“I don’t think I can recall in recent political history a serial public vow that was so flagrantly and cynically renounced,” Victor David Hanson wrote in National Review about President Obama’s pledge for an open debate on health care reform. Democratic leaders are conducting the final negotiations between the House and Senate reform bills behind closed doors. Liberals are also upset; Julie Menin wrote on Huffington Post that the closed meeting “only allows lobbyists to barter and trade the bill into an even worse state.”
Health care reform appears headed for passage, but that won’t be the end of the fight for opponents. Many GOP lawmakers and some legal scholars believe that the proposed requirement that all Americans have health insurance, or have to pay a penalty, is unconstitutional, and they hope the U.S. Supreme Court will say so, the Washington Post 
Here is another reason why school districts such as Wichita have contingency funds, and why they are reluctant to spend them down, as some anti-tax groups are urging: The state doesn’t honor its funding commitments. For the third consecutive month, the state is 
Apparently the state’s budget problems are so bad that it has no choice but to make pound-foolish cuts. Still, it doesn’t make much financial sense to Follow us
