A great speech (via NRO)by Senator Marco Rubio of Florida: “I haven’t been here long enough to think that any of this stuff that’s going on is normal.” “If we had a billion dollars for every time I’ve heard the words ‘Tea Party extremist’ we could solve this debt problem.” “Compromise that’s not a solution …

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Excellent article today from Charles Krauthammer. The House needs to pass a bill. Not talk about a bill, not negotiate a bill, pass a bill. Is there any good counter argument to his proposal? Boehner could have this done by the end of the day.

Via Yahoo Finance: The Congressional Budget Office said Friday that rolling back a programmed cut in Medicare fees to doctors would cost $208 billion over 10 years. If added back to the health care overhaul bill, it would wipe out all the deficit reduction, leaving the legislation $59 billion in the red. The so-called doc …

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Senator Kent Conrad was on Fox News Sunday this morning, and essentially said that the “deal” (taxpayer-funded bribe) to Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska is a sham, “without a whole lot of meaning”. Via The Hill: “No Congress can bind a future Congress” to expand Nebraska’s Medicaid deal past 2016, when expansion in other states …

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The opening line of an AP report on the ongoing attempt by House Democrats to shove through the Cap (our economic growth) and Trade Tax bill: House Democrats have narrowly won an important test vote on legislation to combat global warming and usher in a new era of cleaner energy. Doesn’t that sound a lot …

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From a report on the effort to create a new seat in the House of Representatives for Washington, D.C.: Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who spoke in favor of the bill earlier this month, said the question of constitutionality should be resolved by the courts, not Congress. Aside from her support for this unconstitutional bill, that …

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Democrats have a particular knack for shamelessly making completely conflicting arguments at different times, as political conditions of the moment require. They’ll passionately argue a point one day, and just as passionately argue the exact opposite later, as needed for principle-free political effect. If the DeMSM held them accountable for any of this, it wouldn’t …

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Here’s a really good ad from the National Republican Congressional Committee: John McCain, Sarah Palin, and all the Republicans in Congress need to make these points every single day through election day.

Here’s a good summary from Jeff Jacoby at the Boston Globe of the Democrats’ culpability in the mortgage crisis, and their current efforts to weasel out of their responsibility: …while the mortgage crisis convulsing Wall Street has its share of private-sector culprits they weren’t the ones who “got us into this mess.” Barney Frank’s talking …

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As we all learn the details of the proposed federal government bailout of Wall Street, one important point needs to be remembered. All parties have agreed that this is a real crisis, that threatens to possibly throw the U.S. economy into a deep recession or even a depression. In the midst of trying to negotiate …

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Ok, so the actual AP headline is “Democratic senator calls for GOP to alter energy policy”. But if Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow really believes increasing taxes and regulations on energy producers will lower energy prices to the consumer, then she is either a fool or she thinks voters are fools. Given the polls that suggest …

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