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Archive for March, 2010

You Know Who To Blame For ObamaCare ? Yep, George W. Bush

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, March 22nd, 2010. Filed under 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Elections, George W Bush, Health Care Reform, Political Parties, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Republicans

Over at The American Spectator, Philip Klein says something that every conservative should be saying:
The question conservatives should be asking though, is how did we get in this position in the first place? How come, over the course of two elections, Democrats were able to take back the White House and amass substantial majorities in [...]

Republican Congressman Shouts “Baby Killer” During Stupak Floor Speech

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, March 22nd, 2010. Filed under Congress, Dumbasses, Health Care Reform, Political Parties, Politics, Republicans

Things were testy on the House floor last night:
11:08 p.m.: CNN’s Brianna Keilar reports: A Republican lawmaker shouted out “baby killer” as Rep. Bart Stupak explained why he would not support the motion to recommit.
Here’s the video, although the shout is not easy to pick out in the audio:

The Congressman has been identified as a [...]

CNN: 59% Of Americans Oppose ObamaCare

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, March 22nd, 2010. Filed under 2010 Elections, Barack Obama, Democrats, Elections, Health Care Reform, Political Parties, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

As Congress was debating, and ultimately passing, the health care reform bill, CNN was conducting a poll that has some very interesting results:
20. As you may know, the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate are trying to pass final legislation that would make major changes in the country’s health care system. Based on [...]

Ron Paul On The Unconstitutional Health Care Bill

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, March 22nd, 2010. Filed under Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Ron Paul, U.S. Constitution

Since I was spending the day live blogging, I didn’t get much of a chance to watch television coverage of the House debate yesterday, but this appearance by Ron Paul on Fox Business Network last night as the vote tally crossed 216 is one I wish I had seen:

Maybe The Catholic Church Is Finally Getting It When It Comes To Pedophile Priests

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, March 22nd, 2010. Filed under Catholic Church, Religion

I was fairly critical of the letter the Pope Benedict XVI sent to the Irish Catholic Church the other day, but this report seems to indicate that there may actually be a real change taking place:
[Benedict's letters says that priests] are to “Openly acknowledge [their] guilt, submit [them]selves to the demands of justice, but [...]

Reason Saves Cleveland: How To Reinvent A Dying American City

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, March 22nd, 2010. Filed under Economics, Individual Liberty

All this week, Reason has been posting an online video series featuring Drew Carey, and taking a look at Carey’s hometown of Cleveland, Ohio a once-great industrial city that has been in a decades long decline.
Here’s the full series in one video, which runs about an hour:

Or, you can watch the individual episodes on [...]

Idiot Conservative Calls For Obama’s Assassination On Twitter

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, March 22nd, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Dumbasses, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

Sometime yesterday afternoon, a self-described conservative blogger who goes by the Twitter handle Solly_Forrell, posted this on his Twitter feed:

and

The Tweets have since been deleted, apparently by Twitter itself in response to a complaint, and this person has issued a half-hearted apology that didn’t really last for long. And, not surprisingly, the guy is a [...]

Al Shaprton: When Americans Elected Obama, They Voted For Socialism

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, March 22nd, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

I hate to say that Al Sharpton is right, but he’s, probably inadvertently, right:

“First of all, then we have to say the American public overwhelmingly voted for socialism when they elected President Obama,” Sharpton said. “Let’s not act as though the president didn’t tell the American people – the president offered the American people health [...]

The Biggest Beneficiaries Of ObamaCare ? Hospitals, Drug Companies, And Insurance Companies

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, March 22nd, 2010. Filed under Business, Economics, Health Care Reform, Politics

The New York Times finally figures out what most people who gave health care reform more than just a passing thought already knew:
With a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system, Congress would be giving the health care industry as many as 32 million additional paying customers in the next few years.
That would mean [...]

Once Again Congress Proves That It Is America’s Only Distinctly Native Criminal Class

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, March 22nd, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Congress, Health Care Reform, Nancy Pelosi, Political Parties, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

Don Boudreax pretty much sums up how I’m feeling today:
These people look like serious adults; the timber of their voices make them sound like serious adults; and their titles are ones that are assumed to be reserved for serious adults. But, in fact, these people – from Obama to Pelosi to Hoyer to Reid [...]

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