In my last post, I expressed my concern that Sen. Ben Nelson was not standing on principle but was holding out for some money to be thrown at him in exchange for his vote on the Senate health care bill. Well, it seems I was right to be concerned. Yesterday he announced [...]
Today, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb) said he will not vote for cloture on the Senate health care bill. Without his vote, Reid does not have the 60 votes required to stop a Republican filibuster. Sen. Nelson has been holding out until abortion restrictions similar to those in the House version of the bill were put [...]
Senate Majority leader Reid (D- Nevada) announced that a deal had been reached between liberal and “conservative” Democrats in regards to the public option in the senate version of the health care bill. Details are sketchy, but the plan will supposedly replace the government run public insurance option with a non-profit plane that will be [...]
The health care reform bill passed the House late Saturday night (sneaky time when people wouldn’t be watching the news) in an extremely close vote, 220 to 215. I haven’t been able to post about it until now because I was too upset to even think clearly. This bill is the mother of all entitlements. It is [...]
Surprise! The newly unveiled 1990 page health care bill contains a bonus for trial lawyers. Is anyone really surprised by this? The Democrats are heavily controlled by trial lawyers, so this is to be expected. Of the 154 representatives that received over $10,000 from trial lawyers in 2008, only 5 were Republicans. We [...]
When President Obama made his health care speech to a joint session of Congress, he said, “And one more misunderstanding I want to clear up: Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions.” This seems pretty cut and dry — no federal dollars for abortions means no tax money for abortions. [...]
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