Massachusetts Treasurer: Fiscal Catastrophe Ahead If U.S. Passes Health Care Overhaul
Via heritage.org Quick Hits: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told leftist bloggers yesterday that the Senate health bill does contain a public option (18 million more Americans placed on Medicaid) and said of passing the Senate bill: “Once we kick through this door, there’ll be more legislation to follow.”
APPEASEMENT Watch! Obama Orders Army NOT To Fly U.S. Flag in Haiti! Color me disgusted!
Via The WSJ - Slaughter House Rules = a political wonderland, where the rules are whatever Democrats say they are!
We have entered a political wonderland, where the rules are whatever Democrats say they are. Mrs. Pelosi and the White House are resorting to these abuses because their bill is so unpopular that a majority even of their own party doesn't want to vote for it. Fence-sitting Members are being threatened with primary challengers, a withdrawal of union support and of course ostracism. Michigan's Bart Stupak is being pounded nightly by MSNBC for the high crime of refusing to vote for a bill that he believes will subsidize insurance for abortions.
Democrats are, literally, consuming their own majority for the sake of imposing new taxes, regulations and entitlements that the public has roundly rejected but that they believe will be the crowning achievement of the welfare state. They are also leaving behind a procedural bloody trail that will fuel public fury and make such a vast change of law seem illegitimate to millions of Americans.
The concoction has become so toxic that even Mrs. Pelosi isn't bothering to defend the merits anymore, saying instead last week that "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." Or rather, "deeming" to have passed it. Read more...
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