REVIEW & OUTLOOK MARCH 25, 2010 President Obama and Congressional Democrats have been criticized for being antibusiness. But Washington is about to bestow a huge gift upon one particular type of business—the type that doesn’t pay taxes. Despite bipartisan opposition, this week the Democrats hope to use budget reconciliation in the Senate to ram through
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REVIEW & OUTLOOK MARCH 25, 2010 Reconciling Mr. Nelson The Senate began work Tuesday on the House’s “reconciliation” bill that will add even more taxes and spending to ObamaCare. Guess who’s already declared himself firmly, forthrightly, unabashedly in opposition? None other than Ben Nelson, who on Christmas Eve became the most famous Nebraskan not named
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By KARL ROVE Democrats are celebrating victory. The public outcry against what they’ve done doesn’t seem to bother them. They take it as validation that they are succeeding at transforming America. But we’ve seen this movie before and it won’t end happily for Democrats. Their morale rose when the stimulus passed in February 2009. The
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MARCH 19, 2010 By MICHAEL SOLON Lose the battle but win the war—that is the redeeming hope congressional leaders offer to their rank-and-file members on the coming votes on the Obama health-care plan. While diehards still insist that a government takeover of health care will be a net winner this fall, more and more Democrats
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MARCH 19, 2010 By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Imagine Jason Altmire bound, at the end of a plank, a band of Democratic pirates behind him, a swarm of constituent sharks circling below. Imagine that, and you understand what Democrats are doing to their members with health care. Mr. Altmire is the Pennsylvania House Democrat who has
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January 17, 2010 By JACOB HEILBRUNN GAME CHANGE Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime By John Heilemann and Mark Halperin In July 2006 Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, abruptly summoned Barack Obama, then a freshman senator, for a meeting. Obama, who had a cordial but not warm
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MARCH 13, 2010 The Conscience of a Florida Conservative By COLLIN LEVY Miami ‘They voted for somebody they’d never heard of in Barack Obama because he ran on the platform of a very devoted centrist.” That’s the answer from Marco Rubio when asked about his stunning rise to national prominence as a Republican challenger to
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OPINION: DECLARATIONS MARCH 6, 2010 By PEGGY NOONAN It is now exactly a year since President Obama unveiled his health-care push and his decision to devote his inaugural year to it—his branding year, his first, vivid year. What a disaster it has been. At best it was a waste of history’s time, a struggle that
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