Entries from March 2010 ↓

“So if Republicans take the House (where appropriations have to originate) – and especially if they also take the Senate – they will have the capacity to zero fund Obamacare, appropriating not a dime for it in their spending bills.”

- Dick Morris And Eileen McGann

“According to the Social Security and Medicare trustees, Social Security has made $17.5 trillion in future promises that it has no money to fulfill. Add to this amount Medicare’s unfunded liabilities of $89.3 trillion, and the grand total is $106.8 trillion. That means each household’s share of current and future debt is a staggering $1.1 million.”

- Washington Times

“If the House Democratic majority passes Obama’s health care proposals, one of two things will happen by Election Day, 2010 – and neither one will be healthy for the Democrats seeking re-election. Either the Medicare cuts will take effect or they will be postponed by a terrified Congress…Either poison – the cuts or the deficit – will be enough to eradicate an entire generation of House and Senate Democrats.”

- Dick Morris And Eileen McGann

“Without the policies followed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—and the destructive changes in housing and mortgage policies, like authorizing subprime and Alt-A mortgages for impecunious borrowers—the crisis would not have happened.”

- ALLAN H. MELTZER

“…it is very unlikely that the Senate will pass the reconciliation measures the House wants it to enact.”

- Dick Morris And Eileen McGann

“If all goes according to Democratic plan, the House would pass health reform on Sunday, and the Senate would pass a “clean-up” bill a few days later to make fixes Democrats are seeking in the bill.”

- Politico

“When I saw the House was contemplating doing this, I couldn’t believe it. If in their arrogance they do this, they will be incinerated in the elections.”

- GOP Senator Susan Collins, referring to the deem and pass approach on voting for health care

“Whatever their sins, insurers are mainly intermediaries; they pass along the costs of the delivery system. In 2009, the largest 14 insurers had profits of roughly $9 billion; that approached 0.4 percent of total health spending of $2.472 trillion. This hardly explains high health costs.”

- Robert Samuelson

Call these congress members to defeat ObamaCare.

“President Barack Obama has postponed an overseas trip until March 21, and Pelosi said, “I am delighted the president will be here for the passage of the bill.”"

- Politico

“They will be hearing — at some length, we suspect — from their constituents. Will the din of those who vote on their reelection drown out the pushing of the Speaker who doles out their privileges?”

- Dick Morris

“Congressman Jim Matheson, endangered species – a Utah Democrat – succeeded in getting his brother Scott appointed to a federal judgeship. Matheson voted against Obamacare when it first passed the House. With his new-found winnings in his pocket, he now professes to be undecided.”

- Dick Morris And Eileen McGann