I missed the big event last night, but if the transcript is any indication the President was in ful BS mode: Six months ago, I took office amid the worst recession in half a century. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month, and our financial system was on the verge of collapse. [...]

Rasmussen shows a 14 point shift in support for Obamacare in only the last month, from  a +5% in June to a -9% in late July. But what is even more telling is the partisan breakdown: There is a huge partisan divide on the health care plan. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Democrats favor it. However, the [...]

Update: John Stossel has a great point: It’s crazy for a group of mere mortals to try to design 15 percent of the U.S. economy. It’s even crazier to do it by August. Yet that is what some members of Congress presume to do. They intend, as the New York Times puts it, “to reinvent the [...]

Most Americans have health care according to Gallup: Obama and Dems want us to focus on the 14% without coverage, but the political reality is which is the bigger interest group. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that one out. I would wager the ONLY things the insured people would allow government to [...]

Update: I have created a new post category on Obamacare which includes all our previous posts on the matter of who will be allowed to gain access to treatment. Update: Michael Gerson pens the best political observations of the year: So how are these moderate elements being treated by the Democratic establishment? For the most [...]

  Our young and inexperienced President is about to be tested. Not by our enemies or by his political opponents. He is about to be tested by his own failures. The DC liberals sealed their fates back in February when they passed and exaggerated the liberal stimulus bill. It was doomed for certain failure, a [...]

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Obamacare is really and truly falling apart: he House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee has canceled its Tuesday debate and vote on healthcare legislation but has kept a Wednesday meeting on its schedule. The Democratic-led committee has been struggling to keep a group of fiscally conservative Democrats on board with the nearly $1 trillion, [...]

Welcome RCP Readers , and thanks for the better title for the post RCP! America is coming to its senses. It is learning a harsh lesson,. and that is the political fringes are no place to find answers to our problems. The fringes are, at best, stopped watches. They stumble or co opt good ideas and claim [...]

Obama’s liberal experiment on health care took another blow today as its UK role model killed one of their citizens for bad life style choices: A 22-year-old alcoholic has died after being refused a life-saving liver transplant because he was too ill to leave hospital and prove he could stay sober.   Gary with his [...]

The Islamic Awakening continues to spread as more and more of the Muslim Street takes up arms against the Islamo Fascists: Villagers attacked the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, a rare instance of locals turning on insurgents after being promised aid money and security by the government. Friday’s confrontation was welcome news for Afghan and U.S. [...]

Hey readers, I could use some help. I discovered this company received $2,000,000 loan from the Small Business Administration – but I cannot find anything on the company at all? Anyone heard of Core Group IC LLC of Iowa? Wonder how they got this cherry deal. Update: Reader Crosspatch may have discovered what this company is [...]

Update: Speaking of how many of us taxpayers could spend money on food if the government just let us keep our tax money, the escalating Porkgate list on Drudge is starting to really piss me off: RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $2,531,600 FOR ‘HAM, WATER ADDED, COOKED, FROZEN, SLICED, 2-LB’… RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,191,200 FOR ’2 POUND [...]

It seems America is growing weary of the Democrats’ grand talk and failed policies: Heading into a critical period in the debate over health-care reform, public approval of President Obama’s stewardship on the issue has dropped below the 50 percent threshold for the first time, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Obama’s approval ratings [...]

Who says God doesn’t have a sense of irony. Apparently the only thing the liberal stimulus experiment has stimulated is egregious fraud and theft of tax payer money: Your Obama Government at work– The government was charged $1,191,200 for a Stimulus project started on April 28, 2009 and completed on June 30, 2009. The description of work [...]