Demo Rep. Chellie Pingree: Republicans Should Change the Name of Their Health Care Repeal Bill

Why Are They Doing This?
It’s a rhetorical question, to be sure, that I pose at the end of the post below: why the fact-free blood Libel, from the L.A. Times or any other lefty? Again, I won’t insult your intelligence by answering the question — but just to confirm that you’re on the right track, I commend to you these Quotes of the Day from Hot Air. Every single one is about how the Republicans really need to tone it down — especially when seeking to Repeal Health Care. When they turn back...

Rep. Chellie Pingree: For Gabby's Sake, Republicans Should Change the Name of Their Health Care Repeal Bill
As I write this, the motivation behind the shooting of my friend Gabby Giffords and eleven others isn't clear. We don't know what prompted the shooter to show up at Gabby's Congress on Your Corner at a Tucson Grocery Store with a semiautomatic pistol and the motivation to kill innocent people. We don't know if it was unmitigated hatred and misdirected rage or paranoid delusion. We don't know if was politics -- aimed at Gabby's courageous stands on Health Care and Immigration. I suspect in the ...

Dem Congresswoman Says GOP Shouldnt Use Job Killing in Name of ObamaCare Repeal Bill
asdfjldfskjlsdf dfskl;asDF;K…sorry about that, I was banging my head off the keyboard. (Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) via Huff Po)-As I write this, the motivation behind the shooting of my friend Gabby Giffords and eleven others isn’t clear. We don’t know what prompted the shooter to show up at Gabby’s Congress on Your Corner at a Tucson Grocery Store with a semiautomatic pistol and the motivation to kill innocent people. We don’t know if it was unmitigated hatred and...

Words That Are Too Dangerous To Be Used Anymore Starting With Job “Killing”
Super Genius Chellie Pingree, Congresswoman (D-ME), has spotted a potential danger: A word that could lead to Murder. Save us congreswoman, save us! A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to Repeal Health Care reform. The bill, titled the "Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act," was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of Gabby's shooting, it has been postponed at least ...

Health care repeal postponed
The much-touted Republican midterm campaign promise of voting to Repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature Health Care law, has been postponed along with all other legislative business for the 112th Congress. The postponement, which will last through the week, comes in wake of Saturday’s Assassination attempt of Congresswomen Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona, which killed six and injured 14 including, including Giffords. The vote for repe...

What the health reform repeal effort says about the 112th Congress
Members of the House of Representatives will vote next week on a bill to Repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, the health reform law that aims to cover the Uninsured through state Health Insurance exchanges, an individual coverage mandate, and an expansion of the Medicaid program, among other provisions. While the measure will probably pass the House, it is unlikely to be approved by the Democrat-controlled Senate, and even if it were to pass both chambers, the President has threatened t...

Rep. Pingree Calls for Name Change on Repeal of the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act
We can continue to have this debate about political Rhetoric. On the level of pure politics, I find this to be whip-smart. A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to Repeal Health Care reform. The bill, titled the “Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act,” was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of Gabby’s shooting, it has been postponed at least until ...

Chris Korzen: If the Health Care Repeal Vote Is Symbolic, Why Have Such a Divisive Debate?
At a moment when we need to tone down the discourse in our politics, why have a purely symbolic debate over Health Care Repeal in the U.S. House of Representatives? The debate may take us back to the worst days of the Health Care discussion, when swastikas were commonplace at anti-reform rallies, and some Talk Radio and TV turned into hate radio and TV. Will opponents talk about "Death Panels," or "killing grandma?"  Will people carry signs that say "bury ObamaCare with Kennedy" or wear t-shi...

Chamber Joins Push for Health Care Repeal
The US Chamber of Commerce has decided to come out in public support of repealing the recently passed Health Care law. From Chamber CEO Thomas Donohue’s State of American Business address: By mid-December, HHS had already granted 222 waivers to the law—a revealing acknowledgement that the law is unworkable. And, with key provisions under challenge in the courts by states and others, it’s time to go back to the drawing board. Last year, while strongly advocating Health Care reform, th...

Congresswoman Wants to Kill the Phrase Job Killing
Despite the complete and thorough debunking of the media’s attempt to link common political discourse with the actions of a deranged lunatic in Tucson, one Congresswoman is taking politically correct Rhetoric to ridiculous lows (h/t Michelle Malkin). Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) took to the Huffington Post to voice her opinion on the Gabrielle Giffords Assassination attempt. She starts harmlessly enough admitting that, “We don’t know what prompted the shooter … to kill i...

SC House Republican Caucus Unveils 2011 Agenda
The Repeal amendment noted at the end of the first video caught my ear.  This is the first I’ve heard of states colluding to pass a Constitutional Amendment to Repeal an unfunded mandate from the feds.  I imagine this is centering around ObamaCare. I’m going to make a particular point to follow up on this because I’d definitely like to hear more about this. I also like what they discussed in the second video regarding education funding.  Part of their funding cha...

Detroit News writer so far in the tank for ObamaCare, she's about to be crushed by hydrostatic pressure
I don't know a lot about Marisa Schultz, but based on her writing she is so far into the tank for ObamaCare that the hydrostatic pressure is about to crush her into the size of a pea. She took it upon herself to release the result of a biased, partisan report from a supposedly non-partisan organization that most never heard of to put out the canard that repealing the Unconstitutional ObamaCare law would hurt Michigan. This was apparently so important that she wrote it twice with 2 different hea...

Rep. Shuler: Repealing Obamacare Would be 'Immoral' and Take Away Health Insurance from Children
Monday, January 10, 2011 By Dan Joseph Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) (AP photo) (CNSNews.com) - Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) will not support Republican efforts to Repeal the Health Care bill that he voted against in 2010 and will not vote to defund many provisions in the bill that are already in effect. On Capitol Hill last week, CNSNews.com asked Shuler: “Rep. Steve King is advocating including language in every appropriations bill to prohibit money from that bill funding implementation of O...

Fred Upton: We'll Repeal Individual Mandate If We Can't Get Whole Bill
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the incoming chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee, whetted conservative appetites early in the year when he pledged not only to push for Repeal of the president's Health Care reform law, but also suggested that the votes would be there to override a Veto in the House. That legislative math seemed a bit far-fetched. And even if House Republicans could corral two thirds of the chamber's votes there are small matters such as the Senate that Upton wa...

U.S. Chamber of Commerce backs health repeal
Source: Politico U.S. Chamber of Commerce backs health Repeal By CHRIS FRATES | 1/11/11 1:20 PM EST U.S Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue said Tuesday that the powerful business lobby supports the House Republican Legislation to repeal President Obama’s Health Care reform law. “Last year, while strongly advocating Health Care reform, the Chamber was a leader in the fight against this particular bill — and thus we support Legislation in the House to repeal it,” Donohue said during

Illinois Senate Votes Repeal Death Penalty, Bill to Go to Governor
The Illinois Senate has voted to Repeal the state's death penalty. The House voted for the Repeal last week, and the bill now goes to the Governor for his signature. The bill provides that the money in the Capital Litigation Trust Fund will be reallocated to a fund for Murder Victims’ services and Law Enforcement. If signed into law, Illinois would become the 16th state to stop Capital Punishment and would mark the fewest states with the death penalty since 1978. Since 1976, Illinois...

Repeal vote postponed, but will Giffords shooting change debate?
House Republican leadership immediately postponed the vote on repealing the Affordable Care Act after Saturday's shootings that killed six and left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords critically injured. Congressional Quarterly's Congress.org is hopeful that the Rhetoric in the debate once Congress takes it back up will "settle down." “There will be a time of introspection,” said Rep. Michael C. Burgess of Texas, a physician and vice chairman of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on ...

House Republican Says Health Care for Me, None for You
      While House Republicans have put a vote on Health Care reform Repeal on hold in the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the Murder of six others in Tucson Saturday, they haven’t backed off their threat to Repeal a law that eventually will provide health coverage for 30 million people. With the exception of three freshmen lawmakers, according to The Hill, repeal-backing Republicans are maintaining their Taxpayer supported Health Insurance. That is comprehensive co

Republicans Delay Repeal Vote On ObamaCare
The weekend shooting in Arizona at a Congressional event with constituents has led House Republicans to delay a Repeal vote against President Obama's Health Care bill. Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head and remains in critical condition and a Congressional aide was killed along with five other people in an attack which has ignited a debate about the tone of political Partisanship in the nation. The motive of the young gunman remains unclear although liberal and conservative com...

The Free Market and Health Care.
In my ongoing campaign to get everyone involved in public debate to be specific about what they're talking about, I'll point to this argument, from The Economist: [the Affordable Care Act] is exactly the result of 30 years of liberals letting go of the idea of a simple, centralised government programme of national Health Insurance, and instead devising increasingly market-based, decentralised, Friedmanite or Hayekian systems to achieve universal access to Health Care through private health-insur...

Good morning Panama City, lets get real about budget cuts
The politicians are still talking about Social Security cuts, and we have discussed that idea at some length previously.  The reason they want to cut Social Security is because it is a big program in comparison with other federal Budget items.  It is also funded by taxes that are separate from other income taxes.  They would like to divert those funds to the general revenue funds. That is why the Social Security program has most of the problems that it now has; Congress can’...

It's Hard to Put a Price on Obamacare
The vote on repealing the Health Care bill looks likely to be delayed for a while, which gives us more time to quarrel over what such a Repeal would mean. Not what it will mean, of course--Republicans don't have the votes to get it through the Senate, so this is largely a symbolic move. But there's still plenty of room to argue about what would happen if they managed to retake the Senate and get it done. Democrats are pointing to the CBO score on repeal, which estimates that repealing the law wo...

From Job Killing To Death Panels Republicans Have Numbed Us To Implications Of Their Rhetoric
From ‘Job Killing’ To ‘Death Panels’ Republicans Have Numbed Us To Implications Of Their Rhetoric Following Saturday’s tragedy in Tucson, Arizona, which led to the death of six people and the serious injury of 20 others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) echoed the growing call for a more civil political discourse by challenging Republicans to change the name of their Health Care Repeal Legislation. “The bill, titled the ...

OVERNIGHT HEALTH: Giffords shooting sparks mental health debate
Welcome to The Hill's evening roundup of the day's health policy news and advance look at tomorrow's schedule. Tuesday's health news Lawmaker calls for briefing on Mental Health danger signs: A leading lawmaker on Mental Health issues is calling for a Bipartisan debate on how to keep lawmakers and their staff and families safe in the wake of Saturday's deadly shooting in Tucson.  Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-Calif.), co-chair of the Congressional Mental Health Caucus, along with Rep. Tim Murphy (...

GOP Stresses Need For Mental Health Services, Despite Pushing For Repeal Of Aid
Following Saturday’s tragic shooting in Tucson, Arizona, some Republicans have argued that 22-year old assassin Jared Lee Loughner was more affected by his Mental Illness than the nation’s lax Gun Control laws or Washington’s divisive and often times violent political Rhetoric. “What will solve this problem is removing the politics from it and getting after the crux of this problem and that is somebody who needed Mental Health services and or legal intervention much ear...