Healthcare “Reform” Promoted as a Way to End Reagan Era Inequality

Reagan era "Inequality" needs a sharp remedy and that remedy is "Obamacare" the New York Times opines in what passes for a report. Sen. Max Baucus admitted in an interview that income redistribution was on the primary motivating factors behind the bill. You don't say... Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) now acknowledges that President Obama’s healthcare “reform” package has been set up to alleviate the “mal-distribution of income.” Free market advocates and discerning policymakers have opposed the le...

NYT Fires Opening Salvo Against Constitutional Challenges to ObamaCare

Very bright legal minds stand on both sides of the pending constitutional challenges to ObamaCare launched by state officials. The New York Times suggests here that concerned Americans who oppose new mandates shouldn't bother because precedent is not on their side. But since when do constitutionalists takes cues from the NYT... An opening salvo has been fired against state officials who are already moving against Obama-Care on constitutional grounds.  The bill would rewrite the relationship b...

Healthcare Coverage Oversells Concept of Bipartisanship

Both parties failed to find common ground in the healthcare debate and The New York Times is disappointed. President Obama ran on pledging a better environment for bipartisanship but this promise has fallen by the wayside. The Times should more carefully consider the actual history before it celebrates across the aisle exercises that result in unsustainable entitlements...  Once again, The New York Times elevates the concept of bipartisanship above the idea that principled opposition is neede...

Reports Suggest that Momentum is Building for ObamaCare Without Evidence

Socially conservative Democrats remain opposed to ObamaCare as do Catholic leaders. But reports in New York Times and the Los Angeles Times both suggest that House leaders are building up irresistable momentum in favor of the proposed government takeover on the basis of two converts and an obscure group of nuns.... Now that Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and leading Catholic figures have thrown  in with the healthcare “reform” package favored by President Obama, it is sure to pass. This is the...

Suddenly, the Senate “Nuclear Option” Is Needed to Overcome “Intransigence”

There is a legimate debate raging over the Senate filibuster rule. But this article uplifting Senate Democrats who are determined to force through healthcare "reform" comes across as phony and opportuntistic because it is. The so-called "nuclear option" was viewed not so long ago as an unseemly power grab but that was when Republicans were in the majority. When Republicans controlled the U.S. Senate, the so-called “nuclear option” was anathema, but this has completely turned around now that D...