About a month and a half ago, I asked the question, whatever happened to, “if you like your coverage, you can keep it”? At that time, a study was showing that about 30% of employers were going to stop offering health care coverage because of ObamaCare.
Now comes yet another report that causes me to reiterate that question:
When the Washington press corps starts to turn against a sitting Democrat President, you know he’s in deep you-know-what:
Chip Reid is the first to ask Carney about Obama’s plan: “Why not put it out there?” Reid also asks: “What was the point of giving a prime time address to the nation without an Obama plan?”
Jason Riley of the WSJ seems to think he has:
What very well might happen, however, is a deal between the House and the Senate that does not involve the president. After negotiations between the White House and Republican lawmakers broke down on Friday, Mr. Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid began working directly with one another to end the protracted stalemate. A proposal put forward by Mr. Boehner would lift the debt ceiling in two stages and reduce the deficit by $3 trillion over 10 years. Mr. Reid’s plan would couple a debt-limit hike with $2.7 trillion in spending cuts over a decade. Neither plan calls for tax hikes, which might indicate that Mr. Obama’s fellow Democrats also think that he’s misreading the polls.
Quin Hillyer of the Center For Individual Freedom (hardly a lefty bastion) explains:
James Capretta, who trashed the Gang of Six plan, says Boehner’s plan is okay. So does Grover Norquist.
That’s the scuttlebutt, at least.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is all but certain to launch a presidential campaign and is nearing an announcement set for the second half of August, according to sources familiar with his political team’s planning.
Well, call it a partial victory:
Scandal-plagued Rep. David Wu, D-Ore., announced Tuesday he is resigning in the wake of a report that he had an unwanted sexual encounter with a teenage girl.