Obama explains how ‘public option’ will end private insurance
He says, “Nobody is talking about some government takeover of health care.” He says, “If you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep our plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you.”
That’s what he says now, but that’s not what he said when he thought no one — except the single-payer zealots — was paying attention.
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Does Obama believe his own words?
Listening to President Obama explain “his” health care plan, I can’t help but wonder if he actually believes his own words.
Maybe it’s been so long since the adoring press corps has held him accountable for his innumerable exaggerations, omissions and misstatements that he believes he can create a new reality simply by speaking it into existence.
However, for anyone who’s been paying attention, the President’s recent health care pep rally disguised as a press conference was littered with statements that just don’t square with reality: read more…
Phony gun votes by Bennet, Udall
The Washington Post reports that the ballyhooed vote by Colorado Sens. Michael Bennet and Mark Udall in favor of nationwide reciprocity for concealed-carry permit holders was a sham, staged with the permission of anti-gun-rights Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.): read more…
Pro-life Dems could block ObamaCare
If it’s such a political “loser” to be on the pro-life side of the abortion issue, someone forgot to tell 39 Democrats in the U.S. Congress who appear to be prepared to block the House health care “reform” bill unless it specifically prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortions, CBS news reports: read more…
Ritter backs cap-and-tax despite costs to Colorado
Kudos to Heritage Foundation for this clip of Gov. Bill Ritter waffling on Waxman-Markey but backing the basic concept of cap-and-tax, despite documented costs to Colorado’s economy.
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NEA lawyer: It’s all about power, money, job protection
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Not since the late Albert Shanker has a teachers union official been so candid about the true priorities of the National Education Association. Shanker, the late president of the American Federation of Teachers famously said: “When school children start paying union dues, that ‘s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children.” read more…
Press corps rips Obama’s ‘prepackaged’ events
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Farm lobby blew it on cap-and-trade
Once climate-change regulators strangle the economy and carbon-counters turn gas, oil and electricity into expensive luxuries, perhaps American farmers will recognize how “our friends” in Washington, D.C., sold us out in the name of political compromise.
Last week, Capitol Hill’s agriculture lobby had a choice: withhold support from the Waxman-Markey climate control bill or agree to a compromise that provides cover to rural district Democrats who support it.
Without those rural votes, Waxman-Markey was bound for the shredder. With those votes, it garnered just one more vote than the bare minimum needed for passage. read more…
Another year of state budget brinksmanship?
Grappling with declining state revenues makes for some very unpleasant budget choices, as Governor Ritter and the Democrat majorities in the state legislature learned over the past 12 months.
It’s fair to criticize those choices, including the governor last year denying for several months that a problem existed. Yet anyone who has shouldered the responsibility of balancing a budget during a recession understands that learning from your own mistakes is inevitable.
Learning, however, is essential — both to sound fiscal policy and to political credibility. That’s why it was astonishing to hear Governor Ritter and leading Democrats dismiss the need for a special session of the legislature on the very day they acknowledged that the state will start the new fiscal year nearly $400 million in the hole. read more…
Mr. President, first heal Medicare
America’s health care system certainly has its share of problems — of which most emanate from politicians’ tinkering, tempting frustrated consumers with promises of better benefits at someone else’s expense.
So the prospect of President Obama and Congress remaking American health care in their own image should scare the pants off anyone who looks not merely at the existing problems but at government’s abysmal record as a problem-solver. read more…