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The Cornhusker Kick: Just when we thought the health care legislation could not possibly get any worse, any more damaging, or any more disgusting in its vote-buying kickbacks and special favors, then along comes this! In marathon meetings at the White House, the president and congressional Democrats came up with a "big, fat wet kiss for labor unions" (New York Post) in exempting them … [Read more...] about Big Labor, Big Favors

Published in the Belleville News-Democrat, TexasInsider.org, Raleigh News & Observer, Bellingham Herald, Lexington Herald-Leader, Sacramento Bee, LaCrosse Tribune, Duluth News Tribune, Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ), Kansas City Star, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and Nevada News and Views. Health reform is the Holy Grail for Democrats, but it may turn out instead to be their political death … [Read more...] about Reform Will Be an Albatross Around Democrats' Necks

The Senate's countdown to Christmas Eve is on, with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid facing an almost impossible schedule that has to go precisely as timed to get his health care vote by 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve. And that means working nights and all weekend long. But the bigger problem is that Sen. Reid still doesn't have the 60th vote to carry him over the finish line. Sen. Ben Nelson … [Read more...] about The Countdown

Grace-Marie Turner discusses the health reform debate with Stuart Varney. … [Read more...] about Grace-Marie Turner on FOX Business

So the latest bright idea from the closed room meetings on Capitol Hill ... expand government-run health plans. Now that's creative! Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that 10 Democratic senators met for a day and came up with this brilliant idea in their plans to transform one-sixth of our economy. But it is becoming clear that they produced nothing more than a vapor agreement and … [Read more...] about Vapor Agreement

Things are getting more, not less, difficult for Democrats as they try to meet their deadline of getting a health reform bill through the Senate before Christmas and to the president by the end of January. Just a few examples:   Docs object: A coalition representing more than 240,000 physicians and surgeons, including the powerful California Medical Association, sent a letter to Sen. Reid … [Read more...] about Trying Times

The 2,074-page health reform bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled Wednesday is a maze of complexity and duplicity. It would spend $848 billion over 10 years to provide new subsidies for health coverage, increase taxes by $486 billion, and allegedly cut spending by $491 billion. All the while, it pretends to use this massive government expansion to cut the deficit. The American … [Read more...] about Duplicity and Deceit

Speaker Pelosi and President Obama are as bold as they are desperate in forcing the House to vote this weekend on their massive health reform plan. The president is expected to give a full endorsement to the House bill, despite the fact that it clearly violates major campaign promises he has made to the American people about reducing health costs, not adding to the deficit, no middle class … [Read more...] about Bold, but Desperate