Congress wants to be re-elected without making the tough decisions. In the real world the dentist keeps filling teeth and Congress goes out of business. But, we the Citizens have stopped holding elected officials liable for their actions.

“We have entered the knowledge society and everyone must have access to participate.”

Initially against ObamaCare Grijalva got the payoff he was looking for while talking to Obama and will change his vote on ObamaCare passage. Grivalja’s press statement said “I was glad to hear…” Obama is “…personally committed to pursue a public option after passage of the current bill.”

“People have had to change, ah you know, the size of doorways, the size of chairs on airplanes and at sports stadiums,” Emanuel said. “So there’s a lot of hidden costs as well to the increasing girth of Americans.”

Signalling that his patience had now snapped after a year-long fight over health reform, Mr Obama laid the ground for Democrats in Congress to muscle the Bill through using a high-risk legislative maneuvre known as reconciliation, which overrides a Republican filibuster.

Lincoln finds herself the target of well-funded attack advertising from both sides of the political spectrum.

The president has entered a boorish phase. This is not a good sign for his program, but tells us something about his likely next step.

Throughout all this, Obama, looking incongruously glamorous in a crisp white shirt and blue tie — like Jamie Foxx chairing a convention of Pittsburgh cement contractors — gave an Oscar-worthy performance as the Concerned Listener

The cautious outlook came as both parties offered scant evidence Democrats and Republicans would come to any new agreements when they sit down Thursday morning for a televised bipartisan health-care summit.

They reject government coming in and replacing the system that we know. They reject the notion that somehow in these economic times that we’ve got to spend $1 trillion when no one can afford it. …

Among other items, the Obama plan will reportedly call for new federal restrictions on health insurance rate hikes.

“It creates an opportunity for the president to demonstrate that the Republicans do have an obstruction strategy,” said Bruce Buchanan, a political science professor at the University of Texas.

A study to be released Friday by a major consulting firm found that premiums for Medicare Advantage plans offering medical and prescription drug coverage jumped 14.2 percent on average in 2010, after an increase of only 5.2 percent the previous year

An aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) says liberals have crafted a way around the Senate’s filibuster rule, so they hope to get ObamaCare signed into law by Easter.

Expect the jr. admin. from IL to be at the teleprompter this week informing us without passing his health care package we will follow Greece and Spain into default. He is right, if we do not stop spending money, we will be in default.