1) If you start raising taxes immediately for benefits that do not start until 2014, what’s to keep Congress from spending the money in the meantime?
2) If one of the rationales for a government take over of health coverage is that “123 people die every day without insurance”, what [...]
You’ve got to love it when politicians accidentally tell the truth.
And you know how you best tie the hands of the politicians? Take the power away from them. Shrink the government. The less they can do, the less reason there is to bribe them.
The less they can do, the less [...]
The Georgia State Supreme Court recently upheld the state’s right to place felons on sex offender registries even if the offense was not sexual in nature. Georgia’s law exposes a common, expanded notion of what a sex offender actually is.
Under the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of [...]
The House of Representatives has just passed the Slaughter “Solution” to avoid voting on an odious piece of legislation that none of them would have the guts to take an up or down vote on. Many representatives are opposed to individual elements of the Senate bill (such as the provisions [...]
Uh, sure Joe.
Yeah, the health care bill is going to be such a boon for Democrats this election cycle they’re working on ways to move the bill through the House without actually having Democrats go on record as voting for it.
Nobody wants this bill. If it were as popular as [...]
Best known for his role as Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, Fess Parker was a cultural icon back in the mid to late fifties. The Ballad of Davy Crockett was a best seller, Bill Hayes version making [...]
Update: Well, that was quick. Politico reports, “Conrad has asked that the provision be removed. He said critics have misrepresented it and he didn’t want it to become a distraction.”
North Dakota’s self-proclaimed “deficit hawk” gets the Bismarck Earmark I posted about previously in [...]
Tonight the Fighting Sioux hockey team is in the playoff game of the WCHA Final Five down in St Cloud. The Sioux earned their spot by demolishing our hated rival, the Minnesota Gophers last Friday and Sunday. (We won’t go into what [...]
Here’s the vote roll. North Dakota readers will note that Rep. Earl Pomeroy voted against the resolution.
The House voted 222-203 Thursday to set aside a resolution that would have required an up-or-down tally on the Senate health bill, halting a [...]
Times are tough for Democrats. Despite their assertions that they’re doing the people’s work in cramming through this unpopular health care bill, they seem to be losing ground politically. And nothing may indicate that more than none other than radio giant Howard Stern vowing never to support the “communist” Democrats [...]
You’d certainly have that impression from the media, but here are a few things to consider.
First, Obama has now delayed his trip to Asia until June. Telling me that nothing’s going to happen on Sunday.
Second, apparently Democrats are putting the hard sell [...]
The liberals have been incessant in their derision of “big insurance.” They tell us that “big insurance” is opposing the health care bill because it will be devastating for their profits. They tell us that Republicans are just opposing the bill because they’re in the pockets of “big insurance.”
To hear [...]
I didn’t know they could do this.
Omar Ramos-Lopez was recently laid off from the Texas Auto Center and he was angry about it. So he used a former' [...]
Meaning that the scoring of the health care bill creates the appearance of deficit reduction, without the reality.
Obama and the rest of his Democrats are busy touting their health care bill as a “deficit buster” today based on a preliminary CBO [...]
Fox News continues to dominate cable news ratings. CNN and MSNBC continues to be beat out by a cable channel that specializes in dick and fart jokes.
Cable Network Rankings - Week of 03-8-10 [...]
I got an interesting email today from Congressman Pomeroy about how he negotiated with the Health and Human Services administration to waive some rules that would have seriously hurt small hospitals, the like of which many North Dakotans rely on. [...]
Back in February, North Dakota Democrats were calling former Governor Ed Schafer “sleazy” and “dishonest” for suggesting in an ad that the state’s federal delegation - Byron Dorgan, Kent Conrad and Earl Pomeroy - were supporting a bill that funds abortion. Today, the Governor is running an ad doubling down [...]
If President Obama and the Democrats get their way, healthcare reform will get passed via “deem and pass”. There are all sorts of hurdles set in the path of this approach. Skittish Democrats more worried about their political futures than expanding government might not support it. Various parts of the [...]
Back in February I posted about a snafu including some “tigger” spending embedded in legislation by the North Dakota state assembly that Governor Hoeven announced would be spent but ultimately was not due to a clerical mistake at the state treasury. The state legislature had appropriated $8.8 million in funding [...]
About a week ago I reported that Vice President Joe Biden was to keynote the North Dakota Democrat state convention.
Today the Democrats indicated that, though they were negotiating with Biden to attend, he’s not coming.
Meredith Pickett, a spokeswoman for the state Democrats, told the Herald last [...]
This statement from the Bismarck Tribune, in a typically milquetoast editorial about the conventions, irks me a little bit:
Hoeven has asked for the Republican nod for the U.S. Senate race, as has Fargo architect Paul Sorum. Although Hoeven, a moderate, seems a sure bet for [...]
