Report: CBO set to
score House reconciliation fix as more expensive than thought

Slaughter strategy ripped by … Blanche Lincoln

Oh boy: Kucinich will announce O-Care vote at
press conference tomorrow; Update: Voting yes?

NBC poll:……

What do you think? Always copy the source locally … The new norm for Obammunism, lies all the time about everything. Think Chavez.

The new norm for Obammunism is lies all the time, about everything. It’s a sad thing to see a USA president descend to these depths.

Character, something you will never associate with Obama and his czars. Hey did you know, we now have a new pipeline czar, to shut down new pipeline construction I suppose.

They’re caught in a tangle of benchmarks here: Per The One’s instructions, they need the total package to cost not much more than $900 billion over the first 10 years — according to their own bogus metric, of course — and in order to use reconciliation in the Senate, they need the “fix” to produce savings of at least $1 billion.

If they can’t find 0.1% in savings for a pork-ladened bill, how on earth are they going to NOT blow the savings with more must-haves in next year’s “fixes” and the year after? Afterall, when we’re talking a tril, what’s a few hundred billions every year from here on out? And they castigated Dubya for blowing Slick’s “surplus” of what, 250 billion? A paper surplus to say the least.

For most people, they are concerned with balancing their checkbooks and living on a budget. Politicians, don’t have to worry about it. They seem to be living in a fantasy world where balanced budgets don’t exist. Take a look at the current …

I don’t know if Obama realizes how ridiculous this sounds.
INC on March 16, 2010 at 6:27 PM

Que?
It doesn’t sound ridiculous at all…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..If your 10 years old!

Did obama get to them?

Cahill said the law is being sustained only with the help of federal aid, which he suggested that the Obama administration is funneling to Massachusetts to help the president make the case for a similar plan in Congress.

Well as long as it’s a state option, then that’s totally different from–WHOA!!

Tim Cahill is the state treasurer of Massachusetts. He recently bolted the Democratic Party to run for governor. The Boston Globe reports Cahill’s pointed comments on Obamacare as with a local twist:

State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, an independent candidate for governor, today offered a wide-ranging and scathing criticism of the state’s universal health care law, saying it is bankrupting Massachusetts and will do the same nationally, if a similar plan is passed in Congress.

“If President Obama and the Democrats repeat the mistake of the health insurance reform here in Massachusetts on a national level, they will threaten to wipe out the American economy within four years,” Cahill said in a press conference in his office.

Echoing criticism leveled by Congressional Republicans in recent weeks, Cahill said, “It is time for the president, the Democratic leadership, to go back to the drawing board and come up with a new plan that does not threaten to bankrupt this country.”

Cahill, who bolted the Democratic Party in July, has been a long-time critic of the state’s health insurance law. He said he was calling today’s press conference to respond to Governor Deval Patrick’s accusation last week that he and other gubernatorial candidates have been “missing in action” in tackling health care concerns.

Cahill said it is the governor who has not done enough to lower costs imposed by the state’s health insurance law, which Cahill said “has nearly bankrupted the state.”

Cahill said the law is being sustained only with the help of federal aid, which he suggested that the Obama administration is funneling to Massachusetts to help the president make the case for a similar plan in Congress.

“The real problem is the sucking sound of money that has been going in to pay for this health care reform,” Cahill said. “And I would argue that we’re being propped up so that the federal government and the Obama administration can drive it through” Congress.

Commonwealth Connector, the independent state agency established to help residents find the health insurance, has “totally failed,” to create competition and connect people with affordable insurance, Cahill said, pointing out that 68 percent of the residents it serves receive subsidized care.

“We haven’t done anything about driving down costs,” Cahill said. “We haven’t helped small business. We haven’t changed the way we pay for health care and the way we deliver it.”

Hey a question, don’t they still need 216 votes to pass the rule? If so, what is the point of the rule exactly? except to piss off even more people.

Skywise on March 16, 2010 at 6:02 PM

Oh I have faith, that Pelousy, and Slaughter will come up with some bogus new rule that will help them out. After all….we just can’t wait for those surprises in the bill, and I’m especially excited that I don’t care how the Dems pass this crap. UGH!!!

That’s in the rules for the process of Reconciliation.

“Roolss? We don’ need no stinkin’ roolss!”

That’s in the rules for the process of Reconciliation.

Skywise on March 16, 2010 at 6:02 PM

Rules? What are these rules of which you speak?

He was quoted by Rush today as well. In his opening remarks. Ed’s famous. We heart him very much!

Key West Reader on March 16, 2010 at 7:10 PM

OT: I am fairly new to this blogging world but I am becoming amazed as to how powerful it really is on getting the message out.

Ed gets mentioned on Mark Levin.

Electrongod on March 16, 2010 at 6:19 PM

He was quoted by Rush today as well. In his opening remarks. Ed’s famous. We heart him very much!

purty easy WH Staffers…. check it. If health insurance goes from $3,000 down to a nickel it goes like this

pct change=((0.05-3,000)/0.05)*100= -99.998%

hell, I’ll even plug in a Fat Cat Cadillac insurance plan that’s worth $300,000 per year and a million dollar rider to make it a cool $1.3 mill. STill i can only get to -99.9999996%

His zombies are are clueless as he is.

Oopsdaisy on March 16, 2010 at 6:55 PM

They did the mash
They did the zombie mash
The zombie mash
It was a graveyard smash
They did the mash
To be imposed in a flash
They did the mash
They did the zombie mash

The scene was rockin’, all the zombies were digging the sounds
America held in chains, threaten by baying hounds
The coffin-bangers were about to arrive
With their vocal group, “The Crypt-Kicker Pelosi Five”

Buy Danish on March 16, 2010 at 6:54 PM

I’d forgotten that. One more thing.