Leading and lagging economic indicators unexpectedly show weakness
Feb 25, 2010
AP
WASHINGTON - New orders for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods excluding transportation unexpectedly fell in January, while the number of workers filing for jobless benefits rose last week, suggesting a loss of momentum in the pace of economic recovery.
The Commerce Department said on Thursday orders excluding transportation [...]

The main opponents of a consumer financial agency are the little guys.
Feb 25, 2010
On Capitol Hill, the Obama plan to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency has been failing on the merits. But rather than examine why so few people want a new bureaucracy deciding which financial services Americans can use, the left has chosen [...]

The critical problem is rising costs. The solution is more competition and greater individual control over health spending. Here’s how.
FEB 24, 2010
By JOHN F. COGAN, GLENN HUBBARD, AND DANIEL KESSLER
Today, President Obama will host members of Congress from both political parties at the White House to discuss health reform. He has already put on the [...]

It is risky to correct a president to his face, but it must be done.
FEB 24, 2010
By KARL ROVE
The congressional Republicans at today’s televised health-care “summit” at the White House naturally want to prevent the president from turning it into a PR stunt. This is no easy task. They’ll not only have to point out [...]

President Obama is proposing that the U.S. government both guide the economy and do so with a new, aggressively redistributive tax policy.
FEB 24, 2010
By DANIEL HENNINGER
It made perfect sense for President Obama to speak yesterday to the Business Roundtable. Businesses big and small could use a pep talk just now. Bank lending last year fell [...]

Scaled-Down Plan Would Expand Insurance to About Half as Many People as Pending Bill Envisions
Feb 24, 2010
By LAURA MECKLER
President Barack Obama will use a bipartisan summit Thursday to push for sweeping health-care legislation, but if that fails to generate enough support the White House has prepared the outlines of a more modest plan.
His leading alternate [...]

Feb 25, 2010

By JANET ADAMY and GREG HITT
WASHINGTON—Republicans plan to offer a handful of incremental proposals during this week’s health-care summit after pushing for broad changes to the country’s health-insurance system in recent years.
The six-point plan that will be presented by Republicans at Thursday’s White House summit draws from a House bill introduced last fall. [...]

February 25, 2010

 
by Jackie Gingrich Cushman

With Democrats holding the presidency, a majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate, you might think that they could pass whatever legislation they want. But more than a year after Obama took office, his party’s version of health care “reform” has not been passed and may be going [...]

February 25, 2010

by David Gratzer

Health-care proposals from the White House follow a set pattern. The President identifies a real problem; he talks about the need for bipartisan action; he finally proposes a partisan solution that has been tried somewhere and failed miserably. Most of 2009, for example, was spent tackling the problem of “bending the [...]

By George Will (Archive) · Thursday, February 25, 2010
WASHINGTON — Today’s health policy “summit” comes at a moment when, as happens with metronomic regularity, Washington is reverberating with lamentations about government being “broken.” Such talk occurs only when the left’s agenda is stalled. Do you remember mournful editorials and somber seminars about “dysfunctional” government [...]