Monthly Archives: March 2010

A Titanic Struggle Begins | HughHewitt.com | 03.29.10

All through the health care debate, the Administration and Democratic leaders in Congress promised wavering members that all would be right once they passed the bill. Starting almost immediately, the American people would see that the legislation delivered more and cost less than anyone thought.  And they would respect the majority party’s show of strength. […]
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The Smart Money was Right | HughHewitt.com | 03.22.10

The smart money was right.  The health overhaul bill has now passed both houses of Congress.  When the President signs it later in the week, it will be law. At around four o’clock yesterday, Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak and the White House announced a deal on right to life.  The health overhaul effectively repeals the […]
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Betting Against the Smart Money | HughHewitt.com | 03.15.10

As the week begins, the smart money in Washington is betting that the House will adopt the Senate health care package and send it to the President by week’s end. Count me skeptical. The postponement of the President’s Far Eastern trip was a sign of White House anxiety that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could not […]
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Amateur Hour in our “Ungovernable” Government | HughHewitt.com | 03.08.10

A great deal of talk has come out of Washington these last few weeks about the nation being “ungovernable.”  What that means, of course, is that the White House can’t find sixty votes for health care overhaul in a senate that their party controls by sixty votes.  So they are pushing the legislation through using […]
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Republicans, Conservative Democrats, the Health Care Summit, and American Exceptionalism | HughHewitt.com | 03.01.10

“Blue Dogs want health care to come up again,” said a long-time veteran of the House in a closed door briefing last Monday.   “So they can vote against it.” Many conservative Democratic members of Congress cast their ballots for the bill last time – and those who did not are widely seen as part of […]
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