Monthly Archives: June 2009

Thoughts on Mark Sanford

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

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.”

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!”

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)

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!”

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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