Rep. West: 'The American People are Not 'Up' For the Bureaucratic State'

Pols bristle at Kathleen Sebelius visit
President Obama’s health secretary sparked a mini-firestorm yesterday after she shrugged off the House Republicans’ effort to Repeal ObamaCare, triggering instant outrage from the repeal’s legislative sponsor and Tea Party allies. “The vote in the House, I think people understand, is sort of symbolic so there isn’t a (Protest) march being planned. That’s sort of a waste of time and energy,” U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius &mda...;

Republicans push repeal of health-care law, reject new CBO estimates on deficit impact
New Speaker of the House John A. Boehner and other Republican lawmakers pressed ahead with plans Thursday to Repeal last year's landmark health-care Legislation, rejecting a new Congressional Budget Office estimate that doing so would increase the federal Deficit and brushing off Democratic complaints that Republicans are already breaking their promises. This Story After wrangling, Constitution is read on House floor, minus passages on Slavery The Constitution Notable passages of Constitution...

John Boehner shows at the start that he is no Gingrich
When Newt Gingrich took the gavel as House Speaker 16 years ago, he promised to transform America. On his first day Wednesday, new House Speaker John Boehner promised the Democratic minority more opportunities to amend Legislation. This Story The Take: The Take: John Boehner shows at the start that he is no Gingrich After wrangling, Constitution is read on House floor, minus passages on Slavery Shouts about Obama interrupt Constitution reading Special Report: The first days of the 112th Congr...

House takes symbolic step to repeal health law
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans cleared a hurdle Friday in their first attempt to scrap President Barack Obama's landmark Health Care overhaul, yet it was little more than a symbolic swipe at the law. This Story CBO says Health Care Repeal would deepen Deficit House takes symbolic step to Repeal health law The great health-care debate 44: Boehner: Budget office "entitled to their opinion" on Health Care repeal's deficit impact Kein: Repealing health-care reform would cost $230 billion over 10...

CBO says health care repeal would deepen deficit
Rescinding the federal law to overhaul the health-care system, the first objective of House Republicans who ascended to power this week, would ratchet up the federal Deficit by about $230 billion over the next decade and leave 32 million more Americans Uninsured, according to congressional Budget analysts. This Story CBO says Health Care Repeal would deepen deficit House takes symbolic step to Repeal health law The great health-care debate 44: Boehner: Budget office "entitled to their opinion...

GOP presses on with repeal of health-care law in House
WASHINGTON — House Republicans voted Friday to begin repealing President Obama's health-care law in an effort to follow-through on a key campaign promise to conservative voters who propelled them to office. The two-paragraph Repeal bill is scheduled for a vote Wednesday. Polls show voters have mixed views of the health-care law. The House voted 236-181 to advance the debate, even as a report this week by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office showed that repealing the bill would add...

Housed
WASHINGTON—Rule One of politics: When you have the advantage, don't allow your opponents to turn the tables. House Republicans violated this rule when they decided to make Repeal of the Health Care law their first major act in the 112th Congress. The mistake will haunt them for years. It's a surprising error from a leadership that showed shrewd judgment and exceptional discipline during President Obama's first two years. John Boehner is now Speaker of the House because he and his party fo...

WaPos Ezra Klein: Obamacare is Best Thing Dems Have Done In a Generation
Appearing as a guest on Friday’s Countdown show on MSNBC, Washington Post staff writer and Newsweek columnist Ezra Klein defended ObamaCare and warned Republicans against keeping their promise to attempt a Repeal of the law as he contended that some provisions are popular with the public. After host Keith Olbermann asked if Democrats should "relish rejoining the fight over Health Care reform" because it could hurt Republicans, Klein urged Democrats to fight. Klein: They should be...

Democrats mount health plan defense
The Obama Administration has launched an all-out defense of its Health Care law just days before the US House is slated to vote on Repeal, with US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius visiting Boston yesterday, one of many dispatched across the country to highlight benefits of the overhaul. “People keep calling this political theater,’’ Sebelius said, alluding to the repeal vote, “but unfortunately the theater has huge consequences for the American pu...

House clears way for health-care repeal vote
House Republicans began Friday the long effort to Repeal President Obama's health-care law by approving a resolution that cleared the way for next week's vote. They also devoted time toward cleaning up an embarrassing situation involving two lawmakers who missed Wednesday's swearing-in of the 112th Congress. This Story House clears way for health-care Repeal vote Your Take: Have you noticed a change in the Job Market? CBO says Health Care Repeal would deepen Deficit Unemployment drops to 9.4 ...

After wrangling, Constitution is read on House floor, minus passages on slavery
Finally the time had come to recite the Constitution aloud on the House floor. But first came the bickering over which parts of the nation's founding document to read at all. This Story The Take: The Take: John Boehner shows at the start that he is no Gingrich After wrangling, Constitution is read on House floor, minus passages on Slavery Shouts about Obama interrupt Constitution reading Special Report: The first days of the 112th Congress The 112th Congress convenes House GOP passes new rule...

We Continue to Suffer Fools Gladly
Cut Spending - "The centerpiece of the "Pledge to America" unveiled by House Republicans in September was a promise to cut $100 billion out of non-defense Discretionary Spending during their first year in power: a pledge repeated by Speaker Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Budget Chairman Paul Ryan. Promise broken." What they said is that since the Democratic Congress could not even live up to its sworn duty to produce a budget; and instead have funded government unde...

Reid: Tea party's days are numbered
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid believes the Tea Party’s days are numbered. “The tea party will disappear as soon as The Economy gets better. And the economy's getting better all the time,” Reid said in a pre-recorded interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, scheduled to air Sunday. Reid argued that the tea party “was born” because The Economy “is probably the worst it’s ever been except for maybe the Great Depression.” Reid survived a diff...

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...

No More Mister Nice Blog
WINGERS: LEAVE BIG CORPORATIONS AND THE WELL-TO-DO ALO-O-O-O-NE! The right-o-sphere is all a-flutter about this newsflash from The American Spectator's Philip Klein: BREAKING: CBO Says Repealing ObamaCare Would Reduce Net Spending by $540 Billion But wait -- didn't we just hear that repealing the health law would increase the Deficit, according to the CBO anal...

Notable passages of Constitution left out of reading in the House
Notable passages left out: (Text taken from the National Archives' official Constitution site). This Story After wrangling, Constitution is read on House floor, minus passages on Slavery The Constitution Notable passages of Constitution left out of reading in the House Special Report: The 112th Congress House begins reciting Constitution Republicans push Repeal of health-care law, reject new CBO estimates on Deficit impact View All Items in This Story View Only Top Items in This Story 1. The ...

We the People
Jan 17, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 17 • By TERRY EASTLAND Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Whether House Republicans will succeed in limiting the national government is a question raised by a simple rule adopted on their first day in the majority. Under the rule, every bill when introduced must be accompanied by a statement citing the specific authority granted to Congress by the Constitution under which it may pass the proposed law. Lacking such a statement, the bill...

Rep. Lynn Woolsey: Hey, The Public Option Is A Good Way To Cut The Deficit!
Even as Republicans gear up for a vote to Repeal Health Care reform, one progressive House member is making a renewed push for the Public Option. On Wednesday, the first day of the 112th Congress, Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) introduced a measure to establish a robust public Health Insurance option as a supplement to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The California congresswoman argued that the plan, which pays physicians 5 percent more than Medicare rates, would lower Insurance costs ...

CBO: Repealing Obamacare would slash the budget deficit, save seniors' lives and resurrect Elvis. Not necessarily in that order.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to score the proposed Repeal of ObamaCare using real Accounting. By that I mean they omitted the Democrats' double-counting gimmicks, "doc-fix" frauds and similar Ponzi-style sleight-of-hand. The result was stunning. The Congressional Budget Office, in an email to Capitol Hill Staffers obtained by the Spectator, has said that repealing the national Health Care law would reduce net spending by $540 billion in the ten year period fr...

Harry Reid Says The Tea Party Will Disappear As Soon As The Economy Gets Better
(Politico) -  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid believes the Tea Party’s days are numbered. “The tea party will disappear as soon as The Economy gets better. And the economy’s getting better all the time,” Reid said in a pre-recorded interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, scheduled to air Sunday. Reid survived a difficult Reelection contest last year against a Candidate with strong tea party ties, Republican Sharron Angle. Now back at his perch as the Senat...

End Game
"A package addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ignited at a Washington postal facility Friday afternoon," reports our James Gordon Meek. "Michael Grimm has only been in Congress for a few days, but he is already taking major fire from Democrats for voting to Repeal the new Health Care law while still accepting the government-sponsored Health Care that comes with his new perch," notes the NYO, with a h/t to the Daily News. Our Mike McAuliff wasn't ove...

Conservative Audacity Ahead
Candidate Obama ran on a promise to fundamentally transform the United States of America. Regarding Health Care, we knew that Obama believed that the system was broken and unfair and that he intended to fix it. So he ran, in part, on the intention of transforming the best health care system in the free and oppressed world. When the public discovered the details hidden within the million words of "reform" Legislation, Protests broke out spontaneously. And the more the public learns of t...

Dems' Hopey Changey Identity Politics Chasing White Voters Away In Droves
The Democrats' Identity Politics are working, just not exactly the way they "hoped" for. As The National Journal reports ... White voters are now fleeing the liberal-progressive party in droves: By any standard, white voters’ rejection of Democrats in November’s Elections was daunting and even historic. Fully 60 percent of whites nationwide backed Republican Candidates for the House of Representatives ; only 37 percent supported Democrats, according to the ...

Senate Democrats advocate for filibuster reform
The 112th Congress convened on Wednesday with Senate Democrats working toward rules reform, including weakening the Filibuster.  A filibuster is any attempt to block or delay Senate action using lengthy debate, procedural motions, or other delay tactics.  The filibuster is used by the minority party to stop progress.  In the 100-seat Senate, a simple majority of 51 votes isn't enough to pass Legislation.  The minority party uses the filibuster to ensure that gridlock occurs i...

Starving the ObamaCare Beast
Here at Uncoverage.net, we’ve talked about the process that might be used to rid the world of ObamaCare and now that process is coming into much clearer focus.  Not a soul on the planet believes that a Democrat controlled Senate, or a Democrat controlled White House would ever let a total Repeal bill become law, therefore the only logical way to get rid of it is to starve it to death……as in ‘defund it’.  If there’s no money appropriated to run it, it...