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New Billboard in Colorado, Jimmy Carter: "They Can't Call Me the Worst President Anymore"

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:57:02 PM
Via HotAirPundit:






Tags: Carter   obama  
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Rep. Nye was Expected to Vote Yes, But will Vote No

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:50:19 PM
Via Kathryn Jean Lopez:

First-term Democrat Nye voting against health care bill

By Bill Bartel
The Virginian-Pilot
© March 20, 2010

U.S. Rep. Glenn Nye announced Saturday night he is voting against against the Democratic health care bill Sunday, saying it doesn’t do enough to lower the cost of health care, would make deep cuts in some hospital funding and could cause problems for TRICARE recipients.

“Over the past year, I have spoken with countless small business owners, families, medical professionals, and average citizens across Virginia’s 2nd District, and it became very clear that this bill was not the right solution for Virginia’s health care challenges,” Nye said in a written statement. “There were many strong points in this bill that I would have been happy to support individually, but the package as a whole had serious problems.”

http://hamptonroads.com/2010/03/first-term-democrat-nye-voting-against-health-care-bill

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Another Broken Promise by Pelosi

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:20:27 PM
The broken promise is pointed out by Yuval Levin at The Corner blog:

There Goes Another Promise   [Yuval Levin]

“Rules governing floor debate must be reported before 10 p.m. for a bill to be considered the following day.”
    -Nancy Pelosi, A New Direction for America, page 24

If you turn to C-SPAN2, you’ll see that the Rules Committee is still very much at work on the rules for tomorrow’s debate. Oh well.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2MyMTkwZDBlM2ExNjcwNTk1MjBkNDQ5NjhhNWU4YjE=



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Where is Rep. Loretta Sanchez?

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:05:23 PM

In Scramble for 216, Sanchez Presents Unexpected Hurdle


By Tory Newmyer
Roll Call Staff
March 20, 2010, 9:32 p.m.

As their whip efforts narrow to a just handful of Members, House Democratic leaders are facing an unlikely problem vote: Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.).

Sanchez was nowhere to be found on Saturday — she was in Florida on a fundraising jaunt, two Democratic sources said — and while leaders expected her to return for the Sunday vote on final passage, they weren’t assured. What’s more, leaders now list the Orange County Democrat as a “no” vote.

Sanchez’s office did not return a request for comment Saturday evening. She cast her last vote shortly after 6 p.m. Friday and missed all seven recorded votes on Saturday, a review of the record shows.

Democratic hand-wringing about her status — geographically and intentionally — underlines just how tight the margin has become for leaders trying to zero in on 216 votes as the clock ticks down to their appointed deadline. Leaders are still hunting for a winning coalition of votes — and still struggling for a breakthrough abortion fix that will convert three or four holdouts angling for tougher protections against public funding of the procedure.

Sanchez this week told the Orange County Register that she needs to be satisfied that the health care overhaul is affordable. “The Senate bill is a bad bill,” she told the paper.

Politically, the vote should be a relatively easy lift for Sanchez. The seven-term lawmaker has been re-elected with at least 60 percent of the vote since 2000, winning by a decisive 69 percent in 2008. President Barack Obama carried the district by 60 percent.

http://www.rollcall.com/news/44440-1.html

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Executive Order for Abortion?

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:39:55 PM
Via Kathryn Jean Lopez:

Executive Order   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I hear Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) has signed off on the idea. That's an iron-clad guarantee it's no real alternative for any member who calls himself "pro-life."

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTA4ZDI5MTEyMmEwNGIxZWNiOGE2NWY3MGM3YzA1OGY=

Via Robert Costa:

All Night Long   [Robert Costa]

Senior Dem staffer says abortion/executive order deliberations will take place tonight at the White House.

Stupak won't be there... Dem staffer says "this still isn't nailed down"

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZWQ2ZThhZDA1NmMyMWE3M2M4N2FjZGZhN2RhZWJjOGI=



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ACORN on the Verge of Bankruptcy

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, March 20, 2010 8:08:08 PM

Acorn on Brink of Bankruptcy, Officials Say  

BALTIMORE — The community organizing group Acorn, battered politically from the right and suffering from mismanagement along with a severe loss of government and other funds, is on the verge of filing for bankruptcy, officials of the group said Friday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/us/politics/20acorn.html?ref=global-home&pagewanted=all

Tags: ACORN  
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'Welcome to Deemocracy'

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, March 20, 2010 8:05:23 PM
Welcome to Deemocracy
If you’re sick of talking about health care, you’d better move to Tahiti now.

On Thursday, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted to set up a committee to examine whether condoms should be required on all pornographic film shoots within the Golden State.

California has run out of money, but it hasn’t yet run out of things to regulate.

For a government regulatory hearing, the testimony was livelier than usual. The porn star Madelyne Hernandez recalled an especially grueling scene in which she had been obliged to have sex with 75 men. The bureaucrats nodded thoughtfully, no doubt contemplating another languorous 18-month committee assignment looking into capping the number of group-sex participants at 60 per scene. In future, if a porn actress finds 75 men waiting for her on the set, they’ll be bureaucrats from Sacramento’s Condom Enforcement Squad.

The committee will also make recommendations on whether the “adult” movie industry should be subject to the same regulatory regime and hygiene procedures as hospitals and doctors’ surgeries. You mean with everyone in surgical masks? Kinky. If you’ve ever been in the filthy, C. difficile– and MRSA-infected wards of Britain’s National Health Service, it may make more sense after the passage of Obamacare to require hospitals to bring themselves up to the same hygiene standards as the average Bangkok porn shoot.

http://article.nationalreview.com/428594/welcome-to-deemocracy/mark-steyn
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Little Bit of History that I Didn't Know about Rep. Alcee "There ain't No Rules Here" Hastings

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, March 20, 2010 7:59:25 PM
Via Gateway Pundit:

Back in 1981, Rep. Hastings was charged with accepting a $150,000 bribe in exchange for a lenient sentence. He was impeached for bribery and perjury making him only the sixth federal judge in the history of the United States to be removed from office by the Senate.


http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/03/top-democrat-all-this-talk-about-rules-we-make-them-up-as-we-go-along-video/
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Rep. Matheson to Vote No Even Though Obama Nominated His Brother to a Federal Judgeship

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, March 20, 2010 7:40:58 PM
Matheson to vote ‘no' on Obama health care plan
March 20th, 2010 @ 4:05pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah Congressman Jim Matheson announced Saturday he will vote against President Obama's health care plan.

In a statement, Matheson said the legislation "is too expensive, contains too many special deals, does not contain health care costs and will result in increases in health insurance premiums."

Matheson said improving health care and providing affordable coverage in Utah will remain "critical" to him, but said he believes supporting the "wrong kind of reform" which will "increase health care costs" will hurt the nation more than it will help.

For those reasons, Matheson said he will vote ‘no' to the president's massive health care overhaul. The vote is set to take place in Washington, D.C. Sunday.

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=10086007
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Rep. Chris Carney to Vote Yes

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, March 20, 2010 6:41:11 PM
Via Ben Smith at Politico:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Chris Carney (PA-10) today made the following statement with regard to the health insurance reform bill Congress will take up on Sunday:

“We’ve been through a long, difficult debate over health care. I’ve listened to my constituents through 14 town halls and thousands of phone calls, personal visits and letters. I’ve talked with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. And I’ve heard from health care experts, economists, and the Congressional Budget Office, which estimates the cost of the program.

Throughout this debate I have focused on several overarching priorities and I believe, after careful review, that this bill addresses them. This measure denies insurers the ability to reject coverage to people with so-called ‘pre-existing conditions,’ a common sense provision that, as a cancer survivor, I feel particularly strongly about. Covering maternity care will no longer be optional for insurers; pregnant women and their unborn children will be guaranteed coverage when they need it most. And the arbitrary and exorbitant insurance premium increases that have hamstrung small businesses and working families will no longer be possible.

This bill takes critical steps toward providing quality, affordable health care while reducing the cost burden on our hardworking families and small businesses. It does so in a fiscally responsible manner, reducing the deficit by an estimated $138 billion over the first 10 years and an additional $1.2 trillion in the following decade.

This bill also continues the longstanding ban on public funding for abortion, a factor that weighed heavily on my mind in recent days.
I am voting for this legislation because all Americans should have the same insurance choices enjoyed by members of Congress and their families. If it’s good enough for members of Congress, it is good enough for the people they represent.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0310/Chris_Carney_says_hell_vote_yes.html?showall





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Rep. Zack Space to Vote No After Voting Yes Previously

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, March 20, 2010 6:36:38 PM
Via Kathryn Jean Lopez:


U.S. Rep. Zack Space says he will vote no on health care


By MALIA RULON • Gannett Washington Bureau • March 20, 2010

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Zack Space said he plans to vote against the health care reform bill that is expected to come up for a vote in the House as early as Sunday.

Space, D-Dover, voted for the health care bill that passed the House in November. He said he supports the concept of health care reform, but he doesn't like many of the provisions in the Senate bill, which is the version of the bill now under consideration.

http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20100320/UPDATES01/100320005
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Just a Half-Dozen Holdouts from the Originial Stupak Coalition

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, March 20, 2010 4:41:51 PM

'Stupak dozen' is now a half-dozen holdouts

By Molly K. Hooper - 03/20/10 03:43 PM ET
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) says that "at least six" of his original "dozen" members are standing firmly against the Senate healthcare bill.

Following a 20-minute huddle on the House floor with a handful of the holdouts, Stupak told reporters that he has "not seen an executive order" that would have President Barack Obama ensure that federal funds would not go toward abortions so would not rule out supporting it.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/88045-stupak-dozen-is-now-a-half-dozen
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9 Undecided House Democrats?

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, March 20, 2010 3:54:39 PM
Via Jeffrey Anderson at the Critical Condition blog on National Review Online:

I currently count 207 leaning in favor of Obamacare and 215 leaning against, with 9 undecided. Here they are — with the margin by which the presidential vote was won (by one party or the other) in their districts over the last three elections:

 • Marion Berry (D., Ark.) (GOP +8) — pro-Stupak Amendment

 • Henry Cuellar (D., Tex.) (Dem +1) — pro-Stupak Amendment

 • Bill Foster (D., Ill.) (GOP +4)

 • Jim Matheson (D., Utah) (GOP +30) — with nearly two-thirds of his constituents having supported GOP presidential candidates over the last three elections, a “yes” vote on Stupak, and an earlier “no” vote on Obamacare, a “yes” vote would mean that, for the rest of his days, he would be remembered as the guy who sold his vote for the price of Obama’s having just nominated his brother to a federal judgeship

 • Michael Michaud (D., Me.) (Dem +7) — pro-Stupak Amendment

 • Solomon Ortiz (D., Tex.) (GOP +1) — pro-Stupak Amendment

 • Earl Pomeroy (D., N.D.) (GOP +21) — pro-Stupak Amendment — yes, that’s GOP +21

 • Nick Rahall (D., W.V.) (GOP +6) — pro-Stupak Amendment

 • Zach Space (D., Ohio) (GOP +12) — pro-Stupak Amendment

http://healthcare.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YTgyNGZmMzU5YWJiNDBiNDljYWRkODAyNzIxNWIyMGU=

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Rep. DeFazio Switches His Vote from No to Yes Today After Changing His Vote Yesterday from Yes to No

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, March 20, 2010 3:27:53 PM
Rep. DeFazio has changed his vote yet again. Many political analysts said yesterday don't believe for a second that DeFazio will vote no and that most likely he would change his vote to yes and today he has done just that.
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Top Democrats All Confirm that There will be an Up or Down Vote on Sunday

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, March 20, 2010 3:03:36 PM

Dems ditch 'deem and pass'

By Roxana Tiron and Michael O'Brien - 03/20/10 02:17 PM ET

Top Democrats confirmed Saturday that the House would hold separate votes on the Senate healthcare bill and the reconciliation bill, making fixes to it.

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), one of the chief deputy whips, Rep. Melvin Watt (D-N.C.), and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), all of whom said that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) won't use the tactic of deem and pass for healthcare reform.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/88031-dems-ditch-deem-and-pass

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