Blanche Lincoln and Harry Reid may have re-election problems.
Support for ObamaCare is at 25 percent. 25 percent? That’s worse than Nancy Pelosi.
Two board members of Human Rights Watch have had enough of the organization’s anti-Israel bias.
I concur on the observations of James Taranto and Roger Kimball on Edward Kennedy.
Even now George W. Bush extends kindness and consideration to the Kennedys. Somehow that never figured into Kennedy’s political calculations or bitter denunciations of Bush.
Reminding us that Obama is proposing a $622B cut in Medicaid and Medicare (yes, imagine if a Republican did that), Karl Rove observes: “The problem for Mr. Obama is that he lacks credibility when he asserts his plan won’t add to the deficit or won’t lead to rationing; that people can keep their health plans; that every family’s health care will be better, not worse; and that a government run plan isn’t a threat to private insurance. A large number of Americans don’t believe the president on this. With this week’s $2 trillion upward revision in the White House’s deficit projections, August has been the cruelest month for Mr. Obama.” Still, he’s right to caution that ObamaCare isn’t dead quite yet.
While the Obama team goes after CIA operatives, this poll reminds us that Americans don’t have much patience with Obama’s national-security stunts: “Seventy-five percent (75%) of U.S. voters are at least somewhat concerned that dangerous terrorists will be set free if the Guantanamo prison camp is closed and some prisoners are transferred to other countries. Fifty-six percent (56%) are very concerned.”
Howard Dean at Jim Moran’s health-care town hall: “The reason tort reform is not in the [health care] bill is because the people who wrote it did not want to take on the trial lawyers in addition to everybody else they were taking on. And that’s the plain and simple truth.” Nice to know.
In case you need further reason to oppose ObamaCare, you need look no further than Rahm Emanuel’s brother: “As a bioethicist, he has written extensively about who should get medical care, who should decide, and whose life is worth saving. Dr. Emanuel is part of a school of thought that redefines a physician’s duty, insisting that it includes working for the greater good of society instead of focusing only on a patient’s needs. Many physicians find that view dangerous, and most Americans are likely to agree. The health bills being pushed through Congress put important decisions in the hands of presidential appointees like Dr. Emanuel. They will decide what insurance plans cover, how much leeway your doctor will have, and what seniors get under Medicare.”
