No New Promises, Please
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 20th, 2010 4:38 am by HL
No New Promises, Please
Keith Hennessey, KeithHennessey.com
19 March Print this This comment is addressed to those fiscally conservative Members of the House of Representatives thinking of voting for pending health care legislation.America is on an unsustainable fiscal path. If we do nothing to address this, within 25 years the U.S. government will default on its debt, with devastating consequences for the U.S. economy and society.We are on this path because past elected officials made unsustainable benefit promises and enshrined them in law. In some cases they paid for those…
A Textbook Case of Hysteria
Christine Flowers, Philadelphia Daily News
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Democrats Risk Undermining Process With Health Bill
Dems Use Tactics They Once Reviled
Steve Huntley, Chicago Sun-Times
A big showdown vote over health care is coming Sunday, and President Obama and the Democratic leaders of Congress are pulling out all the stops to get their bill passed — so much so that they're starting to mimic a lot of what they said they hated in the Bush administration.Obama and the Democrats have embraced arcane legislative maneuvers — “reconciliation” in the Senate and a “deeming” rule in the House — while handing out payoffs like the “Louisiana Purchase” to round up the bare minimum of votes needed to enact their legislation. The message is clear:…
