I kicked around the idea a few days ago of crunching the proposed health care reform legislation through a word cloud generator. It seemed like it’d be cool to see what words showed up more than others, so I found Wordle and started scheming. Take the text of the bills, strip the various section...
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It’s time for him to own the problem, line by line, if you will. More nice graphics by gunzip here.
It’s a cool take on the CBO’s graph you can see here.
(tip of the hat to Glenn Reynolds)
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Persecution is an ugly thing. And ought to help the GOP where the business community is concerned.
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This is good news! If the see-gars at the RNC will just seize the day and get serious about expanding liberty, they can deal the Dems a knock-down.
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Real quick note: The Sibelius pronunciation / backtrack under liberal fire is a good lesson to the new GOP: have the strength of conviction to stick to your guns and not fudge your message. If your position is to abolish the Dept. of Energy, then stick to that. Sell the savings, and stick to...
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A new article from the CS Monitor illustrates the breadth of this reformation that’s taking root.
The mantra, the only mantra, should be ‘expand individual liberty’.
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OK, it’s by now an established fact that Obama and his disciples have the same, if not greater, propensity for shooting themselves in the foot as W’s administration and the previous GOP Congress. (Broken promises, Fudged transparency, Debt problems, Orwellian actions)
The question is this: can / will the GOP seize upon this strategic over-stretch...
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A look at the constitutionality of proposed health care reform from the Obama administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress.
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The Washington Times has this report on an exchange Representative Eric Massa of upstate New York (district 29) had this past weekend at the Netroots Nation conference:
PARTICIPANT: So if we got your meetings to sixty forty, you’d vote…and there was single payer in a bill you would vote for it?
MASSA: Oh absolutely I would...
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Ann Althouse looks at the neo-Orwellian rhetoric of politicians “having a conversation”.
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Speaker Pelosi in an August 10th opinion piece on Health Care reform and the protests against the proposed bill (HR3200):
These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American.
Then-Minority Leader Pelosi at a San Francisco town hall meeting,...
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President Obama is fond of saying “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep it.” The Congressional Budget Office wrote this in a report to Congressman Rangel:
CBO and the JCT staff estimate that nearly 6 million other people who would be covered by an employment-based plan under current law would...
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