Republicans Aren’t Serious on Health Care
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 13th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
Republicans Aren’t Serious on Health Care
Jacob Weisberg, Slate
GOP Sens. Charles Grassley and Orrin Hatch Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate finance committee, has emerged as one of the harshest critics of what the right likes to call “Obamacare.” After spending the first half of the year working with Democrats to find a bipartisan compromise, Grassley has spent the second half trying to prevent one. He attacks the bill now being debated on the Senate floor as an indefensible new entitlement. He complains that it expands the deficit, threatens Medicare, and does too little to restrain health care inflation. At a town…
First the Good News…
Larry Kudlow, RealClearPolitics
First the good news on the economic recovery that everybody loves to hate:Retail sales totally beat Wall Street estimates with a huge 1.3 percent gain in November. Core retail sales have increased 5.6 percent at an annual rate over the past three months. Family net wealth has rebounded $5 trillion over the past six months. Jobless claims keep trending lower. Business sales, up 1.1 percent in October (the latest data), have jumped 10.1 percent annually over the past three months. And business inventories, led by manufacturing, also rose in October. Receive news alertsThe data suggest that…
