Entries from January 2010 ↓

“For example, we said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your — if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it, that you’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge.”

- President Obama

“Will he emulate Clinton and save his presidency by moving to the center? Certainly not before he has lost his control over Congress. It was not the defeat of healthcare that impelled Clinton’s change of course, but his defeat in the elections of 1994. Even then, it took six months to turn the battleship around. And after he loses Congress? Probably not even then. Clinton was a lifelong moderate who moved to the left when expediency dictated. Obama is a lifelong liberal who pretends to move to the center when he has to.”

- Dick Morris

Measure 66 And 67 Passed On January 26, 2010:

“Measures 66 and 67 should be labeled Oregon’s Assisted Suicide Law II. They will allow us to watch a state slowly killing itself. They are anti-business, anti-success, anti-inspirational, anti-humanitarian, and most ironically, in the long run, they will deprive the state of tax revenue, not increase it…Reputable economists forecast 66 and 67 will cost the state thousands — maybe tens of thousands — of jobs, and that thousands of our most successful residents will leave the state.”

- Phil Knight, co-founder and chairman of Nike Inc., a company with 5,000 Oregon employees

Coburn Amendment # 3303:

“To rescind $120 billion in Federal spending by consolidating duplicative government programs, cutting wasteful Washington spending, and returning billions of dollars of unspent money.”

The January 26, 2010 Vote Count:

YEAs    46
NAYs    48
Not Voting    6

NAYs and Not Voting:

1. Have the house pass the Senate bill without changes and send it to Obama for his signature.
2. Use reconciliation to fix the Senate bill after Obama has signed it into law.

“I have no doubt House liberals, despite their skepticism, will fade under pressure from Pelosi and Obama. They will do their duty and pass the Senate bill, whatever their current posturing.”

- Dick Morris And Eileen McGann

“The apparent reluctance of the House Democrats to pass the Senate version will evaporate once Obama puts his weight behind the bill and Pelosi starts to twist arms.”

- Dick Morris And Eileen McGann

“Look at the damage Fannie and Freddie caused, and they were run by the Congress. Should they have a special tax on congressmen because they let this thing happen to Freddie and Fannie? I don’t think so.”

- Warren Buffett

“Scott Brown’s win of the Senate seat vacated by Ted Kennedy means that any Republican can win at any time in any place.”

- Dick Morris

“Exploiting concerns that another global meltdown might be around the corner, the Obama legislation effectively brings socialism to the United States. There’s no other term for it.”

- Dick Morris