End Of Life Counseling Out Of ObamaCare Again

Rep. Guinta: 'I'd Like to See What Happens' With Repeal before Supporting Ban on Funding Obamacare
Friday, January 07, 2011 By Dan Joseph Washington (CNSNews.com) - Freshman Rep. Frank Guinta (R-N.H.) said he opposes ObamaCare, but he would not say whether he would definitely support a proposal by Rep. Steve King to defund the law. CNSNews.com asked Guinta - and is asking all members of Congress - this question: “Rep. Steve King advocates including language in every appropriations bill to prohibit money from that bill funding implementation of Obamacare. Do you support defund

The Morning Plum
* White House talking points on Bill Daley: The White House is distributing a set of talking points to outside allies -- sent over by a source -- on how to sell the Bill Daley pick: Talking Points: Bill Daley * Bill Daley brings with him tremendous experience, strong values and a forward-looking vision to this White House. He will be critical to the President's mission of growing our economy and moving America forward. * From his time as President Clinton's Commerce Secretary, Bill Daley has ...

House To Hold Test Vote On Health Care Repeal Today
The Republican-led House of Representatives today will hold a key test vote on its top priority: repealing the new Health Care law. The up-or-down vote will set the terms of the debate on the Repeal bill itself, which is scheduled to hit the floor (and pass) on Wednesday. During that debate, Democrats will be unable to introduce their own amendments and have been closed out of the process more generally. An earlier plan to force committee-level votes on popular elements of the bill was scuttl...

Morning Observations
The Democrats in the House of Representatives produced over 400 bills in the last Congress that the U.S. Senate did not have the time or inclination to act on. We didn't pay attention to most of those bills, although a few, like Cap & Trade, were big effing deals. When we see the Republican-run House pass bills to Repeal Health Care reform or ban czarism from the executive office, we shouldn't really get upset. It's theater. It is only important for setting precedents for future action should t...

Dems Still Working Hard To Thwart The Will Of The People On Health Care Reform
As most of us know, the American People were dead set against the passage of the so-called “Affordable Care Act,” which started out with the notion of reducing Health Insurance costs and providing coverage to the 30-45 million Americans that had no health Insurance, and escalated to a 2,000 page bill that none who voted “Yea” actually read nor understood, and did anything but reduce Health Insurance costs. We’ve all seen the fallout, that insurance costs would go up...

Chairman Ryan: The Democrats Worst Nightmare
This week, the Democrats’ worst nightmare came true: Paul Ryan became the Budget Committee Chairman. It’s their worst nightmare because he’s the two things they can’t deal with: calm and logical. Thursday afternoon, I got this statement from Chairman Ryan’s office on the Democrats’ Duplicity with regards to ObamaCare: WASHINGTON - House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan issued the following statement with respect to House Republicans’ continued efforts ...

Health Care Repeal Test Vote Planned By House Republicans
WASHINGTON — The House opens a largely symbolic debate Friday on whether to Repeal President Barack Obama's landmark Health Care overhaul, the culmination of the first week with Republicans back in charge. A procedural vote around midday will set the rules for formal debate and final action next Wednesday. House Republicans want to Repeal Obama's plan to expand coverage to more than 30 million Uninsured and start over again with a more modest, less costly approach. But Democratic leaders...

Daley: Obama Administration Too Liberal
Bill Daley, the new White House Chief of Staff, warned the Obama Administration at the end of 2009, before ObamaCare was passed, that if they failed to move back to the center, they would face crippling losses. From a Washington Post op-ed: All that is required for the Democratic Party to recover its political footing is to acknowledge that the agenda of the party’s most liberal supporters has not won the support of a majority of Americans — and, based on that recognition, to steer a...

The circus is in town
Yes, House Republicans really are a joke, as this run-down of their first 33 hours by Rachel Maddow clearly demonstrates: So the question is, quite simply, how did this pack of jokers ever get elected? There is plenty of Democratic incompetence behind it--much moreso in the White House and on the Senate side, although the House ended up paying the higher price. But an absolutely key ingredient was the media practice of "balance", by which Republians are able to sieze an ever-greater advantag...

Bringing the Bureaucrats to Heel
There was a good deal of shocked outrage last month when Dr. Donald Berwick, President Obama's Medicare czar, defied Congress by issuing a new Regulation that would have provided financial rewards to physicians who pressure elderly patients into forgoing future medical care. A similar provision had, of course, been dropped from the original ObamaCare bill due to widespread public Disapproval of government-sponsored end-of-life counseling. Berwick's brazen bureaucratic fiat has now been rescind...

Dems Still Working Hard To Thwart The Will Of The People On Health Care Reform
As most of us know, the American People were dead set against the passage of the so-called "Affordable Care Act," which started out with the notion of reducing Health Insurance costs and providing coverage to the 30-45 million Americans that had no health Insurance, and escalated to a 2,000 page bill that none who voted "Yea" actually read nor understood, and did anything but reduce Health Insurance costs. We've all seen the fallout, that insurance costs would go up while coverage would go down....

Repubicans: 'Obamacare' Impedes Job Growth
Republicans promised voters they would try to Repeal the new health law they have dubbed 'ObamaCare' and Friday the new House leaders made their first official move in that direction. Republicans came up with a new way to brand President Barack Obama's Health Care law. "We move on to the 'Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act,'" said Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif. Members of the GOP say that's exactly what the new law has done. "We believe that a significant impediment to job growth in t...

Obama's plan to deal with new Congress: Bypass it
In a disturbing trend that should alarm Georgians of both parties, the Obama Administration is increasingly enacting policies through regulatory agencies that Democrats in Congress either cannot or will not pass.  This legality of this tactic is questionable, but without a doubt it circumvents the will of the people and their elected representatives in Congress.  When the people of Georgia, as well as a majority of voters in other states across the country, voted to end the Democratic ...

Repeal the Mandate, Stupid!
By RightKlik Americans who are unhappy with ObamaCare should push to Repeal the "Individual Mandate." Conservatives don't like the individual mandate because it's an unnecessary power grab that tramples the constitution. Liberals don't like it because it forces people to do business with private Insurance Companies: An individual mandate to buy private Health Insurance has never been progressive. It is less cost effective, less consumer friendly, less egalitarian, less universal, and more pron...

Deficit Busting Health Repeal
If the GOP thinks health Repeal costs nothing why exempt it from Deficit rules? Newly installed House Speaker John Boehner seemed contradictory on this point during his Press Conference on Thursday. First, Boehner disputes a CBO preliminary estimate that repealing President Obama's health overhaul would actually increase the federal Deficit by $230 billion over the next decade. "I do not believe that repealing the job-killing Health Care law will increase the deficit" he said. But then the Spe...

Conservative Star Paul Ryan: I Will Eat My Tie If Obamacare Reduces the Deficit
The democrat’s latest lie is that covering 30 million more people under ObamaCare is going to save the country money and reduce the Deficit. It is complete nonsense and we all know it. Yesterday, conservative number-cruncher Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) told radio host Mark Levin that he would eat his tie if ObamaCare reduces the Deficit. So here is Paul Ryan on tonight’s Mark Levin Radio Show, explaining for the umpteenth time that the CBO’s output is entirely dependent on the data t...

Obama attempted to illegally pass end of life counselling
What is flying under the radar, and of critical importance in the “reversing course” regarding end of life planning was that it was illegally contrived. It was an attempt at subverting the process and completely inserting “rules” without Due Process. No Federal agency may simply hand down a “Rule” as it is called, without a proper time for comment. For the process, see my earlier post: Federal Register- the gift that keeps on giving I ...

Gene Sperling named Director of the National Economic Council today
Mr. Sperling, 52, was nominated this morning by President Obama to succeed Lawrence Summers as the Director of the National Economic Council.  Sperling, who has served on the council and has advised Timothy Geithner through the economic downturn has helped the Obama Administration weather the recent economic Recession and provided guidance on maintaining US employment.  Sperling served in the same post in the Clinton White House as well.  While the economic situation differs drast...

NH poll shows Romney with 26-point lead over Palin
It will be more than a year before New Hampshire voters trudge to the polls for the first primary in the nation, but the New Hampshire Journal feels it’s just the right time to take the Granite State temperature on the Republican field.  As expected, Mitt Romney from neighboring Massachusetts takes the early lead in the poll, but perhaps the extent of that lead will provide a mild surprise.  Romney leads Sarah Palin by 26 points, and Mike Huckabee is the only other Candidate in double ...

Lowering the Unemployment Rate, One Discouraged Worker at a Time
The Unemployment Rate dropping from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent is great news for the Obama Administration, or at least represents a great headline. But the deeper numbers aren’t nearly so cheery. The 104,000 jobs created is actually well below the 130,000 to 150,000 to 200,000 (depends on who you ask) needed per month to keep pace with Population Growth and new workers entering the Workforce. So how did it drop so low? Do you remember my video about “Discouraged Workers”? Fro...

Rep. Upton: "Like a Dog to the Frisbee"
Now this is what I'm talking about. Read the advance of George Will's Sunday column about Congressman Fred Upton's plans to challenge the Obama Administration on several fronts. [L]ast month, the Democratic-controlled Federal Communications Commission, on a partisan 3-2 vote, did what a Federal Court says it has no power to do: It decided to regulate the Internet in the name of "Net Neutrality." The next morning, a man who can discipline the FCC said: Well, we'll just see about that. "We are go...

Obama Puts Veto Threat In Writing For Bill To Repeal Health Overhaul
What is this? As the Republican-controlled House prepares to begin debate Friday morning of a bill that would Repeal health overhaul, the administration has thrown down the gauntlet. Thursday night the Obama Administration put out a four-paragraph statement against H.R. 2, aka "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act." You can skip to the last sentence, underlined so you won't miss it: If the President were presented with H.R. 2, he would Veto it. Now, it's probably not going to come to a...

NBCs Brian Williams Asks Dopiest Question of 2011 So Far
In an "exclusive" interview with new House Speaker John Boehner for Thursday's NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams told Boehner the promised vote to Repeal ObamaCare has "been called a stunt," pressed him to justify repealing it given many would not call it "the best Health Care delivery system in the world because they, by the millions, weren't getting it" and demanded to know "where are you getting the notion...the American People want it repealed" given polling was "very evenly split on that?" Y...

GOP Jobs Reax
WASHINGTON, DC - House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) today released the following statement after the Department of Labor issued the December Unemployment report. “Today’s jobs report shows unemployment hovering around 9% for the 20th consecutive month, and while the slight drop from last month is encouraging, we need to do more to make sure people can get back to work. That will start by empowering employers across the country to grow. “The new Republican Majority i...

Lieberman 'Open-minded' on changes to health care reform
The Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate is seen as a bulwark against Republican efforts to undo Health Care reform, but Sen. Joseph Lieberman says that he is going into the debate with an "open mind" about what changes, if any, would make sense. Lieberman said he does not favor repealing the entire law, but he wants to consider all the options as Congressional Republican push to unravel the Health Care overhaul. "I'm trying to keep opened-minded, listening to people who do want to Repeal or change...