DNC Chair Admits Obama Was Too Busy With Wars and ObamaCare to Care About American Jobs

DNC Chair Tim Kaine admits Obama was too busy taking over healthcare to focus on jobs
And it shows! Our Community Organizer-in-chief has lost around 4 million jobs since taking office, even though he promised to create 3.5 million new ones (that's a 7.5 million jobs Deficit there Barry!). He also promised the Unemployment wouldn't go above 8% (it's been over 9.5% for 16 straight months). He's spent his first 2 years solcializing as much of the US economy as possible. Now even the DNC Chair admits what we already knew: he's been too busy to focus on jobs. From The Blaze via memeo...

The Problem With Entitlement
Ready for some scary numbers? According to AARP (the organization which lobbied so aggressively on behalf of ObamaCare), 7,000 Baby Boomers will become Medicare beneficiaries in 2011 … each day. That’s a total of 2.5 million new beneficiaries … part of an impending onrush that not only threatens the solvency of the program but the fiscal  U.S. government itself. By 2030, an estimated 80 million Americans will be enrolled in Medicare, up from 47 million today. Meanwhile, en...

NBCs Chuck Todd Warns GOP of Looking Backward With Investigations, ObamaCare Repeal
"Do Republicans want the first impression they give this month, be about the fights of the past?"...

Good News In Cancer Screening
A new blood test is now being studied that could revolutionize the treatment and screening of Cancer. Fox News reported the exciting news. A blood test so sensitive that it can spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones is moving one step closer to being available at your doctor’s office. Boston scientists who invented the test and Health Care giant Johnson & Johnson will announce Monday that they are joining forces to bring it to market. Four big cancer centers a...

Obamacare 'Rule' Goes Missing from Government Website
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. A few weeks ago, I wrote about a 347-page, 118,072-word ObamaCare "rule" released by Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius and unconfirmed-Medicare Administrator Donald Berwick, two people whose power would increase immensely under Obamacare. I wrote, "To get a real flavor for what life and health would be like under Obamacare, check out the language contained in the "rule" itself. (I dare you.)" Now, an alert ...

Democrats To Fight ObamaCare Repeal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Senate Democrats are warning House Speaker-elect John Boehner they’ll block any Republican effort to Repeal President Barack Obama’s Health Care overhaul. Citing better Medicare prescription coverage and other changes in the new law, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his top lieutenants say the overhaul “is too important to be treated as Collateral Damage in a partisan mission to Repeal health care.” The letter says Repeal would have “...

Obama Administration Takes Control of Insurance Prices
WND: Feds take control of Insurance prices (emphasis mine): Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and her staff are implementing a new 136-page federal Regulation which, for the first time ever, gives the Federal Government the power to set Health Insurance premium prices, a regulatory role traditionally reserved for the states, health policy experts are telling WND. The new price control rule centralizes Regulation of Insurance policy premiums -- and coverage -- in Washington, D...

Reason Morning Links: New Year's Edition
The 9/11 Health and Compensation Act is now law. House Republicans plan a vote on repealing ObamaCare. Joe Miller finally concedes defeat in Alaska. Hungary adopts sweeping new restrictions on the press. Is China preparing for a crackdown on Skype? Dave Barry looks back at 2010. ...

MSNBC's Chuck Todd Parrots Obama Talking Points: Will GOP 'Relitigate' Health Care?
Daily Rundown host Chuck Todd on Monday parroted Barack Obama's talking points and repeatedly wondered if the new GOP majority in the House will insist on 'relitigating Health Care." He began by lecturing, "Will the first month of a Republican-led House be known for relitigating the past, pushing for Repeal of health care, focus on investigation?" Compare that to President Obama during a November 3, post-midterm Press Conference: "We'd be misreading the election ...

Rep. John Boehner set to repeal Obama victories
At the top of Rep. John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) list are government regulations designed to keep the public safe and healthy.The new speaker of the House is planning moves to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency and Obama's new Health Care reform laws. “Democrats, who in many cases looked on the law as a rabid beast best avoided in the fall Elections, are reversing course, gearing up for a coordinated all-out effort to preserve and defend it. Under the law, they say, consumers ar...

Obama returns to Washington to face emboldened GOP
President Barack Obama got what he wanted from his Hawaiian Vacation: nearly two weeks away from the spotlight before returning to Washington to face an emboldened Republican party and a major shakeup of his staff. The first weeks of the new year will be an early test of whether the president can manage a divided Congress, and build on the victories he secured during the final days of the lame-duck legislative session. And with a host of Republicans readying to run for his job, the administratio...

Shea-Porter doesn't rule out 2012 re-run
There's been speculation about a re-run in the 1st Congressional District, which she served as the U.S. representative from 2007 through 2010. She told the Portsmouth Herald in a story today that she hasn't ruled 2012 Campaign. According to the Herald piece: Shea-Porter said she has no firm plans for the future except to take a long break but stay in the public eye. "I think we still have a lot of work to do," she said told the Herald. She shared with the Herald some of what she saw as the highs...

The failure of Obama economic policy
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Robert Samuelson: ... The trouble is that Obama, having stabilized The Economy, weakened the recovery. What's missing from Summers's valedictory is any sense of contradiction between the administration's ambitious social and regulatory agenda and the business confidence necessary for hiring and investing. Of course, the connections existed. The health-care law raises hiring costs by requiring in 2014 that all firms with more than 50 employees provide health i...

Obama returns to Washington to face emboldened GOP
HONOLULU—President Barack Obama got what he wanted from his Hawaiian Vacation: nearly two weeks away from the spotlight before returning to Washington to face an emboldened Republican party and a major shakeup of his staff. The first weeks of the new year will be an early test of whether the president can manage a divided Congress, and build on the victories he secured during the final days of the lame-duck legislative session. And with a host of Republicans readying to run for his job, t...

Why No Credit for Stay-at-Home Moms?
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. As we ring in the New Year, the Wall Street Journal reports, "The Credit Card Act signed into law last year [in 2009] was supposed to stop Financial Institutions from sleazy antics. But, instead, some Retailers say, it may restrict stay-at-home moms." The Journal writes that the Federal Reserve has been "implementing" and "clarifying" aspects of the Credit Card Act, which President Obama signed into law, and that the Fed has now pro...

ABC News Political Director Advises GOP Not to Try and Repeal ObamaCare Video
Here is video of ABC News Political Director Amy Walter essentially warning Republicans not to pursue a Repeal of ObamaCare in the new Congress, saying ominously she does not think that would “set well with the electorate.” In the first place, isn’t it odd that the “Political Director” of a major news network would be making statements like this - especially since they like to put forth the facade of being impartial and independent? Beyond that, Republicans ...

Troubling Signs From New Republican House Majority
Republicans have come out with guns cocked as they prepare to take over leadership of the House. This is natural; they've developed the kind of bunker mentality and solidarity in shared victimhood that comes from being in the House minority. As tough as it was for the GOP to be out of control in the House, Senate, and White House, it's most frustrating for House minority party members, since they have almost no real power. Senators in the minority can effectively rule the chamber by threatenin...

Economic Illiterates Tout Benefits of Obamacare
Medicare is bumping up payments for Primary Care by 10 percent from Jan. 1 through the end of 2015 Medicare enrollees will be able to get many preventive health services - such as vaccinations and Cancer screenings - for free starting in January. For those of us who know there is no such thing as a free lunch and that these ‘benefits’ will have to be paid for somehow are wondering where is the money coming from? Oh yeah, that’s right! Our Insurance Premiums will be ...

Finding Reverse Gear in the New Year
The incoming 112th Congress has a lot of work to do… and several important things to undo. President Obama has already used his first weekly radio address of the new year to declare Democrats and Republicans have a “shared responsibility to move this country forward.” On the contrary, the Republicans have a duty to make 2011 the year America finds its reverse gear. Here are four terrible ideas from the recent past that our ne...

GOP to quickly attack health care law in House
(01-03) 04:00 PST Washington - -- House Republicans plan to bring up a vote to Repeal the Health Care overhaul early in the new Congress that opens Wednesday, at least before President Obama delivers his State of the Union address later this month, a key Republican lawmaker said Sunday. Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., incoming chairman of one of the House committees that oversee health policy, said undoing the Democrats' health reform law would be a top priority for the new GOP-controlled House. Up...

ObamaCare Repeal Vote, Bill to De-Fund Abortion, Coming Soon
The new Republican chairman of the panel responsible for starting action on repealing the Abortion-funding ObamaCare law says a vote will take place soon. Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said yesterday that a vote on the Repeal Legislation and a companion bill to ensure there is no abortion funding under ObamaCare, will take place before President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address later this month. “As part of ou...

A Few Items From the News
The NYT carries the story and Slate also moves it forward that the first thing on the GOP House agenda is to vote to Repeal ObamaCare. It's a completely cynical and theatrical ploy because the Senate won't pass and Obama won't sign such a bill. Wherever you stand on the question of merits or demerits of the Health Care Reform Bill, it might be smart to recognize that this is going nowhere. Theatrical Legislation inaction. Do you think the tea partiers are going to understand any of this when the...

Is Anarchy the Next In Thing?
Instapundit linked to a piece by Richard Fernandez called “The Crusade of the Innocents.” It’s all about Anarchists. You know, those useful idiots who can’t make a name for themselves, so they suck off the fruits of others while trying to make sure the gravy train never ends. They have no goals, other than the next score. They’re hearts are filled with jealousy and rage. I have to say, I’m with Moe Lane, these people are not innocents. I happen to be related...

Newsweeks Thomas: GOP Selling Smoke and Mirrors, PBSs Peterson Mocks Free Lunch
On Friday’s Inside Washington on PBS, host Gordon Peterson used the term "free lunch" to mock Republicans who wish to avoid Tax Increases while trying to restrain the federal Budget Deficit. After panel member Jeanne Cummings of Politico predicted a tough fight in Congress over spending, Peterson turned to conversation to Washington Post columnist Colby King. Peterson: "Hold the line on taxes, attack the Deficit. Can I offer you a free lunch, Colby?" After Colby gave hi...

What We Hope They Say in 2011
“What They Said in 2010,” https://tiny.cc/cbuy3, featured “an annotated melange of ignorance and arrogance, of wisdom and stupidity, of betrayal and allegiance” in the words uttered by mostly American political figures.  “What We Hope They Say in 2011″ deals mostly with wishful thinking about what some of those notables might say. Nancy Pelosi:  “Okay, I admit the whole ObamaCare debacle was...