Unlike ObamaCare, the Republican Plan Will Work

Ben Domenech "The eight points that I noted as principles shared by the overwhelming majority of Republicans approach health care from a different perspective than Ezra and the Democrats. The accusation on Ezra’s part is that Republicans think we have too much insurance. He’s basically right – but there is a difference between saying “we have too much insurance” and saying “we have too many people insured”. It’s important to be careful here, because we’re judging how a Republican plan would work against how Obamacare’s supporters claim it would work, or ought to work. Democrats see getting insured as an end; but for Republicans, more healthy people is the end."
Emphasis added.

Benjamin Domenech is editor of The Transom

Obamacare Incompetence

Rush Limbaugh discussed the Joe Klein article below on his show Wednesday saying,  I Don't Think Obamacare Can Work, and Obama Doesn't Care If It Does or Not 

 At the future Obama library and Institute for Social Justice, whatever they call it, there aren't gonna be any testimonials to the details of Obamacare in any of the displays. There's just gonna be a plaque: Obama, first president to get national health care.  'Cause there isn't gonna be any praise to sing about this.  Mr. Klein, all Obama cares or knows about is that he successfully moved one-seventh of the US economy to government control.  And in his world, that equals compassion, power, and success.  The details of this, that's so beneath him.  He doesn't have time.  It's for other people to work that out.  In fact, I would venture to say that if somebody told him there was an implementation problem, he'd say, "Well, fix it," and move on to whatever else interests him that day or that moment. 

Joe Klein   "Let me try to understand this: the key incentive for small businesses to support Obamacare was that they would be able to shop for the best deals in health care superstores — called exchanges. The Administration has had three years to set up these exchanges. It has failed to do so.

"This is a really bad sign. There will be those who argue that it’s not the Administration’s fault. It’s the fault of the 33 states that have refused to set up their own exchanges. "Nonsense. Where was the contingency planning?"....

 

Remember that Obama said in 2008 that in ten years we would be Arab-oil free?

The Obama Administration and Foreign Policy

These people are as murderous as the North Koreans, but we fund their message . Do you think there is a child in this group who will grow up wanting to live peacefully alongside Israel? But I digress.

Misogyny or just gutlessness? "Or both? The political tool Obama chose to act as figurehead at the CIA, John Brennan, has shown himself to be just what me and many others figured. A hyena won't change its spots and Brennan showed that he is only at CIA to make sure Barry O doesn't take any collateral damage, operations be damned."

Military buildup in China near North Korean border continues as tanks, armored vehicles spotted   "Additionally, the troop buildup is a signal to Pyongyang that China will abide by its defense commitment to North Korea in the event of renewed conflict.
"China’s military maintains a mutual defense treaty with North Korea. The last time Chinese troops defended North Korea was during the Korean War."

 

“People love to say, ‘America can’t be the world’s policeman.’ Fine. But what if there’s a world criminal?”

 Rockets, Hate and Kerry’s Fool’s Errand  "As Kerry ought to know, the real obstacle to peace isn’t Israeli settlements or building in Jerusalem. It is the hate for Jews and Israel that is fueling the rocket fire from Gaza. But instead of trying to mollify Abbas’s bogus concerns about prisoners, the secretary would probably do more to advance the cause of peace were he to address the ongoing fomenting of hatred by the official PA media."

politifake.org

Letterman can't hold a candle* to Leno, politically, comedically or personally. Here's another reason why

Leno’s shot at the AP, Democrats, and immigration reform
"Obligatory, really, after the exceedingly silly public statement from the wire service yesterday. Newsbusters has the grab from last night’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno, in which Leno manages shots at the Associated Press, Democrats, and the rush for an immigration-reform bill in less than 30 seconds, including the applause:" 

“And in a groundbreaking move, the Associated Press, the largest news gathering outlet in the world, will no longer use the term ‘illegal immigrant.’ That is out. No longer ‘illegal immigrant.’ They will now use the phrase ‘undocumented Democrat.’ That is the newest – ‘undocumented Democrat.’”

Can this be one reason that Leno is on his way out at (MS)NBC?

*Where did the phrase "can't hold a candle to you" originate?  "I understand it to mean that the person has so much less skill or beauty, intelligence, talent, or some other good quality) than you that the comparison can't even be made. Apprentices used to hold candles to light the work that a master artist or craftsman was doing. The person who held the candle was at a lower level in his or her career than the master. What is implicit in the saying is that the person is not worthy even to hold the light for you."

Liberals cannot learn because they will not be taught; Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit

As leftists love to point out, fifty million people voted for Obama. That is, I'd say, the O.J. Simpson jury multiplied by four million. (So much for "I trust the wisdom of the American people")

WaPo

"The Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit, an effort that officials say will help power the economic recovery but that skeptics say could open the door to the risky lending that caused the housing crash in the first place.
"President Obama’s economic advisers and outside experts say the nation’s much-celebrated housing rebound is leaving too many people behind, including young people looking to buy their first homes and individuals with credit records weakened by the recession."

Obama administration to banks: Why aren’t you making higher-risk loans?   "On one level, it’s almost unbelievable that anyone would ask this less than five years after the housing-bubble crash and the near-wipeout of Western financial institutions.  On another, it’s almost inevitable, given the efforts by the governing class and the media to ignore the central failure in that bubble, which was incentivizing increasingly risky loans with government cash and coercion, which created a false-equity trajectory that nearly ruined us.  If that core cancer gets overlooked, it simply keeps coming back:"....
John Wayne said, "Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid".

Tunnel Wall published this back in December:
New Study Finds Democrats Fully to Blame for Subprime Mortgage Crisis that Caused 2008 Financial Disaster
For you low-information voters who re-elected Obama, here is a summary of this story:  Obama and other Democrats applied pressure on the mortgage industry. I believe charges of "racism" were leveled and the industry buckled, giving loans to people who went in knowing they could not pay for these.

 In spite of warnings from the Bush Administration, the housing industry collapsed, causing the US economy to fall into what is called "the Great Recession" at the end of the Bush Administration. This led to the mess that Obama has repeatedly said he "inherited". Obama has pushed this "inherited" excuse for over four years (accurately enough, save for who caused it), blaming it on President Bush, unfairly.



Find the economists in this picture.

All this has been absorbed by the low-information electorate (watchers of The View,Oprah, People Magazine readers, Obamaphone recipients,and all TV shows into the late evening,  et al) who number about fifty million.
I'm not sure news people on the networks, CNN and MSNBC could be classified as "low-information", but as collaborators. Rather than being "low-information" people themselves, they helped create those low-information voters.

I believe it is accurate to say that President Bush inherited this economic mess from Barack Obama. Obama is now doubling down on these actions, making them even more draconian, so we can expect the next administration to inherit a big mess from all this. TD

The mayor of Las Vegas calls Obama "a real. slow. learner."

Obama’s Appeal to Emotion Versus Reason

Jonathan S. Tobin  "Gun control advocates lament this change and say, as the president did today, that it is a function of forgetfulness. That’s why, as Seth wrote earlier, the Michael Bloomberg-funded campaign to promote the issue is seeking to rekindle outrage over Sandy Hook with emotion-laden commercials depicting the parents of the victims. But the problem here is not a lack of concern for the memory of the slain or callousness on the part of growing numbers of Americans. It is the fact that the case for the president’s proposals relies primarily on just this sort of emotion rather than reason. The longer we have to think about it, the less sense these restrictions make to people."

I discussed my problem with guns in this previous post: Seeking an effective argument FOR gun control
 Here, two respected writers discuss the case against taking away individual firearms from Americans. Yes, it is true that if guns did not exist everywhere in this nation those little children in Sandy Hook would be living right now and I only wish that were the case. But it is not and there are violent people out there in their thousands and they are armed; willing and lusting to watch innocent people die in bunches by their hands. How, exactly do you gun-control advocates plan to remove those weapons from their blood-thirsty hands?
I will honestly look for a reasoned argument FOR gun control that contains effective means for keeping us safe from those who carry weapons illegally and are willing to do us harm. Cartoons showing crazed, wild-eyed gun owners don't wash.
As yet, I have seen only politically correct, emotional responses to the issue that have no value other than simply making a politician look as if they are doing something. TD

"Brick" Obama: The President Who Can't Shoot Straight

American Thinker  "Know what I think? He choked. After missing the first couple in front of his young audience, he became so unnerved he lost his cool and flubbed the rest away. Other than providing those of us not among his admirers with something to chuckle about it, adds to the mounting evidence that this guy is not, and never has been genuine in any way, merely a construct of the liberal media and the Democratic political machine. As we have long held, he's a lightweight in over his head and trying to perform above his limited capacity in both politics and basketball." Russ Vaughn

Limbaugh says we have bigger things to worry about in America that Obama laying bricks  "Meanwhile, folks, we're in real trouble in this country. We've got cultural rot. We've got economic decay, and this kind of coverage of the president, right there in the middle of Limbaugh Theorem.  All of these destructive things are taking place in our economy, and he's totally divorced from it, not attached to it in any way, shape, manner, or form other than the perception that he's working hard trying to fix it all."

I think only North Korea has such a cult of personality as this:
Creepy: Image of Obama Adorns White House Basketballs

"Part of the festivities today at the annual White House Easter egg roll is a basketball challenge. The balls they’re using are adorned with the image of President Obama. It’s pretty creepy if you ask me. Jake Tapper has the report, but doesn’t mention who paid for these basketballs."

• H/T White House Dossier
• Update – Linked by The Other McCain – thanks, Smitty!
• Update: Linked by Lady Liberty and TOM’s Live at Five – thanks!
• Update: Scared Monkeys linked and has video of Obama shooting and missing with his strange balls.
• Update: Linked by Say Anything – thanks!

And  I thought Bill Clinton was self-absorbed!

My week of buying only Israeli goods

Odd, that this excellent article is in an anti-Israel site, devoted to boycotting all things Israeli. Their reasons for publishing it in their site? Here is their logic:

We thought we would include this article because in a way its a vindication of our research, that even our enemies have come to rely on it. Hopefully it will encourage our friends in the pro-justice camp, be they Muslims or non-Muslims, to make use of our research in the fight for justice.

Alex Kasriel, Jewish Chronicle  "Trades union Unison recently passed a motion to boycott Israeli goods until the country withdraws to its 1967 borders. It also proposed that the UK ends trade agreements with Israel. Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre chief executive Lorna Fitzsimons argued: “The whole thrust of rebuilding Israel and a new state of Palestine is about economic engagement, economic reconstruction. The area needs investment…”
"If she is right, we should all be embracing Israeli produce. So, in a symbolic act of defiance, I have pledged to use only goods produced by the companies the boycotters would have us avoid."

Want to support Israel? This article can lead you to many Israeli products you may not have known about. You should know that Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News invests in Israeli products.

FLASHBACK: Clinton in ‘96: ‘I Have Long Opposed Governmental Recognition of Same-Gender Marriages’

toonpool

CNS News  "Former President Bill Clinton, writing in an op ed in the Washington Post last month, said that he signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 1996 because it would stave off efforts to amend the U.S.
Constitution to limit marriage to the union of one man and one woman."

That settles it. If Bill said it, it must be true. Depending on what "it" means, of course.

Breitbart on The Cult of Cesar Chavez

Big Government   "Time and again, the left is shocked when the freedom and prosperity-hating personalities that they idolize and the statist systems that they dream up descend into chaos, madness, and violence. As shown in the Stephen K. Bannon film Occupy Unmasked, the peace and love movement of the 1960s supported the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge, while Occupy Wall Street invariably became the Black Bloc rioters running though city streets and breaking windows.

"Given the documented trajectory of "well-meaning" leftist movements and their leaders, it should come as no surprise that the ugly truth about Cesar Chavez is just starting to seep into the public consciousness twenty years after his death."
....
But catch this:
"Obviously, the biggest impact of Chavez has been on the presidency of Barack Obama. On the Huffington Post, Chavez biographer Randy Shaw said that the Chavez organizing and fundraising tactics “are an integral part of the Obama campaign.”

TheComicalConservative

"Three states celebrate Cesar Chavez Day as an official holiday. In 2011, President Barack Obama issued a proclamation declaring March 31st “Cesar Chavez Day.” Let’s hope that people begin to learn the truth about Cesar Chavez, the false god that Google chose to celebrate on Easter Sunday." 

Not an April Fools’ joke: Obama announces National Financial Capability Month

The TEA Party

By Jim Treacher at the Daily Caller  Is this irony, hubris or just plain obtuseness?

CNS News:

President Barack Obama, who has increased the national debt by $53,377 per household, has proclaimed April “National Financial Capability Month,” during which his administration will do things such as teach young people “how to budget responsibly.”
“I call upon all Americans to observe this month with programs and activities to improve their understanding of financial principles and practices,” Obama said in an official proclamation released Friday…
The president is required by law to submit a budget proposal for the next fiscal year by the first Monday in February.

Here is the video that I expect to go viral as a symbol of the entire Obama administration: