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New Year, Same Old MSDNC
After a nice Vacation from Keith, Chris, and the rest of the Muppets on MSDNC, I tried to watch again last night. Mistake. Matthews was busy talking about how the vote to Repeal ObamaCare scheduled by the Republicans is a political stunt because it has no chance in the Senate nor does the House GOP have the votes to override a presidential Veto of the bill. When Nancy Pelosi was engaged in similar stunts, she was somehow not engaging in political theater. To Repeal the job-killing Health Care la...

Ending ObamaCare
Posted by Tait Trussell on Jan 5th, 2011 and filed under FrontPage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. The knives—and scalpels—are out to cut ObamaCare to ribbons or administer beneficial Plastic Surgery. Here are developments that can accomplish a coup d’etat or probably bring more rational Health Care to America. Even with 87 new Republicans joining the new House of Re...

Meet the Freshmen
In case you missed it last night, here’s video of Sean Hannity and Frank Luntz’s focus group with freshmen Republicans in the US House of Representatives. If this group sticks to their principles I believe there’s reason for hope. I wish them luck. Update: Speaker John Boehner has advised that the opening session of the 112th Congress will be streamed live. House Republicans will live stream the opening session of the 112th Congress - including the swearing-in ceremony ...

Boehner-era begins, Opening day for new House majority
Goodbye Pelosi, hello Boehner. The Republicans will officially take control of the House on Wednesday, ending two years of Democratic dominance and ushering a new era as 87 new Republican House members are sworn in. Democrat Nancy Pelosi will hand over her speaker of the House gavel to GOP Rep. John Boehner. Republican leaders in the House say they plan to undo as much of the President's agenda as possible before President Obama delivers his annual State of the Union address later this month. ...

Liberals Plan To Fight
Let us not mince words. Republicans are prepared to Repeal ObamaCare. Meanwhile liberals are determined to fight to your death to preserve their right to control American Citizens and the decisions they make with regards to Health Care. Copyright © … Continue reading →...

GOP Vows to Get the Economy Moving
When House Republican Leader John Boehner takes the speaker's gavel this afternoon, he will make a promise to listen to the American People. "The American people have humbled us," Boehner will say today, according to his prepared remarks. "They have reminded us that everything here is on loan from them... What they want is a government that is honest, accountable and responsive to their needs." Boehner will acknowledge today the grim realities that Unemployment remains close to 10 percent, heal...

Meet the new GOP, same as the old GOP
MEET THE NEW GOP, SAME AS THE OLD GOP.... Dana Milbank has a helpful summary today, emphasizing the speed with which the new House Republican majority has forgotten all of the principles they said were important when the GOP was in the minority. For two years, [House Majority Leader Eric] Cantor and his colleagues campaigned against high Deficits. Now, in the new majority's first major act, they plan to vote to increase the deficit by $143 billion as part of a Repeal of health-care reform. Fo...

New Congress and the Spending Thicket
The 112th Congress, convening today, promises to be one of the most politically charged sessions in recent memory--and one in which Government Spending will dominate the agenda. Barring a sudden crisis, Foreign Policy will be an afterthought amid an intensifying debate over the Debt and the Deficit. Both parties have taken one potentially explosive National Security issue--cuts in defense spending--off the table. Obama is unlikely to demand a vote on any Controversial treaties after his bruisi...

Abortion Advocates Bemoan Repeal Vote, Abortion De-Funding
The head one of the leading Abortion Advocacy Groups is already complaining about House Republicans and the vote they scheduled for next week to overturn abortion-funding ObamaCare. NARAL president Nancy Keenan doesn’t like that effort and is upset that GOP lawmakers will follow that vote with one on Legislation to ensure the ObamaCare law does not allow for any funding of abortions with Taxpayer money. “In addition to next week’s vote to Repeal the health-reform law, Boehner a...

The job killing health care bill
Image via Wikipedia IBD: The Democrats' overhaul was supposed to increase access to Health Care. Yet construction on 45 Hospitals has been shut down due to the Legislation. This is a step back, not ahead. As part of their effort to eventually end all private health care, the Democrats placed a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that in essence shuts down construction of new physician-owned Hospitals and blocks existing ones from expanding. At issue is Section 6001. It ...

New House Leadership Attacks Womens Health in Move to Repeal Health Law
01.05.11 - (Press Release) The incoming leadership for the House of Representatives is calling on committees to submit measures that would replace provisions within the healthcare law. A proposed resolution specifically calls for proposals that would prohibit Federal Funding for Abortion . Lawmakers will vote on the measure next week along with the vote to Repeal the healthcare law. Nancy Northup , president of the Center for Reproductive Rights said this in response: “Only four days into th...

Partisan lines take center stage as Congress convenes
Since late in the 2010 campaign, Speaker-designate John A. Boehner has been promising that if Republicans took control of the House of Representatives he would shake up the way the chamber works. On Wednesday he will tell his colleagues that the house makeover, GOP-style, is beginning. "We will dispense with the conventional wisdom that bigger bills are always better; that fast legislating is good legislating; that allowing additional amendments and open debate makes the legislative process 'les...

Republicans Push Obama, Dems on Spending Cuts
Republicans became the majority party in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, and they said they're ready to do what voters screamed for on Election Day -- and that's to stop the spending. This effort may lead to some brutal battles between President Barack Obama, Democrats on Capitol Hill and the newly-empowered Republicans. Politicians always make promises to cut spending, but the new Republican majority, backed by Tea Party power, may have the fervor and numbers to really do it....

States grapple with health care (Politico)
As House Republicans revive debates of the past with the planned Repeal vote on Health Care reform, their state-level counterparts are quietly pushing into health reform’s future. All states — including those led by Republican governors who campaigned against reform — have implemented at least some of the new law’s provisions. And every state has now received Federal Funding from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The action in the states is a sharp contra...

When you do it, you're uncivil; when I do it, it's fine
Even before the speaker's gavel is passed at noon from Nancy Pelosi to John Boehner, it would appear that the Republicans are determined to form just as arrogant and overreaching a majority as the one they defeated. Slate's John Dickerson questioned Cantor about this conundrum at a session the incoming Majority Leader had with reporters in his new offices Tuesday afternoon. Recalling that Obama settled a 2009 argument with Cantor by reminding the lawmaker that "we won" the ...

Local Congressman Boehner becomes speaker of the House today
WASHINGTON – Local congressman John Boehner, who today will become just the third Ohio lawmaker to be speaker of the U.S. House, will tell House members that Americans in November “voted to end business as usual and today we begin carrying out those instructions.’’ In a Speech delivered to the House moments after being sworn in, the West Chester Township Republican will press the new Republican majority to aggressively reduce federal spending at a time when the government...

NY Times: Reading U.S. Constitution an Empty, Pompous, Self-Righteous Act
I feel the same way about reading the New York Times. (NY Times)- A theatrical production of unusual pomposity will open on Wednesday when Republicans assume control of the House for the 112th Congress. A rule will be passed requiring that every bill cite its basis in the Constitution. A bill will be introduced to Repeal the Health Care law. On Thursday, the Constitution will be read aloud in the House chamber. And in one particularly self-important flourish, the new speaker, John Boehner, arran...

Taking the House, GOP primes for fight with Obama
WASHINGTON—Taking control of the House at last, Republicans are rushing straight into a political fight with President Barack Obama over Health Care and changes in Washington they say voters demanded in the Midterm Elections. "It's new energy," incoming House Speaker John Boehner told reporters on the eve of his swearing-in. The oath-taking Wednesday ends two years of Democratic dominance in the capital and ushers in a divided government in the run-up to the 2012 congressional and preside...

Reference to End-of-Life Planning Dropped in New Medicare Rule
The Obama Administration reversed course and dropped a specific reference to end-of-life planning in a new Medicare rule explaining what is covered in annual check-ups. The rule change, removing references to "advance care planning," does not affect a Medicare recipient's "ability to have those voluntary conversations with their doctors" about end-of-life decisions, an administration official told the New York Times. Reporter Robert Pear said it was clear "political concerns" accounted for the r...

Bachmann to introduce Dodd-Frank repeal bill
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) will introduce Legislation Wednesday that would Repeal the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law. Bachmann informed her House Republican colleagues of her plan in a letter sent Tuesday seeking co-sponsors. "Please join me in repealing the misguided Legislation known as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act," she wrote. "My Repeal Legislation ... is a great start to fighting the blatant abuse of power over the last two years." Republican leade...

Pragmapopulism
Populist, “pragmatic” conservative Bill O’Reilly warns the GOP that trying to Repeal ObamaCare is not what voters want (some of that 2700-page assault on personal liberty is, you see, “good for the folks”) — that instead, what voters want is for the new Congress to focus on The Economy. Thus, per O’Reilly, a push to rollback ObamaCare is “a classic trap,” one that the GOP would do well to avoid. Behold: To which I say, simply, this: fuck yo...

Boehner Takes Control With ObamaCare Repeal
Incoming House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) made a brash move by beginning Republican control of the House with a vote to Repeal ObamaCare. The unpopular, expensive health-care reform law was both the jewel in the crown of the Democratic Congress and one of the main reasons Democrats lost in the Midterm Elections. Boehner will be sworn in as Speaker of the House on Wednesday, but he and his fellow GOP leaders already put forth a one-page bill to Repeal ObamaCare this week. They will start deba...

TRIFECTA: A Deathblow to ObamaCare: Do Republicans Have the Guts to Repeal It?
TRIFECTA: A Deathblow to ObamaCare: Do Republicans Have the Guts to Repeal It? ...

A Physician's Take on the "Death Panel" Revelation
Over the Christmas holiday weekend, The New York Times revealed that the Obama Administration's Medicare Regulators have enacted new regulatory guidelines, in complete defiance of Congress, that will result in Health Care providers receiving payment to give annual “end-of-life counseling” to their patients. As a physician, I can tell you that we doctors do routinely have end-of-life discussions with our patients. This is a necessary part of our job. But we do it when it is appropriate and in...

Excerpts of John Boehner speech on the first day of the 112th Congress
The new Congress convenes for the first time Wednesday with a full schedule of events. We have full coverage the first day of the new Congress, complete with live video of the swearing in ceremony and what you're saying on twitter. The following are excerpts from Speaker-designate John Boehner's (R-Ohio) Speech that he will deliver to the opening session of the 112th Congress Wednesday afternoon. "We gather here today at a time of great challenges. Nearly one in ten of our neighbors are lookin...