Pat Dollard

Weekly Standard: Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he’s obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that [...]

Politico: Two senior administration officials said the White House is telling Democrats reconsidering their support for health care reform that they will pay the price for their original vote no matter what happens, so they should reap the political benefits of actually passing a law. There are 59 senators and 216 House members who put [...]

National Journal: Charities around the country stand to gain thousands of dollars as House Dems begin to unload tainted donations from embattled Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), according to a Hotline OnCall survey. So far, Dems who received contributions from Rangel have pledged to donate $320K to charity, according to spokespeople and news reports. Members will [...]

(Reuters) The hackers behind the attacks on Google Inc and dozens of other companies operating in China stole valuable computer source code by breaking into the personal computers of employees with privileged access, a security firm said on Wednesday. The hackers targeted a small number of employees who controlled source code management systems, which handle [...]

ALIPAC: FLAT ROCK — Henderson County Sheriff’s deputies caught two men pulling up hundreds of steel railroad spikes from a section of active train tracks near Flat Rock, Sheriff Rick Davis said. A witness called 911 around 3:30 p.m. Sunday reporting suspicious activity on the tracks, which are owned by Norfolk Southern Railroad, near West [...]

The American Spectator: President Obama on Wednesday formally endorsed the strategy of ramming a health care bill through Congress on strictly partisan basis using the strategy of reconciliation. In yet another speech revealing yet another proposal on health care, President Obama called on “leaders in both of Houses of Congress to finish their work and [...]

(Above) Like It’s a bad thing The Hill: Republicans are preparing to raise points of order and other roadblocks to the healthcare bill, a member of the Senate GOP leadership said Tuesday evening. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the fourth-ranking Senate Republican who serves as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, said the GOP is prepared [...]

Politico: Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) will not seek reelection after only one term in office. According to several House aides – on both sides of the aisle – the House Ethics Committee has been informed of allegations that Massa, who is married with two children, sexually harassed a male staffer. Massa, whose departure endangers Democrats’ [...]

Red Dawn

The Hill: Legislation was launched Wednesday to repeal the 17-year-old policy that prohibits openly gay men and women from serving in the U.S. military. A group of six senators — including five Democrats and headed by Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, an independent who caucuses with Democrats — introduced a three-part bill that would immediately [...]

Washington (AP) -President Obama said Wednesday that it’s “time to make a decision” on health care reform, as he announced his plan to “bring this journey to a close.” The president described the bipartisan summit held last week in Washington as the last leg of the health care reform debate. “Since then, every idea has [...]

Real Clear Politics: Like a hero rescuing a damsel tied up and lying on the railroad tracks as a train approaches, the tea party movement has been trying to save America from runaway leftism. But this hero, instead of being applauded, is taking it on the chin from critics who will invent any calumny and [...]

The Hill: Speaker Nancy Pelosi has picked liberal firebrand Rep. Pete Stark to replace ousted Chairman Charles Rangel on the tax-writing committee, according to a House leadership aide. The decision was made during a Wednesday morning leadership meeting following Rangel’s announcement that he would temporarily step aside as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, [...]

The Wall Street Journal: President Barack Obama is making final push for comprehensive health-care legislation, appealing to American frustration with insurance companies and to congressional frustration with gridlock. “At stake right now is not just our ability to solve this problem, but our ability to solve any problem,” the president says in remarks prepared for [...]