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Scroll for updates… On Friday, the White House quietly unveiled more Obamacare waivers. The CMMS website noted: “As of the end of April 2011, a total of 1372 one-year waivers have been granted. This update includes 221 new approvals.” Among the new recipients: Local 485 Health and Welfare Fund Detroit and Vicinity Trowel Trades Health [...]

“Give him enough rope…”

Uncertainty will reign as Obamacare litigants slog it out in court. Just in from the Supreme Court, there will be no fast track granted to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on his state’s constitutional challenge to the federal health care takeover: The Supreme Court rejected a call Monday from Virginia’s attorney general to depart from [...]

“Thanks, Mitt!”

**Written by Doug Powers There’s only so long you can expect to work for an intrusive, bloated government that takes it upon themselves to tell everybody else what to eat, drink, say, think, wear and serve for birthday parties without it eventually coming back to bite you (unless you’re at the top of the chain). [...]

Back in September and October, when I first started hammering the Obamacare waiver issue, I commented: Old promise: Everyone gets to keep their health insurance. New promise: You can keep your health insurance…if you BEG hard enough for an Obamacare waiver. Will only high-powered, politically connected corporations and Big Labor groups be spared? Where’s the [...]

**Written by Doug Powers How do you say “Let’s Move” in Spanish? President Hugo Chavez urged Venezuelans on Sunday to cut their calories to avoid obesity — the latest lifestyle recommendation by the self-proclaimed socialist crusader. Chavez has lobbied in recent weeks against what he calls the evils of capitalism, including alcoholism, breast implants and [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Here’s a lesson on the Constitution that’s worthy of a Schoolhouse Rock parody if anybody can think of a word that rhymes with “Lautenberg.” Sen. Frank Lautenberg was speaking at a Planned Parenthood demonstration and let loose with this (transcript by way of Hot Air): The Republicans in Congress claim they’re [...]

The Weiner Waiver Wormhole by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner toasted the one-year anniversary of Obamacare this week — and accidentally spilled his champagne glass all over the disastrous, one-size-fits-all mandate. Ostensibly one of the federal health care law’s staunchest defenders, Weiner exposed its ultimate folly by pushing [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Last year, New York Rep. Anthony Weiner took personal ownership of the magnificent health care law, even to the point of proclaiming “the bill and I are one” like a monk trying to attain enlightenment using nothing but willpower, outbursts and a trillion dollars of other people’s money. In short, Anthony [...]

**Written by Doug Powers **Note: Every time I use the term “Obamacare” I have to put a quarter in Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s health care blasphemy jar, but since today’s a special occasion, it’ll be well worth it. Today is the birthday of something that the stork would have delivered if he wouldn’t have died trying [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Senator Schumer is pretty sure that the Supreme Court is not one of the equal but separate branches of government, so as such it’s possible that Chuck’s advised the White House that they have the power to tell the Supreme Court what to do: The Obama administration told the Supreme Court [...]

“Rampart, the victim’s pupils are fixed and Spanish…”

**Written by Doug Powers “The bill I’m signing will set in motion reforms that generations of Americans have fought for and marched for and hungered to see.” –Barack Obama, March 23, 2010 America sure did lose its appetite fast. First unions and various corporations received Obamacare waivers by the hundreds, and now whole states are [...]

Ill-informed lefties are greeting the news of Florida-based federal judge Roger Vinson’s stay on his own decision to strike down Obamacare as unconstitutional with glee. Their glee is misplaced. Vinson’s order today is an attempt to end the Justice Department’s foot-dragging on filing an appeal. The judge called out the White House shenanigans and set [...]

I am going to celebrate the bipartisan passage of the De-Fund Planned Parenthood amendment by…eating Ramen, of course! The GOP Rep. Mike Pence-sponsored proposal passed on a bipartisan vote this afternoon 240-185. Nine Democrats joined the GOP majority. Seven Republicans crossed over to hold hands with the Planned Parenthood predation enablers. Steve Ertelt at LifeNews [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Sheila Jackson Lee makes people laugh on a daily basis, at least until they remember that she’s a member of Congress with control over the lives of others — at which point it’s like discovering that “Dummo the Clown” who’s been entertaining you in the airport terminal is also your pilot. [...]

The doctor is in

Photoshop credit: Slublog (via Ace of Spades) The eggheads who gave us Obamacare, still drowning in the delusion that their problem is p.r. and not policy, have cooked up a cure for the nation’s continuing health care ills: A comic book! Yes, if only we morons were able to digest the 2,000-page monstrosity with colored [...]

Before there was Obamacare, there was RomneyCare/MassCare. Before there were Obamacare waivers, there were RomneyCare/MassCare waivers. And just as the SEIU Purple Army is smack dab in the middle of exempting itself from Obamacare, it is smack dab in the middle of deciding who does and who doesn’t have to follow the RomneyCare/MassCare rules in [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Michelle Obama is tightly focused on regulating restaurant nutrition and her anti-obesity campaign these days, so last night’s White House Super Bowl party stuck to the “Let’s move” theme — in a “Hey, there’s cheeseburgers and buffalo wings over there, let’s move!” kind of way: The menu, released by the White [...]

**Written by Doug Powers On many occasions Michelle has written about the hundreds and hundreds of Obamacare waivers that have been handed out like Pez from the Hope dispenser ever since the passage of the health care law. The “waivers for favors” system is proving so popular that it’s expanding to Environmental Protection Agency regulations. [...]

Senate Republicans took their stand — forcing the Dems to go on record in defense of the Obamacare nightmare from which hundreds of unions have escaped. And as I noted this morning, the Dems carried out their “Talk Like a Republican” moment and voted with the GOP to pass a mini-repeal of the burdensome 1099 [...]

GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor this morning to push for Obamacare repeal. “The case against this bill is more compelling every day,” he said. “Everything we learned tells us it was a bad idea.” Even while Democrats cling bitterly to their failure, they have conceded error. As McConnell noted: GOP [...]

On the heels of Florida judge Roger Vinson’s decision yesterday voiding Obamacare, Capitol Hill’s repeal efforts are heating up. Word in D.C. is that Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell may introduce the House-passed Obamacare repeal bill as an amendment to an FAA bill on the floor this afternoon. On a separate front, watch out for [...]

**Written by Doug Powers What are the odds that this will be mentioned at some point in an ad from one of Mitt Romney’s opponents during Republican primary season? Romney “did some interesting things there on health care, you know,” Axelrod said. “We got some good ideas from him.” Message from Axelrod to Romney’s primary [...]

Hey, remember when conservatives objected to the Obamacare federal individual mandate on constitutional grounds and the liberal establishment laughed? The word of the day: “Void.” The constitutional clause of the day: The Commerce Clause. Via Forbes (and remember that more than half of all states are suing to nullify Obamacare and three states – Missouri, [...]

My syndicated column today takes another thwack at Obamacare waiver-mania, with more analysis of the 182 union beneficiaries who’ve obtained safe harbor from the costly mandate pushed by their Big Labor bosses. Related: Unions make up 40 percent of employees exempted from Obamacare *** Waivers for Favors: Big Labor’s Obamacare escape hatch by Michelle Malkin [...]

The nation’s capital is freaking out over a winter snowstorm. But everyone else should be up in arms over the real snow job in Washington this week. While the Democrats continued to extol Obamacare and the president defended the behemoth law during the Date of the Union, HHS was quietly presiding over a massive Obamacare [...]

The House GOP is stepping up to the plate. Newcomers on the congressional oversight subcommittee on health will probe the who, what, when, where, and why of the Obama administration’s HHS Obamacare waiver program. The Hill reports: “If there are exemptions,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) told The Hill, “what was the process by which those [...]