The AP has put out a fact check of President Obama’s claim last night that everything in his jobs program is paid for: resident Barack Obama’s promise Thursday that everything in his jobs plan will be paid for rests on highly iffy propositions. It will only be paid for if a committee he can’t control […]
Leave it to Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins to figure out ways to let the government extend their reach even more: Lieberman and Collins’ solution is one of the more far-reaching proposals. In the Senators’ draft bill, “the President may issue a declaration of an imminent cyber threat to covered critical infrastructure.” Once such a […]
Yesterday on Meet the Press John Boehner continued the same old line that President Obama was the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate. He also seems to be throwing out the idea of ever working together: MR. GREGORY: Does he have a point? REP. BOEHNER: No. If, if you think about what I said, […]
Greg Sargant points out that in a new CNN poll there is a 6 point uptick in support for the Senate bill. There are some other numbers in that poll that are very interesting: Thinking about the health care and health insurance that is available to most Americans, do you think the proposals in the […]
There’s a lot of bitching by Senators about the cost of health care reform. For example: And on Sunday, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) echoed her colleague, telling “Fox News Sunday” that should the latest version of health care reform prove insufficient in bending the cost curve, she and others would “have to go back to […]
This man shouldn’t be allowed to call himself American let alone Senator: Speaking Friday on the Senate floor about a procedural hold that is blocking passage of S. 1963, the Veterans’ Caregiver and Omnibus Health Benefits Act, Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, said “it would be truly disgraceful” if the bill didn’t clear the Senate by […]
Something I wish President Obama would have mentioned last night is that there isn’t a bill. For the last couple of months the Republicans have been talking about “how bad this bill is”. Some are referring to the bill that came out of a House committee, and others are talking about other proposals floating through […]
I posted the email last night that John McCain sent out stating he would be running for re-election in 2010. The email, as with all of these, was mainly for the purpose of fundraising. But let’s take a look at one key paragraph and what McCain is using to stimulate his fundraising: The economic challenges […]
Oh this is just priceless: Republicans wrapped up their retreat Friday by signaling they are losing patience with President Obama and the Democratic leadership in Congress. Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) criticized the new administration on Friday, saying it had promised to reach out to Republicans on the Capitol Hill, but then offered an economic […]
The Malkinites of the world hate when the government tries to help people out, but that is exactly what they are doing: Prodded in part by some of the nation’s biggest banks, the Bush administration and Congress are considering costly new proposals for the government to rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners whose mortgages are […]