It's easy to get discouraged about what Barack Obama is doing, but there's always good news out there too. Today, Obama suffered two crucial defeats that he'll remember for a long time.
First, Craig Becker is a goner. Becker was appointed by Obama to serve on the National Labor Relations Board and his nomination has been tied up in the Senate for months. He's a bona fide pro-unions extremist (always a huge surprise in this administration) who wrote in 1993 that workers should be forced to unionize. Today, Senator Ben Nelson, a Democrat from Nebraska, announced that he'll join a Republican filibuster of Becker's nomination. With Scott Brown opposing Becker as well, this is one left-wing loony Democrats don't have the votes to confirm.
Second, ObamaCare is all but dead. This news comes with the actual death of Democratic Rep. John Murtha. Murtha was Pennsylvania's longest-serving congressman and may he rest in peace. But without his vote, and thanks to the premature retirement of Rep. Robert Wexler and the defection of Rep. Joseph Cao, Nancy Pelosi doesn't have the votes to ram the health care bill through the House of Representatives again. Of course, never count out the devious Pelosi. But it looks like the drama of ObamaCare, which sent Obama's approval rating into a free fall and got Scott Brown elected in Massachusetts, is mostly over.
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