Pat Dollard

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional budget scorekeepers say a Medicare fix that Democrats included in earlier versions of their health care bill would push it into the red. The Congressional Budget Office said Friday that rolling back a programmed cut in Medicare fees to doctors would cost $208 billion over 10 years. If added back to [...]

Washington Times: The Democrats are assaulting the very pillars of our democracy. As the debate on Obamacare reaches the long, painful end, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is confronting a political nightmare. She may not have the 216 votes necessary to pass the Senate’s health care bill in the House. Hence, Mrs. Pelosi and her congressional [...]

Nancy Pelosi, as the Founding Fathers look on, and Americans sit on their asses and do nothing about her More Dems are expected to pile and follow, since in their minds it’s going to pass anyway, and all Dems will be blamed… Fox News: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday finally reached 216, the magic [...]

Politico: If anyone sets up a Do Not Call Registry to block phone solicitations from the White House, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Tex.) wants in. Cuellar, a fiscally and socially moderate Hispanic Democrat from Laredo, tells reporters that he’s strongly leaning toward backing heath care reform – but that he’s been ducking calls from President Obama’s [...]

Roll Call: Senate Democratic leaders have decided they will not publicly release a health care reform letter signed by their rank and file intended to calm nervous House Democrats before their historic vote this weekend on the comprehensive Senate-passed measure and a budget reconciliation bill of fixes. Sources said a handful of Democratic Senators asked [...]

The Hill: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday leaned on an on-the-fence Democrat for his vote on healthcare reform while other Democratic leaders urged their colleagues to support the bill. Pelosi was seen on the House floor with Rep. Scott Murphy (D-N.Y.), who is undecided on the bill. Approached by The Hill after his discussion [...]

The Hill: At least six anti-abortion rights Democrats are open to supporting the healthcare bill if they can get a guarantee from the Senate that it will move separate legislation containing the House abortion language, one of those Democratic holdouts said Friday. Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.), one of Rep. Bart Stupak’s (D-Mich.) [...]

Times Online; Soldiers who saved lives under fire and the officers who commanded British forces last year, during their bloodiest summer in Afghanistan, were among 160 men and women who were today recognised for their courage. One of the most impressive acts was by Serjeant Jaime Moncho. He was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for [...]

Fox News Business: Wall Street’s love affair with President Obama is officially over — at least for now — with the CEOs of the biggest Wall Street firms, big banks and large financial institutions expressing their dismay over everything from the president’s anti-Wall Street rhetoric, his calls for new regulations on the financial industry and [...]

Powerline Blog: That’s the instruction the Democratic Party has given its spokesmen with regard to the health care debate, in particular the CBO’s recent report. It’s easy to see why: the Democrats’ claims about their health care takeover fall apart if you look at it carefully. Yesterday, the Democrats sent the memo that is reproduced [...]