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Importing a Potential EpidemicPosted By Arnold Ahlert On June 24, 2015 @ 12:24 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 2 Comments [1]By now most Americans are familiar with the Obama administration’s ongoing effort to force-feed amnesty for illegals to a largely recalcitrant American public. The most egregious part of this effort occurred during last year’s border “surge” when the administration not only embraced the admittance of tens of thousands of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) into our nation, but the purposeful and secret dispersal [2] of them into all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. What Americans...

Will your doctor be blacklisted? There are 23 words in Obamacare that haven't gotten much attention -- but should scare every doctor and every patient. Obamacare allows the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to blacklist any physician or other practitioner that doesn't practice health care the way the government wants health care practiced. Here is what the law says under Section 1311(h) titled "QUALITY IMPROVEMENT": "Beginning on January 1, 2015, a qualified health plan may contract with... (B) a health care provider only if such provider implements such mechanisms to improve health care quality as the Secretary may...

In a move sure to spark consternation inside the White House, Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) sent a letter Tuesday to embattled Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius requesting she produce a list of the one-on-one meetings she and President Barack Obama allege to have held in the over three-and-a-half years leading up to Obamacare’s calamitous rollout—meetings that do not appear on the White House´s own official calendar. “I have been greatly concerned over the lack of transparency and disregard for straight answers,” says Gingrey in his letter to Sebelius. “The Government Accountability Institute reported this month that according

I am looking at the people running to replace Saxby Chambliss in 2014. Can anyone from GA tell me anything about Broun and Gingrey? Are there others running? I live in Kingston's district, so I know some about him, although we just moved here in 2011. Looking to support the candidate with the best conservative credentials so we don't get another democrat-lite senator. We need to improve our conservative odds this time around. Is there a GA "family values organization" that puts out the voting records of the people who are already in the House, as they do pre-election in...

SMYRNA — U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Marietta) tackled such sensitive topics as gun reform, abortion and rape during the Smyrna Area Council of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce breakfast which took place Thursday at the Smyrna Community Center. Gingrey said he was open to considering certain gun control measures in the wake of the Connecticut elementary school massacre. “There are some problems, and maybe these huge magazines even for someone who says, ‘look, I just use an AR-15 for target practice,’ but do you really need to be standing there shooting at a silhouette a shot a second or even...

Georgia Congressman Phil Gingrey, who chairs the GOP Doctors Caucus, tells Fox News that he’s “not sure there will even be a vote tomorrow.” As part of Fox News’ continuing health care coverage, Gingrey made an appearance on the channel earlier today, where he said, “Nancy Pelosi is not going to bring the vote to the floor if she doesn’t have those 216 votes. And nobody wants to be that deciding vote.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi needs 216 votes to pass the bill, and the votes, even within her own party, haven’t come easily. When asked what Gingrey made of...

Howard Dean: Rep. Gingrey ‘an embarrassment’By Bob Cusack Posted: 06/10/09 07:14 PM [ET] There were some serious fireworks on C-SPAN Wednesday as former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean went after two GOP lawmakers-cum-physicians. It all started earlier this week when physician-turned-Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) said he had recently read that Dean’s wife, Dr. “Elizabeth” Steinberg, was no longer taking Medicaid patients because the government reimbursement rates are too low. Dean fired back on Wednesday, saying, “Dr. Gingrey is just plain wrong. He’s an embarrassment. First of all, my wife is not named Elizabeth, as her name is Judith. Second...

Am I the only one who noticed this? Do the chattering classes get their transcript of the Rush Limbaugh program from Media Matters? If you don’t listen, you have no idea of what animates the Right, and the rump group of legislators that calls itself the Republican Party in Congress. Obama’s stimulus bill passed the House without a single Republican vote. Since polls show that Obama has an approval rating that far surpassed Mohammad in Riyadh, what’s going on? This afternoon, the lone Republican, Phil Gingrey, who criticized Rush Limbaugh in an interview with the Politico appeared on his show...

Watch Chris Matthews nearly wretch when he plays the tape of Gingrey apologizing to Limbaugh.It's got some pretty good discussion with Dick Armey as well.

Or might it have been someplace slightly lower on the anatomy? . . . Yesterday, Georgia Republican congressman Phil Gingrey took a shot at Rush Limbaugh. Today, Gingrey called Rush on the air to apologize, which in turn led MSNBC’s Tamron Hall to wonder whether Gingrey was engaging in some Rush ring-kissing. Hall posed her question [during MSNBC's 4 PM hour] to A. B. Stoddard. “Hill” editor Stoddard left no doubt that’s exactly what Gingrey was up to, and the pair shared some yucks at the representative's expense. Or might it have been someplace slightly lower on the anatomy? ....

Two military officers in Iraq have started an Internet petition asking Congress to support their mission and let them finish the job in Iraq. U.S. News and World Report notes: Navy Lt. Jason Nichols and Staff Sgt. David Thul from the Minnesota Army National Guard have rolled out an Internet petition to finish the job. Nichols tells us that his colleagues “think the war is worth fighting but there wasn’t a way for us to express that fact.” Then they discovered that they could file a grievance with Congress, which in this case asks them to back the war… they’ve...

Spoke briefly with Congressman Phil Gingrey (R, GA-11th) after church today. http://www.house.gov/gingrey/ Gingrey is a OB-Gyn physician, a first-time conservative Congressman from a democratic gerry-mandered district spreading through democratic regions in west GA and metro Atlanta. (1) I asked him to sponsor legistlation REMOVING the free-speech restrictions imposed under McCain-Feingold. He thought it was a good idea, but didn't know how much other Congressional support there would be. Therefore: CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND CREATE SOME SUPPORT for removal of this section of the law. Constitutionally, even though the vast majority of the bill has been upheld by the Court (thanks...

Georgia Congressman Phil Gingrey said it's just a matter of weeks before the United States will be engaged in combat with Iraq. Rep. Gingrey added, however, that anything is possible, even moves by Saddam Hussein to comply with U.N. sanctions and avert a conflict. "It is possible that in the 11th hour that he will come to his senses and realize, OK, the jig's up and I will abide by the resolution. It's also possible that he will decide to abdicate and go wherever he wants to go with his $20 billion," Gingrey told 11Alive News. Congressman Gingrey serves on...

Is Gingrey gaining in the 11th? Democrat Roger Kahn has the advantages of running in a congressional district drawn for Democrats (the 11th), having a private fortune to spend on the race, and being able to assume most district African Americans will vote for him, allowing him to fashion conservative media appeals to eat into Republican Phil Gingrey’s assumed voter base. Nevertheless, Kahn's lead in a poll taken nearly a month ago was only 41 percent to 40 percent, and there is at least circumstantial evidence that Gingrey, a state senator from Marietta, is gaining momentum. He is playing the...

Polls show Gingrey, Kahn in dead heat in District 11 Brandon Johnson Staff Writer Published September 23, 2002 11:20 PM CDT Phil Gingrey doesn't have the checkbook of Roger Kahn, but that isn't keeping the 11th Congressional District GOP candidate from attempting to grab the front-runner position early in the race. Gingrey announced poll numbers showing the Marietta state senator in a dead heat with Kahn while the National Republican Party showed its commitment to Gingrey, giving $80,000 to the race. The poll showed Kahn ahead 43 to 39 percent, well within the 4.9 percent margin of error. Among likely...