Health Care: Like a movie vampire, big-government health reform keeps coming back to sink its teeth into a resistant America's throat. Voter power has left the Democrats' plans near dead, but near isn't good enough. The axiom "the people rule" came to life in Massachusetts when our system of government, which is so often so frustrating, stopped the Washington juggernaut carrying America toward socialized medicine. Not Dead Yet
This is the sound of President Obama's health-care reform bill crashing to earth: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday: "We're not on health care now. We talked a lot about it in the past." Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein: "It's a time out." The bill's advocates can't believe this is happening. They elected a popular and charismatic Democratic president. With him came a filibuster-proof congressional majority. Done deal. Write the bill, vote it into everlasting life, and burn votive candles to Franklin Roosevelt's unfinished national entitlement legacy. Why ObamaCare Isn't Flying It was foolish of President Obama to think he could reform 16% of the nation's economy.
We are speeding toward an economic cliff because our government can't practice restraint. We spend so much more than we take in because politicians at every level use the public treasury to win elections. The public mostly accepts lavish promises of more and more federal spending because the cost of government has been so effectively divorced from what actually comes out of our paychecks. The Second American Tax Revolt by Michael Reagan
Rep. Paul Ryan is re-introducing legislation in Congress today — amid criticism that his is ‘a party of no’ — to offer Republican alternatives to health care and spending the same day President Barack Obama will deliver his State of the Union address to Congress. Rep. Paul Ryan to introduce alternative to health care and spending
The only thing missing was quills and powdered wigs. Eleven House conservatives on Wednesday signed a “Declaration of Health Care Independence” at an event staged by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), and there was no shortage of Revolutionary War rhetoric and tea party references. Conservatives sign 'Declaration'