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Anyone with even a basic understanding of markets could tell you that a regulatory/government monopoly on health insurance was guaranteed to do exactly the opposite of what Democrats promised (lied) when trying to push ObamaCare on America.
Here’s the most famous promise (pair of promises), from King Obama himself.
Democrats will say anything to advance their agenda.
This is just too funny not to re-post. Courtesy of VA Viper
If you don’t get Jonah Goldberg’s ‘Goldberg File’ you should. Just ask his couch, one of his biggest critics, and it will tell you to subscribe (which you can do here). Why? It is clever, insightful, funny, and did I mention Funny? And that’s just the couch. Here’s the opening to this weeks installment. Last … Read more
As a reminder, this is what LaTourette said about the TEA Partyp types: “Hopefully we’ll go into eight to 10 races and beat the snot out of them,” Hmm, does THAT sound like “Kumbaya” to you? Me neither. And I learned a long time ago, somebody who threatens to do that needs to be addressed … Read more
Let’s keep about the “why” – Here’s a great example of what undergirds the GOP civil war – by Andrew McCarthy at PJ Media (emphasis mine):
The statist side is enthusiastically championed by Democrats, and the conservative side by Republicans, albeit more reluctantly. Like the Democratic party, the GOP is run by Washington-oriented politicians and, thus, is more enamored of Washington-centered fiats than is the conservative base whose support Republicans need in order to be politically viable. In the vogue of establishment Republicans, Jeb Bush ostensibly directs his “Can’t we all just get along?” preachments at the Republican-Democrat divide. Clearly, though, as an all-but-formally-announced contender for the GOP’s 2016 presidential nod, he is more vexed by the widening disconnect between Republicans and conservatives.
Here is the problem for Jeb: There is no common ground between (a) “I should control my own medical decisions, with my doctor deciding what to charge for his services and my insurance company deciding what risks it will cover, at prices to be determined by a free market,” and (b) “The federal government should oversee my medical decisions, tell the doctors what to charge, and dictate what insurance companies must cover at what rates.” In this, as in other matters Gov. Bush calls the “bigger, more pressing issues” – the issues about what kind of country we are going to be – one side has to win and one side has to lose.
They campaign, we elect. We expect them to write new legislation carefully and well. Study it, debate it, and then READ it. Lastly, vote on it. READ it. Vote on it. READ it. Vote on it. READ it. Vote on it. Simple? Not for our legislators, seemingly. Is this disease spreading to the EU?
Several years ago, one of the daughters of a well known Seacoast Republican Power family was told, in a fit of pique, that she was not one of CongressCritter Carol Shea-Porter’s (D-NH CD-2) constituents – simply because she was a Republican. I just don’t understand how wrong my teachers were growing up as I was always taught that EVERYONE in a district was a constituent of the hack-du-jour. Just another day in the life of a bitter Leftist, I guess.
Is this disease a communicable one amongst Democrats?
Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius responded moments ago to questions about whether she will resign in the wake of the Affordable Care Act’s problematic rollout. Her response is raising some eyebrows.
“My goal is to actually get the website up and running,” she told reporters. “The majority of people calling for me to resign I would say are people who I don’t work for and who do not want this program to work in the first place. I have had frequent conversations with the president and I have committed to him that my role is to get the program up and running and we will do just that.”
We ALL help pay her salary – she is supposed to work for us ALL. Our Republic works this way – there will ALWAYS be people who hate your policies (and perhaps, you for them). That doesn’t mean that merely for the reason of disagreeing with those policies that she doesn’t work for them as well. What is it about Democrats in this regard? Now, if she were to give a rebate from her salary and perks back to those of us that she doesn’t work for, it might be a tad more tolerable, but our Republic doesn’t work that way either.
There are two types of human beings: people who want to interfere in the way other people live their lives, and people who are content to mind their own business. Which type of people do you think go in to politics? – Ed Crane, Cato Institute President Emeritus Fortunately, there are those that are going … Read more
Just got the word from Michael Graham: ObamaCare Hits New Hampshire–And So Does The Natural Truth! I’ll be broadcasting from The Stone Church in Newmarket, NH Friday noon-3pm and I hope all my AM 1110 peeps will stop by and say “hi!” We’re going to have a great “That’s A Wrap” hour talking about all … Read more
In segment Four we continue with Ann Marie and Max…on Common Core; redesigning public education, universal pre-k, the move to digital education, re-empowering parents in education, the push to eliminate local school boards, the curriculum trap for local districts in New Hamphire, and how Common Core affects private schools and Home Schoolers, and what College’s … Read more
Free association in any group is based on the presumption that those who choose to join will promote the groups “charter.’ They will support its mission. That those charged with leading that mission will develop and deploy strategies to advance those shared goals.
The current leadership of the GOP and the NHGOP has a platform that espouses principles. But instead of using them to stand up for property rights, rule of law, self-responsibility, and local control, they use them like a siren calling ships that then crash upon their rocky shores. They are hoping that once trapped there, they will simply play along. Those that do not or who are upset over the deception are scolded, derided, even bullied for expecting the party to stand up for the principles in its own platform.
The Fall of Barack is a great article By William L. Gensert over at American Thinker. (Two quick snippets) Everything Barry has touched in four years and three quarters has turned to dog excrement. He has the reverse Midas touch, although there is always plenty of gold for friends, associates and cronies. Take ObamaCare, for instance … Read more
In a less well know act of government vs. Journalists, a freelance reporter who had done investigative work on agencies under Homeland Security, had her home raided in early August. The search warrant was to look for arms or ammunition that the reporters husband was not supposed to have, but they managed to seize without right or knowledge a number of files that included the names of confidential informants who had provided details on scandles within Homeland Security.
The informants are now at risk. Anyone within the government who observes lies, corruption, or wrong doing, has been sent another message–we will find you.
From the National Journal (emphasis mine):
It took a tea party insurrection that disabled the federal government and wrecked the Republican brand, but after months of handwringing, establishment Republicans are preparing to attack ultra-conservative ideologues across red America.
From Alabama to Alaska, the center-right, business-oriented wing of the Republican Party is gearing up for a series of skirmishes that it hopes can prevent the 2014 mid-term election from turning into another missed opportunity. But this will not be a coordinated operation. It will be messy, ugly, and prone to backfiring. And if the comeback succeeds, it will be in fits and starts, most likely culminating in the selection of a presidential nominee in 2016.
“Hopefully we’ll go into eight to 10 races and beat the snot out of them,” said former Rep. Steve LaTourette of Ohio, whose new political group, Defending Main Street, aims to raise $8 million to fend off tea party challenges against more mainstream Republican incumbents. “We’re going to be very aggressive and we’re going to get in their faces.”
So, how does that sound any different than Obama and the Democrats in their fight against Republicans? Again I will repeat what I said about TEA Party, conservative grassrooters left the GOP and went to a third party: “We may not win but you will surely lose”.
Obama hates the military, one of the essential signs of the power of America. But, given his policy of Determined Weakness, not only has he reduced the Army to being able to field TWO (ONLY TWO!) Combat Brigades due to lack of money over the last 6 months, he now wants to hammer the Proudest … Read more
If she had as much of a shred of compassion for the low-skilled low-wage American worker as she does the illegal aliens that Big Biz, Big Govt, and her palie-walies Maverick and Grahamnesty, she wouldn’t be in as much hot water. It would have been much better if Kelly Ayotte, she of the “common sense”, actually hung around with folks who exhibited…..wait for it…..common sense. Especially on the idea of granting amnesty and legal status that should not be here – that would be Pete Session (Senator, too!):
The President said he has not heard any good reason to oppose the Senate bill. Clearly, he has not listened to the ICE and USCIS officers warning that the bill would permanently undermine enforcement. Here are three more reasons: the Senate bill will lower wages, increase unemployment, and reduce per-capita GNP. All of these statements are confirmed by the Congressional Budget Office. Under current law, we will provide approximately 10 million grants of permanent residency (green cards) over the next decade. Under the Senate bill, that number will triple to more than 30 million. Further, the Senate bill would double the number of guest workers at a time when a record 90 million Americans are outside the work force. We need to get Americans off of unemployment, off of welfare, and back into the labor force — but the ‘reforms’ proposed by the Senate would put even more Americans out of work.
As I am wont to do, I surfed over onto this post and something caught my eye about Obama’s overreach to one-size-fit-all healthcare system that worked oh so well in other countries:
Yesterday President Obama was crying about the fact that people have not signed on to his website. It’s because the website is broken. The fact they poured 648 millions on this site will make you scream. They didn’t test the site until one week till the opening of the website. This site is a glorify geo cities website. In fact i think they use AOL as the servers. The fact that a government agency have this much problem with the website tell you how bad obamacare is. Then Obama gave out a phone number that basically when typed out is F you when you dial the number. Thou the number is about as bad as the website always busy and you can’t get a hold of anyone.
…This all a ruse for Obama to implement the single payer health plan that have harmed people of many countries like Russia, China,England and Cuba This idea will not work why? Ask Hawaii Ex. Governor Linda Lingle she had a plan like single payer for kids in Hawaii but she was quick to find out that people were taking advantage of that…
I remember posting up about that ill-fated Hawaii attempt for universal single payer healthcare – for kids – back in 2008.
“…the poor you will have with you always…”
“We have just concluded the 5th fiscal year since President Obama took office. During those five years, the federal government has spent a total $3.7 trillion on approximately 80 different means-tested poverty and welfare programs. The common feature of means-tested assistance programs is that they are graduated based on a person’s income and, in contrast to programs like Social Security or Medicare, they are a free benefit and not paid into by the recipient,” says the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee.
“The enormous sum spent on means-tested assistance is nearly five times greater than the combined amount spent on NASA, education, and all federal transportation projects over that time. ($3.7 trillion is not even the entire amount spent on federal poverty support, as states contribute more than $200 billion each year to this federal nexus—primarily in the form of free low-income health care.)