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Clearing the Browser Tabs – The Cain Train Goes Turbo-Powered Friday Edition Posted: 13 May 2011 03:10 AM PDT Robert Costa, over at NRO, wrote a lengthy article on Herman Cain yesterday. If you don’t know much about him, his piece will give you a solid introduction. I couldn’t help but notice that a number of commenters there brought up the whole elected office thing. If they’d listened to this week’s episode of The Delivery, they’d have at least heard an argument for why that doesn’t matter. And these days, folks seem to be amenable to the argument. And now, links! What the federal government is doing to Boeing is simply criminal. We should never allow any government agency to do thug work for labor unions or any other group. Heads need to roll. I’m not sure why means-testing for Social Security and Medicare hasn’t already happened. It makes a ton of sense. Shouldn’t a Senate candidate have a pretty good idea how big our national debt is? Of course Paul Ryan’s “stock has taken a hit”. Anytime a politician lays a solid policy on the table, the naysayers are going to attack. Some of those attacks will score, fair or not. I’d bet that Ryan will end up far better than, say, the President, who has yet to put out a serious budget proposal. Bertha Lewis, former head shill for ACORN and proud socialist, sings about as well as she understand what makes the United States work. We really should hear more from Dr. Oscar Biscet. That we do not — that the progressives who proclaim piously how much they desire human rights for all studiously ignore his very existence — is a black mark on our nation. When did C. Montgomery Burns take over the Daytime Emmys? At this point, I don’t think there’s anything Ron Paul can say that would dissuade his faithful minions. Reasonable people, on the other hand, can finally wash their hands of him.

Major Chunk of Obamacare Spit Out by Health Care Providers Posted: 12 May 2011 01:21 PM PDT So much for the Presidential promise that his shiny new Obamacare milkshake would bring all the health care providers to the yard. President Barack Obama’s main idea for getting quality health care at less cost was in jeopardy Wednesday after key medical providers called his administration’s initial blueprint so complex it’s unworkable. Just over a month ago, top officials released long-awaited draft regulations for “accountable care organizations,” networks of doctors and hospitals that would collaborate to keep Medicare patients healthier and share in the savings with taxpayers. Obama’s health care overhaul law envisioned quickly setting up hundreds of such networks around the county to lead a bottom-up reform of America’s bloated health care system. But in an unusual rebuke, an umbrella group representing premier organizations such as the Mayo Clinic wrote the administration Wednesday saying that more than 90 percent of its members would not participate, because the rules as written are so onerous it would be nearly impossible for them to succeed. Note the silly notion from the AP that the networks, designed and regulated by Washington, comprise a “bottom-up” reform. What the government is trying to do with these “accountable care organizations” is substitute a Rube Goldberg bureaucratic contraption for free market forces. It won’t work because government can’t help but be overly complex, top-heavy, and a huge wet blanket on innovation and enterprise. And that’s what the Obama administration heard from the providers they hoped would buy into their scheme. According to the survey, the health care providers almost unanimously said the President’s miracle cure is too complicated, too costly, and too hostile to business success. In other words, the criticisms many of us had of Obamacare way back before the Democrats jammed this horrid pile of totalitarian dung down our throats were entirely correct. These regulations are going to happen, by the way, whether we like them or not. They’re part of Obamacare and, until we get its repeal, we’re going to live under the dictates of a bunch of left-wing control freaks. Might as well re-light the repeal fires under your members of Congress (and your Presidential candidates, too).

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