Posts Tagged ‘Congress’
(From The Heritage Foundation)
The American people do not like President Barack Obama’s health care plan. According to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll 42% of Americans “think his plan is a bad idea” compared to only 36% who think it is a good idea. 40% of Americans believe Obama’s health care plan “will result in the quality of your health care getting worse” compared to 24% who believe their care will get better. And 47% of Americans oppose “creating a public health care plan administered by the federal government” compared to only 43% who support it. Facing this cratering of public support, the left in Congress is now considering abandoning moderates and independents to pass their narrow partisan ideal of health reform. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spokesman Jim Manley promised yesterday that Democrats will pass Obamacare “by any legislative means necessary.”
(From Politico.com)
Charlie Cook, one of the best political handicappers in the business, sent out a special update to Cook Political Report subscribers Thursday that should send shivers down Democratic spines.
Reviewing recent polling and the 2010 election landscape, Cook can envision a scenario in which Democratic House losses could exceed 20 seats.
Tuesday, August 18
7:00 p.m.
Harlingen Library auditorium
Seating begins at 6:30
Numbered passes will be given to the first 150 who arrive. These people will be seated in the Auditorium. The proceedings can he heard outdoors via speakers for the remainder of those attending. Rep. Solomon Ortiz has declined to attend and Rep. Ruben Hinojosa has not replied. Their challengers will be present.
YOUR ATTENDANCE IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED!
NEXT ITEM — A REMINDER: RALLY this Saturday from noon to 1:00 p.m. at Solomon Ortiz’s office, 1805 E. Ruben Torres. Take your letters (hand-written is preferable) to Rep. Ortiz’s office.
IMPORTANT YOU ATTEND. WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE.
By American Solutions | 08/16/09
For many members of Congress, this August recess will be unlike any they’ve experienced in a long time. As elected officials get shouted down at town hall meetings across America, the sheer mistrust toward all-things Washington is palpable.
It’s because the American people are being asked to believe the unbelievable. We’re being told that a $1 trillion health care bill will not add to the deficit, that a $1 trillion national energy tax affecting every business in America will not kill jobs, and that a $787 billion unread spending bill is actually saving our economy.
It is this mind-set and denial of reality that gave us the subprime lending disaster, an IOU-issuing Sacramento, and a dysfunctional Detroit. Simply put, people are fed up. To get America back on the right track, we must re-establish a simple premise: 2+2=4.
In its fight to defeat the Communist Party in 1989, the Polish Solidarity Movement adopted the slogan “for Poland to be Poland, 2 + 2 must always = 4.” For 44 years of communist rule, the Poles had been lied to, in effect told that 2+2=5. To challenge the authority of the communists and prosper as a free society, Solidarity chose this slogan because they knew they had to be grounded in truth and reality.
Read the entire article here.
(From My Way News)
Aug 13, 2:29 PM (ET)
By ANNE FLAHERTY
WASHINGTON (AP) – Amid a boisterous debate on health care reform, people flooded members of Congress on Thursday with so many e-mails that they overloaded the House’s primary Web site.
Technical support issued a warning to congressional staff that the site – - may be slow or unresponsive because of the large volume of e-mail being sent to members.http://www.house.gov
Jeff Ventura, a spokesman for the House’s chief administrative officer, which maintains the Web site, said traffic data was not available and could not be released without the lawmakers’ consent.
But anecdotally, he said, the spike in e-mail volume was widely believed to be a result of the health care debate.
“It is clearly health care reform,” Ventura said. “There’s no doubt about it.”
(From American Thinker)
August 14, 2009
By Lee Cary
Obama and Democrat Congressional leaders uncorked the bottle and the peoples’ Genie is out.
He’s not happy, this Genie. In normal times, he sits there quietly inside the bottle. Sometimes watching. Mostly not. He finds politics boring, if not disgusting.
He sat and watched in silence as the TARP bill passed. Told the sky was falling, he looked up and saw it wasn’t. But he shrugged, trusting the bipartisan nature of the effort. Then, as TARP rolled out, he stood up. The bailouts plowed a furrow across his forehead; his eyebrows lowered; his gaze intensified. But he stayed inside the bottle.
Along came the Stimulus Bill. Or, in the language of the big spenders, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The Genie smelled the bacon through the glass bottle. He heard the squeals coming next from the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009. Another stampede of pigs.
Inside the bottle, the Genie’s leaned forward, pressing his hands and nose flat against the glass. As he watched banks and car companies yield to government control, his jaw slid up. His lips pressed tight. His breathing shortened. But he stayed inside the bottle.
AP
Thursday, August 13, 2009
PANORA, Iowa — Sen. Charles Grassley, a Republican who is a key bargainer on health care reform, played to packed crowds in his home state of Iowa who left little doubt that they were not happy with what’s on the table.
The questions were tough but respectful, and there was little of the shouting that has dominated similar meetings in other parts of the country.
“It seems to me that people are expressing, not just on health care, but people are just very scared about the direction the country is taking,” said Grassley, who emphasized that he hasn’t signed off on anything.
Grassley is the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee and he’s been deep in bargaining seeking a compromise health care plan that could get some Republican votes. He made it clear there are portions of the current measure he can’t swallow.
By Robert Romano
It is nothing short of a complete political meltdown. Congressional reaction to their own constituents’ opposition to ObamaCare has transformed into a theater of the absurd. And there will be a stiff political price to be paid.
For years, it has become increasingly clear that Congress largely ignores the people they serve. But now it is apparent they actually disdain them, as well. And would like very much if they simply went away. Only, they won’t. So the elected elite is now resorting to ugly threats and name-calling
To put the icing on the cake, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer yesterday leveled the charge that those protesting ObamaCare at town halls nationwide are somehow “simply un-American”. That’s right, the position of the ruling class is that they—and they alone—have the right to debate public policy.
In the pages of USA Today, Pelosi and Hoyer wrote, “These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American. Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades.”
