Bayfield Tea Party “Gang of Six” Headed to Sunday’s “Operation Flood D.C.” Rally
by T.L. James | 7:53 am, March 20, 2010
Several grassroots activists from Colorado are on their way to DC for Sunday’s rally against the health care takeover bill:
Calling themselves the “Gang of Six,” a group of Tea Party and 9.12 activists from Bayfield, Colo. is on the road to Washington, DC, where Sunday they’re planning to make one last stand against President Barack [...]
One theory on the Dems strategery
by Rossputin | 4:09 am, March 20, 2010
Here’s one theory on the real short-term goal of Pelosi and Obama: They want to get enough Democrat support that they can pass the Senate Bill and their reconciliation package without having to use the “Slaughter Rule” to “deem” the Senate Bill passed rather than actually voting on it.
While Pelosi and Obama have been saying that people don’t care about “process”, they know it’s not true. They say that everyone knows a vote for the Slaughter Rule is the same as a vote for the Senate Bill. But if their members knew that, they wouldn’t need the scheme. For Democrat members of Congress, voting on the rule lets them think they might be able to fool just enough voters to get reelected.
But again, Pelosi and Obama know it isn’t true. Americans won’t fall for it. In a way, I think it’s smarter for the Dems to vote for the Senate bill and try to honestly defend ObamaCare than to try to hide behind a transparent procedural maneuver. I think the Democratic leadership knows that as well.
Thus, their goal is not to pass this bill by a one or two vote margin. They want to have enough “Yes” votes so they can just vote on the Senate bill rather than on the Slaughter Rule which will have the secondary effect, after passing the government takeover of health care, of slaughtering Democrats in November even worse than the blood-letting they’re already going to take.
It must be noted that the situation will become even muddier if the House passes their bills or rule on Sunday because the reconciliation process could be even more complex and arcane than the hoops the House is jumping through. Republicans are already working out plans to derail the ability to pass reconciliation as the House wants it. And if they can force changes, it would have to go back to the House. One huge question remains: reconciliation must reconcile with existing law. That means that Obama would need to sign the Senate bill into law, but the House does not like the Senate bill as-is. If Obama signs the Senate bill into law and then reconciliation fails, America will be stuck with the Senate bill (which is an utter disaster but, if anything, probably better than the House’s reconciliation plans.) But the House will be extremely displeased if that happens, and they may use the Slaughter rule simply to avoid that possible outcome.
It will be political theater of the highest order.
Finally, keep in mind that the Democrats are finally admitting publicly that a loss on health care “reform” will destroy the Obama presidency for the remaining 3 years for which we must be tortured by a president who hates capitalism, hates fundamental American values, and has no understanding of economics or the real world. The Democrats’ true goal is to make sure this Manchurian Candidate’s agenda is still at least somewhat achievable and his legacy at least somewhat preserved.
Harry Reid: The public option is not dead
by Rossputin | 2:29 pm, March 19, 2010
Fox News just reported that Harry Reid says there will be a vote on a public option soon. Now we know what Dennis Kucinich was promised for his vote. There is no chance that a public option will pass, but the Dems will try anything and everything at this point to save Barack Obama.
The myth of inevitability
by Rossputin | 11:58 am, March 19, 2010
As Congressman Paul Ryan noted on Fox News a few days ago, part of the Democrats’ strategy to pass health care “reform” is to overstate the number of votes they have, trying to particularly pressure freshman and sophomore congressmen to be “on the right side of history.”
I had an interesting conversation with Human Events reporter Connie Hair – she of the endless energy and commitment to her conservative principles – in which she made a few key points:
First, she told me that the Democrats reached out to Joseph Cao (R-LA), the only Republican to vote for the first House health care bill. Cao has switched to “no” and they’re trying to get him back. As Connie noted, “they wouldn’t be trying to get the Republican if they had enough Democrats.”
Second, there is pressure on Democrat congressmen from their governors, including from Democrat governors (click HERE to see letter from the Democrat governor of Tennessee to no-turned-yes Congressman Bart Gordon), who know that the health care “reform” bill will bankrupt financially-teetering states because of the mandates from Medicaid expansion. This is the particular issue which was the subject of the Cornhusker Kickback. The Democrats’ proposed solution is to get rid of that payoff and give the same payoff to every state, essentially a massive expansion of the very entitlement that is bankrupting the federal government.
Third, it is all but impossible that the House’s reconciliation package will pass the Senate unaltered. And if it gets altered by as much as a comma, it has to go back to the House where Democrats will have to “walk the plank again.”
Keep in mind that the Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that reconciliation in any form can only proceed after the Senate bill has been signed into law. According to Connie, that ruling means that the House cannot make their approval of the bill conditional on the Senate’s agreeing to the House’s reconciliation package. Therefore, if the House passes their “self-executing rule”, the Senate health care bill will be signed into law. And that will probably not change as we could see weeks or months of political chaos during which the reconciliation package is sent back and forth between the Senate and the House, with Senate Republicans using every procedural tool available to them to strip out the illegal, i.e. non-budget related items, from the reconciliation package.
Connie also noted that Mark Levin is planning a constitutional challenge to anything that passes the House under the Slaughter Rule and that there is a good chance the DC Circuit would put a stay on the implementation of the Senate bill until they can hear and rule on the case. And there’s a good chance that the Supreme Court hears the case.
In the meantime, especially if Republicans take back control of either chamber of Congress, the GOP can work to make sure that the plan is essentially defunded until it can be repealed under a Republican president in 2012.
As Fred Barnes recently noted, if the House passes health care “reform”, it means we’re closer to the beginning than the end of the political chaos around the issue.
Back to the myth of inevitability, the blog Firedoglake.com is one of few on the left not buying into Pelosi’s claims that she has or will imminently have the votes. That site still thinks the Dems are down about 7 votes.
Finally, almost nobody is reporting that while there have been some “no” votes switching to “yes”, there have also been “yes” votes switching to no. In fact, Fox’s Carl Cameron reported midday on Friday that 6 yes votes have switched to no, with only 4 no switching to yes. This is, as Connie says, “the big unreported story of the past few days.” And that’s just how Pelosi wants it.
The Democrats’ health care smoke and mirrors
by Rossputin | 8:39 am, March 19, 2010
Please have a look at my Human Events article about the literally incredible revenue and “savings” assumptions on which the Democrats are basing their erroneous claims that ObamaCare will cut budget deficits or in any other way be good for the nation:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36104
Betsy Markey Caves on Obama Care, Hope She’s Not Counting on Fed Job
by Ben | 3:47 pm, March 18, 2010
After losing votes for days, it looks like the Obama administration has made up ground arm-twisting votes for the government takeover of our health care system. The same day as the liberal Denver Post opined strongly against the legislation, the Post’s Michael Riley reports that Colorado Congresswoman Betsy Markey — formerly a No vote — [...]
Summary of Why Obama Care is Immoral and Won’t Work
by jccaldara | 1:14 pm, March 18, 2010
Our health care policy analyst Brian Schwartz, who writes the fantastic blog Patient Power Now, has compiled a list of reasons why Obama Care is immoral and will not work. Feel free to use any and all of these arguments on anyone you know who buys into all the regulations, taxation, mandates, and larger government [...]
Mitt Romney’s Achilles heel
by Rossputin | 5:34 am, March 18, 2010
As Obamacare hurtles toward possible (probable?) passage, national revulsion against the cost, intrusiveness, and impact of government-run health insurance poses a serious threat to the presidential ambitions of Mitt Romney.
Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, was responsible for implementing Commonwealth Care, the closest thing in the nation to Obamacare.
Massachusetts not only has the highest health insurance premiums in the nation, it also has the fastest rising premiums in the nation. And Boston has, by far, the longest wait in the nation to see a doctor.
The plan is costing the state billions of dollars and is more than $100MM overbudget this year because the vast majority of new insured in Massachusetts pay little or nothing for their insurance. They simply steal money from taxpayers to pay for it. How does that “health care is a right” feel now?
Now the state is already cutting services and blocking or delaying insurance coverage for many of its residents – especially its poorest – in order to stem the fiscal hemmoraging caused by their version of ObamaCare. No wonder Massachusetts voters believe by a large ratio that Commonwealth Care has damaged the quality of health care in the state.
Romney offers three main excuses for his support of one of the left’s major goals: First, that his plan is substantially different from ObamaCare. Second, that his successor, the soon-to-be-ex-governor Deval Patrick, implemented the plan differently from how Romney would have. Third, that these sorts of plans should be implemented at the state level and there is no appropriate federal role in health insurance.
Let’s discuss:
Romney’s claim that his plan is very different from Obama’s just doesn’t pass the giggle test. As the Boston Herald notes “(T)he basic elements of Obamacare are all there: an individual mandate that nearly everyone buy insurance; subsidized insurance based on income; a non-insurance “tax” and employer mandates. The Cato Institute calls it a mirror-image of Obamacare.” (The rather thorough gutting of Commonwealth Care by Cato’s Michael Cannon can be found HERE, including noting that the system costs over $20,000 per year to insure a family of four.)
No doubt that Patrick made the system worse. But if a doctor intentionally give a patient a bad disease, it’s hard to then place a lot of blame on a different doctor who doesn’t implement the best treatment. What’s killing the patient is the fact that he was intentionally sickened. As if to prove the point, the Massachusetts system is frequently called RomneyCare…not PatrickCare.
Where Romney has a grain of truth to his claims is his federalism argument. He is right that in the spirit of states as laboratories of democracy, almost all legislation (i.e. all that isn’t authorized by the Constitution) should be at the state level. But he has problems here, too.
First, someone who poisons a state can’t be called a hero for not poisoning the whole country. Second, the fact of a Republican supporting a “mirror-image of Obamacare” gives cover to liberals who want to push this disaster on the nation; they can say “look how this prominent pro-business Republican thought it was a good idea.” Third, in the vein of “if you’re explaining, you’re losing”, Romney’s argument is simply too subtle to be effective with a population of voters almost none of whom could explain the 9th and 10th Amendments to you.
In a sense, one could say that Romney did the nation a favor by passing Commonwealth Care so that only the people of his state would have to suffer while the rest of us could see socialized medicine’s consequences. Unfortunately, most of the nation (and certainly most Democrats in Congress) have not paid attention to the RomneyCare woes. Perhaps Americans aren’t smart enough to learn from the mistakes of others. After all, if we were, lessons of Canada and Britain would have prevented the implementation of RomneyCare to begin with, not to mention the oncoming freight train of ObamaCare.
All of this is already turning into a major headache for Mitt Romney. In the last few days, he’s been through some rough questioning by Fox News’ Chris Wallace (start around 1:10 mark in this video – also embedded below – in which Romney neatly makes every excuse), he’s been hit with an extremely critical WSJ opinion piece by the Galen Institute’s Grace-Marie Turner entitled “The Failure of RomneyCare“, and he’s seen his plan blasted by Massachusetts’ State Treasurer, Tim Cahill, as explained in James Antle’s “The Masscare Massacre“. It’s interesting to note that Cahill, a former Democrat, is running for Governor as an independent – by running against socialized medicine in the most liberal state in the union. The lesson of Scott Brown’s election isn’t lost on him even as it goes unnoticed or at least ignored by Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
In political betting, Romney’s chances of being the Republican nominee for President in 2012 have been fairly steady around 24-25% for several months, with Sarah Palin just barely behind, trading around 23%. Romney has a substantial advantage among the likely contenders because of his well-known expertise in business and his experience as an executive. But to the extent that the economy stabilizes and health care increases in prominence as an issue, the public may come to wonder whether a career of many smart decisions is more important than Romney’s apparent failure on the biggest policy question in a generation.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
by amyoliver | 9:42 pm, March 17, 2010
The Good: Late this afternoon Major Diggs Brown dropped out of 4th CD GOP race and endorsed Cory Gardner. Diggs is an officer and gentleman — and a statesman. Just a suggestion, but how about a Draft Diggs campaign to challenge Rep John Kefalas. Diggs for HD 52?
The Bad: Denver Post reports “Democratic moderates in [...]
Dennis Kucinich switches to yes on Obamacare
by Rossputin | 8:29 am, March 17, 2010
In some very bad news for America, we are learning that President Obama has successfully pushed socialist congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) to vote “Yes” on ObamaCare. Kucinich had said he was against the bill because it did not contain a “public option”.
The question is whether this will push other liberals who have been holding out to support the bill. It remains to be seen, but this certainly makes passage seem more likely.
The only upside is the likely bloodbath for Dems in November. Most “Blue Dog” and so-called “moderate” Democrats are in a very tough position right now because if they vote against ObamaCare and it fails, they will be savaged by unions, by Nancy Pelosi, and by the Obama Administration’s Chicago thug politics. And if they vote for it, their political careers are probably over in November. There are no good choices for a Democrat who doesn’t like ObamaCare.
This serves to remind us that elections have consequences and that people who voted for Obama because he offered a blank slate of hope and change based on no actual experience and a record of being a huge-government radical leftist “community organizer” deserve everything that happens to them. Unfortunately, the rest of us will suffer for their gullibility.
If this passes, the Republicans will make Obama’s life as difficult as possible for the next three years while waging a non-stop campaign to repeal the measure. Repeal will be impossible while Obama is president, but it would be amazing political theater if even one house of Congress voted for repeal in the next session. Then, if we get a Republican president in 2012 (or technically in 2013), repeal might actually be possible though the difficulty of overturning the whole thing after it’s been in place for a few years can’t be overstated. Indeed, that’s precisely what the Democrats are betting on.
In case you haven’t seen it: Paul Ryan’s dissection of Obamacare
by Rossputin | 5:12 am, March 17, 2010
Most readers of these pages will have paid attention to Paul Ryan’s stunning performance at Obama’s health care “summit” on February 25th. But as we near the end-game of the politics of passing or avoiding the destructive aims of the Socialists known as the leadership of the Democratic Party, Ryan’s words bear re-reading and sharing with others. For those of you who want to watch Ryan instead of reading his words, you can watch the video at the end of this transcript.
The following are remarks made by Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, about the cost of the House and Senate health-care bills at President Obama’s Blair House summit on health care, Feb. 25:
Look, we agree on the problem here. And the problem is health inflation is driving us off of a fiscal cliff.
Mr. President, you said health-care reform is budget reform. You’re right. We agree with that. Medicare, right now, has a $38 trillion unfunded liability. That’s $38 trillion in empty promises to my parents’ generation, our generation, our kids’ generation. Medicaid’s growing at 21 percent each year. It’s suffocating states’ budgets. It’s adding trillions in obligations that we have no means to pay for . . .
Now, you’re right to frame the debate on cost and health inflation. And in September, when you spoke to us in the well of the House, you basically said—and I totally agree with this—I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits either now or in the future.
Since the Congressional Budget Office can’t score your bill, because it doesn’t have sufficient detail, but it tracks very similar to the Senate bill, I want to unpack the Senate score a little bit.
And if you take a look at the CBO analysis—analysis from your chief actuary—I think it’s very revealing. This bill does not control costs. This bill does not reduce deficits. Instead, this bill adds a new health-care entitlement at a time when we have no idea how to pay for the entitlements we already have.
Now let me go through why I say that. The majority leader said the bill scores as reducing the deficit $131 billion over the next 10 years. First, a little bit about CBO. I work with them every single day—very good people, great professionals. They do their jobs well. But their job is to score what is placed in front of them. And what has been placed in front of them is a bill that is full of gimmicks and smoke-and-mirrors.
Now, what do I mean when I say that? Well, first off, the bill has 10 years of tax increases, about half a trillion dollars, with 10 years of Medicare cuts, about half a trillion dollars, to pay for six years of spending.
Now, what’s the true 10-year cost of this bill in 10 years? That’s $2.3 trillion.
[The Senate bill] does [a] couple of other things. It takes $52 billion in higher Social Security tax revenues and counts them as offsets. But that’s really reserved for Social Security. So either we’re double-counting them or we don’t intend on paying those Social Security benefits.
It takes $72 billion and claims money from the CLASS Act. That’s the long-term care insurance program. It takes the money from premiums that are designed for that benefit and instead counts them as offsets.
The Senate Budget Committee chairman [Kent Conrad] said that this is a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.
Now, when you take a look at the Medicare cuts, what this bill essentially does [is treat] Medicare like a piggy bank. It raids a half a trillion dollars out of Medicare, not to shore up Medicare solvency, but to spend on this new government program.
. . . [A]ccording to the chief actuary of Medicare . . . as much as 20 percent of Medicare’s providers will either go out of business or will have to stop seeing Medicare beneficiaries. Millions of seniors . . . who have chosen Medicare Advantage will lose the coverage that they now enjoy.
You can’t say that you’re using this money to either extend Medicare solvency and also offset the cost of this new program. That’s double counting.
And so when you take a look at all of this; when you strip out the double-counting and what I would call these gimmicks, the full 10-year cost of the bill has a $460 billion deficit. The second 10-year cost of this bill has a $1.4 trillion deficit.
. . . [P]robably the most cynical gimmick in this bill is something that we all probably agree on. We don’t think we should cut doctors [annual federal reimbursements] 21 percent next year. We’ve stopped those cuts from occurring every year for the last seven years.
We all call this, here in Washington, the doc fix. Well, the doc fix, according to your numbers, costs $371 billion. It was in the first iteration of all of these bills, but because it was a big price tag and it made the score look bad, made it look like a deficit . . . that provision was taken out, and it’s been going on in stand-alone legislation. But ignoring these costs does not remove them from the backs of taxpayers. Hiding spending does not reduce spending. And so when you take a look at all of this, it just doesn’t add up.
. . . I’ll finish with the cost curve. Are we bending the cost curve down or are we bending the cost curve up?
Well, if you look at your own chief actuary at Medicare, we’re bending it up. He’s claiming that we’re going up $222 billion, adding more to the unsustainable fiscal situation we have.
And so, when you take a look at this, it’s really deeper than the deficits or the budget gimmicks or the actuarial analysis. There really is a difference between us.
. . . [W]e’ve been talking about how much we agree on different issues, but there really is a difference between us. And it’s basically this. We don’t think the government should be in control of all of this. We want people to be in control. And that, at the end of the day, is the big difference.
Now, we’ve offered lots of ideas all last year, all this year. Because we agree the status quo is unsustainable. It’s got to get fixed.
It’s bankrupting families. It’s bankrupting our government. It’s hurting families with pre-existing conditions. We all want to fix this.
But we don’t think that this is the . . . the solution. And all of the analysis we get proves that point.
Now, I’ll just simply say this. . . . [W]e are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I’ve got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you’re not listening to them.
So what we simply want to do is start over, work on a clean-sheeted paper, move through these issues, step by step, and fix them, and bring down health-care costs and not raise them. And that’s basically the point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPxMZ1WdINs
Health Care Roundtable Videos: Jon Caldara
by jccaldara | 3:02 pm, March 16, 2010
I wrapped up the health care event with remarks on current free market activities in Colorado. I talked about my personal experience with our health care system and the Independence Institute’s Defend Colorado from Obama Care initiative.
Here is my talk in a three video YouTube playlist:
Health Care Roundtable Videos: Sen. Shawn Mitchell
by jccaldara | 2:55 pm, March 16, 2010
Colorado State Senator Shawn Mitchell gave us an update on what was going on in the Senate in terms of health care legislation, both good and bad (but mostly bad).
Here is Sen. Mitchell’s talk in two video YouTube playlist:
Health Care Roundtable Videos: Dr. Linda Gorman
by jccaldara | 2:51 pm, March 16, 2010
Dr. Linda Gorman, director of our Health Care Policy Center spoke on the true cost of Obama’s health care “reform.”
Here is Linda’s talk in a three video YouTube playlist:
Health Care Roundtable Videos: Dr. Jill Vecchio
by jccaldara | 2:45 pm, March 16, 2010
Dr. Jill Vecchio, radiology oncologist and founder of Docs4PatientCare spoke on emerging issues, particularly protecting the doctor/patient relationship.
Here is her talk in a two video YouTube playlist:
Health Care Roundtable Videos: Peter J. Fotos
by jccaldara | 2:41 pm, March 16, 2010
Director of Government Relations for the Heartland Institute Peter Fotos kicked off our Health Care Roundtable event last Wednesday, March 10th.
If you were unable to attend, or would just like to see his talk on consumer-driven health care again, here are the videos in a YouTube playlist:
Tuesday @ noon: Honk against health care takeover
by Brian T. Schwartz | 10:39 pm, March 15, 2010
From Americans for Prosperity:
1. Go to Honkno.com and sign up to take part in the ”Honk Against the Health Care Takeover” event at 12 Noon your time [Tuesday]. It’s simple and fun. You go to the website, punch in your zip code and up pops the closest congressional district offices to you. You can print [...]
Contact Congress to vote “No” on health care “reform”
by Brian T. Schwartz | 8:18 am, March 15, 2010
Big week for health care. The U.S House of Representatives is likely to vote this week in a bill that includes the Senate Health Bill, HR 3590. Paul Hsieh M.D has written an update on the recent political machinations with links to contact information & summary arguments. Remember, Markey and Degette from [...]
Letter to my state Representative about mandatory maternity coverage
by Rossputin | 8:41 am, March 13, 2010
Representative Levy,
I urge you to vote against the tremendously misguided bill (HB10-1021) which will require that insurance policies cover maternity and contraception. There is no reason that people who will never have kids or never have more kids (like me and my wife) should have to pay for insurance which covers very expensive health care that we’ll never need.
If people want coverage for maternity, they can choose a policy which covers it…as we did before we had children.
This bill will increase the health insurance cost for people like me for absolutely no reason other than “feel-good” nannyism which will inevitably have negative unintended consequences. Indeed, the most likely effect of this bill will be to increase the number of uninsured in Colorado as people are priced out of coverage.
A quote from a study about the likely effects of a maternity mandate in California:
In the case of maternity services, we estimated a 13 percent premium increase on average among the 44,000 individuals (male and female) ages 25–39 who currently purchase individual policies, because premiums are typically age related, but do not differ by gender. Based on Lewin’s estimated elasticity of demand for insurance, we predicted that a 13 percent increase in premiums among this age 25-39 group would produce a 3.4 percent increase in the uninsured – about 1,900 additional uninsured Californians, of whom about 12 percent would be eligible for Medi-Cal.
How would you feel if government forced car insurance companies to cover you for driving a Ferrari even though you knew you were never going to drive one, and that change costing you a couple thousand dollars a year?
This is truly the Nanny State at its most disgustingly intrusive. I realize you’re generally on-board with Nanny State policies, but I hope you will find a way to oppose this costly and unnecessary legislation.
Ross Kaminsky
Big Day Tomorrow… Come Out and Join Us!
by jccaldara | 2:31 pm, March 9, 2010
Tomorrow is a big day in the land of liberty. We’ve got two events going on, back to back.
The first is Taxpayer Day at the Capitol. The Independence Institute is proud to join forces with Americans for Prosperity and other liberty minded organizations including The 9-12 Project Colorado Coalition, The Gadsen [...]
Deroy Murdock: Obamacare Declares War On Growth Capital
by Rossputin | 6:29 am, March 9, 2010
In his article for Human Events entitled “Obamacare Declares War On Growth Capital“, the always excellent Deroy Murdock explains an aspect of Obamacare which needs to be explained more loudly and more frequently to anybody who hopes to start a business – or work for one, namely the punishing tax increases Obama hopes to use to fund his government takeover of medicine.
While the focus on Obamacare’s likely destructive impact on the quality of American health care and its metaphysical certainty to increase health care price inflation is appropriate and reasonable, more must be made on the other costs to Americans of the plan.
Murdock’s article is excellent intellectual ammunition for anyone who wants to understand this and help others to understand it.
Two Reasons Why We Could Use More Shawn Mitchells in the State Legislature
by Ben | 10:36 am, March 6, 2010
Two days, two stories, two reasons why I believe the Colorado General Assembly needs more legislators like Senator Shawn Mitchell fighting for us. First, Colorado Senate News reports a recent floor debate in which Mitchell assumes his usual role as bold and articulate spokesman for common sense and liberty, leading the vote against a heavy-handed, [...]
Health bill: Markey & DeGette on fence, tell them to vote “No.”
by Brian T. Schwartz | 9:59 pm, March 5, 2010
Do you live in either Betsy Markey’s district (4th, map) or Diana DeGette’s district (1st, map)? If so, contact them (see end of post) and tell them to vote “no” on the Senate health “reform” bill or any scaled down version of it. This reform is terrible from both moral and economic grounds (yes, they [...]
Health Care Knights of the Roundtable
by jccaldara | 1:01 pm, March 5, 2010
On Wednesday, March 10th, the Independence Institute is co-hosting a health care policy roundtable with Chicago’s Heartland Institute. We would love to have you come out and take part in our discussion. To RSVP online click here, or give us a ring at 303.279.6536.
The party starts at 2pm at the Denver Public Library [...]
Contact your Congressmen: no on health “reform” & reconciliation
by Brian T. Schwartz | 9:01 pm, March 4, 2010
Tim Phillips at Americans for Prosperity summarizes the situation and has links to quick ways to contact your Senator and Representatives. An excerpt:
President Obama finally made it official yesterday: he wants Congress to ignore Senate rules – and the American people – and use a parliamentary trick called “reconciliation” to pass his health [...]
The Audacity to Ignore Results
by jccaldara | 2:19 pm, March 2, 2010
Obama likes to believe that he’s the audacious type. And what could be more audacious than facing quantifiable clear results in one state and ignoring them completely? Actually, ignoring might be an understatement. It’s not just ignoring if you deliberately act in a way exactly opposite of what the facts are telling you. [...]
Thanks to Obama Care, Nancy Pelosi is Generous with Other Dems’ Careers
by Ben | 12:26 am, March 1, 2010
You knew Democrats are very comfortable with the idea of appearing generous by spending other people’s hard-earned money. But you may not have known just how generous at least one liberal Democrat leader in Washington, D.C., is with the political careers of her minions, er, fellow members of her Congressional caucus:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged [...]
Differing views on who “won” the health-care summit
by Rossputin | 9:45 am, February 26, 2010
The editors at Americans for Limited Government argue that Republicans basically won yesterday’s confrontation with Barack Obama:
http://blog.getliberty.org/default.asp?Display=2064
And over at the American Spectator, Quin Hillyer suggests that the very existence of an ongoing debate and the fact that Americans might let their guards down just through becoming tired of hearing the arguments means that Obama is winning:
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/02/26/summit-strategems/
What do you think???
Health Care Summit Does Nothing for Vulnerable Congressman John Salazar
by Ben | 9:02 am, February 26, 2010
Say what you will about yesterday’s Health Care Summit. Obama and the Democrat leadership didn’t make the case for expanded government control of medicine and didn’t move the ball politically in any way to help ram through the Obama Care monstrosity.
In Colorado, that has to be especially unsettling for 3rd District Congressman John Salazar. Dick [...]
Thank you John Kefalas!
by amyoliver | 5:17 pm, February 25, 2010
I want to send a thank you card to State Rep John Kefalas (D-Fort Collins).
In a press release bragging about the House Health and Human Services Committee passing his “Transparency Trojan Horse” bill, a.k.a. HB 1330 The Health Care Cost Transparency Act, Kefalas said, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” In other words, Kefalas [...]
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