In July, the CBO reported that healthcare legislation drafted by the House would add $239 billion to the federal deficit and actually increase healthcare costs.
Now Obama wants a meeting with the director of the Congressional Budget Office. A head of the CBO has never been called into the white house before in its 35 year history. Some are equating this to an owner of a sports team asking the umpire to come up to the owner's box.
Remember the campaign? Remember "transparency" and "openness?" Hasn't been much of that has there?
Here's even more grist for that mill. Even MSNBC's starting to fall out of love?
Nancy Pelosi says she's got the votes to pass the health care bill.
Dick Durbin says he doesn't.
Hillary says that the US may deal with a nuclear Iran
by arming its allies in the Gulf and extending a "defense umbrella" over the region. That's interesting.
The PR war is on between Barney Frank and the banking industry over consumer protection laws.
The House
passed pay-as-you-go legislation in attempts to reduce the deficit. For reasons communicated in the past, I'm a bit skeptical about this.
A majority of Americans
believe that the country is heading in the wrong direction. But the Republicans aren't offering them a better direction to head in. *cough*
lookatthis*cough*
The federal government is warning its departments to
stay away from trips to "fun" cities when hosting meetings.
Are we REALLY experiencing a healthcare crisis? A look at the parroted "46 million uninsured" statistic. You know what they say about lies and statistics..
Rep. Jeff Flake is set to file 540 amendment requests to
strike every earmark in the defense-spending bill directed to for-profit companies.
The Michigan Democratic Party is considering asking voters to
raise the state's minimum wage to $10 an hour. /facepalm.
"He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." - John Stuart Mill
