Were Ben Nelson’s objections to the Reid “reform” legislation just an elaborate charade? Yep. If you find it hard to believe that anyone could be that dishonest, your doubts will be killed by the fact that the bill still provides funding for abortions:
The new Reid language that Senator Nelson now finds acceptable would allow federal subsidies to flow to plans that cover elective abortions […]
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NELSON’S DEAL ALLOWS ABORTION FUNDING
NOPE, OBAMACARE ISN’T DEATH FOR THE DEMS
There is a growing consensus among pundits, policy wonks and even some progressives that the Democrats are crazy to push through health reform legislation that the voters don’t want.
The pundits all think it’s political suicide. The general idea is that the Dems will get hammered in the 2010 congressional elections. RCP’s Sean Trende provides the conventional wisdom:
I’ve become increasingly convinced […]
WHAT BEN NELSON GOT FOR HIS PERFIDY
As many of us suspected, Senator Ben Nelson was not holding out on the Senate “reform” bill because of any real scruple he has on abortion (or anything else). Like any roundheel, he was just negotiating price. Turns out that (part of) the payoff involved extra Medicaid funds for his state:
Under the current merged legislation (the version […]
THE APOCALYPSE OF HARRY REID
The literal meaning of “apocalypse” involves the act of revealing or unveiling. Since it is also evocative of a looming judgment, the word seemed somehow right for what the Senate Majority Leader and his accomplices were up to this morning:
In a statement issued late Friday night, Reid says he intends to unveil final revisions to the […]
DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (V)
This week, the competition for this coveted prize was absolutely ferocious. Indeed, a veritable blizzard of brainless reform posts poured forth from the “progressive” blogosphere.” But this post by Patrick Appel takes the biscuit on the basis of its breathtaking contempt for the voters.
Responding to a post at Reason discussing the value of placing “individuals on equal tax footing as employers when […]
NADER: OBAMA’S A CORPORATE UNCLE TOM
On health care reform, Ralph Nader is giving his fellow Lefties the “I told you so” treatment. He says concessions that Obama and his congressional allies have allegedly made to the insurance industry were a betrayal of the voters and that he predicted it. In an interview with Benjamin Sarlin, Nader said:
This is what I meant a year ago when […]
PALIN, PUBLIC HEALTH & WARMIST INQUISITORS
One reason the Church of Warmism is so intent on silencing Sarah Palin and other heretics involves its desire to use global warming as a pretext for imposing a variety of poorly-conceived public health programs on an unwitting electorate. This agenda was behind last year’s initiative by the American Public Health Association to “educate” voters on the alleged threat:
The connection between global warming and […]
NELSON BARKS AGAIN ON ABORTION … YAWN
It looks like Senator Ben nelson has started barking again on the abortion feature of the Senate health reform bill:
In an interview Thursday with a Nebraska radio station, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) said new compromise language on abortion funding is unacceptable.
As usual, however, he’s not coming completely out from beneath the porch:
‘As it is right […]
MICHAEL MOORE: BOYCOTT CONNECTICUT!
Just when you thought the health reform debate could not possibly become more absurd, Michael Moore appears to prove you wrong. The porcine provocateur is unhappy with Joe Lieberman’s scuttling of the public option, so he used twitter to threaten a boycott of Connecticut if its citizens do not recall the Senator:
The stupidity of Moore’s latest […]
FRENCH HEALTH CARE? JE PENSE PAS.
Now that Obamacare is imploding, I guess we’re in for a fresh crop of articles and blog posts pimping “the best health care system in the world.” Here’s alleged libertarian Matt Welch on the system ranked “best” by the World Health Organization:
In France, you are covered, period. It doesn’t depend on your job, it doesn’t depend on a health maintenance organization, and it doesn’t […]