As the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, continues to disintegrate, and Republicans endlessly fumble their plan to repeal and replace it, support is growing in this country for a single payer system. That concept, originated by Democrats and the left, has now begun to spread, possibly helped by the new entitlements Obamacare provided. The Pew Research Center recently reported that 33 percent of the public favors a single payer approach to health care. While that’s still a minority, it represents a five point increase since January and a 12 point increase since 2014.

Perhaps more significant is the number of Americans who now believe that, in principle, the federal government should be responsible for providing health care for all its citizens. According to the Center, that figure is 60 percent, the largest number in nearly a decade.

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Yet another failure by an old style politician to adapt to the speed of the Internet (emphasis mine, reformatted):

…Any interaction with a Democrat risks being covered by conservative outlets as a potential betrayal of the GOP, he said.  “Boehner blamed figures on the right who purchase lists of conservative activists and then position themselves as leaders of a movement. He said talks between party leaders can be ruined by ‘one person who creates a committee to preserve the Constitution’ and can ‘blast out information quickly. You used to have a little breathing room–24 hours, 48 hours before it actually got in the press. Well, that’s gone. Everything today is instant,’ he said.

…“Boehner pointed to the fragmentation of the national media as another reason for the paralysis and what he sees as alarming intensity and partisanship in politics. “’What’s making everything even worse today is because we have so much news, people get to choose where they get their news,” Boehner said. “It used to be we had three big TV networks, five big newspapers, and five big radio stations and whatever they said was the news. Everybody else followed what they do.’”

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In July 2015 Severin Borenstein and Lucas Davis released a report titled, The Distributional Effects of U.S. Clean Energy Tax Credits. It sought to examine the distribution of government handouts (incentives) to invest in things the government insisted would be better for the environment. The government is incredibly bad at so many things but thinking it can change the weather is second only in stupidity to the foolishness of the rubes who believe that the weather or the planet has anything to do with these “policies.”

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Via RedState:

Bernie Sanders and his wife Jane when they are in Washington DC, live in this house on Capitol Hill, ok? Part of their vast real estate empire. They’re like wannabe Trumps with their real estate holdings.

The next-door neighbor…their neighbor on Capitol Hill called the Washington Post and told the Washington Post that they were cancelling their Washington Post subscription because their very expensive Sunday Post stopped showing up. Not there this week, last week, the week before, then it was there one week but the week before it wasn’t delivered, so I’m cancelling my subscription to the post because your delivery person never gets to me. I’m paying for it but it never gets to me.

The Washington Post said, “Please, do not cancel your subscription to the Washington Post. We will investigate with the delivery person and we will get back to you.”

So the Post investigated. They got back to the person cancelling their subscription to the Post and they said, “Listen, we talked to the delivery person. Our delivery person claims has seen you come out of your house again and again and grab the paper on Sunday mornings. Immediately as the paper delivery person delivers the paper, they’ve seen you come out of your house and pick up the newspaper. So, sir, you are lying to us.”

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Abstracted from Fox News: Concealed handgun permits surging, blacks, women lead growth

• Concealed handgun permits in the United States soared by 1.83 million since last July,
• New record for the fourth consecutive year
• Concealed handgun permit holders in the country = 16.3 million
• Largest rate of growth among women and African-Americans, the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) said.
• More than 6 percent of American adults hold CCW licenses
• Outside the restrictive states of California and New York, that figure rises to about 8 percent.

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Winning is only the precursor; what you do afterwards is most important

Stephen Green (“the VodkaPundit”) makes a few observation about what the DC GOP has been doing that runs counter to what they SAY they stand for.  It’s the reason why I’ve been saying for years is don’t LISTEN to politicians. Instead, pay attention to what they DO. And in this case, especially what they DO as they OWN DC politics.  We gave them what they wanted – are they keeping their word in “being Republicans”?

I hate to ask, but how’s that GOP majority workin’ out for ya?

• Jeff Sessions Announces Justice Department Will Increase Asset Forfeiture.
• House Republicans work to torpedo Trump’s air traffic control plan.
• House Republicans to fall back on more modest spending plan — counting on Democrat votes while ignoring fiscal conservatives.

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“Everybody does it” is no excuse, but not everybody fights a horrible Civil War over it, then constitutionally elevates former slaves to full citizenship.”

Yes, were there slaves in the Colonies at the start of the Revolutionary War?  Were there slaves when the Constitution was written?  Of course there were and no conservative would argue the opposite (even as the Left now has migrated from calling everyone that disagrees with them from Birchers to TEA Partiers to extremists and now, to fit their latest narrative, White Supremacists).  But it seems that in reading about the college campus rampages and watching the “man in the street” interviews, it seems that our young’uns seem to think that ONLY the US had slavery in our history.  Why?

They aren’t taught actual history – the Leftist Academy conveniently leaves that out.  Makes it easier, I guess, to undermine the Founders with that “old white rich slave-owners” which, in turn, is meant to discredit the Constitution.  Which, in turn, makes it easier to “turn” a coupla few generations:

Slavery is by no means peculiar, odd, or unusual. It was common among ancient peoples such as the Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites, Greeks, Persians, Armenians, and many others.

Large numbers of Christians were enslaved during the Ottoman wars in Europe. White slaves were common in Europe from the Dark Ages to the Middle Ages. It was only after A.D. 1600 that Europeans joined with Arabs and Africans and started the Atlantic slave trade.

As David P. Forsythe wrote in his book, “The Globalist,” “The fact remained that at the beginning of the 19th century an estimated three-quarters of all people alive were trapped in bondage against their will either in some form of slavery or serfdom.”

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Yep.  The Democrat Party.  They are the ones with “the Political is Personal; the Personal is Political” and have turned it into the absolute weapon.  NOTHING in life can be made, seen, or discussed outside of their political realms – even eating a hamburger has life and death ramifications.  They haven’t figured out that sometimes eating a hamburger is just eating a hamburger with no other nuance that it tastes good.

Progressives have a problem: They ladle unto every decision, even the most mundane and trifling one, an unattractive glop of gooey political significance. They can’t resist warning the rest of us that we’re abetting the destruction of the planet every time we, say, tuck into a Quarter Pounder.

Josh Barro is a recovering ex-Republican who is now a member of a niche political group: the non-crazy Democrats. He coined a cute phrase — “the hamburger problem” — to describe the relentless politicization of everything by progressives and Democrats. He writes, “Democrats’ problem isn’t that they’re on the wrong side of policy issues [I vehemently disagree  -Skip]. It’s that they’re too ready to bother too many ordinary people about too many of their personal choices, all the way down to the hamburgers they eat.” He cites nonstop Democratic hectoring on, inter alia, the team name of the Washington Redskins, the way men sit on subway trains, and even some Americans’ choice not to abide by China’s one-child standard as the reasons why the party is today as electorally wobbly as Rocky Balboa in the 15th round. Yet the GOP’s success puzzles him still, because so many core Democratic cultural ideals (notably, gay marriage and marijuana decriminalization) poll more and more strongly.

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Jeh Johnson (former Obama Secretary of DHS) (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Johnson argued on CNN’s “New Day” that Trump’s tone toward illegal immigrants has made those in Central America and Mexico afraid to enter the U.S., and the people would rather stay in their home countries instead of risking an illegal entrance. “Through his rhetoric, he scared off a lot of women and children in Central America who’d rather stay in their desperate circumstances or just migrate to Mexico and stop there,” Johnson said. “But these are really desperate women and children, women with babies in their arms, who are trying to flee the poverty and violence in the countries they left.”

Oh, the horror!  And the lie.  The Obama Administration basically said “Olly olly in come free” to just about anyone coming across our southern border (e.g., Alinsky’s taking for the Have-nots).  What else can you say that they’d take unaccompanied children and ship them off to relatives / friends / predators somewhere in the US?  Or bring others in front of an immigration judge, get issued a date to appear in court – and then scamper off never to be seen again?

Yessir – that word got around real quick – the carpet is rolled out, the door bell is working, and the door is wide open.  No, sir, they DIDN’T just stop in Mexico as we saw a tide of illegal immigration rivaling that invading Europe.

I also dryly note the old hackneyed Democrat propaganda of using

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Bjorn Lomborg is a warmist. He’s a climate change guy who buys into the CO2 and man are warming the earth thing, and he’s convinced it matters. But he’s also about doing things that have value to address “the problem, ” and if you’ve been paying attention, he thinks the entire Paris Climate Accord is a nothing-burger PR stunt that will waste trillions of dollars over the next decade and a half for no measurable gains. Money better spent on useful things that might produce “results.”

To that end, he’s got a message for California Governor Jerry Brown that’s just as relevant to the mayors around New Hampshire who are clinging to the useless climate accord.

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Versus what WE care about.  You know,  “What the MSM WANTS us to pay attention to” + “Democrats with bylines” = Propaganda.  The problem for the media is that:

• They no longer have a lock on how information and opinion is delivered
• They no longer seem to care about what WE want to hear about

What WE care about:

So WHERE did the mainstream media spent its broadcast time?  Hint – it doesn’t look like the above:

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Yeah….er no, the Democrats aren’t going into the pizza business.  But can Papa Johns’s go after them for “re-purposing” their corporate tagline: ?Better Ingredients, Better Pizza”?  I remember when that came out – after a slump in their business, they went back to basics, back to the beginning, to improve their product.

So what did the Democrats come up with?  Well, like the socialists they are, they “borrowed” the form (if not the substance) of Papa Johns:

“A Better Deal: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages”

I guess it was a tad touch better than what the DCCC came up with (really!): “Democrats 2018: Have you seen the other guys?”.  Well, seeing that the Dems lost the House, lost the Senate, lost the Presidency, lost most of the governorships, and the vast majority of the State legislative seats, it seems that We The People looked – and saw Zombies coming at them and reacted.

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