I am writing this in support of ideas put forth by Wonkish and Avgio in http://www.redstate.com/wonkish1/2010/12/28/conservative-innovation-the-long-war/ In a comment there I wrote the following paragraph. May I suggest you (we) figure out a way to funnel good ideas to policy makers in the GOP. I posted extensively on Newt’s American Solutions Lab. When I started, I was a fan of Gingrich. but there was absolutely | Read More »
Like it or not, the tax compromise is a done deal. So is repeal of DADT. The two remaining issues for the lame duck session are the START treaty and the 9/11 responders medical aid bill. On the 9/11 bill, can’t the GOP leadership offer a clean bill accomplishing the purpose? Normally, it should go through the committee process, and it will next year if | Read More »
In another thread, I owned up to feeling some moral qualms on my opposition to the the dream act. After reading other comments, I must thank my fellow redstaters for teaching me that the golden rule doesn’t apply to Mexican children. There is a lot wrong with the content of the dream act. But the ferocity of the opposition and the gleeful support for deporting | Read More »
You know, it’s that tingling feeling in your leg when your adversary is gnashing his teeth. It is not really healthy, but like good brandy and a fine cigar, you can enjoy it and repent in the morning. The question I propose, just for fun, is two-fold. First, Who do you most want to be unhappy? Second, which individual losses by their candidates or wins | Read More »
Last night, Christine O’Donnell was embarrassed when she could not name a bad Supreme court decision. Every Republican running for any office should know the details of how Suzette Kelo and her neighbors had their property stolen by corrupt officials of New London, CT on behalf of Pfizer. It has been described as Robin Hood in reverse. Five liberal justices, opposed by Rehnquist, Thomas, Scalia, | Read More »
Obama’s buddy, Bill Ayers just got dissed by that rarest of creatures—A Kennedy with a real job in the private sector. Comrade Ayers, after an undistinguished career of indoctrinating students to hate everything they should love, has retired (3 cheers). A mean spirited man whose publications amount to little more than a polemic against morality and reason has held a professorship at a publicly funded | Read More »
Who first said it? As best I can tell it first appeared in a typing book. But it seems like good advice for the GOP and conservatives. The highest priority is to take the House, ridding the country of the worst Speaker in history. The next is to take the Senate. The next is to defeat Harry Reid. The tea party wing is justifiably feeling | Read More »
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In no particular order… Things I knew before the 2008 elections: 1. Obama and his progressive crowd are socialists and communists. They only differ in where they are in the authoritarian/totalitarian spectrum. 2. Progressives despise democracy, free speech, the rule of law, and freedom except if they are killing preborn babies or keeping violent criminals and illegal immigrants from being prosecuted. 3. They favor a | Read More »
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Greece today, Portugal, Spain, and Italy presently. Europe is close to the edge. And we know this how? There is a canary in the coal mine known as the credit default swap (CDS). As anyone who reads the financial press knows, CDS’s were created by the devil to help corrupt pseudo-capitalists steal from honest, hardworking capitalists. They amount to cynical bets that honorable capitalists and | Read More »
I’m very disappointed in your lack of interest in ideas from anyone not already on your staff. No interest in information on budget deficits, none on health care, none on financial “reform”. Not even the courtesy of a reply. You just keep plodding along with the same old failed ideas that the American People have rejected time and again. The only sensible thing I have | Read More »
I just sent an email to Melissa. Probably not a good use of my time. I was very disappointed in your vote for the health care bill. It seems that you are just another soldier in Nancy Pelosi’s army. You care more about her opinion than your constituents’ opinions. The irony is that this bill will likely never be implemented. It is the spark that | Read More »
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I remember some twenty years ago Dan Rostenkowski, at the peak of his power, being booed and chased by medicare recipients for supporting legislation which provided an extraordinary safety net to the elderly, including unlimited care, a drug benefit, and other protections. As best I can remember, they opposed it because the affluent elderly would have had to pay an increased premium to partially cover | Read More »
have more medical care for less money by paying for China’s care too. I’m not saying he read my diary entry here from October, but I thought it was pretty funny. Alas, the rest of RedState seems to have ignored it. (pout, pout). http://www.redstate.com/mikerazar/2009/10/28/a-brilliant-idea-courtesy-of-the-cbo/ One more thing…In all this health care coverage, has anyone seen, heard or read a single journalist who has been careful | Read More »
The CBO is either venal or incompetent, maybe both. There is no conceivable way to cover more people, improve care for everybody, train more doctors and save money, all at the same time. Haven’t these clowns ever heard of the law of supply and demand? Every failed socialist/communist regime learned that lesson the hard way. Citizens will learn that lesson the hard way when their | Read More »
The Democrats may be immoral and corrupt, but they are not stupid. Here is their REAL PLAN. 1. House passes Senate bill with no changes, after promising Stupak and others that the Senate will use reconciliation to fix it, IF NECESSARY. 2. The bill goes to a conference committee, where some “minor corrections” are recommended. 3. They go to the Senate floor with an amendment | Read More »
Hey populists! Do you want to know how to punish the fat cats? Put the shareholders in charge of the companies they supposedly own and force managers to act as fiduciaries should. Government regulators are either ignorant or venal. People with their own money at stake have a genuine interest in getting it right. It was not naked greed that caused the meltdown; it was | Read More »
ONE MORE TRY… I am probably too upset to write coherently on this topic. I apologize in advance. I will try to include all the relevant facts and an anecdote or two. I’m betting the lame street media have never told you about QALYs and IMAB. If Fox news has, I must have missed it. Maybe they should spend less time interviewing stupid “experts” on | Read More »
It now appears that the GOP leadership is going to play Obama’s game of chicken by participating in a sham bipartisan attempt to destroy the American health care system, or maybe just cripple it if we are lucky, Sadly, that same leadership is too proud to take advice from the likes of us. But Erick seems to be gaining influence in the party lately. May | Read More »
The House Republican Conference has compiled a list of all the new boards, bureaucracies, commissions, and programs created in H.R. 3962, Speaker Pelosi’s government takeover of health care: 1. Retiree Reserve Trust Fund (Section 111(d), p. 61) 2. Grant program for wellness programs to small employers (Section 112, p. 62) 3. Grant program for State health access programs (Section 114, p. 72) 4. Program of | Read More »
By request of revivefederalism, I am posting a link to a larger version of my budget spreadsheet. Like most redstaters, I love all the inside politics, the strategerizing, and the attempts to define conservatism. Even Rinos and blue dogs, for the most part, at least pay lip service to fiscal responsibility and strong defense. So do conservatives. My question is: Are conservatives more serious about | Read More »
while reading the recent closed post on Creationism and truthers it occurred to me that the very existence of truthers is evidence against both Darwinism and Creationism. How could the stupidity gene possessed by truthers have survived? But how could creatures created in the image of God be so stupid? Birthers, being merely misguided, don’t contradict either. My head is spinning, but if you take | Read More »
Link to Spreadsheet for Whine 1 There is no silver cloud hidden in the president’s proposed budget for 2011 and beyond. For half a century, we conservatives have failed to draw obvious conclusions from demography. As of 1960, entitlements were hardly a factor. Today they consume more than half the annual budget. These entitlements constitute the so-called mandatory spending. Mandatory spending is not really part | Read More »
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