In an era of symbolic breakthroughs, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is closing in on a dubious achievement — being the least effective leader of the House in the modern era.
The 17 speakers since Longworth have mostly maintained or enhanced the power and prestige of the post, but with a train wreck taking shape in the House, Pelosi may be remembered for diminishing the office.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Striving to be the worst!
This should not be used to imply that some other woman would be a bad speaker. So far, the worst speakers of the House have all been Obamocrats (nee Democrats). Pelosi falls to the back of the pack of speakers.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
What he means, when he says; The language of Obamacare
Says: "If we do not act, 14,000 Americans will continue to lose their health insurance every single day. These are the consequences of inaction.”
Means: "Yes, We estimate that because of our new healthcare plan, 14000 Americans will lose their jobs daily, and thus their health insurance."
Says: "If we do not reform health care, your premiums and out-of-pocket costs will continue to skyrocket."
Means: "With health care reform, instead your taxes will skyrocket to offset the decline in premiums and out-of-pockets costs, by 2 to 1."
Says: "The health care legislation I am seeking will bar insurance companies from denying coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions."
Means: "Since there will be no insurance companies this is technically true; the new government insurance plan will not deny coverage, but won't provide payment for care of pre-existing conditions."
Says: "If you already have health insurance, reform means more security and stability."
Means: "Yes, security and stability for the million person army of new government employees that will be hired to regulate your new health coverage and you get the security in knowing your taxes are going up. "
Says: "Under my health care plan you will be able to keep your private health insurance."
Means: "That is until either the company goes out of business, or it needs to be renewed at which time it will be illegal to have private insurance. Oh, by the way, we will tax for you having it and then tax you again when you lose it!"
Means: "Yes, We estimate that because of our new healthcare plan, 14000 Americans will lose their jobs daily, and thus their health insurance."
Says: "If we do not reform health care, your premiums and out-of-pocket costs will continue to skyrocket."
Means: "With health care reform, instead your taxes will skyrocket to offset the decline in premiums and out-of-pockets costs, by 2 to 1."
Says: "The health care legislation I am seeking will bar insurance companies from denying coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions."
Means: "Since there will be no insurance companies this is technically true; the new government insurance plan will not deny coverage, but won't provide payment for care of pre-existing conditions."
Says: "If you already have health insurance, reform means more security and stability."
Means: "Yes, security and stability for the million person army of new government employees that will be hired to regulate your new health coverage and you get the security in knowing your taxes are going up. "
Says: "Under my health care plan you will be able to keep your private health insurance."
Means: "That is until either the company goes out of business, or it needs to be renewed at which time it will be illegal to have private insurance. Oh, by the way, we will tax for you having it and then tax you again when you lose it!"
Stealing the fruit of our hardwork
Nice summary of the payroll robbery bill moving through the House - Pelosi's adulteration of Obamacare: The Pelosi Jobs Tax,
Cornell economists Richard Burkhauser and Kosali Simon predicted in a 2007 National Bureau of Economic Research study that a payroll tax increase of about this magnitude plus the recent minimum wage increase will translate into hundreds of thousands of lost jobs for those with low wages. Pay or play schemes, says Mr. Burkauser, “wind up hurting the very low-wage workers they are supposed to help.” The CBO agrees, arguing that play or pay policies “could reduce the hiring of low-wage workers, whose wages could not fall by the full cost of health insurance or a substantial play-or-pay fee if they were close to the minimum wage.” (Emphasis mine)
Lose, Lose When You Talk About Race
Lose, Lose When You Talk About Race
President Obama and the subject of race remind me of the proverbial camel’s back and straws: the American people shrugged off “typical white person”, then forgave the clingers speech. They bristled a bit about “No more disown Rev. Wright than…” and started to become concerned about “downright mean country” and Michelle’s never before being proud of the good old U.S. Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” and self-referencing “as a Latina” ad nauseam did not help. Nor did Attorney General Holder’s slur that we were “cowards.” And now the Gates affair. Minor of course. But it is the proverbial straw that finally seems on this issue to really be breaking the back of the American people, who are not only tired of racial evocation, but tired of Barack Obama and those elites around him using race for self-serving sermonizing—especially given their former confidence in Obama to lead us to racial transcendence. So read on…Shared via AddThis
The Identity Culture
Every now and then Thomas Frank, over at the WSJ, puts out an okay column. Today's, The Gates of Political Distraction, is one of those, though he still cannot help his liberal leanings. In this column he did a pretty good job of placing the blame for the Gates' affair squarely where it belongs on Gates and the Obama. The point that is missed, though, is that the affair really doesn't have much to do with class-politics (lets face it, both the Obama and Gates are pretty low-class people). It is about race-identity politics. As long as there are Gates's and Obamas in the world there will be race politics. Gates is a professor of African-America Studies a course more useless than basket weaving. These studies courses arose out of the Civil Rights movement and have created a host of high profile professors, Gates, Cornel West and others who have recently come under scrutiny for what some might call un-professorial behavior. These courses were created to give academic credence to the victim movement. One can understanding taking a history course that traces African-Americans in America but a course that tries to explain to black people that they are black and it is whities fault - that I don't understand. Gates should apologize for being an ass, and the president should apologize for shooting his mouth off out of ignorance.
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