Matthews hits a theme that several NBC commentators have focused on: How can you demand an up or down vote on reconciliation (in the Senate) and then “deem” the bill passed in the House without voting on it?
Matthews does not, of course, object to such skulduggery because it is dishonest. He’s worried about how it […]
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VIDEO: EVEN CHRIS MATTHEWS SCORNS THE SLAUGHTER STRATEGY
NEJM SURVEY: 46% OF PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS SAY OBAMACARE WILL FORCE THEM OUT OF MEDICINE
UPDATE:Â
NEJM has bowdlerized this story. This morning, the link below went directly to data from the survey. Now it takes you to a page about physician recruitment, the second paragraph of which provides a link to The Medicus Firm, which apparently conducted the survey in December.
As Paul Hsieh noted last night, NEJM is “hardly a right-wing rag.” An understatement if ever there […]
PRESIDENT ADMITS THAT OBAMACARE IS “A TRANSITION STEP” TOWARD SINGLE-PAYER
If you still harbor doubts that Obamacare is a first step toward single-payer health care, this montage of Obama speeches will eliminate them. He explicitly states that he is following the same path that Canada took to its government-run system:
Get a system in place, signed into law by the end of my first term as President and build off […]
VIDEO: PENCE SLAMS SLAUGHTER STRATEGY
This is worth watching because Pence succinctly captures the essence of Obamacare as well as the unconstitutional procedural skullduggery known as the “Slaughter Rule�:
The Democrat health care bill that’s being brought through the Congress this week is nothing more than a government takeover of health care, and the American people know it …
Democrats are […]
HOUSE DEM ON OCARE TACTICS: “I THINK IT’S WRONG & MY CONSTITUENTS DON’T LIKE IT”
One of the Blue Dogs Nancy Pelosi has been trying to flip to a “yesâ€? vote on Obamacare is Representative Jason Altmire (D - PA). This clip suggests they’re not doing so well.
Discussing complaints he’s hearing from the people in his own district, Altmire describes considerable voter discomfort with gimmicks like reconciliation and the Slaughter rule:
You wouldn’t have […]
DEMS STILL DON’T HAVE THE VOTES TO PASS OCARE, SO CALL THESE BLUE DOGS TODAY
According to NRO, Pelosi & Co. are still 10 votes short:
Rep. David Dreier (R., Calif.), ranking Republican on the House Rules Committee, said the word around the House is that Democrats are still about 10 votes away from securing the 216 they will need.
And it gets even better. The Dems are apparently losing ground:Â
Dreier added that […]
ALEXANDER: OCARE IS THE MOST BRAZEN ACT OF POLITICAL ARROGANCE SINCE WATERGATE
Bob Schieffer was trying to get the Tennessee Senator to talk inside baseball, but Alexander ignored him and went straight to the heart of the matter:
This is the most brazen act of political arrogance that I can remember since the Watergate years … in terms of thumbing your nose at the American people and saying […]
GRAHAM TO AXELROD: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE GETTING TIRED OF THIS CRAP
Having endured yet another lie from David Axelrod about Obamacare being comparable to the Massachusetts health reforms of 2006, Graham ignored Jake Tapper’s dishonest comparison between Dem and GOP use of reconciliation and responded directly to Axelrod’s whopper:
The American people are getting tired of this crap. No way in the world is what they did in Massachusetts like what we’re about to do […]
VIDEO: ASSISTANT TO THE SPEAKER ADMITS HOUSE DEMS WILL USE UNCONSTITUTIONAL SLAUGHTER RULE TO PASS OBAMACARE
Democrat Congressman Chris Van Hollen, Assistant to the Speaker of the House, admitted on Fox News Sunday that the Democrats will actually use the Slaughter Rule to pass Obamacare without requiring a House vote:
Let’s make it clear, we’re gonna have an up or down vote, whether it’s up or down for the Senate bill or […]
DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (XI)
This week’s winner is Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown for this post, in which she insinuates that Republicans deliberately misconstrued what they heard from the Senate parliamentarian on Thursday:
Senate Republicans caused a major stir Thursday when they told reporters that the parliamentarian had informed them that the Senate bill needed to be signed into law before lawmakers took […]