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Cantor: GOP healthcare reform repeal key to getting economy back on track
House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Saturday touted Republican efforts to Repeal Healthcare Reform as a key component in their effort to get The Economy back on track. In the weekly GOP address, Cantor argued that the healthcare law was actually discouraging employers from hiring new employees, and could even be driving further Unemployment as the nation tries to dig out from the economic Recession. “At a time when we need to do everything in our power to encourage Job Creation...

The Cost of Repeal: “In the neighborhood of a trillion dollars”
Yesterday, Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein took a look at the financial cost of Repeal. In the process, he dismantled Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor's argument that health reform increases the Deficit. The explanation—though complex—is not complicated, as shown in the chart below: The take-away? "Roughly speaking, new spending is what counts as "benefits." Those are the lines shooting up. New taxes are the lighter blue part of bars pointing down. In ye...

The Obamacare deficit scam
Image via Wikipedia Opinion Journal: Of all the claims deployed in favor of ObamaCare, and there are many, the most preposterous is that a new open-ended entitlement will somehow reduce the Budget Deficit. Insure 32 million more people, and save money too! The even more remarkable spectacle is that Washington seems to be taking this claim seriously in advance of the House's Repeal vote next week. Some things in politics you just can't make up. Terminating Trillions of dollars in future spendin...

Obama talks tax cuts; Republican vows health care bill repeal
President Obama and House Republican leader Eric Cantor offered different ways to create jobs Saturday, with Obama touting his Tax Cut program and Cantor promoting Repeal of the president's "job killing" Health Care bill. In a radio address a day after the Unemployment Rate dropped from 9.8% to 9.4%, Obama cited the agreement he reached with Republicans last month for a two-year extension of tax cuts signed by him and predecessor George W. Bush. "Independent experts have concluded that, taken t...

Debate Over Health Law Repeal Sparks Deja Vu
It may be a new year, but it's the same Health Care debate on the House floor. Acting on one of its top priorities, the new Republican majority on Friday started the process to Repeal last year's sweeping health overhaul. As the House settled in to debate the rule that would set the stage for a Repeal vote Wednesday, there were a lot of new faces. But the arguments they made had a familiar ring to them. "Everybody knows that the Health Care system's broken and that reform is needed," said Republ...

God Save the Debate
By Gail Collins NYT Next week the House Republicans are going to vote to Repeal the Health Care reform law. It’s a symbolic gesture they got the right to make when they won the majority, but it would be nice if they could leave God out of it. I am thinking about you, Representative Steve King of Iowa. On Friday, King gave a 58-minute-and-20-second Speech on the floor of the House in which he made it abundantly clear that God did not want more federal Regulation of health Insurance Companies....

God vs. King
Iowa Rep. Steve King, the man who boasts he has more words in the Congressional Record that anyone, may want to get some duct tape for the lower half of his overly familiar face. On Friday, King gave a 58-minute-and-20-second Speech on the floor of the House in which he made it abundantly clear that God did not want more federal Regulation of health Insurance Companies. “We will carry on this struggle until in God’s good time, with all his power and might, he steps forth to the rescue and ...

Take Action: Tell Rep. Mark Critz to Repeal Obamacare
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Take Action: Tell Rep. Jason Altmire to Repeal Obamacare
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A Peculiar Path to Deficit Reduction
Chris Van Hollen, the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee (and, alas, my congressman) has been getting before every camera he can find over the past few days to insist that ObamaCare is a Deficit reduction plan and so repealing it would increase the deficit, and that this is what the Congressional Budget Office says too. Several folks around here, and many elsewhere of course, have noted that the CBO was forced to accept some very implausible assumptions in making its calculations&mda...;

Cantor: Replace Health Care Law to Help Economy
In the Republicans’ first weekly address to the nation since taking control of the House, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) emphasized their intention to Repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s signature Health Care overhaul. Not a Subscriber? To continue reading, sign up for a free trial. Speaker John Boehner (right) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor arrive on Jan. 6 for their first joint news conference in the Capitol since Republicans took control of the House. They addre...

Republicans attack healthcare agenda
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. economy can't get back on track with existing Democratic healthcare policies, House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., said Saturday. In the party's weekly radio and Internet address, Cantor derided the 10-month-old healthcare package as flawed and claimed it was hindering Economic Recovery, The Hill reported. "At a time when we need to do everything in our power to encourage Job Creation, the healthcare law hangs around the necks of businesses small an...

Obama: Economy Is Moving in Right Direction
(AP) WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is trumpeting private-sector job growth and lower Unemployment, telling the public that "the trend is clear" on The Economy - and it's encouraging. The president used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to discuss the latest economic news and press for Bipartisan action in the newly divided Congress on measures to spur growth. He presented the December jobs report in a positive light, even though it fell short of what Economists had been look...

Susan J. Demas: The G.O.P.'s Fiscally-Conservative Frauds
"I don't think I have one off the top of my head. But there is no part of this government that should be sacred." -- New U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) when asked to name a government program we could do without To paraphrase former GOP Michigan Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema, Republicans hate raising taxes, but they hate cutting spending even more. The newly gavel-wielding speaker of the U.S. House nicely demonstrated that maxim, first by throwing a hissy fit last month over rai...

Tea Party challenges Republicans to cut budget more or else
   House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., spoke with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “Good Morning America” on January 6th, 2011,about the GOP’s agenda on Capitol Hill. On the Republicans’ planned vote to Repeal the Health Care reform law, Cantor said it was a way to “send a signal that we’re dead serious about getting rid of this spending of money we don’t have.” https://abcn.ws/dQVMCR On spending, Cantor predicted:...

Michael Sigman: For the Right: A Regular Deregulation Celebration
When it comes to regulating, the Right is downright irregular. Now that Republicans control the House, they're hell-bent on further deregulating corporations -- now, thanks to the conservative Supreme Court, designated as "people" -- while threatening the freedoms of actual people, such as those with preexisting medical conditions or public-sector union memberships. The absurdity starts with the fact that Deregulation of banks and Insurance Companies was a crucial component to our current fin...

ObamaCares Reality Deficit
ObamaCare’s Reality DeficitSaturday, January 8th, 2011 Lots of good quotes in this Wall Street Journal Review & Outlook column, although none better than this sub-headline some pithy editor slapped in: If you believe that a new entitlement saves money, you’ll believe anything. Like Dilbert’s pointy-haired boss once said, “When we saw you would willingly spend your entire days in cubicles smaller than a Prison cell, we realized anything was possible.” I’...

Obama claims job growth as adminisration success
The Private Sector added 103,000 new jobs in December and the Unemployment rate fell from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent. “Now, we know that these numbers can bounce around from month to month. But the trend is clear,” said the president, whose 2012 re-election prospects may well hinge on the condition of The Economy. “We saw 12 straight months of Private Sector job growth — the first time that’s been true since 2006,” he said. The economy added 1.3 million jobs l...

Obama: Economic Trend Is Clear
Not a Subscriber? To continue reading, sign up for a free trial. Speaker John Boehner (right) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor arrive on Jan. 6 for their first joint news conference in the Capitol since Republicans took control of the House. They addressed issues such as the National Debt and their plan to Repeal the Health Care overhaul law that was passed last year. Whether you're looking for a new job or looking to hire the perfect Candidate, turn to RCJobs.com — the job board fr...

Senate Dems focus ire on House GOP
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and other Democrats blasted the new majority in the House on a range of issues.  Senate Democrats on Friday took aim at the Republican majority on the other side of the Capitol, blasting the GOP on a range of issues. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, hit Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), her counterpart in the House over his stated intention to weaken the Environmental Protection Agency. Boxer also voiced her di...

Obama trumpets economic growth
The Private Sector added 103,000 new jobs in December and the Unemployment Rate fell from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent. "Now, we know that these numbers can bounce around from month to month. But the trend is clear," said the president, whose 2012 re-election prospects may well hinge on the condition of The Economy. "We saw 12 straight months of Private Sector job growth—the first time that's been true since 2006," he said. The economy added 1.3 million jobs last year. And each quarter was ...

Rise of the New Confederacy
For two years Conservatives indulged themselves in unheard-of dogwhistle campaigns against this young African-American President while enlightened liberals pointed it out in a mild, somewhat derisive Fashion but with little outrage. Now, in the aftermath of the midterm 'shellacking', a New Confederacy is rising with the assistance of the Tea Party and John Birchers, and it's getting enough traction in Congress to do real damage.The scary part? It's working. Fact: We are NOT living in a post-raci...

As Obamacare Goes, So Goes The Intrusive Federal Government
Liberals, believe it or not, are worrying their pretty little pinko heads off.  Why?  Well because the fate of ObamaCare is off and running in the courts.  Further they are worried because a lot of states are up in arms and regardless of what the courts decide are preparing to nullify the whole shebang within their own boarders under the authority of the Tenth Amendment. In an era where worries about larger and larger Federal Government rolls forth from the brains of Americans lik...

BREAKING : CBO Says Repealing ObamaCare (socialized medicine) Would Reduce Net Spending by $540 Billion
BREAKING : CBO Says Repealing ObamaCare Would Reduce Net Spending by $540 Billion American Spectator The Congressional Budget Office, in an email to Capitol Hill Staffers obtained by the Spectator, has said that repealing the national Health Care law would reduce net spending by $540 billion in the ten year period from 2012 through 2021. That number represents the cost of the new provisions, minus Medicare cuts. Repealing the bill would also eliminate $770 billion in taxes. It's the tax hikes...

CBO Says Repealing ObamaCare Would Reduce Net Spending by $540 Billion
Phillip Klein has the memo, The Congressional Budget Office, in an email to Capitol Hill Staffers obtained by the Spectator, has said that repealing the national Health Care law would reduce net spending by $540 billion in the ten year period from 2012 through 2021. That number represents the cost of the new provisions, minus Medicare cuts. Repealing the bill would also eliminate $770 billion in taxes. It’s the tax hikes in the Health Care law (along with the Medicare cuts) which account...