The short answer to the headline question is that they don’t have much choice. After years of promising to bend cost curves downward, provide no disruption to existing insurance plans or provider networks, and laughably insisting that ObamaCare would create four million new jobs almost immediately, the latest CBO report on the central “achievement” of Barack Obama and the Democrats leaves them with no fig leaf left to use. The work force will decline by 2.5 million full-time-equivalents, heavily on the lower-income side of the scale, and all of a sudden Democrats have gone from promising massive job expansion to an end to “job lock.” What else can they possibly argue, except that suddenly fewer jobs are great for the economy?
Of course, this is a disaster for upward mobility, which Paul Ryan explained when CBO Director Doug Elmendorf testified that of course subsidies provide a disincentive to work.
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Monday, February 10, 2014
Saturday, February 8, 2014
WATCH: Experience the Insane Sochi Snowboard Course That Shaun White Refuses to Ride
“After much deliberation with my team, I have made the decision to focus solely on trying to bring home the third straight gold medal in half pipe for Team USA,” White told NBC News in a statement. “The difficult decision to forego slope style is not one I take lightly as I know how much effort everyone has put into holding the slope style event for the first time in Olympic history, a history I had planned on being a part of.”
To show off just how crazy the slope style course is, Russian Olympian Alexey Sobolev wore a portable GoPro camera on a recent practice run. So now you can experience what is turning into what is certainly one of the most dangerous Olympic events this year.
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Friday, February 7, 2014
Muslim Brotherhood Leader Meets Obama in White House
A senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood was recently hosted at the White House for a meeting with President Barack Obama, prompting an outcry from critics of the global Islamist organization.
Anas Altikriti, a top British lobbyist for the Muslim Brotherhood whose father heads Iraq’s Muslim Brotherhood party, recently met with the president and Vice President Joe Biden as part of a delegation discussing problems in Iraq.
Altikriti, whose work has also been tied to Hamas, can be seen smiling in photos published by the White House as he stands next to Iraqi Parliament Speaker Usama al-Nujaifi, who is pictured shaking hands with President Obama in the White House’s Roosevelt Room. The meeting was first highlighted by the blog Harry’s Place.
The Obama administration has been criticized its outreach to the Muslim Brotherhood, the international Islamist organization whose members’ brief reign in Egypt was supported by the White House.
Nujaifi, Altikriti, and other members of the Iraqi delegation were in town late January to discuss al Qaeda’s growing presence in Iraq. Nujaifi himself was reported to have met twice with President Obama, though it remains unclear if Altikriti accompanied him on both occasions.
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Thursday, February 6, 2014
The fight over white potatoes in WIC
Once again, Congress—under pressure from lobbyists—is micromanaging USDA’s food assistance programs.
This time it’s the WIC program (Special Supplemental Program for Women, Infants, and Children).
The lobbying is coming from the National Potato Council, which wants—no surprise—white potatoes to be included the list of foods approved for purchase with WIC benefits (the
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