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Amid A Chorus Of Pleas For ‘Fiscal Realism’ The President’s Left-Wing Allies Mobilize ‘Another Campaign’ To Prevent It   WASH POST: ‘Entitlement Reform Must Be On The Table’   WASHINGTON POST: “Entitlement Reform Must Be On The Table … no serious [debt-reduction plan] can exclude entitlements. With Republicans in control of the House and holding 45 votes [...]

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Governor Jindal of Louisiana was just reelected on Saturday; here is the Virginia Right report on the election.  Jindal is determined to end the Huey Long era in Louisiana and I strongly support him in that regard.  I hope he is not distracted by national developments; it is critical to have a term to implement [...]

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Yesterday, Senate Republicans made good on their promise to force a vote on repealing President Obama’s massive, unpopular health care spending law. Unfortunately, every Senate Democrat present for the vote, 51 in total, voted against repeal. All 47 Republicans voted to scrap the 2,700-page monstrosity and start over.   Following the vote, Senate Republican Leader [...]

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We learned last week  that a solar eclipse is a rare but beautiful convergence of heavenly bodies.  When we have here is a rare but ugly convergence of past and future that has deep implications for the 2012 election. The Boston Globe is reporting that: The relentlessly rising cost of health insurance is prompting some small [...]

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n a speech this morning, Democrat House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced that the House of Representatives will not pass a budget this year. According to The Hill, “The House has never failed to pass an annual budget resolution since the current budget rules were put into place in 1974.”

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Dems Accuse Republicans Of Spreading “Lies” But The Facts Revealed Since Passage Of The Health Bill Tell A Different Story

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY): “Bottom Line, On The Health Care Bill, We Allowed Too Many Lies To Get Out There Without Rebuttal, Because We Thought They Were So Obviously Untrue. But We’ve Learned Our Lesson.” (Sen. Schumer, Press Conference, 4/22/10)

THE CLAIM

PRESIDENT OBAMA: “The Plan I’m Announcing Tonight … Will Slow The Growth Of Health Care Costs For Our Families, Our Businesses, And Our Government.” (President Obama, Remarks To Joint Session Of Congress, 9/9/09)

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Last night, the chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released his long-awaited report on the Democrats’ health care spending bill. The report states, “[W]e estimate that overall national health expenditures under the health reform act would increase by a total of $311 billion during calendar years 2010-2019. . . .” This was an assessment that was requested by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell prior to the final votes on health care in the House, but CMS told Republicans that they couldn’t complete an analysis in time for the vote. Given the report’s findings, it’s easy to see why Democrats decided to rush ahead with a vote before the report could be completed.

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