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Articles by Brian Darling

Veto Bait for President Obama?

Brian Darling | July 21, 2010

The President is scheduled to sign the financial overhaul bill today, yet he might want to pause a moment to consider not signing this bill… Read More

Financial Regulation After Robert Byrd

Brian Darling | June 28, 2010

Because of the death of Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), prospects for passage of the conference report on Financial Regulatory Reform is now in a holding… Read More

Obama’s Turn to Speak

Brian Darling | June 15, 2010

The President has been very critical of “talking heads” in the media and tonight he had the opportunity to say his piece in his first… Read More

The Secret Hold is Good for Small Government

Brian Darling | May 25, 2010

The Senate is engaging in a debate today on a Wyden/Grassley Amendment to the War Supplemental spending bill that will further restrict the rights of… Read More

LawNews

President Obama’s Supreme Court Double Standard

Brian Darling | May 18, 2010

Senator Barack Obama said the following about the Harriet Miers nomination to the Supreme Court according to Greg Sargent in The Plum Line (Washington Post)… Read More

LawNews

Kagan’s Gun Problem

Brian Darling | May 13, 2010

Elena Kagan may be hostile to the view that the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution protects American’s individual right to keep and bear arms. Bloomberg… Read More

LawNews

Elena Kagan’s Double Standard

Brian Darling | May 11, 2010

President Obama’s nominated Solicitor General of the United States, Elena Kagan to be justice on the Supreme Court yesterday. Kagan has no judicial experience and… Read More

Puerto Rican Statehood – Don’t Rig the Election

Brian Darling | April 29, 2010

H.R. 2499, the Puerto Rico Democracy Act, contains language that will rig the election in favor of Puerto Rican statehood. I have written a more… Read More

Puerto Rico Democracy Act – Legislation Biased in Favor of Statehood

Brian Darling | April 27, 2010

According to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the House will vote on H.R. 2499, the Puerto Rico Democracy Act, later this week. The legislation provides… Read More

Slaughter Rule Not Defended by President

Brian Darling | March 18, 2010

Yesterday FOX News Special Report interviewed President Barack Obama about the process for passing the President’s controversial and unpopular health care proposal. Fox’s Bret Baier… Read More

Obamacare Slaughter Rule is without Precedent

Brian Darling | March 16, 2010

Yesterday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) endorsed the rumored Slaughter Rule to send the Senate passed Obamacare bill to the President without a… Read More

The Constitution: Another Victim of Obamacare

Brian Darling | March 12, 2010

Reports yesterday indicated that the Senate Parliamentarian “ruled” that the President must sign the Senate passed version of Obamacare before the Senate can act on… Read More

Obamacare’s Procedural Fraud on the American People

Brian Darling | March 10, 2010

The Health Care Nuclear Option is still the stated plan to get Obamacare to the President’s desk. The latest wrinkle is designed to allow pro-life… Read More

Senator Jim Bunning – “I Object”

Brian Darling | March 02, 2010

Liberals are up in arms because Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) is blocking a bill that would extend unemployment benefits, extend health insurance subsidies (COBRA), extend… Read More

Obamacare and Health Care Nuclear Option Violate First Principles

Brian Darling | February 24, 2010

The President’s new version of Obamacare, and his method of passing it, are not popular with the American people. Dubbed the Health Care Nuclear Option,… Read More

Health Care Nuclear Option – Liberals Ready to Launch

Brian Darling | February 19, 2010

The Health Care Nuclear Option, also known as reconciliation, is being considered by liberal politicians to insure that Obamacare makes it to the President’s desk… Read More

Obama’s Health-Care Summit – Gimmick or Negotiation?

Brian Darling | February 09, 2010

On February 25th, the White House has proposed a bipartisan, half-day televised summit on health care. It is unclear as to whether this is a… Read More

Fighting the Nuclear Option

Brian Darling | February 03, 2010

With the victory of Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-MA), Democrats are turning to a secret “Nuclear Option” to push ObamaCare through the Senate and avoid a… Read More

Congress’ New Secret Plan to Pass ObamaCare – The Nuclear Option

Brian Darling | January 29, 2010

Leaders in the House and Senate have a new secret plan to pass President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care plan using strong arm tactics and… Read More

All Out Attack By The Left On The Filibuster

Brian Darling | January 26, 2010

Liberals in America are mad because they have had a difficult time implementing an unpopular far left agenda, especially with regard to Obamacare. One of the… Read More

What Now on ObamaCare?

Brian Darling | January 20, 2010

The White House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) have been in secret negotiations on ObamaCare for a few weeks… Read More

Abortion Language in Obamacare

Brian Darling | January 08, 2010

There are at least six key differences that need to be resolved before the House and Senate can cut a deal, in secret, to pass… Read More

The House’s Secret Plan to Pass Obamacare

Brian Darling | January 04, 2010

How does Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) plan to move Obamacare past the House, despite some highly-controversial, lingering issues? Clues are beginning to appear in the… Read More

Law Suits Threatened Over Obamacare

Brian Darling | December 30, 2009

The chorus of concern that an individual mandate forcing Americans to purchase health insurance is at a crescendo. The Attorney General of Florida, Bill McCollum,… Read More

The Health Care Fight is Not Over

Brian Darling | December 28, 2009

Although the left has been celebrating the passage of Obamacare in the Senate as further evidence that the President’s health care reform initiative is a… Read More

The Individual Mandate in Obamacare is Unconstitutional

Brian Darling | December 09, 2009

Today, The Heritage Foundation will host an event with Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) discussing the constitutionality of the personal mandate to buy heath insurance. Also,… Read More

Debating Abortion Forever

Brian Darling | December 07, 2009

The issue of federal funding of abortion may throw a monkey wrench into the Obamacare debate this week. As early as today, Sens. Orrin Hatch… Read More

The Senate Rules Protecting Us From Government Run Medicine

Brian Darling | December 03, 2009

As the Senate gets close to the end of the first week of debate on Obamacare, a controversy swirled today around a letter and memo… Read More

Obamacare in the Senate: The Debate Starts Right Now

Brian Darling | November 30, 2009

The Senate commenced debate today on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) version of Obamacare and nobody knows if the bill will pass. Politico reports… Read More

Senate Votes Obamacare One Step Closer to the Finish Line

Brian Darling | November 21, 2009

The Senate voted this evening by a 60-39 majority to commence debate on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s bill that would radically expand government control… Read More

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