Yeah! Way to keep the Dems’ feet to the fire on this. They have to take the heat for a “Yes” vote on a bill that most people hate. They will be held accountable in November and beyond. House leaders plan separate health vote, rejecting ‘deem and pass’ |
House leaders have decided to take a separate vote on the Senate health-care bill, rejecting an earlier, much-criticized strategy that would have permitted them to “deem” the unpopular measure passed without an explicit vote.
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Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said Saturday that the House would take three votes Sunday: first, on a resolution that will set the terms of debate; second, on a package of amendments to the Senate bill that have been demanded by House members; and third, on the Senate bill itself.
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Van Hollen said Democrats still maintain that deeming the Senate bill passed would have been appropriate and perfectly legal. But, he said, “there was no reason to allow the misinformation campaign to continue. Despite the fact that Republicans used it, we wanted to make the process absolutely clear.”
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Think I’ll crank up some Hendrix today and celebrate his too-short life. | Week Ending March 14, 2010: Hendrix Tops Elvis |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Valleys Of Neptune enters The Billboard 200 at #4, putting the rock legend back in the top five nearly 40 years after he died at the tragically young age of 27. |
| Elvis Presley is in second place. His Elvis: 2nd To None debuted at #3 in October 2003, a little more than 26 years after his death. |
| Hendrix is the second music legend to make the top five posthumously in the past two weeks. Johnny Cash bowed at #3 two weeks ago with American VI: Ain’t No Grave. But Cash died less than seven years ago.Read more at new.music.yahoo.com |
Second time he’s postponing this Asia trip. He wants to be sure he bankrupts the U.S. first so he can get a warm welcome from our new rulers in China. Obama postpones overseas trip to focus on health-care debate |
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama has called the president of Indonesia and will soon call the prime minister of Australia to express his regrets. He said the trip will be postponed until June.
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Obama had already postponed the trip once. He was originally scheduled to leave for Asia on Thursday but pushed back the departure until Sunday so that he could help rally Democrats to vote for the health-care overhaul.
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Democrats show their true colors in push for health reform |
The most visible Democratic domestic priority of the past 40 years must be smuggled into law, lest too many Americans notice. Politicians claiming the idealism of saints have adopted the tactics of burglars. Victory, if it comes, will seem less like a parade than a heist.
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| America, despite liberal fear-mongering, has not become “Glenn Beckistan.” But it is not yet Europe. |
| The main source of irresponsibility is that the revenue-gaining measures in the health bill — particularly Medicare cuts and taxing “Cadillac” health plans — would be used to create a new entitlement instead of repairing an existing one. |
| The passage of this legislation would decisively confirm an image of the Democratic Party that many have worked to change: partial to big government, pro-abortion and fiscally reckless.Read more at www.washingtonpost.com |
How nice to see humility and charity in the NFL. All of the scandal, greed, and inhumanity of NFL players, coaches and owners has almost turned me off of the NFL completely. Then, you have a class act like Fujita. I hope that others players take his lead and that the people on the receiving end of his charity are as blessed by his gift as he is in the giving of it. “The people of this city and region have been so good to me and my family that we just felt strongly about doing something to protect the city we have come to love so much, ” Fujita said. “And helping on the coastal issue has been on the back of my mind since I first got here.”
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| Take note, other free agents. That’s how you leave a city. |
Once again, Krauthammer, the smartest conservative journalist in the mainstream media (out of all 4 of them), exposes the crux of the health care conundrum.
Allow me to demystify. Imagine a bill granting every American a free federally delivered ice cream every Sunday morning. Provision 2: steak on Monday, also home delivered. Provision 3: a dozen red roses every Tuesday. You get the idea. Would each individual provision be popular in the polls? Of course.
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| suppose these provisions were bundled into a bill that also spelled out how the goodies are to be paid for and managed — say, half a trillion dollars in new taxes, half a trillion in Medicare cuts (cuts not to keep Medicare solvent but to pay for the ice cream, steak and flowers), 118 new boards and commissions to administer the bounty-giving, and government regulation dictating, for example, how your steak is to be cooked. |
| The disagreeable absence of a free lunch. |
Waterloo anyone? This is from one of Obama’s former cheerleaders at the WSJ. What a Disaster Looks Like
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ObamaCare will have been a colossal waste of time—if we’re lucky. |
| his essential mistake was to choose health-care expansion over health-care reform. |
New presidents should never, ever, court any problem that isn’t already banging at the door. They should never summon trouble. Mr. Obama did, boldly, perhaps even madly. And this is perhaps the oddest thing about No Drama Obama: In his first year as president he created unneeded political drama, and wound up seen by many Americans not as the hero but the villain. |
| It can’t always be mourning in America. We need some inspiration from the top, need someone who can speak with authority of what is working and can be made to work, of what is good and cause for pride. |
| a growing credibility gap |
| “bring down the cost of health care for millions,” it is “fully paid for,” it will lower the long term deficit by a trillion dollars. |
| Does anyone believe this? |
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What awesome creatures! This zoo is added to my list of places to see before i die. Despite the obvious dangers, I would love this job. Tigers chase zoo keepers into pool |
“The tigers walk and run around the pool area, showing love and affection
for their keepers by rubbing up against them just like a house cat rubs
against their owner.
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