Democrats will do anything to pass health insurance reform, even, it seems, subvert the constitution. Knowing that they still lack the votes to pass the kickback-filled Senate health reform bill word-for-word, Democrats in the United States House of Representatives have concocted what they think may be a way around having an up-or-down vote on the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘constitution’
Reciprocity initiative vote reveals problems going forward.
For the second time in the first six months of the Barack Obama administration, Republicans have lost a crucial vote in Congress resulting from an inability to hold the whole caucus in each chamber together. The cap and tax trade bill last month passed in the U.S. House of Representatives by a mere seven votes; had all House [...]
Health Care Policy Discussions Should Be Expanded
The discussion of health care reform has grown in recent weeks across various segments of American society. Debate is underway in Congress as bloggers reveal themselves to be an incubator for ideas, unlike the Republican Party bureaucracy. Fellow NextGenGOP contributor Gideon D’Assandro has offered valuable insights into this topic. Other collaborative political blogs (such as The Next Right [...]
Happy 200th Mr. Lincoln.
Two hundred years is a long time, two or more lifetimes even in this, the first decade of the twenty-first century. Needless to say, much can happen in such a span of time. The U.S. Constitution had at that time been in effect for about 20 years. On February 12, 1809, a son was born to a [...]