Tag: Healthcare reform

  • Party on, John!

    U.S. Rep. John Linder is among those who are making the early prediction that Republicans will win back their majority in the House of Representatives because of voter opposition to the healthcare reform plan being pushed by President Barack Obama and the Democrats.

  • Money doesn’t talk, it swears

    It was Will Rogers who is credited with saying, “We have the best Congress money can buy,” and the passage of time has shown us that Will was, sadly, all too accurate in his assessment.

  • Did healthcare reform die with Kennedy?

    “The dream shall never die,” was the ringing declaration once made by Sen. Ted Kennedy. But with Kennedy’s death from brain cancer at age 77, his dream of universal health insurance coverage for all citizens may well have died with him.

  • Excuse me, your trousers are burning

    It seems that Georgia politicians Tom Price and Newt Gingrich have a wardrobe problem: their pants are on fire after both of them were caught lying on national news TV programs over the past week.

  • The bureaucrat? He’s already there

    In the ongoing debate over healthcare reform, the Republican Party’s current talking point is that the Democrats’ health plan will put “a bureaucrat between the doctor and the patient,” a development that would make it impossible for doctors to practice good medicine. You’ll hear that phrase uttered by every Republican Party official or operative who’s…