More… March 13, 2010

President Obama Is Pooped!
According to London’s Sunday Telegraph, the president’s decision to not welcome British Prime Minister Gordon Brown last March with the customary press conference and State Dinner was not a result of a deliberate slight, rather POTUS was tired.

Will House healthcare reform vote come next week?
With President Obama delaying a trip to Asia until March 21 to rally support for healthcare reform, House Democrats are stepping up the pace to get a bill to the Oval Office by the end of next week. “I’m delighted that the president will be here for the passage of the bill,” said Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a briefing Friday. “It’s going to be historic,” Pressed on that timing, she added: “We will take the time that we need to pass the legislation. … I’m hoping that it will be in that time frame.”

Obama’s sick obsession
Nationalized health care is the progressives’ Golden Fleece. It is their obsession, the ultimate prize that was denied to previous administrations but is closer than it ever has been. As the ability of government to take over the health care system draws tantalizingly near, the president and leaders of the majority party have become infected with a kind of mania. President Obama and Democratic congressional leaders seem determined to ram through a severely flawed piece of legislation by any means necessary…

Hillary Clinton Is NOT Happy: Israel “Insulted” The U.S.
Secretary Of State Clinton Hillary Clinton is not happy with Israel. Earlier this week, during Vice President Joe Biden’s trip there, Israel made a surprise, seriously ill-timed announcement of a 1,600 home development project to be built in a disputed part of East Jerusalem. The U.S. was not pleased (to put it mildly) and Clinton apparently said as much in a phone call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier today, and later elaborated in an interview with CNN.

GOP Highlights Roadblocks to Two-Bill Reconciliation Strategy
Republicans on the House Budget Committee, led by Rep. Paul Ryan, have released a new memo outlining the possible roadblocks to Democrats’ strategy of passing the Senate health care bill with the promise that the Senate would be able to make changes to it through the reconciliation process. I’d like to highlight a few of the key issues it raises. The reconciliation instructions in last year’s budget said that any health care changes adopted through reconciliation would have to reduce the deficit by $1 billion between 2010 to…

Cap and Tax
A tripartisan trio of senators — John Kerry (D., Mass.), Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.), and the New York Times’s favorite Republican environmentalist, Lindsey Graham (S.C.) — is working overtime to build support for “doing something” about climate change in the upper chamber of Congress.

GOOGLE ’99.9%’ sure to shut China search engine
Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world’s largest search engine, is now “99.9 percent” certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday.

FCC’s National Broadband Plan: What’s in It?
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission plans to release a national broadband plan next week that will lay out an ambitious set of goals for broadband deployment and adoption.

Media heavyweights spar over charging for news online

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