WASHINGTON – Public disapproval of President Barack Obama’s handling of health care has jumped to 52 percent, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll released hours before he makes his case for overhaul in a prime-time address to Congress. With his health revamp moving slowly and unemployment edging ever higher, Obama’s overall approval rating has also [...]
The Hill: Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) on Wednesday called for President Obama’s “czars,” or appointed high-level advisers, to testify before Congress about their “authority and responsibilities” in the executive branch. The president’s “czars” have become a point of controversy among his opponents because they do not have to be confirmed by the Senate as cabinet-level [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Americans would be fined up to $3,800 for failing to buy health insurance under a plan that circulated in Congress on Tuesday as President Barack Obama met Democratic leaders to search for ways to salvage his health care overhaul. In advance of what Obama hopes will be a game-changing speech to lawmakers, [...]
AtlasShrugs: GANJGAL, Afghanistan — We walked into a trap, a killing zone of relentless gunfire and rocket barrages from Afghan insurgents hidden in the mountainsides and in a fortress-like village where women and children were replenishing their ammunition. “We will do to you what we did to the Russians,” the insurgent’s leader boasted over the [...]
OrlyTaitz: From a former Air Force Colonel…. Subject: The Date First, let me say that I’ve moved three presidents up to now and I’ve seen incredible waste. But, the “new†guy really takes the cake. I don’t have an issue with the President promising his wife dinner and a show or that he even takes [...]
OK…this one might be a little hard to follow, but I think you folks will enjoy the read. The original article referred to in the following is HERE: The 23yo woman’s comment which is repeated in the featured article (below) is in the comments at the end of the linked piece(above). Sageville: Ok here is [...]
Salon.com: What a difference a month makes! When my last controversial column posted on Salon in the second week of August, most Democrats seemed frozen in suspended animation, not daring to criticize the Obama administration’s bungling of healthcare reform lest it give aid and comfort to the GOP. Well, that ice dam sure broke with [...]
This is gruesome, heartless, and Godless. I pray for this woman, and everyone like her who had to suffer through such a cold medical atrocity. The real abominations a National Heath Care system brings about are relevant to all of us at this point in Politics. This can. Not. Happen in America. To even consider [...]
The Hill: The Senate must move legislation to raise the federal debt limit beyond $12.1 trillion by mid-October, a move viewed as necessary despite protests about the record levels of red ink. The move will highlight the nation’s record debt, which has been central to Republican attacks against Democratic congressional leaders and President Barack Obama. [...]
The Telegraph: The dollar should be replaced with a global currency, the United Nations has said, proposing the biggest overhaul of the world’s monetary system since the Second World War. In a radical report, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has said the system of currencies and capital rules which binds the world [...]
Financial Times: Barack Obama will cement the new co-operative relationship between the US and the United Nations this month when he becomes the first American president to chair its 15-member Security Council.
ABC News: While White House spokesman Robert Gibbs today refrained from telling reporters whether President Obama in his speech Wednesday night will set a deadline for passing health care reform, sources tell ABC News that in his private meeting with Democratic congressional leaders this afternoon the key word was urgency. The president told House Speaker [...]
KOMONews: By Charlie Harger Audo Listen Click The Listen Icon at the top left in article Tami Michaels shared her horror with the entire KOMO News audience as the terror attacks on New York City were happening live on September 11, 2001. KOMO’s Tami Michaels, and her husband, Guy Rosbrook, were in their room on [...]
WASHINGTON – Sen. Max Baucus on Monday pushed a new health care plan including an industry fee to help pay for covering the uninsured as President Barack Obama said insurance companies must share accountability for the troubled system. The Finance Committee is the last best hope for a bipartisan bill since four of five congressional [...]
WASHINGTON, Pa. – They’ve heard it all before—the tanking economy, the bleeding of jobs, the creeping hardship that never seems to ebb. And the desperate hope that hangs over everything and whispers that maybe, just maybe, tomorrow might be a tiny bit better. In the river valley where Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia meet, the [...]
