Obama warns Republicans may cause country to 'fall backward'

PROMISES, PROMISES: GOP drops some out of the gate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have already violated some of the vows they made in taking stewardship of the House. Their pledge to cut $100 billion from the Budget in one year won’t be kept. And for a coming vote seeking to Repeal the Health Care overhaul, the first major initiative of the new Congress, lawmakers won’t be allowed to propose changes to the Legislation despite Republican promises to end such heavy-handed tactics from the days of Democratic control. Is business as...

PROMISES, PROMISES: GOP drops some out of the gate
WASHINGTON—Republicans have already violated some of the vows they made in taking stewardship of the House. Their pledge to cut $100 billion from the Budget in one year won't be kept. And for a coming vote seeking to Repeal the Health Care overhaul, the first major initiative of the new Congress, lawmakers won't be allowed to propose changes to the Legislation despite Republican promises to end such heavy-handed tactics from the days of Democratic control. Is business as usual really back...

Republicans already breaking their promises
Republicans have already violated some of the vows they made in taking stewardship of the House. Their pledge to cut $100 billion from the Budget in one year won’t be kept. And for a coming vote seeking to Repeal the Health Care overhaul, the first major initiative of the new Congress, lawmakers won’t be allowed to propose changes to the Legislation despite Republican promises to end such heavy-handed tactics from the days of Democratic control. Is business as usual really back so fa...

PROMISES, PROMISES: GOP drops some out of the gate (AP)
WASHINGTON – Republicans have already violated some of the vows they made in taking stewardship of the House. Their pledge to cut $100 billion from the Budget in one year won't be kept. And for a coming vote seeking to Repeal the Health Care overhaul, the first major initiative of the new Congress, lawmakers won't be allowed to propose changes to the Legislation despite Republican promises to end such heavy-handed tactics from the days of Democratic control. Is business as usual really b...

GOP bends its own new House rules
Just hours after taking control of the House, Republicans passed a sweeping set of rules promising transparency and reform. But the new majority is already showing these promises aren’t exactly set in stone. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset Politico 44 After calling for bills to go through a regular committee process, the bill that would Repeal the Health Care law will not go through a single committee. Despite promising a more open amendment process for bills, amendments for the ...

PROMISES, PROMISES: GOP drops some out of the gate
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio holds up the gavel during the first session of the 112th Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. Republicans have already violated some of the vows they made in taking stewardship of the House. Their pledge to cut $100 billion from the Budget in one year won't be kept. And for a coming vote seeking to Repeal the Health Care overhaul, the first major initiative of the new Congress, lawmakers won't be allowed to propose changes to the l...

House GOP Already Bending its Own Rules
Politico reports: Just hours after taking control of the House, Republicans passed a sweeping set of rulespromising transparency and reform. But the new majority is already showing these promises aren’t exactly set in stone. After calling for bills to go through a regular committee process, the bill that would Repeal the Health Care law will not go through a single committee. Despite promising a more open amendment process for bills, amendments for the Health Care repeal will be all but sh

Dont Repeal and Replace ObamaCare; Repeal and Defund
Terrence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com 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 on federal health care laws to the instant before President Barack Obama signed his massive health care bill last March, making it as if ObamaCare “had not been enacted.”...

GOP bends its own new House rules
Source: Politico Just hours after taking control of the House, Republicans passed a sweeping set of rules promising transparency and reform. But the new majority is already showing these promises aren’t exactly set in stone. After calling for bills to go through a regular committee process, the bill that would Repeal the Health Care law will not go through a single committee. Despite promising a more open amendment process for bills, amendments for the Health Care Repeal will be all but shut d...

Dems say GOP exempting $1 trillion from deficit
Democrats are accusing newly empowered House Republicans of exempting more than $1 Trillion in proposed Tax Cuts and higher spending over the next 10 years from a promise to cut federal Deficits. The exemptions include a bill to Repeal last year's Health Care Legislation as well as GOP-backed proposals extending a series of Tax Cuts for upper income filers that are due to expire in two years, according to a tally several Senate Democrats were to present at a midmorning new conference Thursday. S...

Wonkbook: Boehner's new rules; Dems' release filibuster reform proposal
I thought Speaker Boehner's Speech was quite good. He did not promise too much, which ends up being a common problem for speakers. In fact, he hardly promised anything at all. Insofar as he had an agenda, it was a procedural one: To use the House's rules in an open, neutral way; to work through the "scar tissue" that had built up between Democrats and Republicans in recent years; to administer the House without gimmicks or shortcuts; "to disagree without being disagreeable.". But so far as the ...

Quote of the Day: Dana Milbank on Republican hypocrisy (and worse)
By Michael J.W. Stickings As the Republicans take over the House, it's time for some perspective. And Milbank's got it: For incoming Majority Leader Eric Cantor and his House Republicans, something strange happened on the way to Wednesday's "Opening Day" of the new Congress. For two years, Cantor and his colleagues campaigned against high Deficits. Now, in the new majority's first major act, they plan to vote to increas...

Woolsey introduces Public Option Deficit Reduction Act
Stumble This! Even as Republicans gear up for a vote to Repeal Health Care reform, one progressive House member is making a renewed push for the Public Option. On Wednesday, the first day of the 112th Congress, Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) introduced a measure to establish a robust public Health Insurance option as a supplement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The California congresswoman argued the measure would lower Insurance costs and address Deficit concerns, pointing to a Congr...

Canton: Americans hate health bill
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says the new Health Care law is getting in the way of job-creation and vows Republicans are committed to repealing it. Cantor tells CBS‘s “The Early Show” the GOP isn’t retreating from its commitment to get rid of the law overhauling the Health Care system, even though Senate Democrats have made clear they would block a Repeal there. Cantor isn’t accepting a Congressional Budget Office analysis saying the new Health Care is likely t...

Cantor: Most Americans still dislike health bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says the new Health Care law is getting in the way of job-creation and vows Republicans are committed to repealing it. Cantor tells CBS’s “The Early Show” the GOP isn’t retreating from its commitment to get rid of the law overhauling the Health Care system, even though Senate Democrats have made clear they would block a Repeal there. Cantor isn’t accepting a Congressional Budget Office analysis saying the new...

Cantor says most Americans still dislike health bill
WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says the new Health Care law is getting in the way of job-creation and vows Republicans are committed to repealing it. Cantor tells CBS's "The Early Show" the GOP isn't retreating from its commitment to get rid of the law overhauling the Health Care system, even though Senate Democrats have made clear they would block a Repeal there. Cantor isn't accepting a Congressional Budget Office analysis saying the new Health Care is likely to reduce th...

Wernick" Here's how to easily aid immigrants, Obama
The Obama administration has disappointed immigrants and their supporters. The President increased enforcement against undocumented immigrants. He hoped to win Republicans' support for a path to Citizenship for undocumented immigrants, but his actions only stigmatized immigrants, reinforcing the notion that they are a burden on our country. If the President is serious about justice for undocumented immigrants, he can use his power as head of the Executive Branch of government - the branch tha...

Reality Check: Repeal of Obamacare Would Not Increase the Deficit
As the new Congress settles in, the House of Representatives prepares to vote on January 12 on a measure to Repeal ObamaCare. Proponents of the Health Care law claim that Repeal would increase the federal Deficit and that a vote to kill Obamacare without offsetting the “cost” is hypocritical. This couldn’t be more wrong. For starters, Obamacare will not reduce the deficit. Though the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that the health law would create $124 billion in savings, the

NYT editorial: The Corporate House
John Boehner, the new speaker, promised the incoming House members of the 112th Congress on Wednesday to “give the government back to the American People.” But away from the camera, the chamber’s new Republican leadership is busy doing the opposite. Darrell Issa of California, the new chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has sent out letters to 150 businesses and trade groups, asking them for suggestions on loosening what he called “job-killing”

Behar and Huffington Posts Sekoff Paint GOP as Trying to Ruin and Destroy Health Care
On Wednesday’s Joy Behar Show on HLN, when host Behar asked, referring to House Republicans, "Are they going to ruin Health Care?" guest Roy Sekoff - founding editor of the Huffington Post - referred to a Repeal of ObamaCare as "destroy[ing] health care." Moments later, he also claimed that ObamaCare "will actually lower the Debt," and accused Republicans of being hypocritical for wanting to Repeal it: JOY BEHAR: Let’s talk about what they’re going...

GOP House Leaders Set to Undo Obama's Victories
Today at 12 noon, John Boehner will become Speaker of the House of Representatives . and big banks, Insurance Companies and Wall Street Lobbyists across the country will rejoice. Boehner hasn't even taken the gavel yet and he's already laid out an extreme right-wing agenda. It starts with a vote to Repeal Health Insurance reform and includes gutting Social Security, making Tax Cuts for the rich permanent and more. John Boehner's House will empower right-wingers like Michele Bachmann and Eric Can...

The "Undo Everything" Congress Begins, With Health Care
Did you think that, having regained control of the House, the GOP will stop being the "Party of No" and start governing, or at least doing something about the challenges facing the country? Think again. The 112th Congress will not be the "Do Something" Congress that the 111th was. It would be a relief if this turned out to be the "Do Nothing" Congress that the new House "one-week-off-for-every-two-weeks-worked" schedule suggests. Instead, it's already sh...

Speaker Boehner readies repeal of 'Obamacare' as HHS details impact on Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CGE) - Newly elected speaker of the U.S House John A. Boehner, the third Ohioan to hold this key Constitutional office, repeatedly railed against the Affordable Care Act on the Campaign Trail as a job-killer, and vowed Republicans would make Repeal of it job one if they were to win enough seats to take back the people's chamber from Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, who prior to handing an over-sized gavel to her successor touted it as one of her party's most important achievements...

House GOP Does the Inevitable: Backtracks on Pledge to Cut $100 Billion this Year
Even if you put the close-to-impossible politics aside, any Budget wonk would have told the GOP that for purely technical reasons it was going to be almost impossible to deliver on the promise it made in its Pledge to America to cut $100 billion from the federal Budget this year. That's why it was anything but a surprise when, as Jackie Calmes noted in yesterday's New York Times, on the first day they formally took control of the House of Representatives Republicans did what every fiscal technic...

Hutchison mum on 2012 race
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s curious silence about her 2012 plans have Texas Republicans increasingly convinced she’s rethinking her decision to retire and quietly plodding ahead toward a fourth term. Hutchison hasn’t yet given any public indication of whether she’s running, and top Republicans in Washington, as well as personal friends, say she’s keeping her cards close to her vest. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset Politico 44 But with the looming March 201...