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Is Obama's Goal To Write Obamacare's Obituary?
By Carole on Feb 27, 2010 | 4 comments »
A bipartisan summit no one believed would change any minds. A Democratic Party who couldn't pass Obamacare even when they had a super majority. A president who is allegedly smart enough to see that he has lost the approval of most Americans on this issue. A set of rules in the Senate that offer the opposition several opportunities to block Obamacare's passage in spite of the reconciliation process. And yet the headlines blare that President Obama's intent is to push ahead. Why?
Obama's Latest Contradiction
By Carole on Feb 6, 2010 | Comment »
Speaking about health care reform at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser Thursday night, President Obama said "And it may be that...if Congress decides we're not going to do it, even after all the facts are laid out, all the options are clear, then the American people can make a judgment as to whether this Congress has done the right thing for them or not." (source) But there's always another day and another contradiction from Mr. Obama.
A Priest, A Rabbi And A Stimulus Package Walk Into A Bar...
By Carole on Jan 27, 2010 | Comment »
Have you heard the one about the $787 billion stimulus bill that had to be passed to keep the unemployment rate below eight percent? Turns out the bill cost an additional $75 billion (for a total of $862 billion) mostly because unemployment benefits are costing more now that the unemployment rate is at ten percent. I really wish this was a joke but unfortunately, it's the bottom line in Tuesday's cost estimate of the Recovery Act by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. (source)
Obama Warns Fellow Dems Not To Jam Through Obamacare
By Carole on Jan 20, 2010 | 1 comment »
After spending the past year pushing his fellow Democrats in Congress to pass his idea of health care reform...After months of arm twisting and bribing the last reluctant Democrats in the Senate to vote yes for Obamacare...After weeks of behind closed door meetings with House and Senate leaders trying to craft something/anything that would give him a legislative win on his top domestic priority...Just days after he told the audience at a Martha Coakley rally, "If you were fired up in the last election I need you more fired up in this election." President Barack Obama is telling other Democrats not to "jam" a health care overhaul bill through Congress.
On This Thanksgiving Day, 2009
By Carole on Nov 26, 2009 | Comment »
The challenges our nation is currently facing make these words from our 40th president especially meaningful even more than a quarter century since he wrote them:
Two hundred years ago, the Congress of the United States issued a Thanksgiving Proclamation stating that it was "the indispensable duty of all nations" to offer both praise and supplication to God.
