Politico, John Bresnahan As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid struggles to pass a health care bill in Washington and his polling numbers in Nevada continue to tank, there’s another aggravation he can’t seem to escape — the Las Vegas Review-Journal and its publisher, Sherman Frederick. Frederick has called Reid a “political corpse,” said a visit [...]
The Admonition, Tilman Walker You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. That’s the way it’s always worked in Washington, so the news that Mary Landrieu will hold a fundraiser in New Orleans for Senator Harry Reid comes as no surprise. Reid procured a substantial dose of cash to Landrieu’s Louisiana in exchange for her crucial [...]
The Washington Times, Stephen Dinan Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants could receive health care coverage from their employers under the bills winding their way through Congress, despite President Obama’s explicit pledge that illegal immigrants would not benefit. The House bill mandates, and the Senate bill strongly encourages, businesses to extend health care coverage to [...]
And the Senate’s top Democrat let it be known on the floor Saturday that the feeling was mutual. Reid described the 80-year-old Washington Post columnist as “a man who has been retired for many years and writes a column once in a while.” Concentrating on his analysis of congressional health care legislation as costly and [...]
From the November 23 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks’ The Glenn Beck Program:
Right Wing News, John Hawkins One of the reasons people have grown to despise politics so much in general and the Democrats who are in power in particular, is because of how shamelessly they lie about everything. Here’s one sentence from an article in the Politico: “The key elements of this health care reform bill, [...]
Wall Street Journal, Gerald F. Seib Sen. Joseph Lieberman, speaking in that trademark sonorous baritone, utters a simple statement that translates into real trouble for Democratic leaders: “I’m going to be stubborn on this.” Stubborn, he means, in opposing any health-care overhaul that includes a “public option,” or government-run health-insurance plan, as the current bill [...]
If you do not have insurance, Obama (Harry Reid) will tax you $1,000 dollars.
www.JudicialWatch.org Although its illegal to use federal money to pay for abortions, the gargantuan healthcare bill presented this week by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will levy a new “abortion premium” fee on Americans in the government-run insurance plan. The much-ballyhooed 2,074-page bill (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) that will start debate this weekend [...]
www.FoxNews.com, Grover Norquist When the Senate voted 60-39 to proceed to debate Harry Reid’s 2000 page collection of taxes and mandates and new regulations on America’s health care the nation learned several lessons. First, there are no “moderate” Democrat senators. No “independent thinkers.” No Senators who put the interests of Nebraska, Arkansas, Indiana or Nevada [...]
