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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Video: Rep. Joe Barton blasts Rep. Henry Waxman for intimidation attempts on ObamaCare, cap and trade

(By Ed Morrissey; Hot Air) - After Barack Obama signed ObamaCare into law, publicly-traded corporations that allow retirees to remain on their prescription medication coverage plans had to announce write-downs against future earnings because of the end of a tax credit for keeping retirees off of Medicare Part D. Henry Waxman demanded that the CEOs come to a Congressional hearing to explain themselves, and then made the same demand when the American Farm Bureau publicly opposed his cap-and-trade bill. Today, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) ripped Waxman on the House floor, claiming that Waxman’s attempts at political intimidation flew in the face of the First Amendment:

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