Former Representative Pat Toomey is leading Senator Arlen Specter 48% to 36%, according to a new Rasmussen poll. The election is still over a year away but incumbents who poll under 40% eventually have their titled preceded by “former.”
WSJ–First Victory in Health Care Fight
NY Times–Senator Specter’s Town Hall
David Boaz–Media Failure?
John Stossel–Congress to Aid Lawsuit Abuse
Reason-The Fed and Inflation
Politico–The President’s Rhetoric
Politico–Grassley Retreats at Town Halls
Federal Debt-$11.684 trillion
If the Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade bill (H.R. 2454) becomes law, U.S. economic growth could be slashed by 2.4 percent and the legislation would cost 2 million jobs by 2030. This, according to a recent study conducted by the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and released today.
The study, which was commissioned by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF), assesses the impact of the Waxman-Markey bill on manufacturing, jobs, energy prices and the overall U.S. economy. According to a summary of the study, “The NAM and ACCF released national data as well as the analysis for 15 industrial states that would be impacted greatly if this or similar legislation is signed into law. The full report, including the data covering the remaining 35 states will be released in the coming weeks.”
The Senate is expected to take up its version of climate change legislation in September. This latest study is yet another in a growing list of reasons why it shouldn’t.
Read the full national report here.
Access the analysis of each of the 15 states that have released so far here.
At his town hall meeting in Portsmouth, NH yesterday, President Obama again bragged about the AARP’s support of his plan for government-run health care. The President proudly proclaimed to his hand-picked crowd of supporters:
We have the AARP on board because they know this is a good deal for our seniors.
Obama added,
AARP would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining Medicare.
But hold the phone, folks. According to the Associated Press and Fox News, AARP’s chief operating officer Tom Nelson moved quickly to correct the record, saying, “indications that we have endorsed any of the major health care reform bills currently under consideration in Congress are inaccurate.” That forced White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to backtrack, claiming that the President didn’t mean to mislead the American people.
AARP has been under heavy fire for appearing with Obama on numerous occasions in the last several months seemingly in support of the President’s health care plan — and by extension, the various plans being pushed by Congressional Democrats. But with support among seniors dwindling, it is no surprise the AARP is now seemingly looking for an out.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey released yesterday shows that a whopping 56% of those over age 65 are opposed, and 46% of senior citizens are strongly opposed.
“Rather than increase government spending and control, we need to address the root causes of poor health. This begins with the realization that every American adult is responsible for his or her own health,” John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, writing in today’s Wall Street Journal.
According to the Wall Street Journal, economists predict that our recent global economic meltdown has come to an end. According to the survey, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is expected to increase 2.4% in the third quarter of this year. However, since employment is a lagging indicator, it may take several more months to see a pronounced decline in the unemployment rate.
WSJ – Obama Defends Health-Care Plan
Club for Growth – Only 32% Favor Government-Run Health Care
Conservatives for Patients’ Rights – The Fight for Health Care Reform
Marginal Revolution – Life Expectancy Stats
Politico – The Democrats’ Senior Problem
Chris Cillizza – Ben Nelson Fights Back
Federal Debt: $11.68 trillion
Proponenets of ObamaCare continue to claim that those of us opposed to a government takeover of health care have not introduced a viable alternative. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), however, has introduced The Patients’ Choice Act (S. 1099).
The bill would:
You can read the bill yourself here.
The Obama Administration and so-called leaders in Congress have gone to great lengths to portray opponents of government-run health care in a negative light.
Taxpayers who have turned out in large numbers at town hall meetings across the country have been labeled AstroTurf. Senator Barbara Boxer has implied the protests are “staged” because the people doing the protesting are “well-dressed.” And in an op-ed in USA Today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer have gone so far as to call the hard-working Americans who have chosen to exercise their First Amendment rights to peaceably assemble and petition their government… “Un-American!”
So let’s get this straight, when Left of Center organizations and Big Labor Unions pay professional protesters to turn out and support their agenda, that’s the American way. But when hard-working Americans who are frustrated that their elected officials won’t listen to them speak up in opposition to a major piece of legislation, that’s un-American?
Well, here’s what the mother of government-run health care, Hillary Clinton, had have to say about such criticism of civic participation back in 2003?
To a cheering crowd in 2003, Hillary said: “I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. And, we should stand up and say we are Americans and we have the right to debate and disagree with any Administration.”
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