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Defend America on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 8:19:16 PM
Chaos on Capitol Hill: All Politics Is Loco
by Michael Barone
Disarray. That's one word to describe the status of the Obama
administration's legislative program as Congress heads into its final
four weeks of work before the August recess. A watered-down
cap-and-trade bill passed the House narrowly last month, but Sen.
Barbara Boxer has decided not to bring up her version in the upper
chamber until September.
Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, who promised a
health-care bill last month, still isn't delivering, and neither is the
Health Committee's Christopher Dodd. They're both trying to nibble down
cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, which has put the
price tag at a trillion or more. But their latest ploys -- broad-based
tax increases, transferring more of the Medicaid burden to the states
-- sound like sputtering.
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2009/07/14/chaos_on_capitol_hill_all_politics_is_loco