"I have no interest in having a bill get passed that fails," Obama says for tomorrow night’s broadcast. That doesn’t work. You know, I intend to be President for a while and once this bill passes, I own it."
Actually, you’ve owned it for a while. Just like HillaryCare, it will be forever identified with you. Just think, two Saul Alinsky accolates have taken on the same issues – FAIL!
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Rich Lowry makes it easy to sound like Obama with 13 points:
1) Create a false center.
2) Scorn ideology.
3) Talk about your openness to ideas from opponents.
4) Embrace empty symbolic measures as a show of reasonableness.
5) Make lawyerly distinctions too subtle for most people to notice.
6) Say things just because they sound good.
7) Dissemble as necessary. Don’t hesitate to brazen it out as needed.
Read the rest, and the additional notes that give more info.
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Our friend Chan gives us some reasons to why foreclosure numbers can be meaningless
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Our simply genius level Dems have yet another Social Engineering Program on the backs of business: mandating paid sick days. Frankly, either Progressives either are economic Dolts, don’t understand how people will game the system immediately, don’t care, or (repeating the first) simply AMAZINGLY stupid.
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Any group that has the Acronym of WALNUTS (Workers Against Lazy Non-Producers United Together) marching in the DC parade yesterday is great in my eyes!
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No American Should Have To Choose Between Healthcare and Booze
Their decision SHOULD demand and enforce a "no-help" policy from society. Life is a risk – Government was not created to socialize the costs of bad decision making by either witless or gamblers. Trust me, people can and will learn quickly (psst: it’s called the IRS rule).
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Did MY CongressCritters release Pressers saying that they voted for Cass Sunstein – now czar of regulation – someone who believes that government has the right to force behavior on the part of its citizenry. Once again, are we a people that has a government, or a Government that has subjects?
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One of my local Progressives is repeating something that the Administration and top level Dem politicians are saying:
…our President’s plan will bring stability and security…
If they were talking about the Constitutionally mandated responsibility of protecting us militarily, I’d be OK. Of course, however, they are talking about healthcare. Which, according to the 10th Amendment, should be in the domain of the states and not of the Feds.
The highest role of the Federal Government is the physical security of the country. Which these folks don’t get.
I agree with Glenn:
And this is priceless: “Many protesters said they paid their own way to the event – an ethic they believe should be applied to the government.” Why is the British press more honest in its reporting on this stuff than the American press?
Indeed!
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Chan has warned us about "watermelon environmentalists": green on the outside and red (as in Marxist) on the inside. With Van Jones, a self-avowed Communist, expulsion from the Obama Administration and straight to the Green Party seems to confirm this.
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A sign from the DC march:
“Having government manage your health care is like having Michael Vick watch your dog."
My son is in the military where the Government is the single payer system. Right now, even though he has a valid prescription from a doctor that they recognize, he is being told that the medication is too expensive.
Yeah, even writ small this ain’t gonna work….
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Betsy has a great chart:
Each one of these programs were sold on "hey, it won’t ever cost that much!".
So, we want to talk about that "lie" word again?
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This headline is one that is probably correct and
Tea Partiers Call Movement Better Organized Than GOP
Around here, other than the indefagitable NH GOP Communications Directory, I’m not seeing a lot of action out of the local GOP groups; the TEA Party groups are the ones out-messaging, out-networking, out-hustling, and out-"actioning" pretty much the GOP.
Why? I think it is because many of the high ranking GOPers are country clubbers more interested in the politics, power, and prestige than the principles of the Grand Old Party.
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Let’s say Axelrod, Obama’s Sr. Advisor, is right on what he says. Problem is, he ain’t talking about the flip side – if this million or so folks are willing to spend their money for a few hours in DC to protest, they are CERTAINLY going to be fired up to work AGAINST his Party’s candidates.
And there is this:
Add to that the absence of Obama from the top of the ticket, which could reduce turnout among blacks, liberals and young people, and the likelihood of a highly motivated GOP base confused by the president’s proposed health care plan and angry at what they consider reckless spending and high debt
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Roger Kimball notes:
“To tell us, with a straight face, that he can insure millions more people without adding to the already skyrocketing deficit, is world-class chutzpa and an insult to anyone’s intelligence. To do so after an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office has already showed this to be impossible reveals the depths of moral bankruptcy behind the glittering words.”
– Thomas Sowell
Yup!
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So much for not having any suggestions for healthcare ideas. I don’t know why Obama and Pelosi and Reid and Durban can’t find them – my friend Warner Todd Huston found some pretty right quick:
Just for the record, in case you want to check them out, these are the bills proposed, so far, by Price and his allies in the House: H.R. 77; H.R. 109; H.R. 198; H.R. 270; H.R. 321; H.R. 464; H.R. 502; H.R. 544; H.R. 917; H.R. 1086; H.R. 1118; H.R. 1441; H.R. 1458; H.R. 1468; H.R. 1658; H.R. 1891; H.R. 2520; H.R. 2607; H.R. 2692; H.R. 2784; H.R. 2785; H.R. 2786; H.R. 2787; H.R. 3141; H.R. 3217; H.R. 3218; H.R. 3356; H.R. 3372; H.R. 3400; H.R. 3438; H.R. 3454; and H.R. 3478.
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If it wasn’t so serious, it would be funny, as Richard Barnes nails it:
Democrats hate the US Constitution. They don’t follow it, they don’t respect it and they don’t want it. If you need evidence of this have a discussion with a liberal Democrat and bring up the Constitution. Watch as they get red in the face and begin making arguments against why it should be followed.
Really, we have forgotten the wisdom of the Founding Fathers….
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Glen notes:
FOR years now, many businesses and individuals in the United States have been relying on the power of government, rather than competition in the marketplace, to increase their wealth. This is politicization of the economy. It made the financial crisis much worse, and the trend is accelerating.
Well before the financial crisis erupted, policy makers treated homeowners as a protected political class and gave mortgage-backed securities privileged regulatory treatment. Furthermore, they allowed and encouraged high leverage and the expectation of bailouts for creditors, which had been practiced numerous times, including the precedent of Long-Term Capital Management in 1998. Without these mistakes, the economy would not have been so invested in leverage and real estate and the financial crisis would have been much milder.
But we are now injecting politics ever more deeply into the American economy, whether it be in finance or in sectors like health care. Not only have we failed to learn from our mistakes, but also we’re repeating them on an ever-larger scale.
Greatest example of this is GE. Have your CEO as one of Obama’s closest advisors, have your people help write the Cap N Trade, have your PAC give money that will support your company, and have your TV subsidiaries mold citizenry outlooks.
This used to be called rent-seeking or crony capitalism and both used to be despised….
The best people are in charge….
