http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/reid/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:13:13 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419392/posts The House and Senate may be out of session on winter recess, but Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are busy threatening legislators… cutting secret, back-room deals… they’re twisting arms… all in a desperate attempt to pass ObamaCare. Why are they so desperate? Because, contrary to what you’ve been hearing from the liberal mainstream media, ObamaCare is not a done deal… and Obama, Pelosi and Reid know it. Obama, Pelosi and Reid know that ObamaCare can be stopped. That’s why they are desperately issuing threats and cutting secret deals. And their desperation is proof positive that you can stop... Republican Temple http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419392/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:13:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419171/posts When members of the U.S. Senate finally head home this week, they will be leaving the future of 50 individual and business tax breaks in limbo. All expire at the end of 2009. Among the disappearing breaks are the research tax credit and an annual alternative minimum tax "patch," which keeps 23 million additional middle-income Americans from being forced into calculating and paying the dreaded AMT. (For 2009, with the patch in place, 4 million upper-middle- and high-income families will pay AMT.) Forbes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419171/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:06:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418846/posts We no longer seem to be living in a constitutional republic. How could we be when the votes of our public officials are easily bought off with bribes, threats, and subversion of our Constitution? The Christmas fiasco of the Senate vote-buying ordeal to pass the health care bill is a perfect illustration of how Congress is out of control and no longer represents the will of the people. According to a CNN/ORC survey, the overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed to the Senate version of Obamacare, a bill that will nationalize one-sixth of the U.S. economy and grant unprecedented power... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418846/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 07:20:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418482/posts Obama Administration Is Right To Prosecute Alleged Detroit Bomber in U.S. Court Thursday, December 31, 2009 FORMER VICE president Richard B. Cheney on Wednesday joined a Republican chorus criticizing the Obama administration's decision to charge alleged bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in federal court. Mr. Cheney and others argue that Mr. Abdulmutallab, who is accused of trying to down Northwest Flight 253 over Detroit on Christmas, should have been held as an enemy combatant and pumped for information, rather than read his Miranda rights and provided a lawyer. They further argue that the decision to shuttle him to federal court shows... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418482/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:06:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2417952/posts Or come pretty darned close to doing so, at least, argues James Pethokoukis for Reuters. The problem facing Democrats is not just the normal midterm correction, although that’s part of it. It’s not just ObamaCare, although that’s a large part of it, too. There are a number of problems that Democrats simply have not done anything to address, and they’re rapidly running out of time to do so: The trend is not the Democrats’ friend. At least not in 2010. The party of the sitting president almost always suffers losses in midterm congressional elections. To that time-tested dynamic now add... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2417952/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:52:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2417897/posts The Mormon Media Observer looks back at the year filled with LDS newsmakers. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., tops the list, based on a newsmaker's frequency in the news as well as the significance of their stories. 1. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada The Senate Majority Leader led the battle to push through health reform in the Senate. News coverage of Reid made a household name and the divisive debate made him out to be both villain and saint. He may still face a tough battle in his home state of Nevada to save his seat. On Christmas The New... Mormon Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2417897/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:32:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417544/posts It looks like the deeper we look into Harry Reid’s health care monstrosity the worse it looks. A new review of this pile of Marxist dung reveals that blatant racial discrimination is a central thread of this evil cloak. The bill directs the Health and Human Services Secretary (now THE most powerful person in our government surpassing even the Chicago gangster) to give “priority” in the sending $ billions of our tax dollars only to medical schools that discriminate against Whites or face being cut off. Depending upon which section of this bill one reads, it mandates “preferential” treatment for... The Coillins Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417544/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:37:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417001/posts see Meercrat Toons Part I http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417001/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:35:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416183/posts This helps explain the increasing use of the filibuster. As the parties drift apart ideologically, the majority party will more likely introduce legislation that the minority party can't accept, giving the latter a stronger incentive to block it via the filibuster. Using the filibuster is thus a rational response when one finds oneself in the smaller half of a polarized chamber, which is more likely to be the case today than 45 years ago. Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416183/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:00:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415980/posts Democrats are retooling and reprising their “Party of No” attack on Republicans in Congress after straight party-line votes in December on financial reform and health care. But already, analysts are questioning whether charges of GOP obstructionism will be enough to keep voters from taking out their angst over the economy on Democrats next fall. Last week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee began making robocalls against Republicans in four districts in Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania for opposing a Democratic plan to tighten regulation of banks and financial services firms widely blamed for last year’s economic meltdown. “Remember? We said it can’t... politico.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415980/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:25:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308266/posts THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG THE BLOG TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH, 2009 AT 6:55 AM Facts Are Stubborn Things Posted by Macon Phillips Opponents of health insurance reform may find the truth a little inconvenient, but as our second president famously said, "facts are stubborn things." Scary chain emails and videos are starting to percolate on the internet, breathlessly claiming, for example, to "uncover" the truth about the President’s health insurance reform positions. In this video, Linda Douglass, the communications director for the White House’s Health Reform Office, addresses one example that makes it look like the President intends to... WHITEHOUSE.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308266/posts#comment Tue, 4 Aug 2009 22:45:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415639/posts I never thought that “Weird Science,” the tongue-in-cheek song by the 1980’s band Oingo Boingo, would be so relevant in the world of politics today and the man-made drama swirling around the nation’s cesspool, formerly known as Washington, D.C. “Weird Science Plastic tubes and pots and pans Bits and pieces and Magic from the hand We’re makin’ Weird Science Things I’ve never seen before Behind bolted doors” “Behind bolted doors,” indeed. I am positive the Chicago-style political techniques employed by the Obama Administration to “convince” those few remaining “skeptical” Democrats and “independents” to vote for the government take-over of our... Justin Washington, the Blogger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415639/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:48:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415591/posts “Not even Ebenezer Scrooge himself could devise a scheme as cruel and greedy as Democrats’ government takeover of health care..." THE FREEDOM POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415591/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:41:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415514/posts “It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.” -- Winston Churchill In the wee hours of the morning on Christmas Eve the United States Senate skulked into their chambers under the darkness of night and passed Obamacare, a legislative nightmare that might be the most intrusive bill in American history. It not only gives the Congress complete control of one sixth of the American economy, it forces Americans to purchase health insurance under penalty of law and is a major step toward removing individual choice from healthcare. It... The Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415514/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:48:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415453/posts I'm very disappointed. It's Christmas morning and I can't find one single gift to Nevada from Sen. Harry Reid under the health-care "reform" tree. Louisiana got a nice package. Florida and Connecticut, too. And Nebraska scored a really big present. Just three days ago Uncle Harry said that if a senator didn't get his state "something" in the health-care "reform" package, then that senator wasn't doing his or her job. And yesterday Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., upped the ante. He said that every state did "get something" in the measure. OK. I'm excited. What's Nevada's gift? Uncle Harry, as everyone... Las Vegas Review-Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415453/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:13:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415251/posts ... [The Reid health care bill] is far worse than nothing. The bill itself is an unprecedented arrogation of federal power over one-seventh of the economy, and even its closest antecedents, Medicare and Medicaid, passed in 1965 with the support of both parties. Reflecting the political consensus that has always inspired durable social reform in America, those entitlements cleared the Senate with more than half of the GOP caucus voting in favor. It takes hard partisan work to drive off Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, John McCain, Bob Bennett, Judd Gregg, Mike Enzi and the Senate's other... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415251/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:42:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415183/posts WASHINGTON -- Scrooge came early on Christmas Eve this year -- and he looks strangely like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Instead of "bah humbug," he delivered the U.S. Senate's version of "health care reform" -- the most expensive legislation ever passed by the Congress of the United States and the greatest expansion of government power in our nation's history. Now that's some Christmas present -- and a different way of celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. If the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate succeed in cobbling together a final bill after the new year begins, every American... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415183/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:21:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414926/posts [You may have to play around a bit to get the video to operate. Make sure you click "Full Program" or you might just get a 2-minute clip.] This 30 minute video (including about 17 minutes of Q & A) from several months ago is Richard Epstein's analysis of the bill proposed by the House. But the main regulatory features of that bill are the same as the one just passed by the Senate. The gist of Epstein's lecture is that the total effect of these insurance regulations is to kill private health insurance, so we will eventually all end... Fora.tv http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414926/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:27:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414964/posts Ho ho ho! http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/7ULiqTkuBMeMlV3V http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414964/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:42:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414904/posts Many Americans will learn in the upcoming months and even years that while painful elements of the bill such as Medicare cuts and perhaps higher taxes on wealthy Americans would take effect quickly, the subsidies to help lower-income people buy insurance would not be introduced for three years under the House bill and four years under the Senate version. That could prove to be a liability for Democrats, an opening that Republicans, who have been in lockstep opposition to the bills, are sure to exploit. “They face a significant ‘expectations gap’ because people’s health care costs are going to continue... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414904/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:27:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414871/posts WASHINGTON -- The spirit of Christmas seems to have escaped Congress, maybe even the country. Have you ever encountered such mean spiritedness and political conniving as are now on display on Capitol Hill? In the past, we have had great philosophical divisions in the struggle for civil rights, especially when southern legislators ran the show. In praise of democracy, fortunately they lost. And of course there also was the "red scare" fomented by Sen. Joe McCarthy, R-Wis., in the 1950s when he led the commie-hunting movement that ended up victimizing government officials, academia and Hollywood. We recovered from that, too.... TheBostonChannel.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414871/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:01:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414837/posts Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have really screwed up. First of all, the two congressional Democratic Party leaders discounted the black perspective that clearly saw white nationalism working through their leadership as they, and others, attempted to restrain President Barack Obama via an extension of the politics of containment. Along with other “corporate Democrats,” including the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) – all of whom are dependent on corporate contributions and are thereby controlled by corporate interests – Reid’s and Pelosi’s intention is to keep the first black president from leadership of the Democratic Party. President... The South Florida Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414837/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:20:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414692/posts This vote is indeed historic. This Congress will be remembered for its arrogance, corruption and stupidity. In the year of 2009, a Congress ignored the coming economic storm and impending bankruptcy of our entitlement programs and embarked on an ideological crusade to bring our nation as close to single-payer, government-run health care as possible. If this bill becomes law, future generations will rue this day and I will do everything in my power to work toward its repeal. This bill will ration care, cut Medicare, increase premiums, fund abortion and bury our children in debt. This process was not compromise.... Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414692/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:56:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414721/posts This vote is indeed historic. This Congress will be remembered for its arrogance, corruption and stupidity. In the year of 2009, a Congress ignored the coming economic storm and impending bankruptcy of our entitlement programs and embarked on an ideological crusade to bring our nation as close to single-payer, government-run health care as possible. If this bill becomes law, future generations will rue this day and I will do everything in my power to work toward its repeal. This bill will ration care, cut Medicare, increase premiums, fund abortion and bury our children in debt. This process was not compromise.... Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414721/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:05:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414682/posts Following procedural votes regarding the constitutionality of a number of provisions in the Senate health care bill yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D - NV) avoided talking about how he plans on structuring the conference committee hearing process. Conference committee hearings are where House and Senate bills are merged and usually tend to be televised with members of both houses. The Wall Street Journal is reporting, however, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D - CA) and Mr. Reid may do away with all of that and prefer closed door meetings to work out the differences in the bills instead.: Washingtontimes.com - Water Cooler http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414682/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:33:28 GMT