Tense: Bret Baier Confronts Mitt Romney Over Health Care Mandate
There were quite a few tense moments during Bret Baier's great Fox News interview with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney Tuesday night, especially when the subject turned to the individual health insurance mandate that Romney signed into law as Governor, but which he now opposes at a national level. When Baier pressed Romney, the cracks showed a...
Support For Afghanistan Is Dwindling, Says Quinnipiac Poll
The latest survey conducted by Quinnipiac University's Polling Institute has found that for the first time, a majority of respondents believe the U.S. should not be involved in Afghanistan. 50 percent of the American voters polled are opposed to the war, while 44 percent answered that the U.S. is "doing the right thing" in Afghanistan....
Jimmy Carter: ‘We’d Have Comprehensive Healthcare By Now If Not For Ted Kennedy’
In 2008, an ailing Senator Ted Kennedy gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention that focused, in part, on the political issue closest to his heart: health care. "This is the cause of my life," he said, adding that he hoped one day soon, "will break the old gridlock and guarantee that...
Sen. Tom Coburn: The Democrats’ ‘Plan Is For [Obamacare] To Fail’
Many Republican legislators have suggested that the recently passed health care reform plan ("Obamacare") is a bad idea that will hurt the nation, but it hadn't yet been articulated that this result was intentional until this soundbite: Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, explaining the concept of "adverse selection" in insurance buyers, claims that "the...
Bill Press Under Fire for Blaming Obama Poll Numbers on ‘Spoiled’ Americans
Right-wing media watchdog Newsbusters and influential conservative uber-blogger Ed Morrissey are taking exception to a "Libtalker Meltdown" by my White House press colleague Bill Press. What kind of Toxic Talk did Bill engage in to draw fire from the right? Reacting to a new poll that says 6 in 10 Americans...
Is ObamaCare A Dirty Word? Even If Obama Uses It?
This is what I get for skipping all those Partisan Whiners Anonymous meetings. Apparently, there are liberal whiners who think the term "Obamacare" is offensive, and conservative whiners who think the whining is a big deal. Specifically, liberal whiners objected to the use of the term on ABC's Political Punch blog, so they changed...
