Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), one of the pro-life Democrats, is dropping hints that he will oppose the Stupak amendment in the health care bill: Senator Casey has been a vocal supporter of health care reform and voted for the HELP Committee bill in July. He supports the public option to increase competition and reduce costs. […]
How nice of him! And here is the picture he is sharing: Maybe he is explaining how he can’t support a health care bill that would have helped provide coverage to the 2,200 veterans who couldn’t afford it and died last year? Nah…I doubt it. [congress]B001260[/congress]
Teabaggers are descending upon Capital Hill: Thousands of Tea Party activists descended on Washington Thursday to protest the trillion dollar health care bill and government spending, holding signs protesting Barack Obama’s agenda while aiming chants of “you work for us” at the Capitol building. . The gathering was organized by local Tea Party groups around […]
Not very according to the CBO: The Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday that an alternative health care bill put forward by House Republicans would have little impact in extending health benefits to the roughly 30 million uninsured Americans, but would reduce average insurance premium costs for people who have coverage. The Republican bill, which […]
That’s a possibility under the Senate version of the health care bill. Separation of church and what? I wonder if Bobby Jindal could get paid for his exorcism services?
The right is on an uproar over the size of the health care bill and the Politico is following suit: The House health care bill unveiled Thursday clocks in at 1,990 pages and about 400,000 words. With an estimated 10-year cost of $894 billion, that comes out to about $2.24 million per word. . Wow […]
Their big protest today of the new health care bill netted 10 people! That’s this “big wind of change” the people like Tweety just love talking about.
Dede Scozzafava is a Republican candidate for NY-23. Last night she held a dinner and afterwards someone from her campaign called the police on John McCormack from the Weekly Standard. Here’s what he says about it: I spotted Scozzafava later as she was walking to the parking lot, and asked her: ” Assemblywoman, do you […]
Is this any real shock? With Democratic leaders and White House officials holed up in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) office negotiating a final bill, Republicans are demanding a deceleration of the process and moving to define whatever plan that emerges as a combination of Medicare cuts, tax increases, higher insurance premiums and rising […]
Yesterday Bob Dole joined a growing number of big name Republicans in supporting the health care bill: “Sometimes people fight you just to fight you,” he said, according to The Kansas City Star. “They don’t want Reagan to get it, they don’t want Obama to get it, so we’ve got to kill it…” “Health care […]