Archive for December, 2009
Is The Nelson Deal Constitutional?
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009Greg Abbott the Texas Attorney General will find out:
Good.
Don’t Get Pregnant While In Iraq
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009You know what? I have no patience for a female soldier who gets pregnant while on active-duty. You are a soldier. It is your job. You chose this job. It’s called birth control. It’s called make him glove up even if you’re on birth control.
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Podcast: Steve Schippert Show On Obama’s Nefarious Executive Order & Bleh, More Health Care
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009While you’ve been diverted by the health care battle, President Obama is stealthily giving away the Republic. Why?
Dr. Melissa Clouthier, Clyde Middleton, and Jimmie Bise join Steve to discuss healthcare, national security, and the latest information on the President’s executive order regarding Interpol.
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Obama’s Executive Order That Guts Law Enforcement Ability
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009Go and read this: Obama Exempts INTERPOL From Search And Seizure On U.S. Lands
Now, if you could, explain to me WHY President Obama would do such an obviously stupid thing. There has to be a reason. What is it?
Tea Party Movement: Get Local But Be Vocal
Monday, December 21st, 2009There’s a worthwhile article over at Big Government talking about, essentially, the Tea Party movement getting involved locally:
To end the progression of large intrusive government and the progressive agenda, the TEA party must neuter the left’s farm team. City Council, County Board, Park Districts, and School Boards may not have the flash of State Representatives, State Senators or their federal partners, but, they are, indeed, perhaps more the important .
The progressives and Big Government-types have entrenched themselves into local power bases. They have expanded the role of government from the garbage man to the kindergarten teacher. They are taking us over from within, yet we can push back.
So the suggestion is to stop yelling and start working:
TEA Parties nation-wide have found that calling, writing, and showing up in person in D.C. has the same impact as a hiccup in a hurricane. After turning out thousands of citizens at rallies, overwhelming the Senate phone lines and crashing Congress’ e-mail system, our elected representatives are poised to enact the greatest expansion of government in history. The TEA Parties followed the direction of national organizations and associations. They answered the call, but were sent over the trench-line without an actual plan or support. (See, for example, Somme, Battle of) It is time for the TEA Party movement to turn inward. In the words of the age-old adage, “ All politics is local “.
Okay. Absolutely.
Still, the National Movement was NOT a waste. It is not a waste even still. That show of numbers and voice reinforced people who felt hopeless and helpless, energizing them to get involved when they go home. Not only that, they network, they get to know one another, get training, and unite to share a message with Congress.
They go home and get involved. So, it’s both. I don’t think getting involved nationally is mutually exclusive to getting involved locally. In fact, both are needed.
The Tea Party people are doing exactly what they need to be doing. They’re vocal, and now, they’re acting local. Good.
Senate Republicans: Fight! Fight Until The Bitter End
Monday, December 21st, 2009Rumor has it that the Republican Senators are thinking about yielding their time on the Senate floor so they can be home with their families for Christmas. My advice? Don’t do it. Please, please don’t do it.
Americans already feel detached from their leaders. Already Americans feel voiceless and helpless before the socialist onslaught of the Democrats. We cannot be in the Senate chambers. We cannot sit there and revolt–well, we could, but it hasn’t come to that yet.
The last line of defense is the Republicans in the Senate.
This is symbolic, you say. The vote is as good as done. The Democrats are rolling over the Republicans and the American people, a few more days matters not.
Wrong.
It matters. The American people need to know that there are people in Washington, D.C. who share their anguish at their free country slipping away. They need to hear their words voiced by their representatives.
We have a Republic, if we can keep it. That means that I can write an editorial. I can write a blog post. I can Twitter my discontent. But it takes a Senator on the Senate floor to voice my perspective; to put it on the official governing record.
Republicans staying means my vote means something. I may not be able to fight, but my elected official can fight for me.
Stay. Fight.
Looks like they are listening.
And here’s a note for all of us on the conservative side: We have witnessed a disastrous bill get passed along party lines. The Republicans held. All of them, held. We need to support our Senators and thank them for standing for the American people.
Podcast: Matt Lewis Discusses The Politics Of Health Care
Monday, December 21st, 2009What does this legislation mean for the Republican and Democrat parties? We discuss it in a jam-packed hour.
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Democrats Win, Americans Lose
Monday, December 21st, 2009It’s axiomatic that when Democrats win, the American people will suffer in some way whether it is obvious or not. In this case, the American people have pretty obviously been had. They saw it coming. The people tried to stop it. And the Democrats defied the will of the people anyway, acted without the consent of the governed, because the Democrats figure they know better than you.
And by the way, I’ll take that walking around money you have.
Michelle Malkin lists the pay-offs, bribes, extortion and money shifting. Favored states get favored treatment to avoid the very things the supporters of the bill purport the bill doesn’t do. For example, New York and Florida avoid the Medicare cuts that harm seniors. But I thought the Medicare cuts don’t harm seniors, you say. Oh, but they do. If you live in a favored state, though, you avoid the pain.
There are so many ways this bill is wrong. I’ll be taping a podcast today to discuss them. More on that later.
Podcast: Weekly Round-Up
Sunday, December 20th, 2009Wherein everything gets hashed out: Health care reform, Obama’s narcissism, climate change bombs, Twitter pathology and more.
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No holds barred edition this week. Melissa Clouthier hosts the Take That! Radio team consisting of Tabitha Hale, Molly Teichman, Art Lindsey, Clyde Middleton, and Steve Schippert. Copenhagan and Healthcare are among the topics.
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Missing The Point On Health Care Reform
Saturday, December 19th, 2009
On Twitter, in writing everywhere, one would think the Health Care Bill actually is about more people getting insurance (being forced to pay for it, anyway) and improving the health care system. The idealism on both the right and left is actually kind of heartening. The progressives want a bill to change they system. The conservatives want to preserve freedom. So, they’re fighting like cats and dogs to slay this thing. Well, the principled ones are fighting. It’s my thought that the progressives in the house will roll precisely because they have no principles.
This bill is not about health care. This fight is about giving President Obama a “historic” win.
If health care passes, but then gets repealed, the President wins. If health care passes, and Democrat Senators don’t get reelected, the President wins. If health care passes, and the House switches to Republican, the President wins. If more Americans are without health care, the President wins.
And Barack Obama thinks that when he wins, America wins. He IS the new America. He is wrong, but don’t anyone tell him that. Not that he’s listening anyway.
This bill is as empty as the President himself. It is meaningless, at this point. Everyone hates it and not because that’s what happens when big bills get passed. Everyone hates this bill because it’s the worst sort of American politics: selling out to special interests, increasing the scope and influence of government, individual mandates, covering the wrong procedures, increasing taxes, cutting care. It’s all in there. It’s vile. And still, all these “historic” provisions are meaningless because they’re all expendable.
President Obama wants to be able to say that he passed a health care bill when no one else could. The Democrats want him to be able to say that. So while a few on the hard left are frustrated because this bill is neither meaningful or actually helpful, they’ll vote for it.
This win is a win for political correctness. It’s a win for identity politics. It’s a symbolic win in servitude to the progressive agenda for decades. The Democrats know that they’re sending themselves into the wilderness over this bill. They don’t care.
President Barack Obama will sign this bill, triumphant. Sealing Barack Obama in history as The Man Who Changed America forever is the point of the health care reform bill. He did what no white man could. He did what eluded Roosevelt, Kennedy and every Democrat through time. Even if he hasn’t actually done that, he’ll look like he’s done it.
This health care bill will be a Democratic soul-killing, empty, symbolic victory and be the perfect symbolic show for the perfect symbolic President. He can say, “I won.”
And that’s the point of this bill.
Update:
Sean Trende says this bill is political suicide but this is why they don’t care:
I suspect that most of the left intuits this. That’s why the other argument you’ll see – and this is especially true of the Administration and the leadership – is that the Democrats should pass this bill because they have a chance to make history: Do something the Democrats have wanted since the Truman Administration. President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Majority Leader Reid believe that if they pass this bill, regardless of what else happens to them, they’ll have earned a place in the Democrats’ Pantheon of Great Leaders. These Democrats see universal coverage as their Holy Grail (never mind that the bill actually leaves behind millions of uninsured), it’s within reach, and they really don’t care what sort of bill they have to pass to get it. They’ll even let the press start describing them, with reason, as allies of Big Pharma to achieve the win. The train is simply running out of control at this point, and all Pelosi can do is stand at the front and repeat increasingly out-of-touch talking points about the American people wanting them to enact this bill and standing up to the insurance industry.
I don’t think they’re close to finding their Grail. I think the better analogy is probably that they’re close to their Moby Dick. And we all know what happens to Captain Ahab once he finally harpoons his white whale.
Captain Ahab went down heroic. That’s what the Dems want.
