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12 Taxes in Health Care Law Violate Obama’s Pledge Not to Increase Taxes on Earnings Less than $250,000

By Fred Lucas President Barack Obama smiles in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, during the signing ceremony for the health care bill. As many as a dozen taxes in the new health care law violate President Barack Obama’s campaign pledge not to raise taxes on families earning less than $250,000 and on individuals earning less than $200,000. At least seven of... 

The Passage of Obamacare Will Not Stand

By Newt Gingrich This will not stand. No one should be confused about the outcome of Sunday’s vote This is not the end of the fight it is the beginning of the fight. The American people spoke decisively against a big government, high tax, Washington knows best, pro trial lawyer centralized bureaucratic health system In every recent poll the vast majority of Americans opposed this monstrosity Speaker... 

Pelosi and Reid Plot Plan For Obamacare

By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann Highly informed sources on Capitol Hill have revealed to me details of the Democratic plan to sneak Obamacare through Congress, despite collapsing public approval for healthcare “reform” and disintegrating congressional support in the wake of Republican Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts. President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority... 

Democrats Against Democracy

As DC Democrats slink behind closed doors to craft a final health-care bill — thousands of pages long and sure to sap the nation’s economic future — Americans need to ask: Just what are Dems so ashamed of? “We will do what is necessary to pass the bill,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted, as she and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid moved to forgo a panel to finalize... 

Obama OK’s Tax on “High End” Health Plans

By Erica Werner President Barack Obama signaled to House Democratic leaders Wednesday that they’ll have to drop their opposition to taxing high-end health insurance plans to pay for health coverage for millions of uninsured Americans. In a meeting at the White House, Obama expressed his preference for the insurance tax contained in the Senate’s health overhaul bill, but largely opposed... 

Socialists At Work: Obama, Dems to sidestep GOP on health care

President Obama gave his blessing Tuesday for congressional Democratic leaders to bypass formal House and Senate talks to meld their health care bills, according to two congressional Democratic leadership sources. The two sources told CNN that Obama and Democratic congressional leaders will instead hold informal negotiations to sidestep possible Republican delays of the process, likely shutting out... 

Democrats nix putting pre-vote health bill online

Senate Finance Committee Democrats have rejected a GOP amendment that would have required a health overhaul bill to be available online for 72 hours before the committee votes. Share/Save Read More →

Obama To Consider Bailout of Newspapers

By Michael O'Brien The president said he is "happy to look at" bills before Congress that would give struggling news organizations tax breaks if they were to restructure as nonprofit businesses. Share/Save Read More →

Obama: Legalize illegals to get them health care

By Stephen Dinan President Obama said this week that his health care plan won't cover illegal immigrants, but argued that's all the more reason to legalize them and ensure they eventually do get coverage. Share/Save Read More →

Dem Senator Warns of ‘Big, Big Tax’ on Middle Class in Baucus Bill

By Teddy Davis It's not every day that you hear a Democratic senator charge that a fellow Democrat is proposing to raise taxes on the middle class, but that is what happened on Tuesday when Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., ripped into the health-care bill developed by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mt., the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Share/Save Read More →

House Republicans Urge Obama to Reveal Specifics on His Czars

The top Republicans on two House committees are calling on President Obama to reveal detailed information of all the so-called "czars" in his administration. Share/Save Read More →