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Archive for March, 2010

Gas Line Cut At Home Of Virginia Congressman’s Brother, Possible Tea Party Connections

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, March 24th, 2010. Filed under Dumbasses, Health Care Reform, Politics

On Monday, this happened:
A tea party organizer angry over Rep. Tom Perriello’s (D-Va.) vote in favor of health care reform published what he thought was the freshman member’s home address on a blog, in case any readers “want to drop by” and provide a “personal touch” to their views.
Rather than giving out [...]

Signs Of Another Housing Market Collapse

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, March 24th, 2010. Filed under Credit Crisis, Economics, Real Estate

First, there is yesterday’s news on existing home sales:
Existing-home sales fell for the third consecutive month in February, fueling concerns that the tax credit for home buyers that helped revive the market last year won’t provide a comparable boost during this spring’s buying season.
An $8,000 tax credit for qualified first-time home buyers helped give the [...]

And We’re Back

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, March 24th, 2010. Filed under Blogging, News About The Site

Looks like the blog was done down for a few hours this afternoon.
We’re back now, though

Ron Paul v. Tim Geithner 3/23/2010

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, March 24th, 2010. Filed under Credit Crisis, Economics, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Ron Paul

Chris Matthews Equates Opposition To ObamaCare With Support For Jim Crow

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, March 24th, 2010. Filed under Dumbasses, Health Care Reform, Politics

No, really, he did:
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews interviewed Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox Tuesday night where Cox asserted it was unprecedented in the history of the federal government’s regulation of interstate commerce that U.S. citizens be forced to buy a product, in this case insurance coverage, a reference to the individual mandate in the health-care law [...]

Congressman John Dingell: We Need Time To “Control The People”

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, March 24th, 2010. Filed under Congress, Democrats, Health Care Reform, Political Parties, Politics

Well, this is an interesting way of putting it:
Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) defended the ObamaCare bill on WJR’s Paul W. Smith show yesterday when the host wondered why Democrats wait until 2014 to stop people from dying through lack of universal health care coverage. Dingell tells Smith that it takes a [...]

Is ObamaCare Constitutional ? Yes ! It’s Right There In The “Good And Welfare” Clause

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, March 24th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Congress, Health Care Reform, Political Parties, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, U.S. Constitution

Congressman John Conyers discusses the Constitutionality of ObamaCare:

How can we expect Members of Congress to abide by the Consitution, when it’s so blindingly obvious that they don’t even know what’s in it ?

Yes, There Are Some Bat Shit Crazy People In The Republican Party

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, March 24th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Dumbasses, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Political Parties, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Republicans

At least according to the latest Harris Poll:
A new book, Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America by John Avlon describes the large numbers of Americans who hold extreme views of President Obama. This Harris Poll seeks to measure how many people are involved. It finds that 40% of adults believe he is a [...]

Why The Stimulus Isn’t Working

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, March 24th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Credit Crisis, Economics, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

UC-Irvine economist Richard McKenzie explains:

Andrew Napolitano On The Constitutionality Of ObamaCare

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, March 24th, 2010. Filed under Health Care Reform, Politics, U.S. Constitution

Judge Andrew Napolitano has an excellent summary of the legal side of the health care debate:

Napolitano is right in pointing out that these Attorney General lawsuits have a standing problem.

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