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...there was ever a good time for President Obama to make one of his lauded grand-slam speeches, it was last week. Obama’s hallmark health-care reform suffered a disheartening blow with the January 19th election of Republican Scott Brown to the Senate, thereby ruining the Democrats?? filibuster-proof majority. Coupling the election with a lack of progress on many of the other issues that comprised a major part of Obama’s campaign, a chorus of pundits, politicians, and voters immediately declared Obama’s agenda dead or, at least, majorly stunted...
...places on small businesses. When one thinks of small businesses, one tends to think of mom and pop stores, family operations, and life savings. Yet a recent Kauffman Foundation report indicated that there is a “coming entrepreneurship boom” among people ages 20-34. The Democrats?? healthcare plan would require all small businesses with payrolls over $400,000—around one million employers—to cover healthcare or pay an 8 percent surcharge. This means that the added bureaucracy and taxes of the current healthcare bill will stymie future innovation...
...effort to bolster the Democratic Party’s momentum, which took a hit after Republican Scott P. Brown won a historically Democratic seat in the Mass. senatorial election last week. Brown will be the 41st Republican Senator, giving his party filibuster power that could derail the Democrats?? plans for health care reform...
...Democrats?? proposal arrogates to themselves control of a sixth of our economy. They demand that insurers disregard preexisting conditions, but insurers distinguish between the sick and the healthy because the former are more expensive. If insurers cannot charge different prices, they’ll charge the healthy more to cover the difference. And if plans prove too pricey, the healthy will drop them, sucking money from the pool and raising premiums for the sick. So Democrats want everyone to buy coverage or face a fine, yet the fine they’ve prescribed is too low to deter...
...their weak counterarguments, Democrats demonstrate arrogance with their flabby campaigning. “Republicans are culture warriors,” Democrats used to tell us, “who attack candidates’ personal lives to avoid discussing issues.” Yet Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds, the Democrats?? failed gubernatorial candidate, aired television ads attacking his Republican opponent, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, on his graduate thesis. President Obama, when he campaigned in Massachusetts for the Democrats?? failed senatorial candidate, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, ridiculed Brown’s pickup truck. Coakley herself stressed...