Democrat Congress
John S. Baker and Elliott Stonecipher: The 2010 Census Will Violate the Constitution – WSJ.com
Next year’s census will determine the apportionment of House members and Electoral College votes for each state. To accomplish these vital constitutional purposes, the enumeration should count only citizens and persons who are legal, permanent residents. But it won’t.
John S. Baker and Elliott Stonecipher: The 2010 Census Will Violate the Constitution – WSJ.com.
10 Facts About US Healthcare – Hoover Institution
Many great facts about private vs public healthcare. Too bad Barry doesn’t read.
Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations. The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other developed country. Since the mid- 1970s, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to U.S. residents more often than recipients from all other countries combined. In only five of the past thirty-four years did a scientist living in the United States not win or share in the prize. Most important recent medical innovations were developed in the United States.
via Hoover Institution – Hoover Digest – Here’s a Second Opinion.
Pelosi’s Health-Care Payroll Tax Is a Tax on Labor – WSJ.com
A new study by Sageworks, Inc., a financial consulting firm, runs the numbers on the income statements of actual companies. It looks at three types of firms with at least $5 million in sales: a retailer, a construction company and a small manufacturer. The companies each have total payroll of between $750,000 and $1 million a year. Assuming the firms absorb the cost of the payroll tax, their net profits fall by one-third on average. That is on top of the 45% income tax and surtax that many small business owners would pay as part of the House tax scheme, so the total reduction in some small business profits would climb to nearly 80%. These lower after-tax profits would mean fewer jobs.
To put it another way, the workers who will gain health insurance from ObamaCare will pay the steepest price for it in either a shrinking pay check, or no job at all.
via Pelosi’s Health-Care Payroll Tax Is a Tax on Labor – WSJ.com.
Support Slips for Health Plan – WSJ.com
In the new poll, conducted July 24 to July 27, 42% called it a bad idea while 36% said it was a good idea.
Among those with insurance, the proportion calling the plan a bad idea rose to 47% from 37%.
The declining popularity of health-care overhaul appeared to be fueled by rising anxiety over the federal budget deficit and concerns over the role of government in determining personal medical decisions.
Conyers Sees No Point in Members Reading 1,000-Page Health Care Bill…
Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Has Liberalism Jumped the Shark?
Identity politics, when viewed in its purest form, is racism. Keynesian economics, when distilled to its basic concepts, flies in the face of common sense. Re-branding political policy doesn’t change its ultimate effectiveness. Hypocrites are hypocrites regardless of the causes they support, or claim to champion. The U.S. should not be about “nuance” when it comes to foreign policy. We must always stand on the side of freedom and democracy.
For the first time in a long time even a casual observer can clearly see what modern liberalism is all about.
via Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Has Liberalism Jumped the Shark?.
Strassel: How Obama Stumbled on Health Care – WSJ.com
The party of the left owns the White House, a filibuster-proof Senate, and a 70-seat House majority. As one House Republican aide quipped: “We could have every GOP congressman and their parents vote against a Democratic bill, and still not stop it.” All Democrats have to do is agree on something.
You can’t blame the GOP when you own every Washington institution.
That they can’t is testimony to Team Obama’s mismanagement of its first big legislative project. The president is a skilled politician and orator, but the real test of a new administration is whether it can shepherd a high-stakes bill through Congress. In retrospect, the mistakes are growing clear.
House healthcare talks break down in anger
The seven Blue Dogs on the Energy and Commerce Committee stormed out of a Friday meeting with their committee chairman, Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), saying Waxman had been negotiating in bad faith over a number of provisions Blue Dogs demanded be changed in the stalled healthcare bill.
“I’ve been lied to,” Blue Dog Coalition Co-Chairman Charlie Melancon (D-La.) said on Friday. “We have not had legitimate negotiations.
via TheHill.com.
This is the kind of Representation NY State get in the Senate
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Well done Chuck. Bet the union lobbyists have a real email address for you.