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Maybe you can figure this out: Chaos: Pelosi reaches deal with Stupak for Senate abortion vote?If they already had the votes wouldn't they have voted already?Most recent posts here.

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Time to forget our troubles and enjoy some light-hearted Friday night fare. How about Mark Steyn on government-funded coke-sniffing monkeys? (There's really more to the column than that but I'm trying to lighten up and accentuate the positive.)Here's some humorous banter from Steyn & Hewitt on the Demon Pass:MS: Taking one for the team is all very well. Taking one for the deem, or whatever this

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It's a beautiful thing the way Obama has brought us all together.This is war:The health care debate is beginning to resemble trench warfare. You have two camps -- the Yeses and the Nos. They spend most of their time launching artillery attacks on the opposing position. Every so often, though, a soldier traverses No Man's Land as he rushes to join the other side. So far four Nos have joined the

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I have more in common with Nancy Pelosi than I had thought. She, too, is a devotee of my favorite saint, the awesome St. Joseph, just a man, but chosen by God to be the protector of the Holy Family; humble and hidden, yet virile. I don't see him as the feeble elderly man often pictured in art.Earlier today Speaker Pelosi asked for St. Joseph's intercession for the passage of government "health

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RS McCain in his Spectator piece this morning: "They're obviously not doing this for policy reasons," one GOP operative who worked on the Brown campaign said last night. "This is political, but nobody can figure out the politics of it."Call it the politics of personal self-destruction.How the Democrats must be privately cursing Obama right now. Things could have been so different. If he had

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How does this sound to you, America?The hardest hit won't be those earning more than $250,000 a year—the group that he says needs to "pay their fair share." Rather, it's families whose combined annual income is around $100,000 who could be crushed under this plan. These folks will be too "rich" to qualify for ObamaCare's subsidies, but probably too poor to easily afford the pricey insurance that

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Got that?Most recent posts here.

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"America, we can win this fight." In Obamaspeak that means, "Yes, we can."Most recent posts here.

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Well, at least for now. And it hath made him "morose." He describes himself as "on the ledge." Jennifer Rubin quotes from his latest comments:Brooks is left, as many of us are, blinking in disbelief: It’s unbelievable that people even talk about this with a straight face. Do they really think the American people are going to stand for this? Do they think it will really fool anybody if a

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And get it off their shoulders. John Fund, via Jim Geraghty:Rounding up the votes for health care has also proven difficult. House Democratic Whip Jim Clyburn told McClatchy Newspapers that final consideration of the bill may not occur until Easter (April 4) or later. He is dealing with dozens of members who refuse to commit to a firm position in hopes their silence will force the leadership to

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From The Hill:Leading a revolt against President Barack Obama’s healthcare legislation over abortion has been a “living hell” for Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.).The telephone lines in his Washington and district offices have been “jammed” and he’s gotten more than 1,500 faxes and countless e-mails — most of which he says don’t come from his constituents. The fight has taken a toll on his wife, who

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The statists have insisted ad nauseam that Americans will love government health care when we they get to know it, and that they don't give a whit about the process that delivers it. They are wrong. Smitty notes the push-back already underway and makes a prediction:This sorry wishful thinking on the part of some that the popular discontent is transient, and we’ll all just learn to enjoy the

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President Obama doesn't care about the process and he's sure you don't, either. Watch the clip from tonight's interview with Bret Baier, which Baier characterizes as more "combative" than is customary for him, and read this information-packed post from Allahpundit:“So Washington gets very concerned with these procedures in Congress, whether Republicans are in charge or Democrats are in charge,” [

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"Hypocrite" is a cheap, overused epithet; no human being is perfectly consistent, and people do learn and change their minds over time. But . . . sometimes the shoe fits too well:Dems Touting "Sunshine" Along With Deem RuleDeem and pass shows “lack of confidence,” “demeaning of democracy”Ack.Most recent posts here.

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Good morning. A bracing primer on what's going on in the House:Got that? Pass it on.It's not working in Massachusetts: "If President Obama and the Democrats repeat the mistake of the health insurance reform here in Massachusetts on a national level, they will threaten to wipe out the American economy within four years,” [State Treasurer Timothy] Cahill said in a press conference in his

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Tea-time tab dump:This will help a lot:While Speaker Nancy Pelosi talks “Deem and Pass,” President Barack Obama is going a different route – he’s talking to Fox News. In an “extended, exclusive” interview tomorrow he will sit down with Special Report anchor Bret Baier to make his health care reform pitch to the FNC audience. What a long, strange trip it’s been.And we're still ridin' that

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Quoth Madame Speaker, ". . . once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow." But kicking through doors doesn't go over well with voters: "Whose door is the Speaker kicking in?" asks Brad Dayspring, a spokesman for Republican Whip Rep. Eric Cantor. "People tend to prefer a polite knock, and after a year of having their doors bashed and kicked in by Speaker Pelosi,

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According to Doug Ross's source:The budget committee is all smoke and mirrors. They are required to pass out a budget reconciliation bill in order to start the process. They just dressed up an old version of the House bill in reconciliation clothes so Pelosi and the rules committee have a vehicle they can completely amend with their own reconciliation instructions.Likely Wednesday, the rules

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Catching up on yesterday's news. From what I gather the best thing to come out of Monday's House antics was Rep. Paul Ryan's condemnation of them. Dems like to think (and dearly hope) that the voters don't care about the process, and perhaps that's often true. But don't count on it in this case, when 1) voters are informed, 2) the majority party is pushing the process up to and perhaps beyond the

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This strikes me as very stupid, politically, because the people hate to see their "representatives" sell their votes, especially for bad laws. But suicidal Dems may be locked in at this point. If bribery is necessary to an Obama win, so be it:Clinching support for the bill might require Obama to back away from his insistence that senators purge the legislation of a number of lawmakers' special

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Archbishop Chaput forcefully condemns the Senate bill: Do not be misled. The Senate version of health-care reform currently being pushed ahead by congressional leaders and the White House — despite public resistance and numerous moral concerns — is bad law; and not simply bad, but dangerous. It does not deserve, nor does it have, the support of the Catholic bishops in our country, who speak for

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If I retained the capacity to be shocked or offended I think this would do it:I guess the NYT forgot that Christian imagery is offensive to Obama. Or maybe they don't know that the cross is a Christian image. See I Own the World, Ruby Slippers, Anne Leary, Doug Ross, Instapundit, Adrienne for more.Most recent posts here.

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The game is afoot. Congress has dusted off and posted a 2300-page bill which will serve as the shell for the actual legislation they plan to cram down an unwilling America's throat.Is this how Congress, with their huge Democrat majority and alleged mandate for change, would pass a popular, bill? Even supporters of the Obama agenda must see that the maneuvers planned for this week, starting today,

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Gibbs brags:“We’ll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week,” Gibbs said on “Fox News Sunday.” Gibbs added that those on next week’s Sunday talk shows “will be talking about healthcare not as a presidential proposal but I think as the law of the land.”Rep. James Clyburn, though conceding the votes aren't there yet, is "very confident that we’ll get this done."Anita Dunn

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The cause of Toyota's mysterious alleged sudden accelerations may be exactly what my silent partner has been saying all along: stepping on the wrong pedal. Theodore Frank:In the 24 cases where driver age was reported or readily inferred, the drivers included those of the ages 60, 61, 63, 66, 68, 71, 72, 72, 77, 79, 83, 85, 89--and I'm leaving out the son whose age wasn't identified, but whose 94-

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