Daily Rundown, 11-10-09
Obamacare Won’t Help Middle Class, Will Hit Them with Big Tax
The story notes “a middle-class family of four making $66,000 would still have to pay about 10 percent of its income in premiums, not counting co-payments and deductibles” (FOX News). The Wall Street Journal notes “Reid is now rushing to pass a bill in a race against its rising unpopularity and President Obama’s falling approval ratings” (WSJ). With the way Democrats are turning on America, Karl Rove looks at the political landscape for 2010 (WSJ).
GOP to Obama: Don’t Commit the US at Copenhagen
From the story: Several dozen House Republicans have written a letter to President Obama warning him not to commit the United States to an emission reduction protocol at UN Climate Change Conference taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark. “Only a treaty ratified by the United States Senate or legislation agreed to by Congress may commit our nation to any mandatory emissions reduction program,” said the letter dated December 4 and signed by House Republican leaders John Boehner (Ohio), Eric Cantor (Va.) and Mike Pence (Ind.) and over 20 other House members (Human Events). Another story notes “If negotiators reach an accord at the climate talks in Copenhagen it will entail profound shifts in energy production, dislocations in how and where people live, sweeping changes in agriculture and forestry and the creation of complex new markets in global warming pollution credits” (NY Times). And now it’s revealed that some scientists were pressured to sign the statement defending the “scientific integrity” of global warming research (FOX News). A look at science as not so objective (IBD). Al Gore mistakenly (I’m being nice here) dismissed the emails as a decade old and, therefore, somehow too old to consider (Herald Sun). And here in the US, it remains very, very cold (Chill Map).
Hillary Pollster Gets $6 Million from Stimulus
Saves just three jobs.
House Panel Passes College Football Playoff Bill
From the story: The bill, which faces steep odds, would ban the promotion of a postseason NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision game as a national championship unless it results from a playoff. The measure passed by voice vote in a House Energy and Commerce Committee subcommittee, with one audible “no,” from Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga.
University Blames Teachers’ Lack of “Cultural Competence” for Low Grades among Minorities
And is forcing education students to buy into their left-wing belief system.
Even the Dalai Lama Admits Obama’s Nobel a Bit Premature
The story also notes “Some commentators have joked that the award was for “not being George Bush” (FOX News). The media continues to treat Obama as a hero, with this morning’s ABC News top headline: ‘Deep Gratitude, Great Humility’: President at War Accepts Peace Prize.” (ABC News). At MSNBC: Obama accepts Nobel with ‘great humility’ (MSNBC).
So-Called Christians in America Adopting New Age Concepts
The story claims “Elements of Eastern faiths and New Age thinking have been widely adopted by 65% of U.S. adults, including many who call themselves Protestants and Catholics, according to a survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released Wednesday.”