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Archive for August, 2009

Former Top Canadian Doctor Warns Americans On Risks Of ObamaCare

by @ Friday, August 21st, 2009. Filed under Health Care Reform, Politics

Dr. Brian Day, the former head of the Canadian Medical Association, spoke the other day about the realities of the Canadian health care system:

Bill O’Reilly: Dr. Day what is the biggest problem with your health care system?
Dr. Brian Day: Well, the biggest problem is access. By access we have, in the Canadian system the first [...]

Senate Negotiators Working On Scaled-Back Health Care Reform Package

by @ Friday, August 21st, 2009. Filed under Health Care Reform, Politics

It’s looking like we could see a House-Senate showdown over health care reform when Congress returns to work:
Senate health-care negotiators agreed late Thursday to ignore the increasingly strident rhetoric from Republican and Democratic leaders and to keep working toward a bill that can win broad support from the rank-and-file in both parties, according to sources [...]

Northern Virginia May Be Creigh Deeds’s Achilles Heel

So far at least, the State Senator from Bath County isn’t impressing voters in Virginia’s most populous region:
Democratic gubernatorial candidate R. Creigh Deeds is running behind his Republican opponent in a recent Washington Post poll in large part because he has yet to win over voters in populous, Democratic-leaning Northern Virginia.
Voters across the region say [...]

Obama: Everyone “Gets All Wee Weed Up” In August

by @ Friday, August 21st, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Politics

Our Fearless Leader has come up with a rather interesting colloquial phrase:
US President Barack Obama launched a mocking counter-attack Thursday at pundits who believe the euphoric early promise of his presidency is evaporating amid bitter political warfare.
Obama, who has watched his poll ratings dip sharply over recent months, drew comparisons to his 2008 presidential campaign, [...]

Assault Rifle Interview Outside Obama Town Hall Was A Publicity Stunt

by @ Friday, August 21st, 2009. Filed under Dumbasses, Politics

It turns out that the guy who brought the AR-15 to President Obama’s Phoenix town hall was put up to it by a talk radio host named Ernest Hancock who had links tot last year’s Ron Paul Presidential Campaign:

Why am I not surprised ?
H/T: Tommy Christopher

ABC/WaPo Poll: Public Faith In Obama Is Slipping, Health Care Reform To Blame

by @ Friday, August 21st, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Politics

The new ABC News/Washington Post poll demonstrates quite clearly that President Obama is paying a heavy political price for advocating a health care reform plan that is subject to much public skepticism:
Public confidence in President Obama’s leadership has declined sharply over the summer, amid intensifying opposition to health-care reform that threatens to undercut his attempt [...]

Democrats In Crisis Mode Over Health Care Reform

by @ Friday, August 21st, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Democrats, Health Care Reform, Politics

There’s been a lot of ambiguity coming out of the Congress and the Obama White House this week over the health care reform package. Over the weekend, we saw the White House seemingly backing away from the “public option” as a necessary part of health care reform and one Democratic Senator declared the entire idea [...]

Will The GOP Learn The Wrong Lesson ?

by @ Thursday, August 20th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Politics, Republicans

Over at The American Spectator, Jim Antle notes that the Republican Party may not be drawing the right lessons from it’s current rebound:
Democrats won the 2006 and 2008 elections not because the country had embraced them but because George W. Bush and congressional Republicans did not seem to have answers for what ailed the country. [...]

Sadly, Mike Huckabee Seems To Be The Strongest Republican Out There

At least according to the latest data from Public Policy Polling poll
Our fifth monthly national survey matching up Barack Obama against some possible 2012 opponents comes to the same two primary conclusions as the other four:
1) Obama leads all comers
2) Mike Huckabee, at least at this early stage, is the strongest GOP candidate
In this particular [...]

Oregon Says No To Chemotherapy, Yes To Assisted Suicide

by @ Thursday, August 20th, 2009. Filed under Health Care Reform, Politics

This is what happens when you put your life in the hands of the state:

H/T: Jason Pye

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