Thoughts on Mark Sanford

28 06 2009

I know there are more important issues to deal with, but I’m of two minds on Mark Sanford.

For the most part, I’m infuriated because I was a huge fan of his. Most of us were. He was one of my standard blog posts (along with Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan) where whenever he said or wrote anything aboot anything, I made it a point to blog aboot it, usually concluding with Romney/Sanford ‘12. He was the real deal, a fiscal conservative (with a touch of libertarianism) who actually expected other fiscal conservatives to behave like fiscal conservatives (go figure). He was also uniquely qualified to speak out against Dear Leaders reckless spending, since he had no ties to the Bush Administration’s reckless spending.

We were all counting on him, which is why the instant and justifiable reaction was that, “You’re under the bus now. Thanks a lot asshole.” But a part of me actually feels a little sorry for him…
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[VIDEO] Apparently Socializing Healthcare is Expensive

16 06 2009

I really found this amusing today. Apparently, the director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) plotzed when he saw the price of Obama’s plans for healthcare. Keep in mind this is the same CBO that a) is non-partisan, and b) Libs and Dems swore by when it came to criticizing President Bush’s deficits…which were a quarter of the size of President Obama’s projected deficits. So sayeth the director

According to our preliminary assessment, enacting the proposal would result in a net increase in federal budget deficits of about $1.0 trillion over the 2010-2019 period. When fully implemented, about 39 million individuals would obtain coverage through the new insurance exchanges. At the same time, the number of people who had coverage through an employer would decline by about 15 million (or roughly 10 percent), and coverage from other sources would fall by about 8 million, so the net decrease in the number of people uninsured would be about 16 million or 17 million.

Now, when questioned by this, what do you think the Obama Campaign did? Did they admit to it and lay out why this is wrong and how they will pay for everything, or did they throw Ted Kennedy under the bus. Hmmm

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Rove to GOP: “Man Up Against Obamacare.”

16 06 2009

Anytime anyone is an effective voice for the Republican position on anything, the media always says they’re the wrong messenger right now, whether it is Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, or Dick Cheney. The fact that had Cheney not been winning the argument Obama wouldn’t have had to give a speech…a minor detail that is lost in translation. And while he doesn’t have as big as a megaphone with his weekly column in the Wall Street Journal, I’m sure Karl Rove (or K-Ro, as he’s known on the streets), is near the top of the list as well.

Last week K-Ro gave his prescription for what the GOP needs to do to fight the public socialization of the government run Obamacare. Before we go any further, since if we don’t say it no one else will (and will believe Obama when he lies), a few words on where the GOP stands on healthcare reform. Yes Virginia, regardless of what the fair and balanced MSNBC has to say, we do in fact believe healthcare needs to be reformed…

Health care desperately needs far-reaching reforms that put patients and their doctors in charge, bring the benefits of competition and market forces to bear, and ensure access to affordable and portable health care for every American. Republicans have plans to achieve this, and they must make their case for reform in every available forum.

That’s what to do with our plan. As for how to fight the Obama Campaign’s public socialization of the government run Obamacare, there are five keys facts that need to get out there. The bullet points…

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Paul Ryan to Obama: “Bullshit!”

16 06 2009

While my endorsement for him as House Minority Leader fizzled (though I did get him a slot on “Morning Joe“), folks are starting to take notice of Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as a future (some say current) leader of the Republican party. From a recent article in the Economist on how the Obama Campaign has quadrupled the deficit…

“There’s going to come a point where it’s going to be impossible to get people to buy our bonds at affordable prices,” says Paul Ryan, the top Republican on the House budget committee. He fears that the Democrats will create a huge new spending programme—a national health-care plan—while making little effort to curb spending in other areas. That, he predicts, will lead to crushing taxes on middle-class Americans, a lower standard of living and higher unemployment. Mr Ryan offers brave and obvious proposals to fix the budget…

Remember, this is the same left-leaning European financial magazine that endorsed Obama last fall thinking he was the cat’s pajamas. I believe a few months ago they changed that to, “maybe Hillary Clinton had a point.” I digress.

So when the President took his road show to Ryan’s home state of Wisconsin, where he did his usual schtick of accusing the R’s of not having plans he knows they have, using straw-men that are intellectually dishonest at best, and using the politics of fear to scare people into believing that if we don’t do what we say when he says it that the world will end (see stimulus, the selling of), Paul Ryan took exception. So sayeth the coolest thing to come out of Wisconsin since the Fonz and Ralph Malph…
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With Apologies to Mitt Romney (No. 2 in a Series)

14 06 2009

My original interest in Mitt Romney stemmed from his healthcare plan from when he was the Governor of Massachusetts. Generally people say they prefer Dems for healthcare even though most people reject their idea for the public socialization of a government option, so the fact that a Republican governor was able to make sure 98% of the people were insured, using free market principles while still satisfying people on the left (Ted Kennedy stood next to him when the bill was signed into law), I was very curious to hear more. This was the type of candidate we need.

Unfortunately someone decided that Romney shouldn’t talk aboot accomplishment as much as try and turn himself into Reagan v2.0, so you never heard him mention healthcare during the primary. Also, there was one aspect that didn’t pass the conservative purity test so instead of defending himself against his opponent’s attacks, just ignored it. In this regard, I don’t owe Romney an apology as much as he owes us one, but it is what it is.

Now that healthcare is front and center and he doesn’t have to run for something, we get to see the Romney we should have seen last year…the policy wonk. Some snippets from his recent Sunday morning appearences…
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Newt: “Saved or Created My Ass!”

14 06 2009

It’s always good to start off your morning with a nice chunk of red meat. This article isn’t raw to where the cow is still twitching (yes, I stole that from AllahP), but it still covers all the bases. You have the crap sandwich known as Obama stimulus, you have the state run media formerly known as the mainstream media, and it was written by Newt Gingrich. What more can you ask for on a Sunday morning?

I’ll leave the media bias for now, because if you’re reading this blog you obviously already know all aboot it. We should turn “What If George W. Bush Said it” into a drinking game, where everytime the fair and balanced MSNBC gives Dear Leader a pass for something W. would have been savaged form you do a shot. When they ignore Dear Leader altogether because Rush Limbaugh sneezed, take two shots.

Instead, let’s focus on the fuzzy math and accounting tricks that the Obama Campaign said they weren’t going to use, and even attacked George Bush and John McCain for (do a shot). So sayeth the former Speaker of ‘da House…

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Tom Coburn Hearts the Huffington Post?

14 06 2009

There have been a number of articles recently concerning the Obama Campaign Administrations government run public option to socialize health care…ok, so I’m not quite sure what we’re calling in these days, other than the more I read aboot it the more I think it su-diddly-ucks. I guess I should be open minded as Dear Leader says and not let people scare me into listening into a different opinion than his, but there’s a little voice in the back of my head that keeps telling me when he says I’ll be able to keep my current plan and doctor if I want to, that little voice screams, “BULLSHIT!”

One rather shocking article really jumped out at me, and that was from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK). Senator, or should I say Dr. Coburn, writing aboot healthcare isn’t all that shocking. He’s one of our most principled conservatives and a co-author of the “Patient’s Choice Act,” the Republican alternative the media ignores when the say the Republican’s have no alternative. No, what made the Coburn editorial shocking was than it was in the Huffington Post.

Yes, that Huffington Post.

Sen. Coburn took the pages of HuffPo to lay out why our plan rules and Obamacare su-diddly-ucks. So sayeth the good doctor…

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[VIDEO] Palin to America “Told You So”

9 06 2009

I know I said a few posts ago that I was done talking aboot Sarah Palin…but you’re never actually done talking aboot Sarah Palin. Just when you think we might actually get to focus on other potential leaders, she shows up on “Hannity” throwing a few bombs in the direction of the Obama Campaign Administration. Some highlights…

“Well, when you consider that the federal government is about eleven trillion dollars in debt, and we’re borrowing more to spend more.. it defies any sensible economic policy that any of us ever learned through college. It defies economy practices and principles that tell ya ‘you gotta quit digging that hole when you are in that financial hole.’ America is digging a deeper hole and how are we paying for this government largesse. We’re borrowing. We’re borrowing from China and we consider that now we own sixty percent of GENERAL MOTORS – or the U.S. government does… But who is the U.S. government becoming more indebted to? It’s China. So that leads you to have to ask who is really going to own our car industry than in America.”

“That’s how I feel! I feel like… and I think that more and more constituents are going to open their eyes now and open their ears to hear what is really going on and realize ok… Maybe we didn’t have a good way of expressing that, or articulating that message of ‘here is what America could potentially become if we grow government to such a degree that we cannot pay for it and we have to borrow money from other countries, some countries that don’t necessarily like America. And this many months into the new administration, quite disappointed, quite frustrated with not seeing those actions to rein in spending, slow down the growth of government. Instead Sean it is the complete opposite. It’s expanding at such a large degree that if Americans aren’t paying attention, unfortunately our country could evolve into something that we do not even recognize.”

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15 Reasons Why Obamacare Su-Diddly-Ucks

8 06 2009

So the next fight we eCon’s need to gear up for is when it comes to Obamacare. Of course had journalism not died last year we’d be able to have an honest debate about the merits of free market vs. privatized health care, but since MSNBC and the NY Times will get their marching orders from the Obama campaign to say the words “Rush Limbaugh” as a distraction, we need to look out for ourselves.

Heritage had a good post on the Republican plan the media is ignoring we have, US News & World Report lists all the details we need from Dear Leader before he tries to ram it through congress, and the gals at Smart Girl Politics even set up a war room. You might even want to read Tom Daschle’s “Critical” where he openly admits the best way for D’s to take over the health industry is to sneak in on budget bills to avoid a debate on the floor…because what possible reason would you want to debate something this major?

There’s also the part aboot how we should cut back on experimental treatments, which hits a little close to home because had it not been for experimental cancer treatments ten years ago, my mother would be dead.

But if you only read one article on health care today, make it Keith Hennessey’s, “Understanding the Kennedy health care bill.” He lists the fifteen things you need to know. Some highlights…
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Nassau County Conservative Chaos

8 06 2009

I know there are more exciting stories coming out of New York today, but this one is in my own backyard and since I was planning on writing it anyway…

Two weeks ago, I attended a meeting of the local conservative club. Their guest speaker was Ed Mangano, a Long Island legislator who is running to be county executive. Since all I remember aboot the last guy the R’s ran was that his commercials made me want to shoot my television, I was curious to see what this new cat was like. I walked away impressed.

The meeting started off talking aboot what a good friend Leg. Mangano has been to the conservative party, and how he’s run on the conservative party line for the past seven terms (14 years) as a county legislator. Then I got to hear from a guy with a strong business background and an understanding of how the economy works, who nailed every question thrown at him. Considering that the county has been falling apart while our current county executive day dreams of Albany, Ed Mangano at least to me sounds like the type of leader any conservative would get behind.
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