Health Care Roundup

This is a special edition of Blogmarks, all about the so-called “health care reform” bill being debated by the Senate.

• Welcome to the Democratic Party’s Civil War
  Seems like only yesterday the Washington establishment had proclaimed the death of the GOP. Pundits churned out public autopsy reports faster than the L.A. County Medical Examiner. Liberals gloated over the supposedly irreparable fissures between right-wing populists and Beltway Republican elites. Conservatism, we were told, was suffering brain death and heart failure. My, how quickly things change.
• Deck the Halls with Health Care Taxes
  As Congress heads toward Christmas, debating an increasingly unpopular bill that will raise federal spending and taxes, Senate leaders are beating up on anyone — like Joe Lieberman — who seems to threaten quick passage of the bill. Next week, when senators want to get home for Christmas, the pressure on recalcitrant members to give in and vote will become even stronger.
• Five Health Reform Whoppers
  When it comes to health care reform, the White House and its allies on Capitol Hill seem to live in an alternate universe.
• Liberal Revolt on Health Care Stings White House
  In the great health care debate of 2009, President Obama has cast himself as a cold-eyed pragmatist, willing to compromise in exchange for votes. Now ideology — an uprising on the Democratic left — is smacking the pragmatic president in the face.
• Welcome to Health-care Bizarro World
  If anyone needed proof that this Administration, like its predecessor, operates in a Bizarro-like world in which reality is subverted, just consider President Obama’s recent statements to Charles Gibson of ABC News, in which he defended his health care proposal. The president told Gibson that if his health care “reform” legislation is not passed quickly by the Congress, “the government will go bankrupt.”