The President can offer an Executive Order, but the groups that are watching – and scoring – the health care debacle on life issues are going to assume that such an offer is meaningless*.
You know what would be handy for the President right now? A reputation for doing what he said that he was going to do, come Hell, high water, or a recalcitrant Congress*. Shame that the President decided that such a thing was beneath his dignity, huh?
Moe Lane
*You know. Like George W Bush had.
“All this talk about rules. When the deal goes down, we make ’em up as we go along.”
Rep. Alcee Hastings was the sixth federal judge in American history to be impeached from office (bribery and perjury). The voters of FL-23 may have elected him afterward, but it was the Democratic party leadership that let him join the Rules Committee. And it’s the American electorate who gets to decide whether he can stay the Chair of its Legislative/Budget Process sub-committee.
So. Your call.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
Smitty over at the Other McCain is covering it; see also Michelle Malkin. Glenn Reynolds has an unconfirmed report of 30K so far, which if true should frighten Democrats generally, as this is a pickup protest. Glenn also has pictures of the event, which will no doubt start the usual discussion about how many right-of-center people showed up to protest, in the hopes that it will distract people from the more interesting point that right-of-center people are now increasingly likely to show up to protest…
Moe Lane
PS: Yes, it’d be great if I was there. It’d also be great if I had a budget. Not a complaint, just an observation; as Dan noted in his excellent post, it’s the other side that gets the funding. So it goes.
Crossposted to RedState.
…over what the Hell his party is doing with regard to the health care debacle:
“We’re not going to deem the Senate bill passed.We’re going to pass the Senate bill. We’re going to pass it by a vote in the House.”
I am given to understand that the response was, ah, polite disbelief.
…if you’re following the health care debacle, you don’t need a link to know that the pro-choice wing-and-three-quarters of the Democratic party is screaming bloody murder about Pelosi’s latest reversal; and if you’re not, you want me to SHUT UP ABOUT HEALTH CARE.
Fine. Here’s a video of what was possibly the only pet hippo in existence.
If the hippo ended up eating its human owners, don’t tell me.
Moe Lane
PS: Yes, I know that hippos are herbivores.
[UPDATE] Welcome, Instapundit readers.
Explicitly. From a Thursday memo on the subject:
We cannot emphasize enough: do not allow yourself (or your boss) to get into a discussion of the details of CBO scores and textual narrative. Instead, focus only on the deficit reductions and number of Americans covered.
Emphasis theirs, not mine. Also:
The inclusion of a full SGR [‘sustainable growth rate’ – ML] repeal would undermine reform’s budget neutrality. So, again, do not allow yourself (or your boss) to get into a discussion of the details of CBO scores and textual narrative. Instead, focus only on the deficit reductions and number of Americans covered.
As most health staff knows, Leadership and the White House are working with the AMA to rally physicians support for a full SGR repeal later this spring. However, both health and communications staff should understand we do not want that policy discussion discussed at this time…
I’d ask what they were so afraid of, but I already know the answer – and so do you.
Moe Lane
PS: Obviously, there’s no need to accommodate them in their desire to avoid this issue.
Crossposted to RedState.
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They need hostages. Complete with those plastic explosive necklaces from The Running Man
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Via Hot Air Headlines – and I have to say: that feature that MSNBC has where you can cut the embed clip to suit is pretty cool.
(Who is, by the way, about halfway through the process of Learning Her Lesson):
A. Election Night, 2012.
Assuming that the President even runs for re-election. I know, I know, that sounds silly: after all, the Democrats still think that they can pull out the votes on health care rationing. But the job situation sucks, frankly; and it’s not going to stop sucking any time soon; and jobs creation is not even the next thing on the legislative horizon. And I don’t think that the man even likes being President. And not in that good way, either.
Well, we’ll see.
Moe Lane
The trick to this is to sing it in the standard “head slightly tilted, voice slightly off-key, smile slightly unnerving and eyes staring at somebody’s left cheek” fashion.
This is the bill that never ends
Yes it goes on and on my friend.
Some people tried pushing it
Not knowing what it was
And they’ll continue pushing it
Forever just because… Continue reading #rsrh ‘This is the bill that never ends…’
(I actually wrote this at around 2 PM. I don’t know why it didn’t load then.)
I just got off the phone with someone from John Boccieri’s (D, OH-16) office. Rep. Boccieri, you might remember, was one of the four Congressmen that Rep. Clyburn suggested were possible ‘yes’ votes on the health care bill, and who were later rumored to have switched their votes. I’m informed of the following:
This, of course, can change – but that’s the state of the situation as of about fifteen minutes ago.
Moe Lane
I should note, by the way, that the Congressman’s office was very civil and accessible to an openly conservative Republican blogger asking for information. Mind you, that doesn’t always happen – but when it does, it certainly makes getting information easier.
*The trick is, of course, is in defining ‘reform.’
