So says the CBO in an updated analysis. $540 Billion over 10 years.
And – wait for it – repealing the bill would also eliminate $770 billion in taxes. It’s the tax hikes in the health care law (along with the Medicare cuts) which accounts for the $230 billion in deficit reduction.
Heh heh. Yeah. Work it, Congress. 236-181.
Posted in Abortion, Constitution, Corruption, Death Panels, Deficit, Economy, Ethics, Life, Rights, Rule of Law, Sovereignty, Taxes
Tagged Cardin, Control, Fraud, Healthcare, Incompetence, Marxism, Mikulski, Spending, Unconstitutional
House Reps want to vote repeal of Obamacare – Senate Dems threaten the House Reps not to bother.
Hhhmm. I thought the House is supposed to initiate the funding, eh? So why don’t the House Reps force the issue as to why the Senate initiated that during the Lame Duck session and get this in front of SCOTUS pronto?
Or, isn’t that Constitutional enough for you?
Posted in Constitution, Corruption, Ethics, History, Rule of Law
Tagged Healthcare, House of Rep., Spending, U.S. Senate, Unconstitutional
Which explains a lot and why he cannot seem to focus.
(Found this in a comment in a post on Don Surbers blog. Unfortunately, can’t determine the original commenter for proper attribution.)
Posted in Abortion, Air Travel, Arms, Article 4 Section 4, Constitution, Corruption, Death Panels, Deficit, Economy, Education, Energy, Environmental, Ethics, Freedom OF Religion, Freedom of Speech, Global Warming, Illegal Aliens, National Defense, National Pride, National Security, Rights, Rule of Law, Social Security, Sovereignty, Taxes, Terrorism, Tort Reform, Voting
Tagged anti-business, Control, Enforcement, Fraud, Healthcare, Incompetence, Marxism, Spending, Unconstitutional, Unemployment
For the gift of life to a family member. It may be a canine, but I don’t care. I have a dog, and she has me right where she wants me.
Happy New Year.
If you travel by air, a lot or a little, you should be sure to ask TSA to change their gloves before touching you.
Here’s an interesting story about someone who set off an alarm, was told by her husband to request TSA to change their gloves – and was let on through without being patted down.
If you didn’t read that story, ask yourself why that happened.
Posted in Air Travel, Environmental, Ethics
Tagged Control, Enforcement, Fraud, Healthcare, Incompetence
Obama Returns to End-of-Life Plan That Caused Stir
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: December 25, 2010
WASHINGTON — When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation, starting Jan. 1.
More.
So “death panels” becomes “die soon options”? How magnanimous of our elected officials.
Merry Christmas, kids. The adults idiots have spoken.
/sarcasm off
Posted in Abortion, Constitution, Corruption, Death Panels, Deficit, Economy, Ethics, Rights, Rule of Law, Sovereignty, Taxes
Tagged Control, Fraud, Healthcare, Incompetence, Marxism, Spending, Unconstitutional
Similar to DHS’ Jammit Napolitano?
At least, that’s what Jeffery H. Anderson, at the Weekly Standard, is pointing out. And by how that reads, I’d venture to say this monstrosity of a bill (2,700+ pages) had better not see the light of day.
Here’s the first paragraph of Mr. Anderson’s opinion article, go read the whole thing:
Not satisfied with the colossal amounts of power that she would acquire under Obamacare if it isn’t repealed, Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Kathleen Sebelius has issued a 136-page “rule” that will now give her (and her subordinates) largely unchecked power to pass judgment on the prices of health insurance throughout the United States. Notwithstanding the fact that 43 states already regulate and approve health insurance premiums, Sebelius claims that we need an additional, more centralized, protection against insurers’ unseemly ‘profit motive.’ But a far greater threat to the future of American republicanism is posed by the impulse that animates Sebelius and the bulk of the Obama administration: the power motive.
UPDATE: Even at the state level, even present care can be outright horrendous as well as punitive. Here’s a case where a patient in a government run mental hospital almost died due to neglect, wins a case against the hospital only to be billed for care to the tune of $1.7M. The judge decided the patient wasn’t to be the one to win that argument. Ain’t life grand?
Posted in Abortion, Constitution, Corruption, Death Panels, Deficit, Economy, Ethics, Rights, Rule of Law, Sovereignty, Taxes
Tagged anti-business, Control, Fraud, Freedom, Healthcare, Incompetence, Marxism, Spending, Unconstitutional
Posted in Constitution, Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Ethics, Rule of Law
Tagged Freedom, Healthcare, Tea Party, U.S. Senate
By having the U.S. Senate pass a funding bill (yesterday’s tax package that funds Obamacare) first THEN sending it to the House for their look see and vote.
What? They think we won’t notice? We don’t know our own Constitution?
We know it better than they do!
Oh, and here’s the voter tallies.
Posted in Constitution, Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Ethics, History, Rule of Law, Taxes, Voting
Tagged Fraud, Healthcare, Spending, U.S. Senate, Unconstitutional
Can you believe it’s – now?
Senate GOP leaders take heat over millions of dollars in earmarks
Thune and Cornyn faced a barrage of hostile questions about their earmarks by reporters from NPR, ABC News and NBC News.
“Going through this bill, there is earmark after earmark from the both of you, millions of dollars in earmarks from the two of you and from other senators,” ABC’s Jonathan Karl told Cornyn and Thune. “How do you have any credibility on this? Why do you have earmarks?”
And slowing the vote by reading the entire START treaty (heh):
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on Wednesday blasted Republican opposition to the New START nuclear arms treaty, calling it a “new low in putting political stunts ahead of our national security.”
Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) call to read the entire treaty on the Senate floor in an effort to delay the ratification was described by Gibbs as “the height of hypocrisy.”
“While some express concern that the Senate doesn’t have time to debate the treaty, Sen. DeMint wants to waste 12 hours to read the text of a treaty that has been available to every member of the Senate and the public for more than eight months,” Gibbs said.
UPDATE: Sen. Jim DeMint backs down from reading the START Treaty document ….. man up, Jim.
Posted in Arms, Article 4 Section 4, Constitution, Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Ethics, Rule of Law, Taxes, Voting
Tagged anti-business, controversy, Fraud, Healthcare, Incompetence, Marxism, Nuclear, Remember, Spending, U.S. Senate, Unconstitutional, Unemployment
Daniel McAndrew 