On Friday the Republican House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution for the current fiscal year that contained several amendments withholding all discretionary funding for Obamacare. Although this is an important step in overturning the Democrats’ government takeover of health care, more could have and should have been done.
11:26 AM 01/27/2011
Will the Department of Health and Human Services’ current “two-waiver-a-day” rule keep Obamacare away, effectively waivering the law obsolete?
9:13 AM 12/28/2010
This New Year’s Day, millions of Americans won’t be suffering from short-term, self-inflicted, alcohol-induced hangovers from a night on the town. Instead, they’ll be suffering from an even more unbearable, persisting, and government-inflicted burden: The Obamacare Tax Hangover.
10:19 AM 11/22/2010
Last Wednesday, retiring Republican Senator Kit Bond (MO) told National Journal that “We’ve got to have an omnibus” spending bill passed during the lame-duck session.
9:22 AM 08/30/2010
I always thought Democrats were the bona fide tree-huggers, but recent events make me think Republicans are the real green freaks. Or perhaps they are just the ones with common sense.
12:00 AM 08/12/2010
Republicans have been raising the concern of a lame-duck session of Congress where the Democrats will attempt to shove Cap and Trade, Card Check, and other tired, statist policies down the American people’s throats. Although such new authorizations would be a slap in the face to a public that just issued a new governing mandate, this concern is misdirected and minuscule compared to an even greater lame duck challenge.
12:00 AM 07/27/2010
In August and September there are several critical Republican Senate primaries pitting Obamacare fighters against Obamacare appeasers. The most significant matchups are between Senator Murkowski vs. Joe Miller in Alaska, Rep. Jerry Moran vs. Rep. Todd Tiahrt in Kansas, and Rep. Mike Castle vs. Christine O’Donnell in Delaware. All three present conservatives with clear contrasts of where our activism can make all the difference.
11:01 AM 07/14/2010
The National Right to Life Committee reported that Pennyslvania’s high-risk health insurance program will offer citizens the first batch of Obamacare’s federal funding that can be used to pay for abortions, providing final confirmation that President Obama’s executive order to supposedly prevent this occurrence wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on.
3:43 PM 07/07/2010
President Obama has bypassed the normal Senate confirmation process and recess appointed Donald Berwick as Administrator of CMS, where he will oversee Medicare and Medicaid and be charged with implementing ObamaCare's significant changes to both programs.
12:00 AM 06/29/2010
Are Republicans committed to defeating ObamaCare? On top of some party leaders in both the House and Senate not committing to fully repealing the law, neither chamber’s conference has yet to back the most immediate way to effectively defeat it: De-Fund It
12:00 AM 05/11/2010
Many Americans have been thinking out loud about the best way to get rid of ObamaCare, concerned that if not done soon, it will become another permanent costly entitlement program.
