Ann Coulter noted today that any Republican effort to overturn Obamacare by legislative initiative by or means of a government shutdown would be futile. The president would veto any successful legislation and the Republicans would lose the politics if the government were to shut down. Coulter said the first priority of Republicans is to win elections. She suggested that implementing Obamacare could fuel its own | Read More »
In a recent diary, “A Gathering of Republicans,” Tom Lesser highlighted several Republican positions that he believes marginalize and exclude potential converts to the Republican cause. Unfortunately, his characterizations were mostly inflammatory caricatures, borrowed directly from Democratic talking points. I can’t say whether Mr. Lesser honestly hoped to provoke a meaningful dialogue or if he simply wanted to antagonize the faithful. Red State, like many | Read More »
There are many reasons to defund Obamacare. The detail and minutiae are mind-numbing enough, but for the purpose of engaging your Senator or Representative, stick to the arithmetic. I was curious about the subsidies available to those enrolling in the Obamacare exchanges. The exchanges provide coverage options to those not currently covered by Medicare, Medicaid or employer-provided coverage. Medicare expenditures are, to some degree, offset | Read More »
The ‘need’ word has infected political rhetoric. President Obama recently suggested that we should eliminate certain tax loopholes because some taxpayers are doing just fine and they don’t need tax relief, i.e. the money. More troubling, he didn’t argue that the government had new and pressing obligations, requiring increased revenues, nor did he argue that the government’s need for the money was relatively greater than | Read More »
Eric Hoffer observed in “The True Believer” that for mass movements to succeed, it is more important to have a devil than a God. Democratic campaigns have taken that advice to heart. So, what is the message Democrats take to prospective voters? The message is this. The game is stacked against you. The society is hopelessly corrupt and you are powerless to achieve and provide | Read More »
Many subscribers to Red State share a low regard for the biased MSM and lament the chronic ineptitude of Republican messengers. Comments often suggest that the media bias is so overwhelming that resisting it is pointless. But some recent diaries have struck a more positive note, focusing on honing the conservative message and delivering it persuasively. Conservatives were not always inept messengers. It may be | Read More »
The Tea party at its inception was an eclectic mix of Tenth amendment Republicans, non-ideological, fiscally responsible Independents, isolationist Libertarians, Reagan Democrats and a smattering of those who routinely attach themselves to third party causes. Despite their divergent leanings, they united around key themes; government run amuck, fiscal sanity, entitlement reform). What happened to the Tea Party movement? The Democrats and their friends in the | Read More »
President Obama has once again set out to impose social justice at the expense of the very people he seeks to help. He proposes an increase in the minimum wage from the current $7.25 to $9.00 per hour. Sounds reasonable enough. But how does increasing the minimum wage by 24 percent improve the job prospects for someone who is unable to find work at the | Read More »
Legal immigration into the United States is a tedious, expensive and time-consuming process. It stands to reason that immigration reform, however well-intended, cannot provide benefits to undocumented aliens today that are currently unavailable via the legal process now in place.. So, what is it that both undocumented aliens and prospective legal immigrants want? Both want residency (entry), temporary legal status (visa), path to citizenship (green | Read More »
Politically, I am a little to the right of Alan Keyes. So, it was a bit awkward to have a recent post to these diaries tweeted on the liberal blog, The Reid Report. I would have preferred that Charles Krauthammer endorse my thoughts in the second paragraph of his next syndicated column. Instead, Joy Reid, a liberal writer of some distinction, provided me an unexpected | Read More »
Democrats will soon unveil their program to combat senseless violence. It will get warm love from the press, but little critical analysis. At day’s end, the Democrat’s plan is not going to advocate for gun confiscation or a government buy- back mandate. It will not endorse any meaningful invasions of privacy regarding medical records and mental illness. It will make only token efforts at identifying | Read More »
I don’t want yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs Samuel Goldwyn It seems clear that no important jobs were put in jeopardy by the State department’s internal investigation of the attack on the American embassy in Benghazi. Kirsten Powers noted that weeks of investigation unearthed little information that couldn’t have been learned | Read More »
The truly tedious argument disarms the opposition. It doesn’t get more tedious than “asking the rich to pay their fair share” or “a fair and balanced approach.” Republicans are now so bored by President Obama that they can no longer summon the will to resist. Having won round one in a spectacular fashion, the president has now turned his attention from tax rates to loopholes and | Read More »
What do John Kasich, Ron Johnson, Marco Rubio, John Bolton, Hayley Barbour, Susannah Martinez, Paul Ryan, Bill Bennett and Tim Scott have in common? If you answered “nothing with Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann”, you are only half right. How is it possible that it took Mitt Romney ten primaries to separate from the republican field. Bachmann | Read More »
At year’s end, the media revisit the preceding twelve months ; the deaths, the dramas and the politics. Notably absent from most reviews of 2012 was any mention of Obamacare. The media didn’t discuss it and more curiously, neither did the Democrats. But Obamacare was newsworthy in 2012 and I want to give it the attention it deserves. The president campaigned for Obamacare while claiming | Read More »
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, so that my child may have peace.” Thomas Paine Once in American history, patriots knowingly put themselves in harm’s way to spare their children. No one kicked the American Revolution down the road. They didn’t leave it for the kids to fight. Trouble has happened again, 17 trillion dollars worth. Our leaders | Read More »
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