Archive for 29 Oct 2009

Lies, more lies, and damned lies.

House Dems Unveil New Health Care Bill
By Michael F. Cannon

House Democrats on Thursday unveiled a new health care reform bill that is a combination of versions passed by three House committees. The bill includes a more “moderate” version of the so-called public option — health care providers would be allowed to negotiate reimbursement rates with the federal government. Cato scholar Michael D. Tanner comments, “Regardless of how much lipstick they put on this pig, it still is a government takeover of the health care system that would all but eliminate private insurance and force millions of Americans into a government-run system. “

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There is a referendum. It’s just not the one the Democrats thought it would be.

The American people want less government, lower taxes, liberty, secure borders, a balanced budget, and for the government to stay within the Constitution. In other words, the majority of Americans are conservative.

The liberal buffoons in congress are about to find out just how conservative America is. 2010 is right around the corner. This one term president will be out on his ass in 2012.

Crafting a Conservative, Constitutional Majority: Lessons from BHO
By Blue Collar Muse

Two headlines jumped out at me this morning as I browsed my usual stops on the information superhighway.  The first was the results of the most recent Gallup Poll indicating that more Americans identify themselves as Conservative than identify themselves as Liberal. The second was the results of a WSJ/NBC poll showing, for the first time, a majority of Americans say “the U.S. is headed down the wrong track.”

Even in light of the inherent weaknesses in polling and the legitimate arguments available that a poll is merely a snapshot of the country at the time of the poll and things can and do change, these results seem to say a few things to me and hopefully to the GOP.  These poll results are not merely a picture of what the country is thinking about today.  They are a picture of what the country thinks about what the Obama administration and the Democratic majority has actually done and how that relates to what they believe about the country and themselves.  In short,  it is a mini-referendum on the last 9 months of “Yes, we can!”

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