Is Charles Krauthammer right? I’m not sure, but he sure does make a lot of sense:

Look, [today's budget vote] is a way to say that what Clinton had said – that Democrats look as if they’re going to immediately demagogue this is completely true,” Krauthammer said. “It isn’t only that it is used to win the special election in New York State, but it’s being used in the Senate to make senators go on the record and thus embarrass them in the future.”

“You now own this,” Krauthammer went on to say about the conservative congressman. “Get the one man who can explain it, argue it and actually change minds on this. You need leadership on this or otherwise the Republicans are going to sink on this.”

Most other experts basically argue that Ryan is now done for.| MORE ›

Fox News reported the other day that the Florida Senate recently passed a bill outlawing Florida physicians from asking patients whether or not they own a gun, unless there’s a legitimate reason for doing so. The Florida House of Representatives recently passed it as well:| MORE ›

GOP Leader John Boehner:

Posted by GOP Leader Press Office on November 5th, 2009

Health care reform should not be used as an opportunity to use federal funds to pay for elective abortions. Health reform should be an opportunity to protect human life – not end it.

Unfortunately, Speaker Pelosi’s 2,032-page government takeover of health care does just that.| MORE ›

The Washington Post published an op-ed yesterday written by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Read it; it’s a good one.

Jindal believes that Republicans have to join the “battle of ideas” about health care reform. Reform, he says, is necessary.

He first gets a dig in at Democrats:

The debate on health care has moved on.| MORE ›

Despite Democrats’ assertions that resistance to their massive spending programs and plans to create a taxpayer-funded healthcare program have been artificially generated, Sam Bates of Lubbock county, Texas, knows what he thinks about liberals’ agenda and he doesn’t like it. 

A rancher, Bates took the figurative pen in hand and plowed the message “Say no to OBAMA” into the earth for all to see.| MORE ›

Via Volokh and Hotair comes the line that seems to sum up the problem with the current Democratic leadership and White House approach to health care:| MORE ›

For over a decade, the fiscal conservative elements in the broader conservative movement have increasingly narrowed their message towards a pure tax-cutting model. Leaving aside the seemingly endless toxicity of the social conservative focus, the cut-taxes message has provided the dominant theme in conservative circles since the 1980s.| MORE ›

Although Democrats’ original health care plan was so horrible that you would assume that any alternative is per definition better, the Wall Street Journal explains that Max Baucus’ changes aren’t exactly the kind of plan America needs either:

The more we inspect Max Baucus’s health-care bill, the worse it looks. Today’s howler:| MORE ›

The dominant meme in the blogosphere the last couple of weeks has been to say that protests about health care reform are a unique and frightening development in American political discourse. It’s never been anything like this bad before! Or so we are told.

Unfortunately, not all memories are so short.| MORE ›

In addition to being a dysfunctional war of labels, the health care non-debate in the United States has in some ways been a dysfunctional war of polls.| MORE ›