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Here’s a good video summation of one of this year’s resounding lietmotifs: Obama lied, transparency died.

Organizing for America.

FNC’s Major Garrett tweets that Democrat Sen. Evan Bayh is “uncommitted” on Harry Reid’s “public option” plan announced yesterday.
Politico’s Manju Ranu reports that Joe Lieberman supports a GOP filibuster:
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill.
Lieberman, who caucuses with Democrats [...]

Doug Powers takes a closer look at Harry Reid’s state opt-out sop.
There’s no there there:
I haven’t seen this section of the bill, but one thing is certain: It will be easier to get Michael Moore through the eye of a needle that for states to opt out of Obamacare.
There will be countless additional funding measures [...]

Capitol Hill awaits a 3:15pm Eastern press conference from Harry Reid, who is reportedly set to announce his public-option plan amid uncertainty over Democrat support:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this afternoon will announce his decision to include a government-run health care plan, or “public option,” in the health care bill he brings to the floor, [...]

“News.”

Here’s the First Lady’s latest video pitch for Obamacare aimed at women:

Nope, still no mention of the mother of Dontae Adams, one of the minority patients on Chicago’s southside shipped out of the University of Chicago Medical Center under the patient-dumping program spearheaded by Mrs. Obama, Valerie Jarrett, and David Axelrod.
FLOTUS skates again.
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Photoshop: Ray D.
Know your failure, Nancy. And own it:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi counted votes Thursday night and determined she could not pass a “robust public option” — the most aggressive of the three forms of a public option House Democrats have been considering as part of a national overhaul of health care.
Pelosi’s decision—coupled with a significant [...]

Hey, just what we and future generations of taxpayers need: Vast new opportunities for out-of-control government health care fraud!
Philip Klein at the American Spectator reports:
Guillermo Denis Gonzalez was released from prison in Florida in 2004 after serving 12 years for murder. By the end of 2006, he owned a health care business officially licensed [...]

Fuzzy math.

It looked like the fix was in. The “Doc Fix,” that is. As the Heritage Foundation has been reporting, the White House and Dem leaders scurried today to try and pass a $247 billion payoff to doctors groups as an enticement to support Obamacare.
Surprise: The fix failed. The cloture voted on S. 1776 failed by [...]

A tipster e-mails: “Keep up the good work. Thought you’d like to see what Maryland teachers are being sent today (during school hours, school e-mail).”
Dear XXXXXXX [redacted]
We’ve waited long enough.
Right now, everyone is paying for the cost of our broken health care system. People with “pre-existing conditions” are being denied coverage by insurers. Women are [...]

Transparency my foot.
In its typically bass-ackwards way, the Democrat majority has released the 1,500-plus Baucus health care bill…a week after passing it in committee.
Here it is in PDF form.
But don’t invest too much time reading it.
Because in the Dems’ typically non-transparent way, it’ll be melded, molded, and amended behind closed doors:

It’s important to remember that [...]

While few were watching, the Democrats were at work today paving a short cut to passing Obamacare through the reconciliation process. From CBS News via Political Wire:
Now that health care reform is moving to the floor of the Senate, Democratic leaders are parsing over the details of the bill, devising ways secure 60 votes for [...]

You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding. Me:
President Obama on Wednesday attempted to preempt the announcement that Social Security recipients will not get an increase in their benefit checks for the first time in three decades, encouraging Congress to provide a one-time payment of $250 to help seniors and disabled Americans weather the recession.
“One-time payment” [...]

Just wondering: How many of you have gotten the flu shot? FluMist? Swine flu vaccine?
Would you do it again? Or do you regret getting either or both of the vaccines?
Share your experiences in comments or e-mail.
Thanks!

Scroll down for updates…10:45am – Snowe wanted reassurance from CBO and Baucus that scoring “integrity” will be preserved as conceptual language becomes legislative language…1:04pm Eastern…Snowe will vote YES on government health care takeover…2:54pm Eastern Senate Finance Cmte vote is 14-9

Sen. Olympia Snowe was one of the three members of the Senate GOP Turncoat Caucus who [...]

On October 5, I reported on the parental backlash against the SEIU-led campaign to drag Illinois home health care workers into the union fold. Mom Pam Harris, whose grass-roots activism has inspired folks across the country, continues to spread the word about the state Democratic machine and the unions’ underhanded tactics. The local Fox affiliate [...]

The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition has health care questions for the president.
Watch — then send ‘em to the White House Reality Check squad!

Alston&Birds of a feather.

So, the CBO scoring of the Senate Finance Committee’s health care bill has just been released: $829 billion over 10 years.
For starters.
Don’t forget the Obama administration’s shining examples of efficiency so far.
Jeff Emanuel also reminds us: “They also said Medicare would cost $12 billion by 1990. It ended up being $107 billion – eight times [...]

My column today skewers the Democrat doctors’ lab-coat stunt on Monday — just the latest example of Obamacare stagecraft that we’ve seen over the last nine months. You’ll remember well the illustrated guide to Obamacare stage props, the Kabuki town halls orchestrated with the MSM, and Obama’s wildly exaggerated health care anecdotes. Obama’s last-ditch [...]

Another Kabuki moment brought to you by the Obama theatrical troupe, via the NYPost:
President Obama yesterday rolled out the red carpet — and handed out doctors’ white coats as well, just so nobody missed his hard-sell health-care message.
In a heavy-handed attempt at reviving support for health-care reform, the White House orchestrated a massive photo op [...]

“Gibberish.”

Conn Carroll at Heritage gives you a very helpful rundown on how Obamacare is moving through Congress.
Read about the “Vapor Bill” here — and keep melting those phones.
Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
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Here’s the NYT’s latest:
My colleagues, Robert Pear and Jackie Calmes, who followed the committee proceedings through the wee hours of the morning, report some of [...]

Hollywood and MoveOn.org had their say.
Now, Americans who don’t drink the Obamacare kool-aid have theirs. Kudos!

You remember Democrat Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida. A month ago, he was taking refuge in a union hall to shill for Obamacare in a cowardly last-minute meeting with angry constituents.
As you know, he has now traveled down Demagoguery Road and accused Republicans of wanting sick Americans to “DIE QUICKLY.”
The diarrhea of the mouth [...]

Call. Them. Out:
Senate Finance Committee Democrats rejected a proposed a requirement that immigrants prove their identity with photo identification when signing up for federal healthcare programs.
Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that current law and the healthcare bill under consideration are too lax and leave the door open to illegal immigrants defrauding the [...]

Down, but not out:
A key Senate panel on Tuesday voted against creating a new government health insurance plan to compete with the private market.
The 15-to-8 vote in the Senate Finance Committee could forecast the fate of the public option in the Senate as a whole…Five committee Democrats, including Chairman Max Baucus, joined with all 10 [...]

I didn’t think you could top those schoolchildren substituting Obama for Jesus in their public school praise hymn.
Now, thanks to Naked Emperor News and Breitbart TV, we have video of community organizers led by the “Gamaliel Foundation” praying to The One as they lobby for “social justice” and health care for all.
“HEAR OUR CRY, [...]