The President is speaking to the House making a final push to pass his dangerous health care reform bill. 

It is urgent that we make every effort to push back.  

The people spoke up and told the Democrats that “Deem and Pass” was unacceptable.  They now must hear that the whole 2000+ page bill is unacceptable and that Americans across the country do not want it.

Yesterday 40 groups from across the political spectrum voiced their opposition to one of the worst parts of the bill, the individual mandate to purchase insurance at threat of prosecution and fines.  In fact the the bill would allow the IRS to enforce these and many other new provisions.  The IRS could have to hire more than 16,000 additional agents, auditors and other workers just to enforce all the new taxes and penalties,” said Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) which could cost an additional $10 billion this decade. Read the rest of this entry »

Not too surprisingly, “CBO gives Obama just what he wanted.” What is surprising is that the headline is not from a conservative political publication but from the front page of a mainstream, left-of-center urban daily newspaper, The Arizona Daily Star.

The President ordered up a $950 billion price tag, and a $100 billion, ten-year reduction in the federal deficit. Presto! The CBO pulled the right number of digits out of the hat, a mere $940 billion price tag and a $138 billion deficit decrease—a giant drop in the gargantuan federal red-ink bucket. Read the rest of this entry »

“Reconciliation” bill out & House Democrats in Disarray. Help Keep Them That Way!

House Democrats “are in disarray” according to Congressman Mike Pence and are still 5-10 ”yes” votes short.

• They were forced to release an incomplete CBO analysis this morning in their desperate attempt to pass their healthcare bill by Sunday. 
• President Obama has also canceled his trip to Asia set for Sunday. 
• The Senate Budget Committee Chairman is openly questioning whether the Senate can pass the House reconciliation bill without any changes.
• The Slaughter Solution is seen by some key Democrats as a “poison.”
• A key Democrat, Michael Arcuri (D-NY), has switched from a “yes” to a “no.”
• Ways & Means has released a report detailing the ”massive expansion of IRS power” under the pending bill.

Your calls to the Capitol are helping to keep this pressure on the Democrats. Keep calling!  Read the rest of this entry »

Reconciliation Bill Posted
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Dems defeat effort 222-203 to force separate vote on Senate Bill:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/87683-dems-defeat-gop-effort-to-force-separate-vote-on-senate-health-bill
 
Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad says unlikely the Senate will be able to pass a health care reconciliation bill unchanged from what the House passes.”
http://www.rollcall.com/news/44356-1.html

The proposed charade is not the “up-or-down vote” the president says he wants. Of course, he is demanding an “up” vote, not a “down” one. This is how the Slaughter/reconciliation procedure would work to deliver it.

We have a Senate bill that is a concoction of arsenic, mercury, botulinum toxin, snake venom, lead, and 2000 other things that nobody knows much about. It got 60 votes before the Massachusetts election, and now can only get 59. The reason it can only get 59 is because the whole country helped to unelect the person who would have been #60. Read the rest of this entry »

Patients and physicians are descending on the US Capitol Tuesday to let Congress know that they do not want the massive government-run plan that Pelosi, Pres. Obama, and Reid are trying to force through this week.  For more information visit http://www.americangrassrootscoalition.org/ and http://www.doctorsandpatients.org .

If you cannot be in DC Tuesday, there are events in your area to express your displeasure with the bill.  Americans for Prosperity are asking citizens across the country to “Honk No” Tuesday at Noon.   Details and a printable sign to hang from your car window are at http://honkno.com/about/ .  Read the rest of this entry »

Late Sunday evening House Democrats posted the shell bill for the Health Care reconciliation package. This is just a shell bill that will be gutted and replaced later in the week. An explanation of this process can be read at: http://spectator.org/blog/2010/03/15/the-health-care-shell-game-beg .