Baucus Cynically Shrugs Off a Senator’s Duty

For those unfamiliar with the arcane customs of the Senate, any Senator can ask that the Senate take some action, such as amending a bill by “unanimous consent.”  The presiding Chairman asks if there are any objections. If no Senator voices objection, the amendment passes.  If one or more Senators object, indicating consent is not [...]

Senator Makes Preposterous Health Care Claim

Senator and contributing author of the Senate version of ObamaCare, Max Baucus took to the Senate floor Wednesday and asserted,

This bill does not increase government.

So far, Liberty Works has identified 55 new commissions, demonstrations, councils, programs and bureaucracies in the latest Senate bill:

1.    Sec. 1321. State flexibility in operation and enforcement of Exchanges and [...]

Opaque Legalese No Citizen Can Read (1)

So-called “health care reform” or ObamaCare, will be a de facto, involuntary contract between each citizen and his/her government.

It will list the medical services each of us is eligible to receive, and set forth the terms and conditions that each of us will have to meet to access those services.
The contract will be [...]

Republican Try’s To Preserve Obama’s Tax Pledge

The Senate Commerce Committee met again Thursday to continue “mark up” of it’s version of ObamaCare, written almost entirely by one man, Committee Chairman Baucus.  It was revealed last week that even after months of deliberations this the bill isn’t really a bill at all.  It’s merely a “conceptual paper.”
Last week Republicans proposed an [...]

Bi-Partisan Senate ObamaCare DOA

For two months the “gang of six” Senators has met almost daily, behind closed doors to, all by themselves, write the thousand page conglomeration of  laws that would tear down and reconstruct 1,300 insurance companies, Medicare, Medicaid, and VA health care. 
The political-media establishment waited breathlessly, and glorified these six human beings as equal to [...]