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United States Senate career of Barack Obama

United States Senate career of Barack Obama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate
_career_of_Barack_Obama#109th_Congress

excerpt:
Although a newcomer to Washington, he recruited a team of established, high-level advisers devoted to broad themes that exceeded the usual requirements of an incoming first-term senator.[17] Obama hired Pete Rouse, a 30-year veteran of national politics and former chief of staff to Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, as his chief of staff, and economist Karen Kornbluh, former deputy chief of staff to Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, as his policy director.[18] His key foreign policy advisers have included former Clinton administration officials Anthony Lake and Susan Rice, as well as Samantha Power, author on human rights and genocide (who resigned March 7, 2008).[19

Entry #2,939

Obama on Senate Floor

2:05 mark:
I am not naieve on the political considerations that go along with many of the political decisions we make here.

5:58 mark: That is an interesting statement too.
 

Entry #2,938

Individual mandate

With what has been going on with the individual mandate website problems on sign up and sticker shock of new rates I think the white house is going to wait until the CR and debt limit gets passed. Then the white house will see how those issues are working out. Take a look at Obamas' polling numbers.

Then the white house may get their talking points together and delay the individual mandate crediting President Obama with making a major decision on the issue.

The white house is out to destroy republicans no matter what costs the nation incurs to do it.

See what happens.

Entry #2,935

Obamacare website

If the Obamacare websites run anything like the Veterans Affairs websites good luck with it. Wait until the database is up for your Obamacare health records. ROFL

One thing about Obamacare health records database they will have your medical records on tap if anyone files for social security disability. Good luck with that. Green laugh

Entry #2,933

Obama erects barrycades

To keep the American people out of memorials and off federal land but he can not erect a fence to keep out illegals.

Will they put up a barrycade around the perimeter of yellowstone?

Entry #2,931

A Guide to the Supreme Court's Affordable Care Act Decision

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A Guide to the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act Decision

http://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/8332.pdf

excerpt:
On the last day of the 2011-2012 Term, the United States Supreme Court issued its long-anticipated
opinion about the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In a case known as
National Federation of Independent
Business v. Sebelius,
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the Court agreed to consider the constitutionality of two major provisions of the ACA: the individual mandate and the Medicaid expansion. A majority of the Court upheld the individual mandate. And, while the Court found the Medicaid expansion unconstitutionally coercive of states, because states did not have adequate notice to voluntarily consent and the Secretary could potentially withhold all of a state’s existing federal Medicaid funds for non-compliance, a majority of the Court found that this issue was appropriately remedied by circumscribing the Se cretary’s enforcement authority, thus leaving the Medicaid expansion intact in the ACA. This policy brief describes the Court’s decision and looks ahead to the implementation of health reform now that the constitutionality of the ACA has been resolved.

Entry #2,929

Democrats have lost reality of governing

They are throwing tantrum fits. They want sole rule in government. The GOP are just an inconvenience in their way.

This is showing the American people who they really are.

Entry #2,928