Monday, January 25, 2010

ObamaCare Not Dead?

Three different White House advisers appearing on three Sunday talk shows gave three different numbers of how many jobs can be credited to the "stimulus" package.  They need to work on their talking points a bit.

 

Obama stole a page from the Clinton playbook, endorsing the idea of an independent deficit reduction commission that can't do anything until after this year's elections.

 

Even though Dick Morris says that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have a secret plan to pass ObamaCare without any Republicans, John McCain is still trying to give them an assist.  Meanwhile, the American Medical Association is regretting their support for it and David Axelrod tells us all that we won't know what is in the final bill until it's passed, and therefore, too late.  Meanwhile, Democrats are trying to destroy the filibuster.

 

The British terrorist threat level has been raised to "severe" after seeing an unusually high number of people on their no-fly list trying to board planes bound for the United States.  Apparently terrorists may try to use Botox to start killing people next.

 

Obama still thinks he can save Democrat members of Congress in their re-election efforts this fall.

 

Obama introduced a few tax initiatives that are supposed to help the middle class.  Instead, it's more big government.

 

Nancy Pelosi says that creating jobs was the issue that "permeated" their efforts over the last year.

 

Democrats managed to kill an amendment that would have ended the TARP bailout program.

 

There are now more than 2,000 federal subsidy programs.

 

The Obama Administration funneled a $25 million no-bid federal contract to a big Democrat donor.  If this was Bush doing it for a Republican, the media would want scalps.

 

European countries support Obama's effort to cripple the banks, but they won't follow suit.  They're too busy courting those banks.

 

The head of the IPCC says that, after using unverified data, incorrectly linking global warming to natural disasters, and using selective temperature data, there could be more errors in the IPCC report.

 

Even giving people tax credits to buy homes isn't helping re-inflate the housing bubble.

 

Obama has called his campaign team back to work to help the Democrats minimize their losses in this year's elections.

 

Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders is a middle-of-the-road Democrat Senator.

 

A teenage driver was seriously hurt after having a crash while texting while driving.  This will be used to justify a ban on texting while driving, but the kid was charged with moving violations, even without a ban on texting!

 

A new proposed constitutional amendment would prevent tax cheats from holding elected office anywhere in the state.  The oh-so-ethical Speaker David Ralston actually seems to be defending the tax cheats that exist in the General Assembly.

 

Governor Perdue wants to tap into lottery funds to cover some of the state's budget shortfall for education.  He will still cut private college tuition grants and other state-funded scholarship programs meant to keep students in Georgia.

 

The General Assembly is considering new mortgage regulations.

 

Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle says that there are reforms to the property tax system coming in this session.

 

There could be a bill from former Speaker Pro Tem Mark Burkhalter to help build a new Georgia Dome.

 

The AJC's Jim Galloway has a wrap-up of last week's budget hearings.

                                                           

Apparently the city of Warner Robins needs more employees.  The city already has 600 employees, or about 1 in every 100 residents, which seems pretty top-heavy to me.

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