By Shane Vander Hart
You don’t say? There has been a pretty significant shift in the attitude of Americans toward health coverage.
Gallup releases poll today:
More Americans now say it is not the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage (50%) than say it is (47%). This is a first since Gallup began tracking [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
I wasn’t able to watch any of the debate yesterday on HR 3962, the House version of the health care reform bill. I was kind of busy. I did see the final result with it passing 220 to 215 in a late night session.
Why the rush? Perhaps because the longer debate [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
Today, I’m sacrificing watching the whole Iowa Hawkeyes game to attend the Iowa Tea Party Statewide Convention here in Des Moines. They are currently beating Northwestern 10-0 in the first quarter. Later tonight I’m going to be Leadership for Iowa, an event hosted to the Republican Party of Iowa. There we’ll here from the [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
House Democratic leaders are proposing a rule for the current House version of the health care reform bill – HR 3962. This rule will insert language written by Congressman Brad Ellsworth (D-IN). It would also exclude a House vote on an amendment that has been proposed by Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI).
National Right [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
Well we are getting a peak at how much Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill will cost taxpayers.
$1.2 Trillion – $1,200,000,000,000
Well it’s got to have a big price tag as big as the bill is – 1900 pages. AP reports:
The health care bill headed for a vote in the House this week costs $1.2 [...]
By Mary Selby
The Pelosi Health Care Bill is ready for all to peruse, all 1990 pages! Yet there is no time to spare, one must read quickly and then even more quickly, call Washington and tell them "NO"! Several month ago I wrote this article concerning this Administration [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
Oh, I know… President Obama said that it wouldn’t happen.
But apparently Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats weren’t listening to President Obama, because surely he was telling the truth… so it must be an act of defiance because in this 1900 page monstrosity of a bill it’s in there:
Douglas [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announces that the public option is now in the Senate version of the health care reform bill. With one caveat that it will include an opt-out option for states.
So Democrats now believe in a form of federalism? Hmmmmm… It would seem that the [...]
By Shane Vander Hart
Should we be fearful of political violence? Speaker Nancy Pelosi thinks so, and said that the current rhetoric reminds her of what she witnessed in San Francisco in the 1970s. ABC News has a video of this statement. Transcript below.
Q: Madam Speaker, in terms of the political tone, the tone of the [...]
By Caffeinated Thoughts
In Thursday’s Washington Post, culture critic Philip Kennicott had this to say about the "Obama as the Joker" poster that’s been popping up everywhere:
. . . The poster is ultimately a racially charged image. By using the "urban" makeup of the Heath Ledger Joker, instead of the urbane makeup of the Jack Nicholson [...]