For President Obama and the Democrats it has been a long hot summer, and August has been the cruelest month – culminating, symbolically, with the death of Senator Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy, last of the legendary Kennedy brothers. As a further irony, Ted Kennedy’s lifelong cause was universal health care, now caught in the limbo of [...]

Obama's Health Care

In an effort to overcome the pessimistic undertone that has penetrated public opinion concerning President Obama’s health care plan, Democrats returning from Washington to their home states are hosting town-halls to educate their constituents on it’s desirability.  Unfortunately for both the President and majority House leaders, 42% of Americans called Obama’s health [...]