Even after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is fully implemented in 2019, about 23 million Americans will remain uninsured. About one-third of these will be undocumented immigrants, according to estimates by the Congressional Budget Office.
This is by design. Illegal immigrants will not be permitted to buy insurance …
Apparently, behave himself. The congressman made famous for yelling “You lie!” in the middle of President Obama’s health care speech tells AP that we shouldn’t expect a repeat performance during the State of the Union address tonight:
“I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior,” he said. “I have the
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Those of us former little girls of a certain age can remember a doll that we all had to have. She was called Chatty Cathy, and if you pulled a string in her neck, she would say things like “Please brush my hair” and “Let’s have a party!”
It turns out that Chatty Cathy and the United States House of Representatives have a lot in …
The House of Representatives today took an hour to condemn rep. Joe Wilson for yelling “You lie!” at President Barack Obama during his address of the Joint Session last week on health care reform. Wilson’s apology was accepted by Obama’s chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel but he refused to apologize a second time to his House colleagues …
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Little noticed amid all the hubbub over Rep. Joe Wilson’s “You Lie!” screech last week was the decision by Obama’s senior advisers to plant the White House to the right of both House and Senate Democrats on the issue of illegal immigration in the health care reform bill. To understand how, one must get a bit in the …
On Sunday, Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who has announced her resignation to run for governor in the Lone Star state, penned a piece in the Washington Post about what she called “Czarist Washington.” Read closely, and you will discover an easily overlooked undercurrent to Hutchison’s concern. She is worried less about the known …
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Kanye West has apologized for his disruption at last night’s MTV music awards. In the meantime, as for all this noise about whether …
At the end of a cabinet meeting today, President Obama took a couple questions from reporters. The first:
Q Do you accept Wilson’s apology, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, I do. I’m a big believer that we all make mistakes. He apologized quickly and without equivocation, and I’m appreciative of that.
That is right, to a point. Wilson …