Selasa, 15 November 2011

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He’s President Obama and He Approves This Geographical Revision

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 06:10 AM PST

I know our President is supposed to be the smartest man to ever inhabit the Oval Office in the history of history, but can we get a quick fact-check here?

My hope is that over the next several days, the congressional leadership on the super committee go ahead and bite the bullet and do what needs to be done — because the math won’t change. There’s no magic formula. There are no magic beans that you can toss on the ground and suddenly a bunch of money grows on trees. We got to just go ahead and do the responsible thing. And I’m prepared to sign legislation that is balanced, that solves this problem.

One other thing that I want to say about this: When I meet with world leaders, what’s striking — whether it’s in Europe or here in Asia — the kinds of fundamental reforms and changes both on the revenue side and the public pension side that other countries are having to make are so much more significant than what we need to do in order to get our books in order.

This doesn’t require radical changes to America or its way of life.

[Emphasis mine]

Actually, it kind of does, since Barack Obama gave this speech in Hawaii and I’m fairly sure that he hasn’t introduced a radical plan to reduce our debt by selling it off to China.

But hey, let’s not focus on this fumble-tongued President with the intellectual curiosity of a head of cauliflower and the college records we can’t get unless we hire Danny Ocean and his buddies. I hear that Rick Perry forgot another bullet point and Herman Cain couldn’t name the leader of Whogivesaflyingstan. I mean, the MSM and the rest of the progressive mob will be all over our peoples’ gaffes like Nancy Pelosi on an illicit stock tip, but why should that stop us from breaking out the knives and getting a few good shots in at every possible opportunity?

On the other hand, it could be an interesting to see just how unhinged the left gets when we start hurling Barack Obama’s words back at him. I’m willing to bet that he doesn’t like when people make fun of his shortcomings one little bit and he’ll make even more mistakes the more he has to step out from behind his security blanket teleprompter. The MSM still won’t jump on his gaffes, and they’ll try even harder to trip up the GOP candidates, but every time they crank out another “Can you believe what this stupid Republican said?” report, we’ll have a Barack Obama Fumble-Tongue Special to fire right back at them.

Keep that up for another year and we win. Then Hawaii can proudly take its place among the United States of America again.

(via Diane Ellis at Ricochet)

The Delivery Presents – This Is What #Caring Sounds Like

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 08:55 PM PST

I’ve never said this before, but it’s very possible that you won’t like Episode 120. My guest, Kurt Schlichter, and I jumped ugly on the Republicans in Congress and on a good chunk of the Republican electorate. This week’s show isn’t your garden-variety Sean Hannity happy-talk radio hour where we all get to feel good that we’re not quite as bad as the guy in the White House right now. This is a tough love episode.

But we need some tough love right now. We have a lot of trouble in America right now and some of it lies within our own ranks. We can do better — in fact, we have to, for our childrens’ sake — but we’re going to have to do much better than we have over the past 12 years.

So, there’s a chance you don’t like the show, but there’s also a chance you will. If you have grown as discontented as Kurt and I have with how or elected officials represent us, you’ll like what we have to say. If you believe that we continue to settle for politics we don’t want, then Kurt and I have a couple solutions for you. And if you enjoy righteous rants, well, you’ll find a couple in this hour of The Delivery.

The Delivery - Episode 120

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Here Comes the Doom: Obamacare to SCOTUS

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 01:08 PM PST

Mollie Hemingway brings the news that the Supreme Court will take up the matter of Obamacare’s Constitutionality next year. The good news is that SCOTUS will hear the case brought by the Attorneys General of Florida and 25 other states, which is the strongest of the various cases against the Democrats’ government-run health care scheme, and that the arguments will get almost 6 hours (via memeorandum). The bad news is that the matter will be ultimately decided by the courts and not by our elected officials.

Smitty thinks I’m a rank pessimist for by belief that SCOTUS will uphold Obamacare and we will be stuck with it forever. I don’t see how the courts will bounce the entire law, though. It’s possible, and perhaps even likely, that the court will strike down a provision or two as the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals did in August. That won’t be enough. Elements of Obamacare have already infested the private sector to the point where businesses have made major adjustments to how they will do business when the real government pain starts in just a year or two. Will a court that traditionally shies away from decisions that cause major upheavals be willing to undo all those provisions and force those businesses to shake things up again? I don’t see that happening. Will enough justices stand on the side of individual rights to pull the government off our backs? They didn’t with their Kelo and McConnell decisions (though the narrowly-decided Citizens’ United case could be a point against my pessimism).

Congress, especially Republicans in Congress, have squandered the best opportunity to rid us of the disastrous scheme. Public opinion ran so hot against Obamacare that it was barely more popular than scrofula. The entire state of Missouri rose up and rejected it last summer. Polls that ran in the high-50s and low-60s for repeal of Obamacare last spring and summer now only hit the mid-50s. A majority of Americans today favor a law that forces you to buy health insurance whether you want to or not and though they don’t favor any punishment if you don’t comply with the law, you can’t have a mandate without punishment. House Republicans passed a repeal law in January, but after a party-line vote against it in the Senate the effort has gone nowhere. No party leader has pushed the issue as they did last year and it appears, at least to me, that the entire strategy of “repeal and replace” has become a political tool instead of an honest attempt to spare us from the coming pain.
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