(CNSNews.com) – Hours after more than two dozen senators from both parties introduced new delayed-trigger Iran sanctions legislation, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Thursday that President Obama will veto it if passed. “We don’t believe this proposal is necessary, as I think we’ve made clear and we have been discussing with members of […]
The White House is claiming that the Healthcare.gov website is mostly fixed, that the millions of Americans whose health plans were canceled thanks to government rules may be able to keep them for another year, and that in any event these people will get better plans through ObamaCare exchanges. Whatever the truth of these assertions, […]
No, Obamacare isn’t Katrina for Democrats. Katrina was an act of God and/or nature, a phenomenon beyond the control of mere human beings, a catastrophe not of choice, but of nature’s necessity, outside the realm of man’s will. George W. Bush didn’t cause it to happen, nothing he did could have made it not happen, […]
(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama told the crowd at a Democratic fundraiser in Beverly Hills on Tuesday that he has accomplished “as much, if not more” than any other president. “Over the last five years, thanks to the leadership of Nancy (Pelosi) and Harry (Reid) and legislators who are here, we have accomplished as much, […]
(CNSNews.com) – President Obama, came out in support of Senate Democrats using the “nuclear option” Thursday to push through the president’s judicial nominees over Republican filibusters. However, in 2005, then Sen. Obama took to the Senate floor to oppose GOP use of the “nuclear option” in order to push through President Bush’s nominees when Senate […]
Obamacare Then, Affordable Care Act Now. The term “Obamacare” has largely disappeared from the mouths of Democrats as the president’s health care reform law has gone from a rallying cry to a political grenade imploding on them. President Obama once said he liked the phrase ‘Obamacare’ on the 2012 campaign trail, telling supporters, “I do […]
This summer, the biggest fire in the history of the Sierra Nevada Mountains burned 400 square miles of our forests. It left behind a lot of dead timber on federal land that we could salvage to raise the millions needed to replant and restore the devastated forests. Processing that timber would also revive our stricken […]
At best, Obama’s proposed healthcare “fix” offers political protection for vulnerable lawmakers. That’s because beyond giving insurance companies permission to continue offering individual healthcare plans that don’t comply with the Affordable Care Act, the president’s fix doesn’t compel anyone to do anything. So why even propose such a fix, and especially a remedy that, according […]
(CNSNews.com) – Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, says Republicans will clobber Democrats with the Affordable Care Act — and President Obama’s false promises about it — in next year’s mid-term elections. “And this issue is going to be toxic for the Democrats,” Priebus told CNN’s “State of the Union With Candy […]
By: Erick Erickson | November 13th, 2013 at 09:41 AM Republicans are walking into a trap and they don’t even realize it. They are about to consider, in the House of Representatives, legislation by Congressman Upton that would allow people to keep their insurance plans. There’s a problem though. It is widely acknowledged that Congressman […]
