as part of the health care package in order to convince some reluctant Democrats to vote Yes for Obamacare. As reported by The Hill: Attaching a student aid bill to the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2010 1 Comment

Nancy Pelosi, Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod claim it's over, they have the votes. Just about everyone else, including some Democrats in the House, say it ain't so yet.We cannot believe anything that comes from the mouths of Democratic leaders and consultants; it all is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 14, 2010 12 Comments

It's hard to know if this really is the week when Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid finally get their way.Regardless of outcome, these have been some of our finest hours.From the Tea Parties which sprang to life last April, to the townhalls over...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 13, 2010 5 Comments

Ok, so Eric Massa has issues. But sometimes people with issues are correct.As we roll towards the latest deadline to pass Obamacare, it is clear that Massa's departure at this moment in time was a result of his vocal willingness to vote against the Democratic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2010 6 Comments

There is something about skirting the normal legislative process which seems so appealing to people (in this case, Democrats) who cannot otherwise pass legislation but seek to expand government.We are seeing it most clearly in the health care issue, where the end product of Democratic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2010 16 Comments

The ruling by the Senate Parliamentarian requiring that Obama sign a health care bill into law before the reconciliation process could begin is damaging to the Democrats' procedural maneuvers.But is it fatal? Hard to say. Allahpundit has the possible twists and turns, including...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2010 16 Comments

Don't think government, if given the chance, will try to control the most minute aspects of your life?Don't worry that once the bureaucracy gets ahold of the right to regulate your health care decisions -- starting with what type of insurance you are required to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2010 3 Comments

I understand that some people were upset when Scott Brown voted for the $15 billion "jobs" bill in February.Brown's voting for cloture on the $140 billion spending bill earlier this week, although he voted against the bill on the merits, also was worrisome (although Brown...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 10, 2010 5 Comments

The Democrats not only are throwing Eric Massa under the bus, they are stomping on his head, ripping his heart out, disemboweling him, and then making him go to Canada for treatment.But let's rewind a little. Eric Massa was the rock star of the "progressive"...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 09, 2010 6 Comments

Yesterday almost was the greatest day in the history of Palin Derangement Syndrome.A deep, dark secret was revealed: When Palin was a child in the late 1960s, her family on a few occasions skipped across the border into Canada and ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2010 10 Comments

The Obama administration has gone over the edge, and as we know from Eric Massa (formerly D-NY), all the way into the shower.The thought of a naked Rahm Emanuel confronting an equally naked Massa in the showers at Congress over a vote is too horrible...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 08, 2010 15 Comments

Eric Massa (D-NY) is set to resign today. If he has not yet tendered his resignation, he should not do so.At least not if he is being forced out because of his health care vote, which is what he alleged over the weekend in a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2010 2 Comments

Because men cannot be trusted to use condoms, the District of Columbia will become the first city to distribute female condoms for free (emphasis mine):The District will become the first city in the United States to distribute female condoms free, part of a project that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 07, 2010 15 Comments

Jim DeMint (R-SC) famously said that health care would be Barack Obama's Waterloo.But Waterloo probably wasn't the best analogy, in hindsight.Waterloo was a short but decisive battle. The health care fight has turned out to be more like the battle of Stalingrad.The battle of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2010 7 Comments

There is no more pernicious aspect of the pending health care bills (Senate, House and Obama "proposal") than the mandate.The mandate is the provision which requires that individuals purchase private insurance.From that mandate flows a host of governmental controls over our lives, from specification of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2010 6 Comments

Obama is willing to be honest with his "progressive" base behind closed doors. The Senate health care bill plus some reconciliation fixes is just the start.The goal always has been a single payer system, and it remains so.As soon as the Senate bill becomes...

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