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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2009 5 Comments

You would be hard-pressed to find a better example of how uncompromising the left-wing of the Democratic Party has become than the attempts to make sure the Obama administration and moderate Democrats do not compromise on the public option.Jane Hamsher, one of the most prominent...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2009 0 Comments

To resolve the Mexican Standoff in which the Democrats find themselves over the health care restructuring bill, Harry Reid apparently has come up with the idea of splitting the bill. The popular insurance reform provisions would go to a full Senate vote subject to a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2009 1 Comment

Liberal Democrats say they will not vote for a health care restructuring bill without a public option. Less liberal Democrats say they will not vote for a health care restructuring bill with a public option.Democrats need both groups to vote in favor of any bill...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 19, 2009 5 Comments

So predicts Gerald Warner in The Telegraph newspaper, in a column with the lengthy and highly descriptive title President Pantywaist in retreat: Barack Obama hoists the white flag over Stalinist health care proposals. [h/t Tim Blair] After reading the title, I'm not sure you...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 18, 2009 43 Comments

Think Progress, the Democratic policy and media-watch organization, broke the story that someone in the audience at a health care town hall in Las Vegas shouted "Heil Hitler" at an Israeli giving a talk about the Israeli system. Needless to say, the video is being...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 17, 2009 6 Comments

As set forth in my prior post, IRS The New Health Care Enforcer, the new tax provisions in the Senate and House draft health care bills tax people for failing to obtain acceptable health coverage. These taxes are crucial to implementing a health care mandate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 17, 2009 5 Comments

The White House appears to have taken down the [email protected] e-mail address used to have people report fishy comments by other people about health care. But, the bounce-back when you send an e-mail provides an alternative address, to the White House "reality check" web page:At...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 17, 2009 6 Comments

A fraud not only is stating something that is untrue, but also failing to state something that is necessary to avoid making a true statement misleading. A material omission as amounting to a fraud is a basic legal concept certainly familiar to this administration.So it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2009 15 Comments

Barack Obama has invoked his experience with his grandmother's death in support of his health care restructuring plans.Does this mean Obama used his grandmother as a "prop," and that this would justify mocking his grandmother? No.We each have personal experiences with the health care system,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 15, 2009 6 Comments

The NY Times has discovered that the Health Debate Fails to Ignite Obama’s Grass Roots:But even among those who turned out for the meetings, many of whom had Obama buttons affixed to their shirts and spoke glowingly of the president, there was a sense of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2009 4 Comments

The Independent newspaper in Britain ran an article titled The Brutal Truth About America's healthcare, focusing on lack of health services in a poor section of Los Angeles. But at the same time, The Independent also ran a column by Christina Patterson in which Ms....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2009 30 Comments

People often joke that government-run health care will have the efficiency of the motor vehicle department, and the compassion of the Internal Revenue Service. This joke will become reality if present Democratic health restructuring proposals are enacted.Under both the House and Senate Health, Education, Labor...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2009 6 Comments

Think Progress, the Democratic policy and media-watch group, has come up with an amazing discovery. Sarah Palin was in favor of voluntary, private counseling so that people could put their end-of-life affairs in order, before she was against government bureaucrats getting involved in a mandatory...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2009 6 Comments

Camille Paglia, a supporter of Barack Obama, gets it (emphasis mine):As a libertarian and refugee from the authoritarian Roman Catholic church of my youth, I simply do not understand the drift of my party toward a soulless collectivism. This is in fact what Sarah Palin...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2009 3 Comments

FreedomWorks, which had the temerity and meanness of spirit to encourage people to attend town hall meetings, was subjected to an organized attempt to jam its phone lines, much like happened to the Republican National Committee. FreedomWorks has published the audio files of some of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2009 7 Comments

The notion of August being a time to debate the specifics of the Democratic and Obama health care restructuring plan is something of a misnomer, since there is no single plan. The illusion is being created of a true debate, but in fact we are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2009 13 Comments

So this is what it comes to. After eight years of protesters hanging George Bush in effigy, calling him a Nazi, disrupting conservative speeches on campuses by taking over stages or throwing pies, creating websites and movies that wished for Bush's death, and a myriad...

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