Leading the most unpopular congress in history, Nancy Pelosi takes the only logical step: Having a custom handbag designed for her by German royalty.
After all, nothing says “I care about the little people” like a Diane von Furstenberg handbag…
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Pelosi: Taking the Country to Hell in a Designer Handbasket
Friday, July 23rd, 2010The Battle Was Lost, The War Goes On
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010So Stupak and his block caved, and ObamaCare is now the law of the land, at least until the lawsuits. (I like to think there’s a good chance the individual mandate will be overturned on 10th Amendment grounds. Then again, that supposes there’s a federal court that actually knows what the 10th Amendment says…)
Lessons? When push comes to shove, every Democrat is a liberal Democrat, and pro-lifers should know that every time they pull a level with a D next to the name, they’re voting for Nancy Pelosi, no matter what promises that candidate is willing to give on the campaign trail.
The only way to remedy this is for Republicans to campaign vigorously on repealing it, and defeat enough House Democrats in November.
More about this subject anon, but I hope to take a break from the ObamaCare coverage for a while. Look for some coverage of the Texas House District 52 race Real Soon Now.
Late ObamaCare Update: Heath Shuler A No, And So Is Harry Teague
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Rep. Heath Shuler (NC 11) finally makes a quarterback sneak into the “No on Obamacare” Endzone.
Rep. Harry Teague (NM 02) is also voting no. Investor’s Business Daily says this leaves Pelosi with zero margin; she has to run the table on every remaining undecided, or else break up the Stupak group, to pass the bill.
Of course, this is Washington. Someone may be counting out stacks of unmarked bills to flip a No vote even as we speak. But baring that, the road ahead is still very tough for Pelosi.
The fat lady isn’t quite singing just yet. But she’s starting to warm up.
Quick and Dirty ObamaCare Update Friday 3/19
Friday, March 19th, 2010Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR 04) switching from Yes to No?
Everyone know the preliminary CBO score that has ObamaCare reducing the deficit is pure fiction:
The Democrats know — and admit internally — that their proposed health-care overhaul would increase the deficit by twelve figures ($100,000,000,000) in 2017–2019. But they are firmly committed to hiding this fact from the American people.
Jeffrey Anderson at NRO also sees the count as 203 Yes, 214 No.
Rep. John Boccieri decides to commit political suicide by backing Pelosi against his constituents.
Rep. John Garamendi (CA 10) isn’t just going to vote for ObamaCare, his aides are going to call the police on constituents who ask him to vote otherwise.
Zombie ObamaCare Still Lurching About Capitol Hill, Seeking Brains Votes
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
You would have thought that Scott Brown’s election would have caused even the dimmest bulbs among Congressional Democrats to give up on showing ObamaCare down the throat of a nation violently opposed to it.
Like some sort of ghastly, undead thing, ObamaCare has risen from the grave yet again, shambling mindlessly along the halls of congress, seeking trillions of taxpayer dollars and ever-more-elusive votes. In a way, this is the best possible result for Republicans. Instead of throwing ObamaCare to the hordes of rake-carrying peasants howling for their blood in November, Democrats seem determined to clasp the deformed beast to their bosoms in order to drag it over the finish line, even at the cost of their own (political) life. Indeed, they’re still scurrying around trying to protect their various backroom deals.
If you wanted to design the perfect storm for Republicans to retake control of the House and Senate this fall, you’d have them keep working on dragging ObamaCare across the finish line until right before the November election, when voters can do nationwide what they’ve already done in Massachusetts. Every day they keep trying to breathe life into the hdieous, undead thing brings us a step closer to that goal.
Spending Lots of Taxpayer Money to Accomplish Nothing
Monday, December 21st, 2009If there’s a theme for the Obama years, and for the Pelosi/Reid legislation Obama has embraced, it’s that of spending tremendous amounts of taxpayer dollars to accomplish almost nothing. Consider:
- The stimulus spent $787 billion dollars of taxpayer money to pretend to create fake jobs in non-existent congressional districts.
- If cap-and-trade ever makes it out of congress, it will impose hundred of billions of dollars in taxes to (maybe) lower temperatures by 0.1°C by 2100. And given that Anthropogenic Global Warming increasingly appears to be a creation of scientific fraud, probably not even that.
- And then there’s ObamaCare. It’s extraordinarily unpopular. How much will it cost? One estimate was $6 trillion, but that was weeks and untold bill revisions ago. No one knows, because no one has had the time to read all of the 2,100 page bill Harry Reid has cobbled together. Those on the right who have read significant potions believe it amounts to the government takeover of health care. And several notable doyens of the left, including Moveon.org, Howard Dean, and Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas are saying that the bill is a massive giveaway to insurance companies. Sadly, they’re both probably right. Either way, the taxpayer is still the loser.
What all three have in common?
- All are hugely expensive. How expensive no one knows, but given the vast increase we’ve seen in the cost of Social Security, Medicare, etc., my guess would be tens of trillions of dollars over the next 30 years.
- All are exteremly unpopular among the taxpayers who are being asked to foot the bill.
- All accomplish almost nothing except increase the size of the federal government and channeling money to Obama allies like ACORN and SEIU.
The way things are going, the slaughter of Democratic incumbents in the 2010 election could make 1994 look like a picnic by comparison…
Update:
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<Troy McClure>Hi, I’m Lawrence Person! You may remember me from such Flamewars as “ObamaCare is all about choice, or rather, taking choices away from American citizens and giving them to government bureaucrats” and “From Iran to Honduras, millions of people around the world long for freedom and democracy. And wherever those seeking freedom can be found, Obama will be there…grinding his bootheel into their face”.</Troy McClure>
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Nancy Pelosi TechnoChicken Remix
Sunday, December 20th, 2009In a way however, this strange juxtaposition is deeply unfair, and even cruel. The chicken is a noble (if dimwitted) creature that provides desperately needed sustenance to a hungry world. It is an insult to conflate it with such a corrupt, evil and debased entity as Nancy Pelosi…
ObamaCare Update 11/6/09
Friday, November 6th, 2009Another roundup on ObamaCare, with a focus on Pelosi’s hellbound determination to bring it up for a vote on Saturday:
- When even lefty’s like Clinton Secretary of Labor Robert Reich says your focus on ObamaCare is misguided and you should work on creating jobs instead, you may have a problem.
- Ditto when Catholics in favor of health care reform are angry because you’re giving them the high hat.
- One of Reagan’s great triumphs was indexing income taxes for inflation. The ObamaCare bill Pelosi is pushing seeks to undo that.
- One of the obvious examples of low-hanging fruit for reducing health care costs is medical malpractice reform. Of course, since the trial lawyer lobby is one of the largest sources of Democratic campaign contributions, you know that’s never going to be considered for ObamaCare.
(Hat tips to the indefatigable Instapundit and NRO’s Condition Critical blog on ObamaCare.)