Irony: liberal MSM that pushed ObamaCare now lament that "federal mandates jack up costs:

Terry Jeffrey: Don't Repeal and Replace, Repeal and Defund
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 By Terence P. Jeffrey Outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Commentary) - Next Wednesday, the House of Representatives will take up Legislation sponsored by new House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., that is titled, "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act." On its face, this two-page bill is very simple. It would turn back the clock...

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...

Pelosi: Repealing Obamacare Would Do Very Serious Violence to National Debt
Wednesday, January 05, 2011 By Dan Joseph House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, after being re-elected as the leader of the House Democrats. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (CNSNews.com) - Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that congressional Democrats would have passed health-care reform even if everyone in America had Health Insurance that they liked. “If everyone in America was very, very pleased wit...

GOP House Member Says He Doesnt Need To Opt Out Of Congressional Health Plan Because Hes On Medicare
GOP House Member Says He Doesn’t Need To Opt Out Of Congressional Health Plan Because He’s On Medicare Last night, during a debate on the GOP’s plans to Repeal the Affordable Care Act with Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell asked Roe if he would be following the example of some of his colleagues and opt out of his own government-sponsored Health Care Insurance. Roe responded that he is not enrolled in the Congressional Health Care plan, called the F...

Small Biz Owners Say Health Care Reform Helps Cover Workers
Here’s something that certainly isn’t going to be highlighted when Republicans began their let-no-facts-get-in-the-way show trial of Health Care reform. Small Business owners say the Affordable Care Act will spur them to provide Health Insurance for their workers. Yep, while House Republicans stage their Health Care reform Repeal vote Kabuki dance this week and next, the same small business owners Republicans claim to represent are looking at Health Care reform as way to cut their health c...

Times Running Out to Fix Obamacares Flaws
What happened to Repeal and replace? The GOP has advanced a 2-page bill to Repeal the Democratic health reform of 2010. That bill will likely pass the House and then … dribble away. I doubt the Senate will ever find time to schedule a vote on it. My sense is that this is just fine with many Republican legislators. They may calculate that it’s better to have “ObamaCare” as an issue in 2012 than to tinker with improvements in 2011. But the fact is: the reform is beginning...

Michigan Spends More on Teacher Benefits Than Most Other States
Of all the funds spent on “instruction” in Michigan Public Schools in 2008, 28 percent went to employee fringe benefits. Only five states devoted more of their resources to benefits; the national average was 22 percent. The data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, which breaks down the percentage of instructional costs that went to s...

Team Commie
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Philip N. Cohen: Mother No More?
North Carolina's Supreme Court voids "second-parent" adoptions by homogamous couples. Related Topics, by Judy Shapiro, calls my attention to a very aggressive anti-gay-parent ruling by the N.C. Supreme Court, which retroactively voided the adoptions of same-gender spouses. The decision, in the case Boseman v. Jarrell, went beyond the couple at hand to undo existing adoptions in which an adoptive parent joined a biological parent and shared parental rights, much like step-parents may do. The pu...

Obamacare: When Obama LIKES Imposing Higher Costs on The Poor
My friend George Scoville, who works for the Cato Institute, asked a question that really does go to show the left’s hypocrisy. This time the question reveals a “feature” of ObamaCare that tends to expose hypocrisy so large that an ambulance could drive through it. (See how I said “ambulance” there to keep with the whole medical theme?)...

Joy Behar: Isnt This Constitution Loving Getting Out of Hand?
Out of the mouths of lefties. In this video, Joy Behar asked her guests whether all of this “Constitution loving” is getting out of hand. The Blaze has more on the Fourth Amendment and Privacy. Related posts: Sharron Angle Sent Flowers Thanking Joy Behar for Fundraising Help - Update - Behar’s Classy Response Guest on Joy Behar’s Show Calls Christine O’Donnell a ‘Whore’, Behar Says ‘Keep Going’ Video: Mike Huckabee is Joy Behar...

Cruising the Web
Hmm. Some interesting tidbits on Saddam's Nuclear Program from Wikileaks. I wonder why the media isn't highlighting this information? Here's a defense of Captain Owen P. HOnors who just got kicked out of his job commanding the USS Enterprise. Let me add my voice to the call to replace Christiane Amanpour with Jake Tapper. Governors are other states are planning to run Advertising Campaigns in California to entice businesses to leave the high-tax state and come to their states. I bet it will be ...

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...

CNN's Spitzer: Mitt Romney is 'Very Conservative'?
CNN's Eliot Spitzer on Monday's Parker-Spitzer bizarrely labeled former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney "very conservative" on Monday's Parker-Spitzer as he cited the prominent Republican's support for Legislation similar to ObamaCare: "I think it was interesting...that Governor Romney, a very conservative Republican , embraced the notion of the Individual Mandate as a governor" (audio available here). Spitzer and co-host Kathleen Parker brought on Congress...

CNN's Spitzer: Mitt Romney is 'Very Conservative'?
CNN's Eliot Spitzer on Monday's Parker-Spitzer bizarrely labeled former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney "very conservative" on Monday's Parker-Spitzer as he cited the prominent Republican's support for Legislation similar to ObamaCare: "I think it was interesting...that Governor Romney, a very conservative Republican , embraced the notion of the Individual Mandate as a governor" (audio available here). Spitzer and co-host Kathleen Parker brought on Congress...

McCaskill urges alternatives to reform's individual mandate
A Democratic Senator facing a tough Reelection fight in 2012 said Congress must pursue alternatives to a requirement for individuals to purchase Health Insurance. More than 20 states have challenged the new Healthcare Reform law’s so-called Individual Mandate in Federal Court, arguing that Congress cannot require individuals to purchase health coverage. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), expected to face stiff competition from Republicans in the 2012 election, said she understood why the requir...

Texas insurance commissioner stepping down 11:46 AM CT
Texas Insurance Commissioner stepping down 11:46 AM CT 11:49 AM CST on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 By TERRENCE STUTZ / The Dallas Morning News [email protected] AUSTIN - State Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin is stepping down. In a letter sent today to Gov. Rick Perry, Geeslin asked that he not be reappointed when his term ends on Feb. 1. “This request is based on many considerations, the foremost being my family, and the other being the simple realization that it is time for s...

Video: Lee, Spitzer on taxes and ObamaCare
Eliot Spitzer last night got into an odd argument last night with Senator-elect Mike Lee over ObamaCare and taxes that ended up using contradictory logic. Lee catches the fallacy on which Spitzer’s argument on taxes relies, but that reality actually negates Spitzer’s argument for ObamaCare: Spitzer attempts to pull a bit of a Bait-and-Switch on Lee on taxes. Lee has argued that almost half of Americans pay no federal income taxes, which is why Lee says they have “no skin in t...

We dont know the answer
“We need jobs. We need a lot of things changed to keep our economy going,” Cozart said. “The thing that’s going to do that is finding what the key is to getting jobs here.” “We do have something different than a lot of other areas have to offer with both of those, Retirement and Tourism,” Cozart said. “Those two things help carry this area, but we still need the regular jobs. We need to keep people working in the corporate-type jobs. “  ...

Dept. of Inappropriate Yiddish Deployment, TSA Division
Brian Williams, on David Letterman, refers to the male package as a "schmeggege." Williams, a renowned Yiddishist, should have known that the actual Yiddish term for his stuffed derma is "farshtunkiner schlimazel." Can the Government Force Us to Buy Health Insurance? 'Metaschool': The Education of the Future? Jeffrey Goldberg Dept. of Inappropriate Yiddish Deployment, TSA… 6:14 AM ET Joshua Green An Impassioned Defense of Capt. Owen P. Honors Jan 4, 2011 Does a Single Retweet Reve...

Laid-off Gary firefighter panhandles on street
Laid-off Gary Firefighter Jason Pickering begging for money. (WGN-TV) A Gary Firefighter Laid Off in a city cash crunch just before the new year is now panhandling on the street in an effort to make ends meet. "We took an oath to save people's lives ... and the city just threw us to the curb," Jason Pickering told WGN-TV. Pickering, a 10-year department Veteran and one of 34 Gary firefighters who lost their jobs, now goes out begging, dressed in his firefighting gear, collecting dollar bills i...

What Paul Ryan hopes to do
In honor of the Congress, the good folks over at e21 have republished a column by Rep. Paul Ryan on what he wants to accomplish. This is good stuff: Let me be specific: I propose to modernize Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security so these critical programs can meet their mission in the 21st century; secure access to universal health coverage where patients and doctors - not government or Insurance company Bureaucrats - are the nucleus of the system; restructure Federal job training program...

Laid-off firefighter resorts to begging
GARY, Ind., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A 10-year Veteran of the Gary, Ind. fire department said he has been forced to resort to panhandling after being Laid Off from his job just before New Year's. Jason Pickering told WGN-TV, Chicago, he is one of 34 Gary Firefighters who got the boot. The 34-year-old Pickering dresses in his cold-weather firefighting gear each day and places a cardboard sign around his neck reading "Laid off Gary firefighter. Family of 6. Thank you and God bless." Pickering said he has ...

Simple Two Page Bill
From The Washington Examiner Cantor’s ObamaCare Repeal bill goes online   112TH Congress 1ST SESSION H. R. __ To Repeal the job-killing Health Care law and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. IN THE House of Representatives Mr. CANTOR (for himself and [see ATTACHED LIST of cosponsors]) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on ____________ A BILL To Repeal the job-killing Health Care law and health carer...

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...