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[Not So Silent Thoughts] Not So Silent Thoughts: Mark Steyn: Obamacare worth the price to ...: Then Scott Brown took them back down to 59, and Republicans were again stunned to find the Dems talking about ramming this thing into law through the parliamentary device of "reconciliation." And, when polls showed an ever larger number of Americans ever more opposed to Obamacare (by margins approaching three-to-one), Republicans were further stunned to discover that, in order to advance "reconciliation," Democrat reconsiglieres had apparently been offering (illegally) various cosy Big Government sinecures to swing-state congressmen in order to induce them to climb into the cockpit for the kamikaze raid to push the bill through. The Democrats understand that politics is not just about Tuesday evenings every other November, but about everything else, too.

[The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog] The American Spectator : Repeal: Obamacare as the New Prohibition: One other thing I love about the whole 'repeal is impossible' meme and those who promote it: the premise is that the Dims should not ram this thru because the majority of Americans don't want it, but we'll magically transform our view the moment it passes. Pure idiocy.

[Capitol Notebook] Public opinion, and other problems with ObamaCare | Christian ...: Currently, 53% of Americans are opposed to the pending Senate version of the bill, and only 42% support it. Keep in mind that these numbers come AFTER Congress spent over a year working on the issue, Obama made dozens of speeches and town hall appearances, and after the highly covered health care "summit" meeting with Congress that Obama sponsored. 

[Lux Libertas - Light and Liberty] WSJ Editorial - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, ObamaCare | Lux Libertas ...: The cleanest option for Democrats would be for the House to pass the Senate’s Christmas Eve bill word for word, thereby bypassing a Senate filibuster under the normal rules and forwarding ObamaCare directly to the Rose Garden signing ceremony. But Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly said the votes simply don’t exist for the Senate bill as is.

[Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian] Obamacare Is a Budgetary Disaster « Thoughts Of A Conservative ...: For instance, the health-reform bill is filled to the brim with Medicare changes, but the one Medicare provision the president and the Democrats want to pass separately from the health bill is the so-called “doc fix,” which would repeal a cut in Medicare physician fees at a cost of $371 billion over ten years. Of course, splitting their agenda into two or three bills doesn’t change the total cost.

[The Note] Health Care Reform = Democrats' 'Ishtar' - The Note: Scary stuff, this Obamacare, another underfunded liability coming for a vote even as one of my advisers informs me that the total of the nation's unfunded liabilities is now about $105 trillion vs the $60 to $70 trillion I thought it to be.

[Michelle Malkin] Michelle Malkin » Will Stupak be bought on Demcare?: Keep in mind that National Right to Life should be opposed to Obamacare in general, because it will impose QALY calculations into decisions over life-sustaining care. Arguments over life are not just about abortion, after all.

[Investors.com] ObamaCare Side Effect: Regime Change - Investors.com: In other words, a middle-class health care entitlement that will add millions of people to the federal dole. It's all too reminiscent of the political dictum of the old New Dealer Harry Hopkins: tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

[Dan_Perrin's blog] “ObamaCare Cannot be Passed through Reconciliation” | Dan_Perrin's ...: I don’t want ObamaCare to pass, but I really do believe if it does, Obama is nearly certain to be a one-term President (all those pledges he made against tax increases on the middle-class will be his “read my lips” moment) and Republicans will have lopsided majorities in both the Senate and the House if Democrats go down this path in the coming elections.

[Greg Hinz] Dems need to find their backbone on Obamacare 2.0 | Greg Hinz ...: The recent GOP win in the special Senate race in Massachusetts surely will be the first stage in a November rout if the donkeys remain crouched in the fetal position. Having promised for decades that national health reform would occur on their watch —

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » New ObamaCare bill: Are you ready for ...: A key Democratic goal of health reform (as was kicked around during the HillaryCare debacle) is to create a new middle-class entitlement. If this plays out like Social Security it will tie the middle class to their benefactors in the Democratic Party, which will forever position itself as the party of more generous benefits paid for by Someone Else.

[Dan_Perrin's blog] A Tortured History of ObamaCare | Dan_Perrin's blog: “Without sixty votes, the Democrats couldn’t simply reopen the Senate bill to incorporate the changes that the Democratic House and Senate leaders had agreed upon. Instead, the Senate Democrats wanted the House to adopt the Senate bill, and then both chambers would adopt a “reconciliation” bill (which would require just fifty-one votes in the Senate) that would include most of the final changes.”But House Democratic leaders, mistrusting the Senate””and not liking it, either””balked at doing that.

[NewsReal Blog] Obamacare Gets Even Sicker | NewsReal Blog: Congressional Representative Michele Bachmann’s appearance on CNN’s Larry King live a few days ago has sent the Denver Examiner’s Keith Vance, not to mention the Obama White House,  into a state close to hysteria.  Vance is calling Bachmann a liar and accusing her of being part of the conservative smear machine - because she matter-of-factly called for an investigation into President Obama’s attempt to persuade Representative Jim Matheson to change his vote on Obama-care from no to yes.  Bachmann’s point is well-taken, in that Obama just nominated Matheson’s brother for a .

[Boudica BPI Weblog] Obamacare message from FaxDC. « Boudica BPI Weblog: Alert (The Associated Press) The White House signaled that an aggressive, all-Democratic strategy for overhauling the nation’s healthcare system remains a serious option, even as President Barack Obama invites Republicans to next week’s televised summit to seek possible compromises.

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