Why All the Drama?

Byron York raises an interesting point:

The extraordinary thing about the dramatic events surrounding the health care bill in the Senate is that there was any drama at all. Lawmakers were simply voting to begin debate on the Democratic version

The record of the Democrats since attaining office has not been good, at least from the perspective of the average American. Let’s look at their key agenda points:

• Global Warming, as such has long been seen as a lie. That

From Lori Montgomery at the Washintgton Post:

A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health-care system — would sharply

I actually like the headline James Joyner puts up at a bit better:

House Trades Freedom for Health Coverage, Senate’s Move

The House passed a trillion dollar bill that will force Americans to buy health insurance, force even small businesses

Eric Notes: Congressman Mike Pence has posted the following on his site. It’s my inetnt to be one of those that pushes this thing to viral stage.

Please read and forward the link to this note ( http://bit.ly/1rGrpW ) to

William Kristol makes a point about Pelosi that I’ve suspected these last couple days about both her and Harry Reid:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to release the text of the Democratic health care proposal tomorrow, with the

Over at Reason this morning,  Peter Suderman suggests something …(Link repaired….Editor) … that I”ve been slowly coming around to, myself. He looks at the on again / off again agreement between the White House and the Democrats in Congress,

A little addendum to my comments about the “State of Emergency” declared by the President yesterday. Note, please the passage here,l in yet another AP story:

Administration officials said the declaration was a pre-emptive move designed to make decisions easier

By way of a link from Lori Bird via Facebook, I note a posting on  theBirdflupandemic.com:

The package insert for the Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine manufactured by Novartis has been leaked on the Internet. According to that

Surber this morning:

Democrat Nancy Pelosi cried like a little girl that those mean, un-American people on the other side frighten her.

Pelosi sobbed: “This kind of rhetoric is just, is really frightening and it created a climate

Right Wing News polled 74 conservative bloggers on the health care bills winding their way through Congress.

You can see the results here.

Here are a couple of sample Q&A’s from the poll:

2) If the health care bills moving

The use of the death of Ted Kennedy in support of the Democrats and their socialist-style takeover of our healthcare system has been widely noted and decried. It’s crass, at least. Cynical, as well. But it shows us just how

Does anybody, at all, believe this latest line of male bovine scat from the Scare Monger in Chief:

Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — Swine flu may hospitalize 1.8 million patients in the U.S.
this year, filling intensive care units

Any interesting if eminently predictable piece from Marc Stein this morning. Here’s a taste:

Still, what do I know? Evidently, it’s stimulated the sign-making industry, putting America back to work by putting up “PUTTING AMERICA BACK TO WORK” signs

Back when President Obama was merely candidate Obama, we were told how his presidency would bring America together.  As Glenn Reynolds keeps telling us, “they were right”.

Arguably, the most significant change that the President and his party in the