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By: Patterico’s Pontifications » Dialing 911 for Obamacare (updated)

Patterico’s Pontifications » Dialing 911 for Obamacare (updated) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:38:48 +0000

[...] hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. By the way, Cohn also reported that the Senate Finance Committee has postponed its healthcare [...]

By: The Greenroom » Forum Archive » Dialing 911 for Obamacare

The Greenroom » Forum Archive » Dialing 911 for Obamacare — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:15:33 +0000

[...] hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. By the way, Cohn also reported that the Senate Finance Committee has postponed its healthcare [...]

By: The Greenroom » Forum Archive » Will Olympia Snowe derail Obamacare?

The Greenroom » Forum Archive » Will Olympia Snowe derail Obamacare? — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:09:40 +0000

[...] This has been obvious for a while, but it always bears repeating, especially to readers of The New York Times. The Obama administration has studied the Clintons’ failure to take over American medicine, and is pursuing a different Congressional strategy. But Congress remains Congress. [...]

By: JD

JD — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:03:24 +0000

It is just like he did with Caterpillar. Actually, I think it is intentional. Barcky knows that his words will get much more coverage than someone from a trade association will get days after the fact.

By: SPQR

SPQR — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:00:01 +0000

JD, I think he believes that no one would dare contradict him.

By: JD

JD — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:50:15 +0000

Barcky misrepresented what someone else said? Nah, get out of here.

By: SPQR

SPQR — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:36:06 +0000

More signs of just how utterly incompetent Obama and his people are. Beyond my most cynical beliefs in just how empty this suit is.

By: SPQR

SPQR — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:27:50 +0000

Some early indications of the plan being mooted by Democrats. Notice that the Coward in residence of the White House is not putting his fingerprints on it directly.

By: MJBrutus

MJBrutus — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:49:59 +0000

So this is what happens when you promise everything to everyone. Can’t pass cap and trade because it will hurt the unions in that industry who you made promises to. Can’t pass health care because somebody will need to pay for it and you already promised everybody that nobody will have to pay for anything. Well, I suppose we can just keep on borrowing the money from our children. They’ll understand some day and thank us for it.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:21:54 +0000

Nominating her is a signal to the voters whose votes you need that the GOP is run by a bunch of non-serious folks.

Non-serious. Huh? You mean people (or those “voters whose votes you need”) who’ve looked the other way as the big butthead — aka Joe Biden — who in reality was Palin’s direct opponent (meaning VP vs VP) — sits one slot away from the Oval Office?

Now you can say that “those voters whose votes you (ie GOP) need” won’t be happy with any candidate in the Republican camp who isn’t super squishy philosophically, perhaps a variation of Ah-nold Schwarzenegger. But to claim their preferences are based on whether a candidate is “non-serious” or not is far too imprecise and ironic a phrase.

After all, a lot of “those voters whose votes you need” are the same goofuses — ie, self-described independents who in reality are closeted liberals, and too embarrassed to admit it — who have pushed California (aka the “Golden State”) further and further to the left over the past 10 years–nothwithstanding a minor pause or hiccup when out of desperation they voted to recall Gray Davis. And we all know what a wonderful — and very non-serious — joke the “Golden State” has become.