Steve Kelley cartoon via Townhall
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Monday, July 10, 2017
Saturday, July 8, 2017
Healthcare & the GOP : Pathetic Fail or Corrupt?
Michael Ramirez cartoon via U.S. News and World Report
The headline: Pat Toomey says GOP wasn't ready with healthcare ...because they didn't think
Trump would win. That’s the conclusion in this Jul-07 report by Robert
Laurie at the Canada Free Press:
For some time, I’ve been arguing that the GOP
should have had a plan to repeal ObamaCare ready - and on the President’s desk
- the week that Donald Trump took office. The ACA’s elimination should have
been a day one priority, then you could rest of the year working on healthcare
fixes and tax reform. I’ve heard a whole pile of excuses about why that
didn’t happen and I’ve never really bought any of them.
There were only two answers that made sense:
Either the GOP didn’t really want to repeal ObamaCare, or they simply dropped
the ball and we’re witnessing one of history’s worst cases of political
shortsightedness.
While I still suspect there are a lot of
Republicans who’d love nothing more than to leave the ACA in place and have the
whole issue go away, it sounds more like the GOP just ...failed.
According to [Senator] Pat Toomey (R-PA), no one bothered to ready an ObamaCare repeal
bill, because they all thought Hillary was going to be your next President.
He made the remarks during a town hall, hosted by
ABC27 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“I didn’t expect Donald Trump to win. I think most
of my colleagues didn’t. So we didn’t expect to be in this situation.
And given how difficult it is to get to a
consensus, it was hard to force that until there was a need to.”
In other words; “We could vote to repeal ObamaCare
40 times when we knew Obama wouldn’t sign the bill, but we never wasted our
time preparing for the eventuality that we might actually win the next
election.” That’s just pathetic, and it validates a lot of criticisms
that Democrats were lobbing at Republicans back during the Obama years.
It’s an admission that their healthcare votes
during the Obama administration really were just obstructionist political
theater and it suggests that they spent more time preparing for a
Hillary presidency than they spent trying to secure a victory.
Remember, they had eight years to ready
a repeal, replacement, or fix. Instead, they put on a big show, yakked
about their alleged principles, smiled at their constituents, and kicked the
can.
They squandered their time, your money, and our
collective efforts because it was easier than getting together on a solution.
No wonder they’re so despised.
My own take: When Senator Toomey admits that the GOP did not seriously prepare for the repeal of Obamacare
because they did not expect to win the House, Senate, and White House, he makes
the GOP look like fools, but that’s probably better than admitting the truth. I suspect that Laurie’s alternative is correct: the GOP
does not want to repeal Obamacare. Nearly all of the GOP, including the
so-called Freedom Caucus, are members of The UniParty, and they have already
been bought.
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Thursday, July 6, 2017
The CNN Two-Step
Image is from the PJ Media comments section
“The CNN Two-Step is a simple dance. Step One: Put your foot in your mouth. Step Two: Shoot yourself in the foot.”
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Monday, July 3, 2017
Independence Day thoughts
image credit: The History Place
Scott
Powell at the American Thinker blog reminds us:
July 4th, also known as Independence Day, is a
much more lighthearted and festive American holiday -- with cookouts, parades,
beach and boating parties and fireworks -- than other patriotic holidays such
Memorial Day or Veterans Day. Most people forget that when the 56 members of
the Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, they
were in fact signing their death warrants. At the time, Great Britain was the
most powerful nation on earth, while the thirteen American colonies were poor
and disunited. The British Crown deemed the issuance of a declaration of
independence an act of treason, which meant that all signatories would be
punishable by death.
. . .
As it turns out, the
Declaration of Independence, which we celebrate on July 4th, is not just what
gave political birth to the United States, with its unique emphasis on limited
government and the freedom for its citizens. It was these simple ideas put into
practice that also enabled the nation’s ascendance from colonial poverty to
global superpower in a little more than 200 years.
However, during the
last 50 years, America has increasingly been on a course of surrender and
retreat from the principles that made her the envy of the world for
generations. May this July 4th be a special time, perhaps a turning point,
in renewing those ideas and convictions that brought the Founders
together, which embodied a certainty that the rights of the people come from
God, and not the state. It’s not about being reactionary or turning the clock
back, but rather it’s about aligning our thinking and action with the inclusive
ideas, principles, courage, and faith that enabled prior generations of
Americans to overcome, advance and prosper more than any other people in human
history.
Read the rest here.
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Captain Luis Avila salutes his Commander-in-Chief
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OVjYRha8a0
Many Tea Party people watched President Trump’s tribute to our
veterans on the weekend run-up to Independence Day. There was one moment during
his speech that I had to re-watch, and it was the part when President Trump
paid tribute to US Army Captain Luis Avila and his wife Claudia.
Captain Avila served several tours of duty in Afghanistan and
Iraq and lost his leg in an IED attack. This man was not expected to survive. He remains largely
paralyzed, he is in a wheelchair, but just watch this short video. He can
barely move his body, and yet he struggles mightily to salute, to
literally salute, his Commander-in-Chief, President Trump (at about 1:40) and to bow in acknowledgement. It brought tears to
my eyes. He is one of many Americans who knows that we have a CiC who loves our
country and honors our veterans who defend our way of life.
God
Bless US Army Captain Luis Avila, his wife Claudia,
and President Donald J. Trump.
And Happy Independence Day.
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