Why Did They Vote The Way They Did?

  As riveting as last night’s government healthcare takeover vote was, part of the mystique behind it involved hundreds of individual stories that involved political horse trading, private deals, favors, bribes and even extortion-like coercion. To actually pass this very unpopular and contentious bill took more arm twisting and bone bending than you would find [...]

Reform Bill Passes The House But It’s A Version That Will Not Fly In The Senate

    While last night’s rare Saturday session of the House of Representatives and their subsequent vote on the big government takeover of the American health care system was at times suspenseful, ultimately it won passage. The vote was quite close though. In the end 39 Democrats opposed the bill and in what was one of [...]