The Hill reports today that Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) criticized the Republican Party’s approach to the health care debate during a speech at the University of Michigan earlier this month. Hagel chided his former Republican colleagues for using the health care debate to “destroy the other party” rather than engage in thoughtful conversation; he also said that such an approach is “ irresponsible ”: “If your attitude is wrong, if your intention is to use healthcare to destroy the other party, or

Once again, Obama lies. He castigated Clinton’s attempts to get Hillarycare by saying that she tried to get her healthcare policies passed behind closed doors. He claimed he’d open the debate before the public and get it out from behind those closed doors. Yet, now Obamacare is being created behind the closed doors of the Senate and the House of Representatives. So, what happened to Obama’s now hoary promise that he’d have a transparent, open government? It’s gone the way of most of his other promises: down the memory hole.

Here are some additional public polling numbers likely to comfort Democrats concerned about the 2010 elections. A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll shows that the Republican Party’s favorability rating is the lowest since the height of its efforts to impeach former President Bill Clinton Go here to see the original:  GOP Favorability Rating The Worst Since Clinton Impeachment

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – Top NATO and United Nations officials signaled Friday they might deliver more international troops to join American forces in Afghanistan as the top U.S. defense official said President Barack Obama is still weeks away from de …

-By Warner Todd Huston Despite assurances to the contrary, Politico.com is reporting that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D, Calif.) does not have the votes to include the so-called public option in the House version of Obamacare making it more likely that a “trigger” will be included instead. Politico also reports that Obama himself announced support for the trigger option. Obama told Senate Democratic leadership at the White House Thursday evening that his preference is for the trigger championed by Sen.

. . Obama’s Third World Press Rant By Wesley Pruden October 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTONTIMES.COM Throwing rotten eggs at “them lyin’ newspapers” has always been great sport in America, and sometimes even effective politics. But it has to be done with wit and humor, which may be above Barack Obama’s pay grade.

Congressman Ben Ray Luj?n spoke on the House floor this morning and said “we must demand a public option,” referring to a public health insurance option. Congressional Democrats and President Barack Obama hope to pass health care reform legislation by the end of the year.
On the House floor this morning, Luj?n said, “We need to fix our broken health insurance system, we need a health insurance system that works for men, for women, children, seniors and families – for everyone.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) says openly that Wall Street speculators will profit from “climate legislation” by Bill Levinson Senator Gillibrand’s own words, from yesterday’s Wall Street Journal , show that the real purpose of Barack Obama’s climate change legislation is to give Wall Street speculators yet another tulip bulb scheme to replace the mess (mortgage backed securities) for which we are still paying with a $750 billion stimulus package, various bailouts at the taxpayers’ expense, and ten percent unemployment.