The House of Representatives passed Health Care Reform late on a Saturday night. When is the last time these guys worked on a weekend? And why would Congress consider this bill so late on a Saturday night when all of the major media hs gone to sleep?
First, a good thief strikes when you're not home or sleeping. Same here, for our less than honorable members of Congress. While people were either winding down after a busy day, or out for the evening, the thieves stole from us.
Secondly, Conservative radio and television. There is NO DOUBT in my mind that these crooks wanted this vote when there as no regularly scheduled Conservatives on television and radio so they would not get flooded by opposition phone calls when people received the truth about what was happening in DC instead of the Obama PR crew at NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, etc.
Lastly, MONEY. FOLLOW THE MONEY on anything that comes out of Washington and you'll have your answers.
Please read this email from Dick Morris, it is telling. Our Members of Congress SOLD OUR FREEDOM!
The fight isn't over yet.
OBAMACARE ENDORSEMENTS: WHAT THE BRIBE WAS
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on TheHill.com on November 6, 2009
As the suicidal Democratic congressmen proceed to rubber-stamp the Obama healthcare reform despite the drubbing their party took in the '09 elections, the president trotted out the endorsements of the AMA and the AARP to stimulate support. But these -- and the other endorsements -- his package has received are all bought and paid for.
Here are the deals:* The American Medical Association (AMA) was facing a 21 percent cut in physicians' reimbursements under the current law. Obama promised to kill the cut if they backed his bill. The cuts are the fruit of a law requiring annual 5-6 percent reductions in doctor reimbursements for treating Medicare patients. Bravely, each year Congress has rolled the cuts over, suspending them but not repealing them. So each year, the accumulated cuts threaten doctors. By now, they have risen to 21 percent. With this blackmail leverage, Obama compelled the AMA to support his bill...or else!
* The AARP got a financial windfall in return for its support of the healthcare bill. Over the past decade, the AARP has morphed from an advocacy group to an insurance company (through its subsidiary company). It is one of the main suppliers of Medi-gap insurance, a high-cost, privately purchased coverage that picks up where Medicare leaves off. But President Bush-43 passed the Medicare Advantage program, which offered a subsidized, lower-cost alternative to Medi-gap. Under Medicare Advantage, the elderly get all the extra coverage they need plus coordinated, well-managed care, usually by the same physician.
So more than 10 million seniors went with Medicare Advantage, cutting into AARP Medi-gap revenues. Presto! Obama solved their problem. He eliminates subsidies for Medicare Advantage. The elderly will have to pay more for coverage under Medigap, but the AARP -- which supposedly represents them -- will make more money. (If this galls you, join the American Seniors Association, the alternative group; contact sbarton@americanseniors.org. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .)
* The drug industry backed ObamaCare and, in return, got a 10-year limit of $80 billion on cuts in prescription drug costs. (A drop in the bucket of their almost $3 trillion projected cost over the next decade.) They also got administration assurances that it will continue to bar lower-cost Canadian drugs from coming into the U.S. All it had to do was put its formidable advertising budget at the disposal of the administration.
* Insurance companies got access to 40 million potential new customers. But when the Senate Finance Committee lowered the fine that would be imposed on those who don't buy insurance from $3,500 to $1,500, the insurance companies jumped ship and now oppose the bill, albeit for the worst of motives.The only industry that refused to knuckle under was the medical device makers. They stood for principle and wouldn't go along with Obama's blackmail. So the Senate Finance Committee retaliated by imposing a tax on medical devices such as automated wheelchairs, pacemakers, arterial stents, prosthetic limbs, artificial knees and hips and other necessary accoutrements of healthcare.
So these endorsements are not freely given, but bought and paid for by an administration that is intent on passing its program at any cost.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Jobless Recovery
This week I heard an oxymoron that almost rivals that of "Deval Patrick Shows Leadership on the Budget";
Jobless Recovery.
Think about those two words for a moment.
Only in Obama's America would a high ranking financial analyst have the balls to describe a GREATER THAN EXPECTED UNEMPLOYMENT number as a JOBLESS RECOVERY! What's worse is that he wasn't even challenges by the Obama sycophant financial talk show host about his JOBLESS RECOVERY comment.
The media is trying to prop up the our first Communist President, Barack Hussein Obama, by saying that even though there has been continued job loss, the economy is recovering.
Let's analyze this JOBLESS RECOVERY further:
The financial guy must have been thinking that just because the stock market has come back this year that people have all sorts of capital gains. For you Democrats, that means your stock is worth more than what you paid for it.
But wait, the Dow Jones Average is still down over 4,000 points from it's high. Hmm. The JOBLESS RECOVERY can't be because of the stock market.
Oh, he must have meant that people are selling their homes and taking the capital gain (Dems, see above) and spending it on everyday items. No that can't be it, because home prices are still down and we keep hearing how we have to shore up the housing market with even more government money to keep values from slipping even further than where they are now.
I got it! It must be the climbing dollar and shrinking debt, along with low oil prices that the nitwit financial guy must see as becoming a stimulus for our economy, right?
By now you obviously are getting the drift that this can't be what the "In the tank for Obama" financial guy was referring to.
The media, excuse me, the main stream media, and the financial shows are just like the rest of them, are trying to spin things as much as possible to make this economy look better than what is it. If W was still in office we 'd hear stories of people jumping off ledges as they did at the start of the Great Depression. You can't sugar coat crap!
While the US faces 10%+ unemployment, we lucky Bay Staters have to only put up with 9.3% (until we get the new numbers) unemployment. Lucky us!
What are our Democrat majority in Boston and Washington doing to turn this around? Other than spending money they don't have - I have no clue, and neither do they!
Ronald Reagan proved what it takes to turn the economy around. Hell, even John Kennedy proved that TAX CUTS to spur growth and investment, is the ONLY WAY to turn this around.
Jobless Recovery. Only in OBama's America and Deval's Massachusetts!!!
Jobless Recovery.
Think about those two words for a moment.
Only in Obama's America would a high ranking financial analyst have the balls to describe a GREATER THAN EXPECTED UNEMPLOYMENT number as a JOBLESS RECOVERY! What's worse is that he wasn't even challenges by the Obama sycophant financial talk show host about his JOBLESS RECOVERY comment.
The media is trying to prop up the our first Communist President, Barack Hussein Obama, by saying that even though there has been continued job loss, the economy is recovering.
Let's analyze this JOBLESS RECOVERY further:
The financial guy must have been thinking that just because the stock market has come back this year that people have all sorts of capital gains. For you Democrats, that means your stock is worth more than what you paid for it.
But wait, the Dow Jones Average is still down over 4,000 points from it's high. Hmm. The JOBLESS RECOVERY can't be because of the stock market.
Oh, he must have meant that people are selling their homes and taking the capital gain (Dems, see above) and spending it on everyday items. No that can't be it, because home prices are still down and we keep hearing how we have to shore up the housing market with even more government money to keep values from slipping even further than where they are now.
I got it! It must be the climbing dollar and shrinking debt, along with low oil prices that the nitwit financial guy must see as becoming a stimulus for our economy, right?
By now you obviously are getting the drift that this can't be what the "In the tank for Obama" financial guy was referring to.
The media, excuse me, the main stream media, and the financial shows are just like the rest of them, are trying to spin things as much as possible to make this economy look better than what is it. If W was still in office we 'd hear stories of people jumping off ledges as they did at the start of the Great Depression. You can't sugar coat crap!
While the US faces 10%+ unemployment, we lucky Bay Staters have to only put up with 9.3% (until we get the new numbers) unemployment. Lucky us!
What are our Democrat majority in Boston and Washington doing to turn this around? Other than spending money they don't have - I have no clue, and neither do they!
Ronald Reagan proved what it takes to turn the economy around. Hell, even John Kennedy proved that TAX CUTS to spur growth and investment, is the ONLY WAY to turn this around.
Jobless Recovery. Only in OBama's America and Deval's Massachusetts!!!
Thursday, November 5, 2009
McDonnell Takes Youth Vote
Following is a post on the Weekly Standard Blog by a great young, energetic, Republican activist by the name of Rachel Hoff. Rachel's article illustrates what a great candidate with a great message can do in a campaign.
We've always been told the youth vote goes to the Dems. Bob McDonnell just proved that wrong.
Great job Rachel!
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The Rising Tide of the GOP Youth
Only one year after Barack Obama captured the hearts, minds, and votes of an entire generation of young Americans, those same voters proved that they are not a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party. Looking at election data from this week’s statewide elections in New Jersey and Virginia, it seems that the loyalty of young voters may only have been to one man -– Barack Obama –- not a party or an ideology, presenting a real opportunity for the GOP despite calls of extinction after 2008.
According to The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), turnout among 18-29 year olds was 19% in New Jersey and only 17% in Virginia. This compares with 53% and 59% young voter turnout in the 2008 Presidential elections in New Jersey and Virginia, respectively. Even considering the typical drop-off during an off-year election, turnout only in the teens is alarmingly low.
The young people who were the driving force of the Obama campaign stayed home in 2009. Claims that President Obama won a generation of young Americans to the Democratic Party were vastly exaggerated. The power of Obamamania, it seems, was personality politics -- not an actual commitment to the Democratic Party or principles.
Perhaps more amazing and disappointingly under-reported by the media is the fact that 18-29 year olds in Virginia voted for Bob McDonnell over the Democrat 54% to 44%. McDonnell proved that a dynamic candidate with the right ideas, an active youth outreach program, and strategic use of new media technologies, Republican candidates can win the youth vote. The McDonnell campaign deserves credit for its text messaging program, the Young Professionals coalition that leveraged both fundraising and grassroots organizing, and the energy that his daughters brought to the election.
The GOP needs to wake up and take note. Bob McDonnell did not invent a new way of campaigning. He was the right candidate with the right message who refused to cede Virginia’s youth to the Democrats and actually reached out to them. Republicans should take this week’s election results as a sign that the Grand Old Party still has a real opportunity to appeal to young voters.
Posted by Rachel Hoff on November 5, 2009 04:24 PM Permalink
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The Tide doesn't turn on its own. GET INVOLVED!
We've always been told the youth vote goes to the Dems. Bob McDonnell just proved that wrong.
Great job Rachel!
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The Rising Tide of the GOP Youth
Only one year after Barack Obama captured the hearts, minds, and votes of an entire generation of young Americans, those same voters proved that they are not a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party. Looking at election data from this week’s statewide elections in New Jersey and Virginia, it seems that the loyalty of young voters may only have been to one man -– Barack Obama –- not a party or an ideology, presenting a real opportunity for the GOP despite calls of extinction after 2008.
According to The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), turnout among 18-29 year olds was 19% in New Jersey and only 17% in Virginia. This compares with 53% and 59% young voter turnout in the 2008 Presidential elections in New Jersey and Virginia, respectively. Even considering the typical drop-off during an off-year election, turnout only in the teens is alarmingly low.
The young people who were the driving force of the Obama campaign stayed home in 2009. Claims that President Obama won a generation of young Americans to the Democratic Party were vastly exaggerated. The power of Obamamania, it seems, was personality politics -- not an actual commitment to the Democratic Party or principles.
Perhaps more amazing and disappointingly under-reported by the media is the fact that 18-29 year olds in Virginia voted for Bob McDonnell over the Democrat 54% to 44%. McDonnell proved that a dynamic candidate with the right ideas, an active youth outreach program, and strategic use of new media technologies, Republican candidates can win the youth vote. The McDonnell campaign deserves credit for its text messaging program, the Young Professionals coalition that leveraged both fundraising and grassroots organizing, and the energy that his daughters brought to the election.
The GOP needs to wake up and take note. Bob McDonnell did not invent a new way of campaigning. He was the right candidate with the right message who refused to cede Virginia’s youth to the Democrats and actually reached out to them. Republicans should take this week’s election results as a sign that the Grand Old Party still has a real opportunity to appeal to young voters.
Posted by Rachel Hoff on November 5, 2009 04:24 PM Permalink
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The Tide doesn't turn on its own. GET INVOLVED!
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Deval the Oxymoron
This is the headline in am email from Deval Patrick's PR arm or something to that effect:
GOVERNOR PATRICK PROVIDES LEADERSHIP BASED ON VALUES; CLOSES BUDGET GAP, MAINTAINS INVESTMENTS IN CORE SERVICES
(I highlighted the red there)
What's wrong with this headline?
First, it is an oxymoron to insinuate that this Governor has provided anything, especially leadership to the people of Massachusetts.
Secondly, it says he is closing the budget gap, but neglects to say it is a budget gap he, the Governor, and his Democrat allies on Beacon Hill CREATED!
And lastly, the headline infers that the Governor has done some saintly thing by keeping core services (Local aid and money to schools). A cut to a city or town budget, is a cut. It is only a book entry as to where you have to move money around to cover whatever. It is a classic case of creative bullshit book keeping .
What the Governor has done in his term in office is horrendous. Mitt Romney cut the budget prior to leaving office to the tune of $400,000,000.00 +/-, that were immediately reversed by Deval Patrick. Our "Rainy Day Fund" would be over $1,000,000,000.00 healthier today if those cuts were upheld. This was nothing more than a political move that has placed Massachusetts on the brink of financial ruin.
The Governor, Deval Patrick, ADDED over 2,000 jobs when he took office. It's very eerie that he now has to cut 2,000 jobs to save money.
Under Deval Patrick's "leadership" Massachusetts has raised the Sales Tax to balance the budget (which it hasn't nor will it) without any concern for those businesses in communities along the New Hampshire border. Even Connecticut has a lower sales tax than Massachusetts.
Massachusetts passed in having a Tax Holiday this year to help our citizens and businesses. What happened? The land of Ben & Jerry , Vermont, capitalized on this and offered a tax holiday aimed at Massachusetts residents to capture that business that Deval Patrick did not deem worthy to work for.
Casino gaming. As I have posted previously, I couldn't care less about casino's one way or the other, but at least it would have been something proactive. Now New Hampshire is looking at casinos due to the inaction and LACK OF LEADERSHIP on Deval Patrick's part to get something moving forward on casino's. While casino's will not supplant good quality jobs that will be around for a long time, they certainly can be part of the solution. On this issue, Deval Patrick has been totally impotent at the expense of the Massachusetts unemployed.
Leadership. Is Leadership defined as - hiring your friends to jobs that have been unfilled for over a decade so you can pay them back for their campaign work or reward them for future campaign work? Or is Leadership defined as hiring the sister of your Campaign Chairman (who is also the head of the state Democrat Party)? Is Leadership defined as cutting those jobs at the bottom, you know, the people who really need them, so you can upgrade the Governor's car from a Ford to a Cadillac, or to replace the drapes in your office, or to hire a secretary for your wife who earns a multiple six figure income?
Because if that is what Leadership is, then Deval Patrick has been a success!
Elitist. Arrogant Elitist.
All this, while Massachusetts families, our friends and neighbors, are losing their jobs and homes.
Deval Patrick is anything but a Leader!
GOVERNOR PATRICK PROVIDES LEADERSHIP BASED ON VALUES; CLOSES BUDGET GAP, MAINTAINS INVESTMENTS IN CORE SERVICES
(I highlighted the red there)
What's wrong with this headline?
First, it is an oxymoron to insinuate that this Governor has provided anything, especially leadership to the people of Massachusetts.
Secondly, it says he is closing the budget gap, but neglects to say it is a budget gap he, the Governor, and his Democrat allies on Beacon Hill CREATED!
And lastly, the headline infers that the Governor has done some saintly thing by keeping core services (Local aid and money to schools). A cut to a city or town budget, is a cut. It is only a book entry as to where you have to move money around to cover whatever. It is a classic case of creative bullshit book keeping .
What the Governor has done in his term in office is horrendous. Mitt Romney cut the budget prior to leaving office to the tune of $400,000,000.00 +/-, that were immediately reversed by Deval Patrick. Our "Rainy Day Fund" would be over $1,000,000,000.00 healthier today if those cuts were upheld. This was nothing more than a political move that has placed Massachusetts on the brink of financial ruin.
The Governor, Deval Patrick, ADDED over 2,000 jobs when he took office. It's very eerie that he now has to cut 2,000 jobs to save money.
Under Deval Patrick's "leadership" Massachusetts has raised the Sales Tax to balance the budget (which it hasn't nor will it) without any concern for those businesses in communities along the New Hampshire border. Even Connecticut has a lower sales tax than Massachusetts.
Massachusetts passed in having a Tax Holiday this year to help our citizens and businesses. What happened? The land of Ben & Jerry , Vermont, capitalized on this and offered a tax holiday aimed at Massachusetts residents to capture that business that Deval Patrick did not deem worthy to work for.
Casino gaming. As I have posted previously, I couldn't care less about casino's one way or the other, but at least it would have been something proactive. Now New Hampshire is looking at casinos due to the inaction and LACK OF LEADERSHIP on Deval Patrick's part to get something moving forward on casino's. While casino's will not supplant good quality jobs that will be around for a long time, they certainly can be part of the solution. On this issue, Deval Patrick has been totally impotent at the expense of the Massachusetts unemployed.
Leadership. Is Leadership defined as - hiring your friends to jobs that have been unfilled for over a decade so you can pay them back for their campaign work or reward them for future campaign work? Or is Leadership defined as hiring the sister of your Campaign Chairman (who is also the head of the state Democrat Party)? Is Leadership defined as cutting those jobs at the bottom, you know, the people who really need them, so you can upgrade the Governor's car from a Ford to a Cadillac, or to replace the drapes in your office, or to hire a secretary for your wife who earns a multiple six figure income?
Because if that is what Leadership is, then Deval Patrick has been a success!
Elitist. Arrogant Elitist.
All this, while Massachusetts families, our friends and neighbors, are losing their jobs and homes.
Deval Patrick is anything but a Leader!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Health Care "reform"
This may get off the path of Massachusetts but it is so important that you have to read this great piece by Dick Morris on what Harry Reid is doing to get Heath care reform passed and most likely with a public option.
Our great country will have a difficult time recovering from these attempts by liberal Democrats, aided by liberal Republicans to destroy the last beacon of democracy.
After you read Dick's column, go to the left of this site and listen to Ronald Reagan explain how this came about, and pass this on.
REID'S BAIT-AND-SWITCH TACTICS
By DICK MORRIS
Published on TheHill.com on October 27, 2009
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had two problems. How would he get the healthcare bill out of the Senate Finance Committee without revealing the glaring potential fissures in his party over the public option on healthcare? And how could he lend a veneer of bipartisanship to a one-party bill?He couldn't allow a vote on final passage out of the committee with a public option in the bill because he knew that he would lose Democrats and would have no GOP support. But real compromise was always out of the question. He wanted his public option. So he evolved a strategy where the only bill that would be voted on in committee would be one that did not have a public option, all the while planning for the final product to have one.So he used the bait of a bill with no public option to hook moderate Democrats like Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) and the gullible Republican Olympia Snowe (Maine).
When the bill emerged from Finance, by a lopsided 15-9 vote, it restored to healthcare reform the momentum that had stalled due to the public outrage so evident during the August recess.Then the dexterous Reid capitalized on that momentum to put the public option back into the bill, reversing the commitment to compromise that allowed the bill to clear the committee in the first place.This tactic of bait-and-switch offers a foretaste of what Reid will attempt on the Senate floor. He obviously hopes to replicate these tactics in getting the bill through the Senate.
As he did in the Finance Committee, Reid has opened his gambit on the Senate floor by embracing a public option. He does this for two reasons: First, he wants to send a signal to the House and Senate militants that his heart is in the right place and that the final bill will probably have a public option. Second, he needs to have room to compromise so the final Senate version attracts the moderates he needs. First he veers left in order to then swing right.His next move is predictable. As he awaits House action, he stands firm in backing the public option. And as he nears the point of a Senate floor vote, he will pretend to modify that option in order to attract moderates and perhaps a few stray Republicans. As he and Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) did in committee, he will truncate or even abandon the public option to win unanimous Democratic support (and perhaps one or two Republicans).
Then, in conference with the House, he will pull the old bait-and-switch tactic again, jettisoning the Senate bill and embracing a full-throated public option in the final version that will return to the Senate.At that point, he hopes to use the momentum of House passage and the imprimatur of the conference committee to try to persuade senators, and the public, that it is this bill or no bill and that only a proposal with a robust public option can pass.The point of this strategy is never to ask moderates to vote for a public option until the final vote after the conference committee. Let them build a record of having opposed the public option to sell back home. Let Reid show that he tried to compromise. And only put the final test to the moderate senators at the very last minute, when all the momentum is on the side of final passage.
If he succeeds, Reid gets a bill with his public option. But even if he fails and has to delete the public option at the last minute to get Senate support, he will still have gotten the healthcare bill through.By making such a fuss over the public option, with the connivance of the liberals, he keeps the spotlight away from the Medicare cuts, the end of Medicare Advantage, the inevitable rationing of healthcare, the taxes on the uninsured and the sick and the cuts in medical reimbursement.
A bill with all these provisions -- even without a public option -- is pernicious enough!And these tactics can still produce a bill with a public option.Will this tactic work? It all depends on the political environment outside Washington. If the bill is only marginally unpopular (the current 40-55), it will probably pass.But if public opinion moves another five or so points (to, say, 35-60 against), then the moderates will probably refuse to cave in.
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Our great country will have a difficult time recovering from these attempts by liberal Democrats, aided by liberal Republicans to destroy the last beacon of democracy.
After you read Dick's column, go to the left of this site and listen to Ronald Reagan explain how this came about, and pass this on.
REID'S BAIT-AND-SWITCH TACTICS
By DICK MORRIS
Published on TheHill.com on October 27, 2009
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had two problems. How would he get the healthcare bill out of the Senate Finance Committee without revealing the glaring potential fissures in his party over the public option on healthcare? And how could he lend a veneer of bipartisanship to a one-party bill?He couldn't allow a vote on final passage out of the committee with a public option in the bill because he knew that he would lose Democrats and would have no GOP support. But real compromise was always out of the question. He wanted his public option. So he evolved a strategy where the only bill that would be voted on in committee would be one that did not have a public option, all the while planning for the final product to have one.So he used the bait of a bill with no public option to hook moderate Democrats like Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) and the gullible Republican Olympia Snowe (Maine).
When the bill emerged from Finance, by a lopsided 15-9 vote, it restored to healthcare reform the momentum that had stalled due to the public outrage so evident during the August recess.Then the dexterous Reid capitalized on that momentum to put the public option back into the bill, reversing the commitment to compromise that allowed the bill to clear the committee in the first place.This tactic of bait-and-switch offers a foretaste of what Reid will attempt on the Senate floor. He obviously hopes to replicate these tactics in getting the bill through the Senate.
As he did in the Finance Committee, Reid has opened his gambit on the Senate floor by embracing a public option. He does this for two reasons: First, he wants to send a signal to the House and Senate militants that his heart is in the right place and that the final bill will probably have a public option. Second, he needs to have room to compromise so the final Senate version attracts the moderates he needs. First he veers left in order to then swing right.His next move is predictable. As he awaits House action, he stands firm in backing the public option. And as he nears the point of a Senate floor vote, he will pretend to modify that option in order to attract moderates and perhaps a few stray Republicans. As he and Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) did in committee, he will truncate or even abandon the public option to win unanimous Democratic support (and perhaps one or two Republicans).
Then, in conference with the House, he will pull the old bait-and-switch tactic again, jettisoning the Senate bill and embracing a full-throated public option in the final version that will return to the Senate.At that point, he hopes to use the momentum of House passage and the imprimatur of the conference committee to try to persuade senators, and the public, that it is this bill or no bill and that only a proposal with a robust public option can pass.The point of this strategy is never to ask moderates to vote for a public option until the final vote after the conference committee. Let them build a record of having opposed the public option to sell back home. Let Reid show that he tried to compromise. And only put the final test to the moderate senators at the very last minute, when all the momentum is on the side of final passage.
If he succeeds, Reid gets a bill with his public option. But even if he fails and has to delete the public option at the last minute to get Senate support, he will still have gotten the healthcare bill through.By making such a fuss over the public option, with the connivance of the liberals, he keeps the spotlight away from the Medicare cuts, the end of Medicare Advantage, the inevitable rationing of healthcare, the taxes on the uninsured and the sick and the cuts in medical reimbursement.
A bill with all these provisions -- even without a public option -- is pernicious enough!And these tactics can still produce a bill with a public option.Will this tactic work? It all depends on the political environment outside Washington. If the bill is only marginally unpopular (the current 40-55), it will probably pass.But if public opinion moves another five or so points (to, say, 35-60 against), then the moderates will probably refuse to cave in.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
"Republican" Governors To Highlight Fundraiser
Four former Republican Governors will highlight a $5,000.00 per person fundraiser to benefit the MASS GOP. Sounds good, right?
Not really. Former Massachusetts Governor William Weld should never be invited to highlight anything for the GOP, whether it's here in Massachusetts or anywhere else. Not only did the politics of Bill Weld help deflate the Republican Party in the Bay State, HE ENDORSED BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!!! Will anyone have the balls to ask him if he stands by that endorsement today? Probably not.
Only in Massachusetts would a Republican Party Fundraiser invite and trumpet a Democrat wannabe (Ambassador to Mexico for Bill Clinton) as a highlight to their fundraiser.
I know, people will say that Bill Weld helped build the party and had a sweeping effect on the electorate as we gained House and Senate seats. Not true. Bill Weld won, only because Jon Silber shot himself in the foot and then the mouth to help Weld squeak by. The House and Senate seats were going to happen anyway.
The politics of Bill Weld - appointing Democrats over Republicans to key posts (a long held tradition of Mass. GOPers to garner some love from the Dems) and the "moderate" positions he held, have actually led to the pathetic numbers of Reps and Senators in Boston that we now have.
The Republican Party in Massachusetts has a great opportunity to reclaim a good number of seats in areas that are more conservative than others in the 2010 elections. Unfortunately, if we use the same playbook that the party has used for the last twenty years, we will not gain anything. Does the MASS GOP know how to win HOUSE & SENATE seats? They know how to win Governor races to a degree, but not at the local level.
What's different this time? Having a person like Bill Weld headline a fundraiser looks like the same old, same old. Sucking up to a man who wants to work for Democrats and endorses them over fellow Republicans just to try and remain relevant is a big mistake by the GOP.
Start now, to 1. create a platform that actually differentiates the Republican Party from the Democrats, 2. stop inviting turncoats like Bill Weld to GOP events for photo ops for party leaders, 3. stop "playing dress up" and lead by example, and 4. funnel money, and lots of it, to select State Rep and Senate candidates that have a real shot of winning (not just because they took papers out).
Fiscal Conservatives/Social Moderates have caused he FISCAL problems that we now have. They are the cause, not the cure of what ails Massachusetts. Fix one, and winning will happen. Fix nothing and we will have what we have. This isn't rocket science, even for politicians.
P.S. Bill Weld makes RINO's look conservative!
Not really. Former Massachusetts Governor William Weld should never be invited to highlight anything for the GOP, whether it's here in Massachusetts or anywhere else. Not only did the politics of Bill Weld help deflate the Republican Party in the Bay State, HE ENDORSED BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!!! Will anyone have the balls to ask him if he stands by that endorsement today? Probably not.
Only in Massachusetts would a Republican Party Fundraiser invite and trumpet a Democrat wannabe (Ambassador to Mexico for Bill Clinton) as a highlight to their fundraiser.
I know, people will say that Bill Weld helped build the party and had a sweeping effect on the electorate as we gained House and Senate seats. Not true. Bill Weld won, only because Jon Silber shot himself in the foot and then the mouth to help Weld squeak by. The House and Senate seats were going to happen anyway.
The politics of Bill Weld - appointing Democrats over Republicans to key posts (a long held tradition of Mass. GOPers to garner some love from the Dems) and the "moderate" positions he held, have actually led to the pathetic numbers of Reps and Senators in Boston that we now have.
The Republican Party in Massachusetts has a great opportunity to reclaim a good number of seats in areas that are more conservative than others in the 2010 elections. Unfortunately, if we use the same playbook that the party has used for the last twenty years, we will not gain anything. Does the MASS GOP know how to win HOUSE & SENATE seats? They know how to win Governor races to a degree, but not at the local level.
What's different this time? Having a person like Bill Weld headline a fundraiser looks like the same old, same old. Sucking up to a man who wants to work for Democrats and endorses them over fellow Republicans just to try and remain relevant is a big mistake by the GOP.
Start now, to 1. create a platform that actually differentiates the Republican Party from the Democrats, 2. stop inviting turncoats like Bill Weld to GOP events for photo ops for party leaders, 3. stop "playing dress up" and lead by example, and 4. funnel money, and lots of it, to select State Rep and Senate candidates that have a real shot of winning (not just because they took papers out).
Fiscal Conservatives/Social Moderates have caused he FISCAL problems that we now have. They are the cause, not the cure of what ails Massachusetts. Fix one, and winning will happen. Fix nothing and we will have what we have. This isn't rocket science, even for politicians.
P.S. Bill Weld makes RINO's look conservative!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Casino, Jobs, etc
To set the record straight, I couldn't care less about casinos, one way or the other. There's good and bad with casinos and here in Massachusetts, the people behind the scenes of the casino and all those politicians that they have contributed to, will be the problem.
If the Governor really pushed this, I would be 100% behind him because it would at least be an idea to CREATE JOBS. We need JOBS in Massachusetts. We need jobs NOW!
While the Governor pushes "green" energy, and their number one backed "green" energy company is not living up to the jobs promised, Massachusetts may actually lose any type of casinos if New Hampshire gets in the race.
Take a look at any community that borders New Hampshire and ask those business owners what the 6.25% advantage is. That's the advantage that every New Hampshire business has over their counterparts in Massachusetts when it comes to pricing. Go to the Merrimac Valley, Franklin County, the North Shore and ask business owners "how's it going?"
If the Governor and his cronies on Beacon Hill (87% Democrat) were a ship, they'd be taking on water and going down.
What's the solution? 1. Lobby your State Rep and Senator to CUT the Sales Tax and Income Taxes. 2. Elect Republicans to restore some sort of balance to this runaway lead balloon. 3. Bring the entire Patrick Administration up on charges of fraud, corruption, and malfeasance. Oh wait, the Democrat Attorney General needs those votes in her run for Congress. Scratch #3.
If the Governor really pushed this, I would be 100% behind him because it would at least be an idea to CREATE JOBS. We need JOBS in Massachusetts. We need jobs NOW!
While the Governor pushes "green" energy, and their number one backed "green" energy company is not living up to the jobs promised, Massachusetts may actually lose any type of casinos if New Hampshire gets in the race.
Take a look at any community that borders New Hampshire and ask those business owners what the 6.25% advantage is. That's the advantage that every New Hampshire business has over their counterparts in Massachusetts when it comes to pricing. Go to the Merrimac Valley, Franklin County, the North Shore and ask business owners "how's it going?"
If the Governor and his cronies on Beacon Hill (87% Democrat) were a ship, they'd be taking on water and going down.
What's the solution? 1. Lobby your State Rep and Senator to CUT the Sales Tax and Income Taxes. 2. Elect Republicans to restore some sort of balance to this runaway lead balloon. 3. Bring the entire Patrick Administration up on charges of fraud, corruption, and malfeasance. Oh wait, the Democrat Attorney General needs those votes in her run for Congress. Scratch #3.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Way To Go Deval!
The State of New Hampshire is thinking about licensing casinos. A study done for the state warns New Hampshire officials that if they want casinos to work in their state, they better move now, before Massachusetts licenses casinos. That shouldn't be a problem for New Hampshire since the liberal Democrat (I know, redundant) Governor and his liberal Democrat Dominated Legislature couldn't do ANYTHING TO CREATE A JOB IN THIS STATE EVEN IF IT WAS GIVEN TO THEM ON A SILVER PLATTER!!
I know, my liberal friends will say, but Deval wants casinos but the Speakers of the House have stood in his way. My response to that is - the LEADER of the Democrat Party in Massachusetts is the Governor. His Campaign Chairman is the leader of the State Democrat Party.
If Deval Patrick cannot get enough votes in a state legislature that is over 87% DEMOCRAT, then he should resign, NOW! Oh, Deval knows how to give out hack jobs to his friends and political partners as we have seen. Nice six figure jobs, some of which were left unfilled for YEARS because they were not needed, all at the taxpayers expense.
What a terrible Governor! What a terrible leader!
Massachusetts in on the verge of collapse and we hear absolutely nothing out of Beacon Hill. Oh wait, I heard State Sen. Candaras talking this morning on a radio talk show about how proud she was that there was going to be a debate of a bill today to go after price gougers. Wow.
Jobs are leaving the state, residents are following them, and a State Senator is crowing about what an achievement it is to have a bill to go after price gouging. She cited hotel rooms on New Jersey after September 11th as an example of price gouging and why it needs to be regulated. I didn't realize that a great deal of Massachusetts residents got raked over the coals in New Jersey.
Remember all this as you drive to favorite New Hampshire casino around election time!
Check out this link to see what the nit wits in Amherst are doing now. Socialism is dead and communism is alive and well in Massachusetts.
http://amherstma.gov/DocumentView.aspx?DID=2744
Remember - Vote Democrat - if you don't give a rats ass about the future of Massachusetts, they won't let you down!
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
We Have a Pool and a Pond.
With the most recent job cuts by the Patrick Administration, it seems that Deval and his minions have taken Ty Webb's line to Carl Spackler in Caddyshack, to heart, when deciding who's job to cut at the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR).
You remember that line - when Carl (played by Bill Murray) asks Ty (played by Chevy Chase) if he has a pool. Ty responds "I have a pool and a pond. The pond is good for you".
Deval, just like Ty, seems to be acting like a country club liberal when it comes to dealing with our state employees, like Carl. The state is laying off golf course managers (who will manage the courses then?) and forest firefighters amongst others, totaling 91 workers. These people can use the pond!
But wait, who kept their jobs in DCR? Golly gosh gee whiz, the sister of DEVAL PATRICK's campaign manager, Patty Vantine, got to keep her $105,000.00 job! But wait! So did Patty's neighbors and friends who she hired (one at $83,000.00 and the other at $68,000.00) as reported in the Boston Herald today. These people get to stay and use the pool!
Here's the link to that story -
http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20091020deval_patrick_dumps_91_
keeps_pals_campaign_chiefs_sister_spared_ax/srvc=home&position=0
So what's the big deal? Their salaries are a drop in the bucket, right? WAKE UP!
As is typical of Government, especially DEMOCRAT GOVERNMENT in the cess pool called Beacon Hill, HACK JOBS, jobs given to family of friends of those in power, are maintained on the payroll while essential staff like forest firefighters and the managers of the golf courses owned by the state are let go. And the Democrats have the balls to defend their actions by describing the HACK JOBS as key positions, or some other bullshit line.
Meanwhile, our cities and towns have to make REAL cuts to the bottom line. Cops, firemen, teachers, will all be on the block as cities and towns struggle with the mid year cuts that are expected this year, and the cuts that will come for next years budget as well.
We are in this fiscal crisis because of the actions and inactions of our DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR AND OUR DEMOCRAT LEGISLATURE! Raising sales taxes has not only NOT raised revenue, is has severely hurt businesses in border states with lower or no sales tax.
Jobs. What jobs, other than those provided by the Patrick administration, have been created in Massachusetts? What industry is flocking to our red tape infected state? By the way, the governor is saying he will eliminate 2,000 jobs in state government. The Givernor as we will now call him, fails to mention the 2,500+ jobs that state expanded their payroll by in just the first year in office. Oh, gee whiz, that means the Givernor actually hired people knowing that our state was in a fiscal decline? Fiscally responsible? I don't think so.
Folks, in about a year from now, we will have a chance to send a message to the Givernor and his fellow Democrats who are destroying this state. Get involved now. Give a hour a week to a candidate, or more! We need to stop this plague that is killing Massachusetts.
You remember that line - when Carl (played by Bill Murray) asks Ty (played by Chevy Chase) if he has a pool. Ty responds "I have a pool and a pond. The pond is good for you".
Deval, just like Ty, seems to be acting like a country club liberal when it comes to dealing with our state employees, like Carl. The state is laying off golf course managers (who will manage the courses then?) and forest firefighters amongst others, totaling 91 workers. These people can use the pond!
But wait, who kept their jobs in DCR? Golly gosh gee whiz, the sister of DEVAL PATRICK's campaign manager, Patty Vantine, got to keep her $105,000.00 job! But wait! So did Patty's neighbors and friends who she hired (one at $83,000.00 and the other at $68,000.00) as reported in the Boston Herald today. These people get to stay and use the pool!
Here's the link to that story -
http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20091020deval_patrick_dumps_91_
keeps_pals_campaign_chiefs_sister_spared_ax/srvc=home&position=0
So what's the big deal? Their salaries are a drop in the bucket, right? WAKE UP!
As is typical of Government, especially DEMOCRAT GOVERNMENT in the cess pool called Beacon Hill, HACK JOBS, jobs given to family of friends of those in power, are maintained on the payroll while essential staff like forest firefighters and the managers of the golf courses owned by the state are let go. And the Democrats have the balls to defend their actions by describing the HACK JOBS as key positions, or some other bullshit line.
Meanwhile, our cities and towns have to make REAL cuts to the bottom line. Cops, firemen, teachers, will all be on the block as cities and towns struggle with the mid year cuts that are expected this year, and the cuts that will come for next years budget as well.
We are in this fiscal crisis because of the actions and inactions of our DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR AND OUR DEMOCRAT LEGISLATURE! Raising sales taxes has not only NOT raised revenue, is has severely hurt businesses in border states with lower or no sales tax.
Jobs. What jobs, other than those provided by the Patrick administration, have been created in Massachusetts? What industry is flocking to our red tape infected state? By the way, the governor is saying he will eliminate 2,000 jobs in state government. The Givernor as we will now call him, fails to mention the 2,500+ jobs that state expanded their payroll by in just the first year in office. Oh, gee whiz, that means the Givernor actually hired people knowing that our state was in a fiscal decline? Fiscally responsible? I don't think so.
Folks, in about a year from now, we will have a chance to send a message to the Givernor and his fellow Democrats who are destroying this state. Get involved now. Give a hour a week to a candidate, or more! We need to stop this plague that is killing Massachusetts.
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