NARAL: Vote to repeal health-care law is only days away

Legislative fireworks, not protest drama, expected for this health vote
A week into the new Congress, Democrats and Republicans have sharpened their messages on the Healthcare Reform law as House Republicans prepare to Repeal the overhaul next week. Democrats, who have been criticized by party members for not defending the law before the Midterm Elections, have assembled an offense portraying the Repeal effort as a time-waster, a promise-breaker and dangerous to Americans. Republicans argue they were swept into office with a mandate to Repeal the reform law, which...

From Falls Creek Camp To Congress
Earlier this year, when I reported on the race to succeed Republican Rep. (now Gov.-elect) Mary Falin as congressman from Oklahoma ’s 4th District, I mentioned just about every Republican in the seven-candidate GOP primary except one: James Lankford, who wound up winning the all-important nomination and is now congressman-elect. “So you were just like the rest of the political reporters and overlooked me? the 42-year-old Lankford said with a big smile when he dropped by HUMAN EVENT...

Affordable Care Act Delivering Affordable Health Care to More People
Rick Unger reports: The major health Insurance Companies around the country are reporting a significant increase in small businesses offering Health Care benefits to their employees . Why? Because the tax cut created in the new Health Care reform law providing small businesses with an incentive to give health benefits to employees is working . Driving a stake through the heard of the Health Care Repeal movement looks like it’ll be a somewhat lengthy process. But the road begins with litt...

US House Votes to Repeal Job Killing Health Care Law, Obamacare, 236 to 181
And now for some GOP “Hope & Change” that a majority of Americans approve of … The House takes a first step in repealing ObamaCare. The US House of Representatives passed H.R. 2, 236 to 181 , to Repeal the job-killing Health Care law and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010; and providing for consideration of H.Res. 9, instructing certain committees to report Legislation replacing the job-killing Health Care law. Four...

ObamaCare repeal passes US House by 55 vote margin. ObamaCare passed last year by only 7 votes
Yesterday, the US House passed the ObamaCare Repeal by a wide margin: LOVE IT… House Votes to Repeal “Job-Killing” Health Care Law 236-181 Note that 4 Democrats crossed party lines to vote with Republicans on repealing the Unconstitutional measure. Interestingly, when ObamaCare was passed almost a year ago, the only thing Bipartisan was the opposition. Similarly, yesterday the only thing Bipartisan was the vote for repeal. On both votes, the majority of Democrats have been on ...

Dems, media out of touch on health care repeal
Image by Getty Images via @daylife IBD: ... The media, always rushing to protect statist schemes, have joined Democrats in warning opponents to stay away from the Repeal effort. Expect both politicians and pundits to act as if congressional Republicans are nigh on committing Treason. "This week's Health Care debate," writes the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne in his Sunday column, "will put (Speaker John) Boehner and the Republicans on the defensive." ABC News Political Director Amy Walter start...

Clergy Slam NYC's 40% Abortion Rate
Archbishop Timothy Dolan at a Chiaroscuro Foundation Press Conference Yesterday, a group of clergy members gathered to denounce the 40% Abortion rate in New York City. The Health Department had previously revealed that of 87,273 pregnancies were "induced terminations," compared to nearly 127,000 live births (there were also over 11,000 miscarriages), which means NYC's Abortion rate is about double the national rate. Archbishop Timothy Dolan said, "I’m frankly embarrassed to be a member ...

Rush Limbaugh on New York Citys Staggering Abortion Numbers Audio 1/7/11
Here is audio of Rush Limbaugh yesterday dropping truly shocking Abortion statistics being reported by ABC New York (their article actually says 39%). In New York City, 41% of all pregnancies end in Abortion - and the rate among Minorities is even higher (60% among Blacks, 41% among Hispanics, 23% among Asians). The rate among “Non-Hispanic Whites” in 2009 was 20%. Rush takes issue with the leftist takeaway from those numbers - That there is something wrong with “...

Babies in Trash Cans
Posted by JM Ashby Joining us tonight in the WTF File is -again- Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) who seems to have some sort of fanatical fetish for the subject of unwanted pregnancies and Abortion. The man just can't stop himself from blurting out the most ridiculous things that come to mind in his efforts to fearmonger over abortion, unwanted pregnancies, and non-traditional families. Here was Steve King just this past week on the subject of abortion: I often go into a High School auditorium or mee...

Rise in abortions in China, young women targeted
XI'AN, China - The leaf-strewn median on Eternal Peace Road hides a grim secret: Numerous tiny fetuses lie in Unmarked Graves dug by women from the Abortion clinic across the street. The staff at the small clinic in the heart of this ancient city don't bury most of the fetuses — only those that have reached three or four months, when they clearly resemble miniature babies. "This big," says anesthesiologist Liu Jianmin, using her thumb and index finger to measure out the length of a l...

Debate Over Health Law Repeal Sparks Deja Vu
It may be a new year, but it's the same Health Care debate on the House floor. Acting on one of its top priorities, the new Republican majority on Friday started the process to Repeal last year's sweeping health overhaul. As the House settled in to debate the rule that would set the stage for a Repeal vote Wednesday, there were a lot of new faces. But the arguments they made had a familiar ring to them. "Everybody knows that the Health Care system's broken and that reform is needed," said Republ...

What Congressional Republicans are dead set against
A successful Repeal of Health Care reform would revert us back to the old system for financing and delivering Health Care and lead to substantial increases in total medical spending. The consequences of this spending increase would be far reaching. It would hurt family incomes, jobs, and Economic Growth. Repealing health reform would: · Increase medical spending by $125 billion by the end of this decade and add nearly $2,000 annually to family Insurance Premiums · Destroy 250,000...

GIGO
Reuters reported problems ahead for healthcare Repeal from a “nonpartisan” source: the CBO said that repealing the Democrats’ signature healthcare law would increase federal Budget Deficits by roughly $145 billion…The CBO also said Repeal would result in 32 million fewer people having Health Insurance. It’s only in the upside-down worlds of Washington and the media that getting rid of a massive new entitlement program costs money. Both common sense and the ability...

Cantor: Replace Health Care Law to Help Economy
In the Republicans’ first weekly address to the nation since taking control of the House, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) emphasized their intention to Repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s signature Health Care overhaul. Not a Subscriber? To continue reading, sign up for a free trial. Speaker John Boehner (right) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor arrive on Jan. 6 for their first joint news conference in the Capitol since Republicans took control of the House. They addre...

Washington Week
The Senate and the House convened the 112th Congress, passing and adopting mostly routine housekeeping measures and conducting leadership Elections. The Senate opened to a bit of acrimony when the two leaders differed on whether the Senate rules should be changed and how to go about these rules changes without trashing 200-plus years of Senate history. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., made an impassioned Speech about how the Senate Democrats have abused their power by how they have legislated over t...

What jobs are we talking about, anyway?
So I see this headline at Memeorandum: Harvard Economist Estimates Health Repeal Would Destroy Up To 400,000 Jobs Per Year Over Decade Just as House Republicans gear up to repeal the “job killing” Affordable Care Act, the Department of Labor is reporting that the U.S. economy added 103,000 jobs last month, pushing the jobless rate down to a 19-month low of 9.4 percent. In fact, since President Obama signed health reform into law on March 23, 2010, The Economy has created approximately a to...

Newsweeks Evan Thomas: The Health Care Bill Is A Disaster
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Kentucky legislature weighs ultrasound abortion requirement
Louisville, Kentucky | Fri Jan 7, 2011 3:56pm EST Louisville, Kentucky (Reuters) - A bill requiring any woman seeking an Abortion to be shown an Ultrasound image of her fetus is expected to go to Kentucky's House of Representatives next month, a legislative spokesman said on Friday. The bill, which cleared the state Senate on Thursday, also requires that information about Abortion be given to the woman at a face-to-face meeting the day before the procedure. A similar measure failed in a commi...

Obama: Economy Moving in Right Direction
(WASHINGTON) — President Barack Obama sees a clear and encouraging trend on The Economy, citing fresh reports showing private-sector job growth and lower Unemployment. He used his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday to discuss the latest economic news and press for Bipartisan action in the newly divided Congress on measures to spur growth. Obama presented the December jobs report in a positive light even though it fell short of what Economists had been looking for and even though t...

I have been skiing all morning, but
Cold up here today. Love it, but hate that stupid green logo. Anyway, this is worth posting while I take a beer break to warm my fingers and toes: House Votes to Repeal “Job-Killing” Health Care Law 236-181. It will go nowhere, with the Senate and the O's Veto gel pen. Still, a strong message. Hey - big par-tay here tonite. Readers invited, with toga or thong or whatever. ...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Shot
A terrible thing that never should have happened.  A lone shooter shoots Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat from Arizona, with a shot to her head at point-blank range.   According to reports as many as 11 others were shot and injured and 3 or 4 others fatally shot.  Already the wackjobs from the Left are out, as this comment received here shows: Another Right Wing gun and god , anti Abortion wackjob kills congresswomen because she supports the use of cells (not babies) f...

Right Wing Leftovers
Right-wing leaders give the GOP its marching orders. Gov. Mitch Daniels will attend CPAC. Ted Haggard gets a reality show. Rep. Mike Pence will headline a Susan B. Anthony List Fundraiser. It never fails to amaze me how anti-choice Activists can turn any cultural event into a moral about Abortion. Finally, I have to say that it is odd to see Religious Right leaders and Fox News hosts presenting themselves as opponents of book Censorship ... also, I think it is interesting that during this entire...

Patterson touts health care growth with Medical Main Street program
"Six Hospitals, Medical Device makers and other life science companies committed to invest more than $21 million and add 329 new local jobs in Oakland County's Medical Main Street program," Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson said on "Michigan Matters" airing today at 11 a.m. on WWJ-TV CBS Detroit. Patterson appeared on the program with Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano, former Michigan Economic Development Corporation CEO Greg Main, and Bl...

Members Seek to Curtail Their Own Paychecks
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Is Shot in Arizona 1:53 p.m. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Is Shot in Arizona 1:53 p.m. Speaker John Boehner (right) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor arrive on Jan. 6 for their first joint news conference in the Capitol since Republicans took control of the House. They addressed issues such as the National Debt and their plan to Repeal the Health Care overhaul law that was passed last year. Whether you're looking for a new job or looking to hire the perfect Candidate, tur...

The Limits of Federal Power: ObamaCare on Trial
One of the first orders of business for the 112th Congress is for the new House to fulfill its campaign promise to pass a Repeal of ObamaCare. This will be a vain effort, however, as Repeal will likely die in the Senate. But even if Repeal were to get through the Senate, President Obama would surely Veto it. The better way for ObamaCare to be struck down is not by repeal, but by appeal: appeal to the courts. A proper Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of ObamaCare would s...