Thursday, November 5. 2009
The Congressional Budget Office’s initial analysis of the Republican alternative to Obama/PelosiCare is striking. Lowered federal deficit, lowered premiums, more freedom of choice, less government intrusion into medicine and peoples’ personal lives, support for health care and savings innovations (including cutting the huge costs of “defensive medicine” by having tort reform – which the tort lawyer funded Democrats conveniently left out), and increased and easier coverage for those with pre-existing conditions.
This op-ed and the CBO Director’s transmittal letter briefly sums it up; the full CBO analysis is here. According to the CBO, less of those called uninsured, although in actuality only about a quarter are citizens truly needy, would be covered than under ObamaCare. Many of those actually needy would be covered, and others already insured would better afford keeping their coverage. This is at a savings of $1+ trillion, and our freedoms, and the ability of our world-leading health care innovations to not be stifled.
Sounds like a real choice, right? Throw out the baby with the dirty water, a la ObamaCare, or provide a proper cleansing. Not with this heavily Democrat Congress. But, wait and work for 2010 to correct that.
Big Al Gore, noted climate scientist, former VP of the USA, Nobel Laureate, budding Green Billionaire, owner of many large homes and SUVs, eater of meat, world-class carbon-emitter, and Man-Bear-Pig, clears CO2 of most of the blame.
Hmmm. What next? And blame for what? Life on earth would cease to exist without CO2.
 Is this the truth about men?
'All men want is sex and for you to make them a sandwich.'
In that order. And a few cold Coronas, please, with lime. Some gratitude for the masculine attention and some snappy repartee are always welcome too. Don't forget the chips with the sandwich, and please turn on ESPN.
Is this true about the O?
But he was right the first time about not being ready for the Oval Office. As president, he seems confused and a bit distant on the issues, leaving the details to congressional Democrats and an ever-growing number of “czars” while he golfs and launches attacks at Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
I hate to say it, but our friend The Englishman eats ripe arse.
Thanksgiving dinner for 8 for $20. WalMart. Plus other great deals there. h/t, Carpe Diem
Global income inequality is down. I guess that's a good thing. Income is good. It provides choices. We want everybody to be as rich as they want to be.
Famous Prof proposes punitive taxes on meat.
Health Care was a loser in Tuesday's elections. It does make me wonder why a new Pres would want to start out with hugely divisive issues and a combative style instead of with more widely popular issues, more modest steps, and the kind of conciliatory approach he brings to Putin, Chavez, and Iran.
Related: Perhaps part of the problem is that the O is surrounded by partisan campaign hacks instead of by some seasoned statesman-types with perspective and governing experience.
Related: Will the Left try a kamikaze rush?
Eliot Spitzer - morality expert
Kaus: The winners and the losers
No limits: voters in two states reject government limits. Why?
I've heard of Pay to Play, but this Pay to Pray is ridiculous.
Wednesday, November 4. 2009
The Associated Press screwed the pooch*, in multiple ways, in its reporting of the release by the JFK Presidential Library of previously classified recordings of President Kennedy's meetings in 1963 with advisors about Vietnam. The discussions involve the unauthorized cable from the State Department lending support to a coup against South Vietnam’s President Diem.
1. The JFK Presidential Library, administered by the National Archives, expressly admonishes in its press release: “Members of the media are cautioned against making historical conclusions based on the sound clips and transcript alone.”
The AP’s report, instead, leads with, “Newly released White House tapes from the Vietnam War era portray President John F. Kennedy wrestling over the fate of South Vietnam's strongman in a situation that appears to mirror President Barack Obama's quandary today in dealing with Afghanistan's shaky government.” The AP’s headline: “Tapes show Kennedy was conflicted over Saigon coup” My local newspaper one-upped the AP by changing the headline to “Like Obama with Afghanistan, Kennedy had issues with an ally.” (Sorry, the website for the San Diego Union-Tribune is still down, but once up you can find the link there.)
2. The AP report concludes with a sheer ignorance by its reporter, Barry Schweid: “The battlefield situation gradually worsened for South Vietnam and the United States, and the conflict drew to a close under President Richard M. Nixon. All U.S. ground troops were gone by March 1973, and the United States evacuated Saigon in April 1975.”
In fact, the battlefield situation, after the governing and combat chaos spawned by the US backed 1963 coup against Diem, stabilized and, indeed, markedly improved after the almost total decimation of the Viet Cong during and after Tet ’68, then under President Nixon’s turning command over to General Abrams (see here) whose direction reduced the North Vietnamese forces to barely subsisting across the borders in sanctuaries, then with US logistics and airpower backing it up the South Vietnamese Army roundly defeating the North Vietnamese invasion of 1972. It was the post-Watergate abandonment of US pledges to supply airpower and arms to South Vietnam, perpetrated by the liberal majority that got control of the US Congress, that led to the downfall of South Vietnam to the massive invasion from North Vietnam in 1975.
3. In between, the AP doesn’t bother to mention that JFK’s Ambassador to Vietnam, Frederick Nolting, in the recordings released says, “my view is that there is no one that I know of who can – who has a reasonably good prospect of holding this fragmented, divided country together except Diem.” Many careful scholars of Vietnam have documented that Diem was falsely portrayed by some influentials in the media and within the US government’s advisors. The coup unleashed years of governmental instability and weakness within Vietnam, requiring heavier US commitment of troops to hold and reverse the unleashed downslide in South Vietnam’s defenses. (See, for example, here.)
4. President Kennedy, in the period in these tapes, is not in favor of the coup unleashed by his State Department. In effect, though, he at least ultimately acquiesced.
In no substantive way does the situation in Vietnam during the 1960’s parallel that in Afghanistan today, except in the muddled thinking within our White House and Congress, poor MSM reporting, and the American people’s declining confidence in and tolerance for unsuccessful half-way measures.
You won't believe these, at Big Government.
Have barf bag ready. Government teachers at government schools, paid for by us.
Surber. Rightly so. It's about time this was officially recognized.
Now let's separate church and state.
To speak, in contemporary society, of art and beauty in the same sentence, much less as realities integrally involved with one another, is to risk being laughed at. Perhaps Hans-Georg Gadamer was the first to theorize systematically how we must understand the aesthetic as a category of being or a mode of analysis independent of any talk of the beautiful, but his argument was founded on, and in redress of, the suspicion popular since the eighteenth century that beauty is a mere matter of subjective feeling or opinion; and so also were the fine arts believed to be, but they belonged to a different class of subjective phenomena. As such, chatter about beauty could be cast off as either manipulative rhetoric for the seduction of women or the expression of vain, vague, nostalgic longings for rustic landscapes, while talk of the aesthetic could remain serious—indeed, humorless—even as it grew impermeable to rational explanation and debate. We could trace a historical graph of the past couple of centuries showing that the falling fortunes of the idea of beauty bear an inverse relation to the ever more lofty or “professionalized” reputation of art and aesthetics: a yawning separation so great that the advent of cultural studies has made possible serious formal discussion, subsidized by extensive bureaucratic institutions, of some very unserious “art,” during which any reference to the standards or reality of beauty would be, at best, a cause of embarrassment and, at worst, occasion for an intricately formulated debunking of one more “bourgeois ideology.”
Read the whole good, thoughtful thing when you can find the time. It isn't a quick read. Links above.
I found an amazing video the other day.
If you've got a few years on you, then you probably remember those "documentaries" from the 50's and 60's showing "The Astounding World of the Future!" It was usually the year 2000, that being a nice, round number. And remember all the great predictions? We'd all be flying around in our jet cars, speaking into our Dick Tracy-style TV/radio/telephone wristwatches, and putting a small capsule in the middle of a pan, jamming it in the oven for 10 seconds, then pulling out a steaming roasted turkey complete with all the trimmings.
Obviously, it was all gibberish, and that's what makes this video so amazing. As you'll see, the writers took a very realistic view of things and, not surprisingly, nailed a number of them. And they must have dumped a bunch of money into the production because the props and special effects are quite well done for the time and extremely believable.
Recognize any of these?
- personal transport pods
- super-boulevards
- courteous robot bankers
- space-beam communicators
- city-state towers with built-in food and beverage markets
- automatic heat-ray ovens
- super-brain calculating machines
- picture-phones
- jet rocket-cars hurtling across the globe
- super-vitamin energy pill
So, without further ado, welcome to...
After my morning prayers, and thanks for Republican victories in yesterday’s elections that may help stop the ObamaCare obomination in its tracks, I picked up my morning newspaper and on page 3 read the article, “Move to put spiritual care in health bill.” (Sorry, my local newspaper’s website is down for overhaul, but here’s the complete wire service dispatch.)
This is exactly one of the absurdities that argues against ObamaCare or most further government takeover of healthcare. Special interests intrude their mandates, and costs, on us all, even with little justification outside their mustered political power.
One of the battles in Congress is over a provision of the House ObamaCare bill that would require insurers to pay for prayer treatments as for other medical treatments. It was proposed by a Republican congressman, whose district includes Principia College, a Christian Scientist school.
There’s some evidence that a patient’s morale affects their recovery. There’s some evidence that prayer can improve a patient’s morale. There’s, also, much more evidence that prayer will not cure most ailments and, indeed, there are sufficient studies that substituting prayer for proven scientific medicine can prolong or worsen serious ailments that otherwise could be alleviated or cured.
I, personally, like the saner holistic approach to medicine, to add proper diet, exercise, some vitamins, and yoga to one’s health regimen. And, I pray. But, to require that medical insurance cover these is insane, and costly, crowding out the core scientific medicine that is essential. Many who are uninsured are, thus, priced out of coverage due to the costs of mandates for usually lesser effective treatments, like chiropractry or acupuncture or massage, being added into insurance. Further, adding in very expensive in vitro fertilization, as desirable as it may be for those infertile to enjoy having children, is similarly counterproductive to our main concerns about improving health care. If they want children, pay for it, or accept your fate. There is not a legal nor moral obligation for taxpayers or others who buy insurance to buy children for them.
This argument in Congress over whether to include insurance coverage for prayer is an absurd but indicative example of what we can expect when special interest government runs health care.
Addendum: The above are just a few more examples of some of the points that The B made in his Insurance Freedom post this week. It is, indeed, insane. Furthermore, I never heard of paying for prayer. Prayer is one of the few things that remains free and untaxed.
Addendum: Christian Science practioners do charge. Other "clergy" may and will, as well, if they can get paid by insurance.
BTW, see my comment below about which "mandate" I'd like to have in my insurance!
Claude Levi-Strauss
We are disappointed that Hoffman lost in NY 23. Surprised, too. The "meaning" of these elections will be spun to death. Ace notes that the O managed one big win in Maine.
WSJ: Obama and the Liberal Paradigm. "The sheep are quite capable of looking out for themselves. Someone tell the Democrats."
We sheep would be even more capable if the gummint would leave us alone.
Health Care Bill postponed further. That's good. This bill is antiquated New Deal entitlement: government-heavy baloney. Regressive - not Progressive.
Sen Lieberman on the O:
ANDREW NAPOLITANO, FOX NEWS POLITICAL ANALYST: Is he a Marxist, as Bill Kristol says might be the case in today‘s “New York Times?”
LIEBERMAN: Well, you know, I must say that‘s a good question.
From Sowell on the costs of medical care:
Britain has had a government-run medical system for more than half a century and it has to import doctors, including some from Third World countries where the medical training may not be the best. In short, reducing doctors' income is not reducing the cost of medical care, it is refusing to pay those costs. Like other ways of refusing to pay costs, it has consequences.
I do not think this is a racial thing. I think it's an effect of urban one-party governmental cultures of corruption. A generation or two ago, it would have been Irish pols - but nobody expected integrity in pols then.
Gays protest against free speech. Good grief.
The Archbishop has a blog? Cool.
Coyote: An ACORN Relief Act
Politico terms it an "uncivil war." I think it's just what parties do to figure out what they are about. It's healthy. Parties should debate and contain conflict.
Powerline: "This video on health care, produced by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity, features Eline van den Broek, founder of the European Independent Institute."
She makes the point that it is third party payments for medical care which have permitted the rise in cost of medical care in the US. I think that is part of the story, but the other part of the story is that our higher costs buy us access, choices, abundance, and quality.
Tuesday, November 3. 2009
Paul Mirengoff poses this one:
I have suggested, in connection with President Obama's dealings with Russia, that to call him a fool is to give him the benefit of the doubt. For Obama's hat-in-hand approach to Russia assumes that the thuggish, autocratic, expansionist Russian regime is more sinned against than sinning in its relations with the U.S. If Obama believes this, he is anti-American; If he doesn't believe this but elects to act as if it were so, then he is a fool.
Dozens more colleges pass the $50,000 mark this year.
Addendum: Greedy college presidents rake in the dough. That's Big Academia for you, and the Academic-Governmental Complex.
Several views of the Bob Dylan Christmas album at Walking. I think Bob just does what he feels like doing, with a healthily quirky, inner-directed take it or leave it attitude. But I might be wrong.
Toon via S,C&A:
What they have in common is that they are two pieces of a giant puzzle. Put together, they place the government in the position to regulate or control almost every detail of our daily lives.
In democratic systems, the taking of freedom is always cloaked in a patronizing, slaveowner-style benevolence.
From Steyn's Green Totalitarianism:
In the name of “the environment,” the state gets to regulate everything you do. The cap-and-trade bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, for example, is a bold assault on property rights: in order to sell your home—whether built in 2006 or 1772—you would have to bring it into compliance with whimsical, eternally evolving national “energy ef?ciency” standards, starting with a 50 per cent reduction in energy use by 2018. Fail to do so and it would be illegal for you to enter into a private contract with a willing buyer.
And Lindzen:
MIT climate scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen has warned: "'He who controls carbon controls life. It is a bureaucrat's dream to control carbon dioxide." Washington, D.C., and the U.N. are in a field of dreams right now as they envision one of the most massive expansions of controls on human individual freedom ever contemplated by governments.
Same idea applies to government medicine which, it is estimated, would create 111 new bureaucracies. Even an Office of Administrative Simplification (not kidding). As Mike Pence said yesterday:
As President Ronald Reagan said: “Since the American founding, we have been a people with a government, not the other way around.”
Now comes the Pelosi plan for a government takeover of health care. It is a freight train of runaway spending, bloated bureaucracy, mandates and higher taxes. If the liberals in Washington have their way, they will forever change the relationship between the government and “we the people.”
If the Pelosi plan for a government takeover of health care passes, we will each become dependent on the political class in Washington for the provision of services of the most urgent and personal nature.
Illness, our own, or more importantly the illness of a parent, or a spouse, or a child, has the capacity to suspend our priorities.
What was important before the crisis grows dim in the harsh light of disease affecting a loved one.
The Pelosi health care plan targets us when we are most vulnerable.
The Pelosi health care plan makes us dependent on the state at the most urgent moment in the life of our family.
Their hope: that little by little, we’ll yield our freedoms and our resources to the ever-growing appetite of the federal government.
One commenter on Althouse's piece on constitutionality, mandated insurance, and the Commerce Clause observes:
Debate this all you like.
I have a message for the Supreme Court and the Congress: Put me in fucking jail.
I will not be forced by you to purchase health insurance.
Period.
And if you try to force me to, you'll reckon with me.
As the Monty Python song goes:
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the loooord's consent.
Yeah, yeah,
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
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Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent
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More  Dem dirty tricks in NJ. The third party guy is splitting the anti-Corzine vote.
Big Con: Gore making millions from "warming" scam, headed for his first billion.
Stanley Black and Decker? Sounds like a slip-and-fall law firm.
59% say country on the wrong track
Our obsolete US Constitution. Am Thinker
Hubris of the incompetent. What's the Dunning-Kruger Effect?
Where the white Leftist men live in America. Related: Why are the groovy "Progressive" cities the white cities? Real, interesting cities are full of everybody. Portland is white bread. I'll take NYC.
How come we never found this blog before? Black and Right. This one goes straight onto Ye Olde Blogroll.
Roy Spencer: AGW is an urban legend
Those taxes on the rich aren't inflation-indexed. We know what that means.
From Ace, the pithily amusing AP: Even If Republicans Win Tomorrow, They Still Suck
Related, from Red State: We hear this all time — conservatives in the GOP have to play nice with the moderates.
The Krautman has it right: those "saved" jobs are all gummint jobs. Plenty of SEIU jobs, I am sure.
Everything - and more - that you might want to know about Nancy Pelosi
Related, in WSJ:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she's prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that's what it takes to pass ObamaCare, and little wonder. The health bill she unwrapped last Thursday, which President Obama hailed as a "critical milestone," may well be the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced.
In a rational political world, this 1,990-page runaway train would have been derailed months ago. With spending and debt already at record peacetime levels, the bill creates a new and probably unrepealable middle-class entitlement that is designed to expand over time. Taxes will need to rise precipitously, even as ObamaCare so dramatically expands government control of health care that eventually all medicine will be rationed via politics.
Boeing begins to say Good-bye to Seattle
Monday, November 2. 2009
Our friend Right Wing Prof is now blogging about his cancer diagnosis - and even about where he might want to be buried - at his other site: Central Pennsylvania Orthodox.
God bless him for doing that.
Re Bruce's post below, I'd like to point out that the government-designed medical insurance is not really insurance at all. It's just payment for medical services, at government-determined rates.
In fact, it's insurance only in the same sense that Social Security is insurance - you are forced to pay into it, and you are forced to take it.
I like to have freedom of choice in selecting my coverage, just as with my auto insurance. I have a relatively high-deductible ($10,000 over 2 years - 100% thereafter) Major Medical insurance. What I save in premiums with this comes close to my deductible - plus I have a Medical Savings Plan. It's all quite inexpensive. It does not cover aromatherapy, massage therapy, chiropractors, homeopathy, addiction treatment, experimental treatments, abortions and other elective procedures like sex-change operations, routine check-ups, and tons of other things that politicians, under pressure from interest groups, will squeeze into the government-designed plan.
The insurance I have today, which is designed to keep you out of financial catastrophe if you get really sick, would not be permitted under the Baucus plan.
Why the heck should anyone care about how health insurance agents will fare under ObamaCare?
Under the House bill, for example, the Small Business Administration will help businesses and individuals figure out how to obtain affordable coverage. (The bill provision is titled, “Assistance for Small Employers.”) Health insurance agents are not precluded from providing advice. But, the SBA will be allowed to bypass agents.
A health insurance agent is required to complete initial and regular formal training courses in the subject (including ethics), pass initial and periodic tests, and are screened by their state and by insurance companies for criminal or personal conduct (including declaring bankruptcy) that may negatively affect their reliability to be licensed to provide agent services. In addition, through professional associations, through insurer education programs, through self-study, and through competitive pressures, health agents stay current on the latest laws and offerings from various insurers. Furthermore, almost all health insurance agents are independent businesses or work for independent agencies, not beholden to the insurers but to their customers. Importantly, individuals, small and larger businesses have priorities more important and pressing than becoming experts in health insurance or its interactions with other laws or aspects of their primary concerns, and heavily depend upon qualified, trusted health insurance agents. Lastly, many health insurance agents have extensive credentials and experience. For example, I attained earned, tested, rigorous certifications – Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC), Registered Employee Benefits Concultant (REBC), Registered Health Underwriter (RHU), Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) – that, along with other experiences outside health insurance (I was a senior financial and business operations exec for Fortune 100 and small companies for 15-years before becoming a health insurance agent) and years of experience as a health insurance agent (I’ve been at it for two-decades). This delivers wide-ranging values to my clients and of the interactions of their health insurance with their broader business, regulatory and financial affairs.
Does anyone expect the staff hired or created by the SBA to have this independence, experience or training? If so, get real!
Surely, there are some health insurance agents who are lesser or incompetent, or who are crooked, or who steer some business toward favored insurers for added volume bonuses. However, the less competent exist in a highly competitive market, where they lose business to the more energetic and competent in delivering value to clients. The crooked or shady are winnowed out similarly plus by stiff regulations and prosecutions.
This is just another aspect of the losses that individuals and businesses will suffer under ObamaCare.
A leading expert and opponent of Obamacare, Grace-Marie Turner, writes in the New York Post:
The 1,990-page bill the House leadership unveiled Thursday would impose a dizzying barrage of new regulations on employers, and force them to either provide government-specified health insurance or pay a penalty of up to 8 percent of their payroll.
Even firms that now provide health benefits get slammed -- since that coverage may not meet the government's definition of "acceptable." …
The head of the National Federation of Independent Business, Dan Danner, said the reform bill's huge cost "will ultimately come out of small business owners' pockets and prohibit them from growing, investing in their business and hiring new employees." …
The pain continues: The bill would also subject businesses and employees to a bigger, hidden tax -- a shifting of costs from public to private payers.
The legislation would expand Medicaid -- the joint federal/state program designed to insure low-income Americans -- to cover another 15 million people. But Medicaid payments to doctors and hospitals are well below market rates -- and often below their costs of providing care.
A study by the independent actuarial firm Milliman Inc. concluded that families with employer-based health insurance already pay $1,788 a year in hidden taxes to compensate for underpayments by government programs. That figure will plainly grow under the House bill.
For a final blow, the bill imposes surcharges on high-income individuals that will certainly hit many small business owners -- who pay business taxes through their personal-income tax forms.
Also, read The Worst Bill Ever.
For disclosure, I’m nearing retirement, and have shrunk my successful business. I am not going to directly suffer as a health insurance agent or small businessman, although I will as a taxpayer and as someone who cares about quality health care for myself and others if ObamaCare passes.
 My trick or treaters said Thank you.
Coleman waders 50-60% off
Academic ranking of the world's great universities
"Roots" was a bogus book. Well, a work of fiction - with plagiarism.
Should alimony be forever?
When people get richer, families get smaller. How many dressage horses, ballet lessons, piano lessons, trips to Europe, tuitions, and tutors can a large family afford?
Iowahawk considers Caesar's writings, in view of Landesman's claims. One Quote from Julius:
Back in the day those Gauls had some straightup warrior badasses like Vercingetorix and Ambiorix, but apparently somewhere over the last 2000 years they turned into the biggest bunch of Eurohomos since the Athenians. Yo, you Gauls think Obama is sorry? The Juice is sorry he ever introduced you assholes to public baths.
We like Rep. Michelle Bachman, but the Left hates her as much as they hate Palin. From her bio (my bold):
Congresswoman Bachmann is a graduate of Anoka High School and Winona State University. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, live in Stillwater where they own a small business mental health care practice that employs 42 people. The Bachmanns have five children, Lucas, Harrison, Elisa, Caroline, and Sophia. In addition, the Bachmanns have opened their home to 23 foster children, which has inspired Congresswoman Bachmann to become one of Congress’ leading advocates for foster and adopted children, earning her bipartisan praise for her efforts.
Repubs try to protect us from Cap & Trade nonsense
Now it's time to worry about what the Dems are doing to Death Taxes
Chavez cannot bring power to the people
Byron York: It's OK to criticize the O now
Natural Food Fight: Obamacare vs. Mackeycare. On the video, the white Lefty essentially terms the happy black female Whole Foods employee "ignorant"
Bribing the voters of New Jersey: How Democrats like Corzine survive
Biofuels will destroy the planet
Dede, and the Gingrich view vs. the Limbaugh view. Uh oh, she endorsed the Dem. This is strange.
Who is Ted Cruz?
The Aussies beat the US in per capita carbon. Good on 'em. I think they beat us on per capita beer too.
Obamacare vs. the Hippocratic Oath
The other side of the Scozzafava case: RWNH
WSJ:
...at this point, Democrats have dumped any pretense of genuine bipartisan "reform" and moved into the realm of pure power politics as they race against the unpopularity of their own agenda. The goal is to ram through whatever income-redistribution scheme they can claim to be "universal coverage." The result will be destructive on every level—for the health-care system, for the country's fiscal condition, and ultimately for American freedom and prosperity.
How did government insurance mandates work out in Massachusetts?
Via Driscoll:
...Nancy Pelosi has taken the Peter Principle to its logical conclusion — “She’s combined the most unpopular Democratic and Republican proposals of the last generation in one piece of legislation”
Big Lizards offers a reform plan everybody would probably support
Rush:
“This is not about insuring the uninsured, this is not about health care, this is about stealing one sixth of the private sector and putting it under the control of the Federal government, and when they get this health care bill, it they do, that’s the easiest fastest way for them to be able to regulate every aspect of human behavior.
“Because it will all have some related costs to health care, what you drive, what you eat, where you live, what you do, there will be penalties for violating regulations, it’s gonna be the biggest snatch of freedom and liberty that has yet occurred in this country.”
Yesterday:
Sunday, November 1. 2009
It was reported earlier today, here and here, that the machine-picked liberal Republican candidate whose poor polling -– and lack of support from Republicans -- led to her withdrawal from the race threw her support to the Democrat instead of to the Republican who challenged her – Doug Hoffman. Hoffman is polling neck-and-neck with the Democrat for this upstate New York Congressional seat. The outcome of this race will send an important signal to Washington waverers about what should be their upcoming congressional votes affecting the course of our country.
Congressman Darrel Issa just sent out an interesting and telling email about how important Obama sees this election:
Astonishingly, the Republican nominee in the special election has dropped out, and endorsed the Democrat! Just hours before she endorsed the Democrat, she received calls from Barack Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. She also received calls from the Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Senator Chuck Schumer. Was Scozzafava promised something in return for her endorsement of the Democrat? Time will tell.
Issa says,
Volunteers continue to pour into upstate New York, but we are short of funds to pay for their transportation, lodging and meals. This race has turned into an all out battle between the White House and the conservative base of the Republican Party. Apparently all tactics are on the table.
Issa asks that urgent contributions be made via his own Political Action Committee to help elect conservative Republican Doug Hoffman, send the White House and Congressional Democrats the message that we’ve had enough of their ruinous tax-and-spend-and control our lives, send Republican hacks in Washington the message that truer Republican principles and support are required, and not let Obama and Emanuel run the Republican Party.
Instead of sending your contributions via Issa, send them directly to Doug Hoffman’s campaign. The link is here to donate and to learn more about Hoffman.
We already know that Obama-style politics is payola politics, trying to buy off votes and power with our taxes and earnings. Say ENOUGH!
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