Do I feel like I'm beating a dead horse? Yes. The problem? It ain't dead. The health care bill is very much alive and it's almost unthinkable that it's even being considered for the following reasons:
Matt Lewis writes a must-read piece about a conservative view on public transportation. I'm not going to get into the details of it, but I urge you to read it.
Federal government employees make nearly 100% more, on average, per year, than the average American worker. With the deficit soaring, Nancy Pelosi suggested a 19% pay increase. President Obama is getting props for saying it should be 2%.
So, Barack Obama has gotten religion. How convenient. And he's gotten religion just in time to beat the bitter Bible-thumping, gun-clingers with it. Even better.
...turns out that the Gates Affair is really a legal problem regarding (give you two guesses and the first two don't count) taxes. The intrepid Dan Riehl reports the mischief.
I still don't know how Barack Obama could say, with a straight face, that 95% of people would not see any form of tax increases. And I still don't understand how people could believe him. But they did. And so, with his credibility on this issue gone, how can they believe him when he talks about a "deficit neutral" health care plan when the Congressional Budget Office says that the plan would add 1 trillion in debt? It requires an astonishing suspension of disbelief....