I guess not: A top House Republican is planning to propose that Internet service providers be required to store information about their customers to aid police in criminal investigations, CNET has learned. But a recent draft has one huge exception: wireless companies aren’t included. That appears to be the result of lobbying from wireless providers, […]
Paul Ryan has admitted that his Medicare plan is nothing more than a mandate for seniors. This is from a townhall Ryan held in Racine, Wisconsin: Q: If Medicare becomes a voucher program, would you require seniors to purchase private insurance and if so isn’t that an individual mandate? If you will not require them […]
The proposed “internet kill switch”, which passed out of the Senate Homeland Security Committee last week, has met some opposition: “Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) has introduced his own cybersecurity legislation with Sen. Orrin Hatch, and he had some harsh words for a competing bill sponsored by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security. Bond said that […]
At the annual Democratic Party meeting there should be a mandatory seminar on communication. Not properly communicating has cost the Democrats dearly. It was a big nail in the coffin on health care. People couldn’t understand things like “health exchanges” or “public option”. Even the one simple word left a bad feeling with voters – […]
Right along party lines as expected, with Jim Bunning not voting. What’s interesting is that since the GOP started praying for Democratic members of the Senate to not show up, a Republican has missed every vote. Irony or sweet revenge? This ends the 2009 legislative year and now we are on to reconciliation to fix […]
McJoan over at DailyKos has put together one hell of a post highlighting the good and bad of the Senate health care bill. Bottom line – if we can get rid of the mandates I think we have something we can all stomach and then work on. In all honesty the mandates should be removed […]
Once this bill gets out of Congress and President Obama signs it, then I really hope he is ready for a sell job for the rest of his time in office. Let’s examine the facts. The current polling shows the public very turned off by this bill: That alone gives the Republicans an excellent platform […]
And this time it is the one of her many suits that got the furthest. The ruling is a slam in the face to Taitz and the whole birther movement. I love this part here: Interpreting the Constitution is a serious and crucial task with which the federal courts of this nation have been entrusted […]
There has been a lot of talk lately about the constitutionality of the health insurance mandate. The right seems to want to point to the tenth amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. […]
The former Senate majority leader has written a piece in U.S. News and World Report pushing for a mandate on health coverage: I believe in limited government and individual responsibility, cherish the freedom to choose, and generally oppose individual mandates—except where markets fail, individuals suffer, and society pays a hefty price. Let’s face it, in […]