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• If you’re hoping anyone thinks you have class, you haven’t got a prayer

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 469
  From Dana Milbank at The Washington Post : Going into Monday morning’s crucial Senate vote on health-care legislation, Republican chances for defeating the bill had come down to a last, macabre hope. They needed one Democratic senator to die — or at least become incapacitated. At 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon ...
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• CBO already backing away from ObamaCare deficit estimates

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 490
  I noted yesterday that the budget reductions in the Congressional Budget Office’s latest score of ObamaCare were, according to their own report, “subject to substantial uncertainty.” It seems that the CBO is already backing away from their estimates : The Congressional Budget Office said Sunday that the ...
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• CBO: Senate Health Bill Won’t Reduce Deficits Quite as Much

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 461
  The Congressional Budget Office said Sunday that the Senate health care bill would not reduce long-term federal deficits as much as previously estimated, acknowledging that it made an "error" in its original analysis. 
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• CBO: Budget deficit reduction from ObamaCare "subject to substantial uncertainty"

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 490
  Once again the Congressional Budget Office is out with a new score for ObamaCare that supposedly shows a cost of $871 and a reduction in deficits of $132 billion dollars over the first ten years of the legislation. That’s what the media is reporting as fact , and while it’s true that the CBO score does say that, ...
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• Bill nip-tuck: Botax out, Tantax in

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 461
  Want to look younger? Forget the tanning bed; get those Botox injections instead. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, under pressure from doctors, has inserted a little noticed provision in his "managers amendent" to the health care bill that kills the Botax and enacts a new Tantax. "The 5 percent excise tax on ...
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• Merry Christmas, from Harry (or, The Grinch who Stole Christmas)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  According to the latest news, Harry Reid has the 60 votes needed to pass Obamacare. While the legislation itself is not available for reading, to my knowledge, the Congressional Budget Office did report on it December 19. I parse that CBO report here so we know what is about to happen to us. The CBO does not make the ...
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• Negotiating to 60 Votes, Compromise by Compromise

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 167
  To get the 60 votes needed to pass their bill, Democrats scrapped the idea of a government-run public insurance plan, cherished by liberals.
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• Obama may get health-care reform vote by Christmas

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  By Arun KumarWashington, Dec 20 (IANS) With the last Democratic holdout on health care throwing his support behind a reform bill, hopes were raised for final passage by Christmas of President Barack Obama’s top domestic policy priority that its Republican critic said “will reshape our nation and our ...
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• CBO Blows Massive Hole in Previous Defense for Reid Adding Annual Limit Loophole

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 707
  photo: Ricky Romero via Flickr Last week a huge controversy emerged when it was discovered that Senator Harry Reid effectively eliminated the ban on annual limits in the merged bill. Democratic aides tried to defend the change by claiming the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said premiums would “ go through the ...
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• Negotiating to 60 Votes, Compromise by Compromise

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  To get the 60 votes needed to pass their bill, Democrats scrapped the idea of a government-run public insurance plan, cherished by liberals.
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• Reid 2.0: It’s Still a Budget Buster

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 734
  The Obama White House and its congressional allies have tried all year to push their various bills through to passage by truncating the time between introduction and a decisive vote to the bare minimum. They figure the only way to get something passed is to minimize public review and scrutiny of whatever their latest ...
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• The Reid Amendment: Sweetheart Deals and Interstate Warfare

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 734
  Christmas is coming early for a few lucky states including Hawaii, Massachusetts, Nebraska and Vermont. But their good fortune will come at the expense of other states. Overall, the government health care plan is still alive and well in Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) manager’s amendment released this ...
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• Bush Spending: The Final Cut

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 753
  By Chris Edwards In November, the Congressional Budget Office released final budget numbers for fiscal year 2009 . The numbers allow us to take a final look at the Bush administration’s record on spending from a statistical point of view. The following three charts show annual average real (or constant dollar) ...
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• George W. Bush: Biggest Spender Since LBJ

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 753
  By Chris Edwards The Congressional Budget Office has released final budget numbers for fiscal year 2009 . The numbers allow us to take a last look at the Bush administration’s record on spending from a statistical point of view. The following three charts show annual average real (or constant dollar) outlays ...
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• 60 Votes Reached For Health Care Reform

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 134
  Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson–the final hold-out–finally gets on board with health care reform, giving Democrats the 60 votes they need to pass the bill through the Senate.Here’s more on the Senate’s final health care compromise:Jubilant Democrats locked in Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson as the 60th and decisive vote ...
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• CBO Gives Dems A $132B Christmas Present

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
  Christmas is coming early this year for the Dems. With the news that Ben Nelson is falling in line so Dems can avoid a filibuster, the passage of this health care bill has become much more likely (almost a certainty?). read more
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• Misconceptions About Affordable Health Care

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 453
  The 2008 election has brought the topic of “ affordable health care ” and “ affordable health insurance ” to the forefront and, along with it, a slew of misconceptions. So, what is true and what is false? The purpose of the following article is to dispel some of these myths and misconceptions and ...
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• All Hail the Almighty CBO and Its Crippling of Medical Loss Ratio

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 707
  source: Wikipedia Harry Reid’s manager’s amendment is out, and once again the legislation was written to get the best looking CBO score and not the best possible policy for the American people. Jay Rockefeller wanted a minimum medical loss ratio (MLR) of 90% for all health insurance. His crazy idea was that if ...
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• ObamaCare’s Do or Die Moment in the Senate

  
  Big Government — Authority: 819
  Saturday is a big day in the Senate for ObamaCare.  Congressional Quarterly reported that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will unveil his manager’s package of changes to the Senate version of ObamaCare on Saturday morning and immediately file cloture to shut off debate on the package.  This package of ...
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• Friday Talking Points [105] — One Bad Week

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 420
  What a difference a week makes, eh?But before we get to all that, a quick program note needs to be addressed here up front. Every so often in these columns, I start channeling Howard Beale (from Network) and get "mad as Hell and just cant take it any more," and — rather than the [...]
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