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Gingrich and The Brain

One is a genius. The other is…a brain. Folks, these are the jokes.

Yes, I saw the latest poll that shows Newt Gingrich to be the most competitive against Barack Obama. Good news, but my stance on polls this early stands…they change drastically week to week, and if we’re being honest, only matter if they’re good news for your candidate. Plus, I don’t want to acknowledge the poll that has Ron Paul in second place in Iowa.

There was an article I found more interesting then Gingrich only being two points down from Obama (and beating him with Independents). Byron York wrote about the former Speakers “wonky and unconventional” campaign, and had this to say about a recent meeting with a trio of scientists…
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Obamacare Repeal is Not an End, it is a Beginning

The popular refrain from the left (and by default, the media) is that the House GOP voting to repeal ObamaCare was a giant waste of time. Never mind that it was a campaign promise, R’s have a pretty sizable mandate from the past election, and now we’re finding out what’s in the bill after we passed it (the way Nancy Pelosi said) and that it doesn’t do much of what it said it was going and in some cases makes things worse…worst vote ever.

It’s the worst vote ever, because Harry Reid said we won’t call a repeal vote for the Senate and the President said he’ll veto it. This might surprise people, but Reid and Obama are going to say that no matter what the Republicans want to do. While I know liberal political organizations like NBC News and the New York Times think Republicans should ask for Democrats permission before doing anything, if we were actually going to do that…we should just go home.

Having said that, repealing ObamaCare without replacing it with an alternative (possibly one of the ones we had from the beginning that Democrats lied and said we didn’t have) isn’t going to fly. As Charles Krauthammer says, Republicans “…will and should be judged by how well their alternative addresses the needs of the uninsured and the anxieties of the currently insured,” which he of course said after pointing out all the ways “tinkering around the edges” wasn’t going to work.

This is where cats like House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan comes in, who I’m sure is going to be saying more of this in his State of the Union response…

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Karl Rove: Obama Lied, Your Health Care Plan Died

I haven’t discussed health care much lately because after pointing out all the ways the President either lied or misrepresented the truth (here, here, here, here and here), you knew the bill was going to pass anyway whether the people wanted it or not. To quote Nancy Pelosi, “we have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.”

The more people find out what’s in the bill, the more they find to dislike as liberal icon Karl Rove points out in his weekly column. Remember the part where if you like your current plan, you can keep your current plan? And how if conservatives said otherwise they were lying to you?

Yeah, about that…

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Why the Left and the Right hate ObamaCare

The new thing for opened minded and tolerant liberal progressives to be upset over is the word “ObamaCare.” Jon Stewart made a stink over it. Last week, people complained when Jake Tapper used it. The beef is that it’s a derogatory slur, and no different than calling someone a “teabagger.”

If you want to call someone who disagrees with you’re a “teabagger,” I say God bless. If dissent is no longer the highest form of patriotism in the Era of Change that you think sexual innuendo is an acceptable form of dissent, then you and the other donkey punchers can have at it. As far as ObamaCare is concerned…RomneyCare, Reaganomics, Bush Tax Cuts, Nixonian, Rovian, etc.

Where I get confused is that, if “health care reform” is so awesomely awesome, if people are going to love it when they stop listening to Rush Limbaugh, and if it’s such a crown jewel in the Obama Agenda…wouldn’t he want his name on it?

Maybe not if you read this recent article from Reason Magazine. A taste…

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Newt: RomneyCare Doesn’t Suck So Bad

It’s clear that Newt Gingrich is seriously considering running for President this time around. I know we’ve been through this with him before, but with the release of “To Save America” (which I’ll be reviewing later this week), I’d be shocked if he didn’t run.

It’s also clear that any Republican who does run is going to be running against ObamaCare, a) because it’s increasingly unpopular, and b) it’s very similar to RomneyCare, the health care bill that current Presidential front runner Mitt Romney passed as he was Governor of Massachusetts. Which is something the media makes it a point to bring up whenever interviewing the other rumoured candidates, who of course never miss the opportunity at least a subtle dig at the former Governor (see Huckabee, Mike and Pawlenty, Tim).

So it should come as no shock that during a recent interview, where the reporter lobbed an easy one past the former Speaker of the House, Gingrich took the opportunity to…defend Mitt Romney?!? Go on…

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