HAHAHA! This is RICH : Politico: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill. Lieberman, who caucuses with Democrats and is positioning himself as a fiscal hawk on the issue, said he opposes any health care bill that includes a government-run insurance program — even if it includes a provision allowing states to opt out of the program, as Reid’s has said the Senate bill will. HAHAHAHA! Oh, w
guardian.co.uk Rangel Innocent Until Proven Guilty, Pelosi Says FOXNews A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that there is a bipartisan process in place that should be allowed to finish before the fate of Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is decided. ... House Moves Closer to Combined Health Measure With Tax Changes Bloomberg Pelosi says homebuyer credit may be extended Bizjournals.com Democrats are considering additional tax on insurers San Jose
The Washington Post published an op-ed yesterday written by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Read it; it’s a good one. Jindal believes that Republicans have to join the “battle of ideas” about health care reform. Reform, he says, is necessary. He first gets a dig in at Democrats: The debate on health care has moved on. Democratic plans for a government takeover are passé. The people don’t want it. Believe the polls, the town halls, the voters. Only Democrats in Washington would propos
For President Obama and his party, last week brought another stiff dose of pain: the announcement of 263,000 more jobs lost, while unemployment ticked up to 9.8 percent.And by all indications, Democrats must endure that form of political torture for at least several more months. Whatever the fate of health care legislation, persistently high unemployment has made “Where are the jobs?” the most potent Republican campaign argument as next year’s midterm elections come into view.Publicly, White Hou
Siege Warfare Health Care Reform Smelling what they rightly sense is their own blood in the water from the public backlash against the so-called “public option,” congressional Bolsheviks (i.e., Democrats) have retreated to lick their wounds from the loss of their erstwhile health care reform centerpiece. Or have they? Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) certainly doesn’t think so. Using a tried-and-true leftist tactic — two steps forward, one step back, gaining position under the guise of “losi