Obamacare’s Procedural Fraud on the American People
The Health Care Nuclear Option is still the stated plan to get Obamacare to the President’s desk. The latest wrinkle is designed to allow pro-life Democrats to vote for the Senate’s taxpayer funded abortion language while still claiming they never voted for taxpayer funded abortions. Don’t be fooled. First, let’s be clear that the Senate bill allows tax dollars to be used for abortions. According to Chuck Donovan of The Heritage Foundation, the Senate passed Obamacare bill funds abortion in several ways, even creating an appropriation for Community Health Centers that contains no restriction on abortion subsidies. If the Senate version ...
Parliamentary Hurdle Could Thwart Latest Health Care Overhaul Strategy
The White House and Democratic Congressional leaders said Tuesday that they were bracing for a key procedural ruling that could complicate their effort to approve major health care legislation, by requiring President Obama to sign the bill into law before Congress could revise it through an expedited budget process. An official determination on the matter could come within days from the House and Senate parliamentarians, and could present yet another hurdle for Mr. Obama and Democratic leaders as they try to lock in support from skittish lawmakers in the House. Meanwhile, Congressional leaders and top administration officials met in the offices of ...
This Harry Reid Tool Isn’t Fooling Anybody
Channel 13 News in Las Vegas reports that Scott Ashjian, the man who plans on running as a third-party candidate in the Nevada Senate race, "says he was inspired by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin to step in this race." Ashjian is fooling absolutely nobody as it's pretty clear that he's nothing more than a Harry Reid tool whose agenda is to siphon off votes from whoever is the Republican Senate nominee. Palin has already said "she'll 'do whatever I can to help' the Republican nominee, whoever he or she is, against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada." If Ashjian ...
Reid Throws RNC a Bone Over Scooby Doo Comparison
The Republican National Committee may have thought it was dogging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid by satirizing him as cartoon character Scooby Doo, but Reid is getting scrappy with the portrayal in his own fundraising appeal. Reid, who was caricatured as Scooby Doo in a recent controversial Republican pitch to top fundraisers, wrote that he thought the comparison to the cowardly, but lovable Great Dane was Scooberrific. "It's been a long time since I watched cartoons with my kids, but I recall Scooby Doo as a pretty good character," Reid said in a fundraising e-mail asking for donations of up to $50. ...
Flat-earth Obama or politically duplicitous?
For the sake of helping Harry Reid stay in office, President Barack Obama is prepared to renege on his promise to keep faith with science, would happily cost utility customers tons of money and -- last in this list, but hardly least -- scrap the possibility of this country having a robust energy future. That's an awful lot to give up for the sake of assisting the election of the Senate's fumbling majority leader, and guess who doesn't like it? Members of the party in the majority, that's who. A number of Democrats are furious about the president shutting down the ...
Cornyn: ‘Evolving’ 2010 Landscape Lets NRSC Expand Field
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said Monday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's cash advantage in his bid for re-election in Nevada is not enough to improve his standing among voters in November. "I doubt, even spending $10- or $20-million, people are going to change their minds about Harry Reid," Cornyn said at a press briefing on the 2010 midterm elections. Down 18 seats and looking at a favorable political landscape this year, Cornyn's NRSC faces the fiscal reality of competing in the large number of states it will take to win back the Senate. Yet ...
Reid says he expects to win
Despite his underdog status, Sen. Harry Reid declared Monday he's confident he'll win re-election, and he welcomed independent candidates -- who could splinter the vote and spoil any GOP effort to retire the most powerful senator in the most watched race in the nation. "They have a right to file," Reid said of third-party contenders, including a Las Vegas man running under the Tea Party of Nevada banner, though members of the movement call him a "Tea Party fraud." Reid's comments came after he filed to run for election to a fifth term, launching what could be his last campaign unless he ...
Harry Reid and 16.8% unemployment: A clueless comment or the most clueless comment?
As soon as I heard Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spew the following line after hearing of the February unemployment numbers, I immediately thought of Steven Colbert's political comparison: Is George Bush a great president, or the greatest president? Harry, let's see if I can explain the difference between good news and news that is merely less bad. First of all, 36,000 people losing their jobs wasn't a one day affair as your statement suggests; it's the number of jobs lost for the month of February. Thirty-six thousand fewer people now have a job than had a job at the beginning ...
Obamacare’s Procedural Fraud on the American People
The Health Care Nuclear Option is still the stated plan to get Obamacare to the President’s desk. The latest wrinkle is designed to allow pro-life Democrats to vote for the Senate’s taxpayer funded abortion language while still claiming they never voted for taxpayer funded abortions. Don’t be fooled. First, let’s be clear that the Senate bill allows tax dollars to be used for abortions. ... [Read more]
Parliamentary Hurdle Could Thwart Latest Health Care Overhaul Strategy
The White House and Democratic Congressional leaders said Tuesday that they were bracing for a key procedural ruling that could complicate their effort to approve major health care legislation, by requiring President Obama to sign the bill into law before Congress could revise it through an expedited budget process. An official determination on the matter could come within days from the House and... [Read more]
This Harry Reid Tool Isn’t Fooling Anybody
Channel 13 News in Las Vegas reports that Scott Ashjian, the man who plans on running as a third-party candidate in the Nevada Senate race, “says he was inspired by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin to step in this race.” Ashjian is fooling absolutely nobody as it’s pretty clear that he’s nothing more than a Harry Reid tool whose agenda is to siphon off votes from whoever... [Read more]
Reid Throws RNC a Bone Over Scooby Doo Comparison
The Republican National Committee may have thought it was dogging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid by satirizing him as cartoon character Scooby Doo, but Reid is getting scrappy with the portrayal in his own fundraising appeal. Reid, who was caricatured as Scooby Doo in a recent controversial Republican pitch to top fundraisers, wrote that he thought the comparison to the cowardly, but lovable Great... [Read more]
Flat-earth Obama or politically duplicitous?
For the sake of helping Harry Reid stay in office, President Barack Obama is prepared to renege on his promise to keep faith with science, would happily cost utility customers tons of money and — last in this list, but hardly least — scrap the possibility of this country having a robust energy future. That’s an awful lot to give up for the sake of assisting the election of the Senate’s... [Read more]
