Archive for March, 2010
CNN Poll: Majority disapprove of Obama for first time
For the first time, a CNN poll has found that a majority of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance.According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, 51 percent of respondents disapprove of Obama’s job performance and 46 percent approve of it.
Full results (pdf)
Obama’s approval rating has dropped steadily each month since December, when […]
Obama to sign health care reform into law, then promote it on the road (Vote the Rats out in 2010)
President Obama will sign sweeping health care reform legislation into law at the White House on Tuesday, according to two Democratic officials familiar with the planning.
Obama also will hit the road to sell the measure to a still-skeptical public, giving a speech Thursday in Iowa City, Iowa, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said. Obama […]
How The Democrats Win in November
So how do the Democrats hold onto power despite passing the wildly unpopular healthcare reform law? Do you think they’ll just give up their majorities and the presidency and call it a day, proud of their accomplishment?
(Excerpt) Read more at ertwngr.blogspot.com …
U.S. Supreme Court: Challenges could (will) burst healthcare triumph
Democrats are sky high, celebrating the passage of healthcare reform against ferocious opposition from Republicans, tea partiers and the health insurance industry.
But looming challenges in a legal system dominated by a conservative U.S. Supreme Court threaten to bring them crashing back down to earth.
At least three state attorneys general, all Republicans, are vowing to challenge […]
The Five Keys to Killing Obamacare
Without question, people who zealously guard their freedoms, love their country, and want a better future for their children lost a big battle on Sunday. Yes, Republicans in the House fought skillfully and won the battle with the public, but the legislative chicanery, bribery, and utter disdain for the will of the people won […]
Health overhaul promises pain, gain for businesses (Drug and the “Evil” Insurance companies are the winners)
When historians write the book on how President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul became law, they’ll need to leave space for some unlikely advocates: lobbyists for the drug, insurance and hospital industries.Last summer, executives from those groups visited the White House and pledged to do their part to help pay for the health bill. By […]
Exempted from Obamacare: Senior Staff Who Wrote The Bill
For as long as the political fight took over the past year, the abbreviated review process on the health care legislation currently pending on President Obama’s desk is unquestionably going to result in some surprises — as happens with any piece of mashed-up legislation — both for the congressmen who voted for it and for […]
CBS: Pelosi’s favorability ratings 11%, Reid at 8%…
Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.
Most Americans don’t have an opinion about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a new CBS News poll finds, even after more than a year of debate over the health care reform bill […]
Planned Parenthood: Pro-Abortion Bill a Victory, Executive Order Meaningless
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) – Planned Parenthood called the pro-abortion health care bill the House approved late Sunday night a victory and applauded the financial windfall is expected to reap as a result. The abortion business also dismissed the executive order President Barack Obama promised Congressman Bart Stupak as harmless.
“For more than a year, Planned Parenthood […]
‘Spread the Wealth Around’ as Bill Imposes New Taxes
‘Spread the Wealth Around’ as Bill Imposes New Taxes
Link Only. Read full detail at Bloomberg
Shocking News:Liberal caucus leader will introduce new public option bill
Liberal caucus leader will introduce new public option bill By Michael O’Brien - 03/22/10 04:14 PM ETA leader of the House liberals’ caucus said Monday she’ll introduce new legislation to revive the public option.
Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), the co-chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said she plans to unveil legislation to add the government-run option […]
New CNN Poll: 59% Oppose Obamacare
A new CNN Opinion Research poll, conducted over the weekend as the House debated Obamacare, finds that 59 percent of Americans now stand opposed to the health care legislation in Congress. Just 39 percent of the poll’s 1,030 respondents said they favored the bill.
These numbers shouldn’t come as a surprise — even to the White […]
Bad news for Obama in CNN weekend survey results
CNN’s Opinion Research surveyors were hard at work over the weekend during the final hours of the successful push to win House approval of the Senate version of Obamacare. The results of the CNN/OR survey are out and they point to the most vivid reality of the Obamacare victory - 219 House Democrats were willing […]
Caption: Nancy Pelosi yukking it up
Here Comes the Health Care Lawsuits
(CNSNews.com) – The American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative civil liberties group, says it is preparing to file a federal lawsuit challenging the “flawed” health care package that passed the House 219-212 on Sunday night.
The law “fails the American people and does not provide permanent protections for the life of the unborn,” the […]
Caption Jesse Jackson
House Roll Call: Health Care Overhaul [How Did Your Congressman Vote?]
The 219-212 roll call Sunday by which the House passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
A “yes” vote is a vote to pass the bill.
Voting yes were 219 Democrats and 0 Republicans.
Voting no were 34 Democrats and 178 Republicans.
There are 4 vacancies in the 435-member House.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com .
Frum: Republican Waterloo
Former Bush speechwriter David Frum says it’s hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the GOP disaster. And he blames this “most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s” on conservatives and Republicans:
At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we […]
Destroying America from Within
As a Canadian, I am fully aware of how presumably rational and literate people can elect utter poltroons, nullities, and incompetents to political office. The Liberal prime minister from 1921-1930 and 1935-1948, William Lyon Mackenzie King, thought Hitler “might become one of the saviors of the world” and that “Kristallnacht might turn out to be […]
Health Care Bill Summary:What’s in the ObamaCare Bill
The $940 billion health-care overhaul will take nearly a decade to roll out in full. A look at the key parts of the bill and when they go into effect.
2010
Coverage
Subsidies begin for small businesses to provide coverage to employees.
Insurance companies barred from denying coverage to children with pre-existing illness.
Children permitted to stay on their parents’ […]