Of the health care bill (HR 3590), Peter Suderman writes:
Just days after President Obama first took office, Peter Orszag, in his new role as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ... declared that “the single most important thing we can do to improve the long-term fiscal health ...
Michael Tanner reviews a few of Barack Obama's promises about the health control legislation (HR 3590) in a New York Post article:
"The bill doesn't come close to giving "everybody" access to coverage."
"Even further from reality is the president's continued insistence that the new law is 'reducing costs.'"
"Anyone who thinks that ...
Boston Globe Columnist Jeff Jacoby points out an what President Obama said in a 2009 address:
I don’t believe that government can or should run health care.
Yet, at a 2008 town hall meeting in New Mexico, Senator Obama said:
If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ...
[Post updated in response to Max's comment. Thanks!]
The San Francisco Examiner reports:
Remember when Obama and congressional Democrats made a big show of dropping the public option government insurance program that was supposedly going to give private insurers competition and drive rates down? The truth is the public ...
The New York Post reports:
Good old Joe Biden, introducing Barack Obama at the health-care bill-signing lollapalooza in Washington yesterday, leaned over and whispered into the presidential ear (and a nearby open mike): "This is a big f---ing deal."
Sure was -- though not personally to Veep Potty-Mouth, ...
First, president Obama on reconciliation in 2005. Just replace "TANF program" with "health care", "health care policy", "health insurance regulations," etc:
The TANF program affects millions of American children and families and deserves a full and fair debate. Under the rules, the reconciliation process does not permit that debate. ...
With Democrats looking at budget reconciliation to bypass a Senate filibuster and pass their health care "reform" bills, it's worth noting what leading Democrat politicians said a few years ago about using procedural rules to avoid a filibuster:
I think NakedEmporerNews originally uploaded this. As Ross Kaminsky points out, Human Events ...
Polis calls for Senate to add public option to health care bill, reports the Daily Camera (Boulder). As Paul Hsieh, MD has noted:
In the Dec. 10 [2008] Wall Street Journal, Polis wrote: "Our United States Congress... now finds itself poring over 'business plans' submitted this week by Ford, GM and ...
From Americans for Prosperity:
With back-room dealing and political payoffs at a fever pitch on the attempted Washington, D.C. health care takeover, we must remind President Obama of his promises to the American people to bring genuine "transparency" to this whole sordid process.
So, I'm asking you to sign a petition to President ...
That's what I will do in bringing all parties together, not negotiating behind closed doors, but bringing all parties together, and broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are ... - Barack Obama, Jan. 31 2008
From the AP:
House and Senate Democrats ...
