Even the Administration's Chief Actuary at HHS cannot provide cost analysis of latest Democrat health spending bill before the vote
Chief Actuary: ‘I regret that my staff and I will not be able to prepare our analysis within this very tight time frame, due to the complexity of the legislation.'
WASHINGTON, DC – The Obama administration's chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) notified Republican leaders Saturday that the “very tight time frame” and “complexity” of the Democrats' health spending bill would prevent them from fully analyzing the costs and efficacy of the bill before the House voted on the legislation. The letter was in response to a request from House and Senate Republicans. Read more
WASHINGTON -- Demonstrators outside the U.S. Capitol, angry over the proposed health care bill, shouted "nigger" Saturday at U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during an Alabama march in the 1960s.
December 27, 2007
Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, insists the housing bubble had relatively little to do with him. After guiding the economy for 19 mostly prosperous years he now faces criticism for drastically lowering interest rates.
Naughty, naughty, naughty. Using a faked memo to catapult your propaganda? Smells of desperation:
The memo, first reported by Politico and Big Government and pushed hard by Drudge, allegedly shows the Dem leadership telling rank and file Dems to stay hush-hush about a scheme for a “doc fix” later this year that, in essence, would make the bill's deficit-reduction meaningless.
After Dems alleged to TPM that the memo is fake, Politico pulled down the story.
The memo, however, was pushed to some reporters by the office of GOP leader John Boehner. A source forwards an email sent at 12:58 PM by Boehner spokesman Michael Steel to The Daily Caller's Jon Ward and other reporters, with the original memo attached.
According to the CBO, the highest figure for all federal taxes since 1970 came in the year 2000, when they reached 20.6% of GDP. As we know, after that George W. Bush and Republicans in Congress cut federal taxes; they fell to 18.5% of GDP in 2007, before the recession hit, and 17.5% in 2008.
Tuesday's Tea Party crowd, however, thought that federal taxes were almost three times as high as they actually are. The average response was 42% of GDP and the median 40%. The highest figure recorded in all of American history was half those figures: 20.9% at the peak of World War II in 1944.
Google controls nearly two-thirds of the world's search results, making it the Internet gateway for most people. As a result of that clout, Google's censorship policies are closely watched.
Google has a longstanding policy of censoring search results or hosted content, like videos, for people in nations where that material is illegal. But Google is in the process of deciding how to handle censorship in China, where that nation's policies are murky.
For example, Google may not agree with Germany's censorship laws, but that country has a government elected by the people, and it is transparent with its citizens about what it censors. On the other hand, China's government is not democratically elected, and its censorship laws are a state secret.
Um... pretty self-explanatory! Read more
Hard times bring out the worst of society. The papers are full of stories of people scammed out of money when they are desperate for work. Up front fees for secret shoppers are one such scam. Anytime you have to pay up front for a job the red flags should go up. Now Immigrants are being targeted too. Read more
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) requesting that the final health care votes be recorded by “call of the roll” so that every lawmaker is required to publicly announce their vote on the House floor. Read more
They would lose seats in Nevada (Reid), Colorado (Bennett), Arkansas (Lincoln), Pennsylvania (Specter), Indiana, Wisconsin (Feingold), Missouri (Carnahan), North Dakota, and Ohio. Tossup in California (Boxer).
Tea Party protesters on Tuesday in D.C. are interviewed and show their ignorance. They have the talking points down pat, but can't back up their hyperbole. Question: Where do you get your information?" Answer: "FoxNews, Glenn Beck, etc.". Yep. Question: "Where in the bill is (fill in blank)?" Answer: "Uh, you got me there..." MORE Read more
President Barack Obama promised the govt. would have the power to block unreasonable rate hikes. Ah, sorry not in the final bill. He also promised to send investigators disguised as patients to hospitals in search of waste, fraud and abuse. Nope not that one either.
And those "special deals" that Obama railed against and said he wanted to eliminate? With the exception of two of the most notorious - extra Medicaid money for Nebraska and a carve-out for Florida seniors faced with losing certain extra Medicare benefits - they are all still there.
Negotiations on C-Span? Nope Sorry. Missed that one too.
Public Option? My Bad. Can't have that either.
From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality.
Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology report they were able to cloak a tiny bump in a layer of gold, preventing its detection at nearly visible infrared frequencies.
Their cloaking device also worked in three dimensions, while previously developed cloaks worked in two dimensions, lead researcher Tolga Ergin said. Read more
March 19, 2010, 4:17 PM EDT
By David Glovin and Bob Van Voris
March 19 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve Board must disclose documents identifying financial firms that might have collapsed without the largest U.S. government bailout ever, a federal appeals court said.
Hoping to assuage progressive Democrats who remain disappointed with the content of the health care reform bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) committed on Friday to holding a separate vote on a public option in the coming months.
Title should sum it up//it's all about sheer bulk. I'm putting up a playlist of some of my favorites. Peruse the playlist for something you like, or create a new one top listen to and link it back to here. I hope I don't forget to uncheck "Auto-Start" when I get the embed code. Or you could simply link to an individual video off Youtube... Read more
