We no longer have to make the case for the Israelis in the recent turn of events.
Let’s move on. Moving on may mean moving sideways, perhaps even backwards. We refer of course to Barak “Deer-In-The-Headlights” Obama. Or have we been a tad hasty? “Give the guy a chance,” some say.
OK. Let’s be fair, objective; let’s shed any party affiliation for a moment; it won’t kill us. Let’s, both sides, have the courage to self assess. Just like our conversation at the nursery - there is respect, there is listening, there is in some cases reappraisal, some growth, both parties, both left and right. Let’s give it a go here.
It’s easy to sit in the cheap seats and take shots at the guy in the arena. Teddy told us that. We’ve seen the left do it repeatedly, something they readily admit - Bush’s library comes to mind. (Bush has read more books than any 15 of the chattering class will ever read in a lifetime.) And it was not Bush who said “nucular” or “corpseman” or “Cinco de Quatro”. Too much. But let’s take the high road.
Let’s look at the obvious - BO’s promise to change politics, to screen out the sleazy stuff; the reason perhaps most of the cool aide crowd voted for him. Well, to us he’s added to the mess. Are we wrong? He’s violated a major commandment of his campaign. A mortal sin. Isn’t this true? Didn’t BO just offer two Dem candidates jobs if they would drop out of their respective races? Yes? Although this may not be the stuff impeachment is made of, it is as Rich Lowry puts it actions, “that are remarkably ham-handed instances of the transactional, bullying politics in which Obama’s team specializes, despite working for the most sanctimonious man in America.” We all agree?
Or what about race? BO promised a post racial era. That was a farce. No? Recall the good rev Wright, recall “typical” white people, those who “cling” to guns and religion; recall police who in racial stereotyping act “stupidly.” How about BO’s guy Van Jones’s racist remarks; how about Holder’s “cowards” smear and Sotomayor’s lectures about the superiority of a “wise Latina?” Had enough? Know what? BO does not like whites nor Christians. Think that is a crude statement, not pr? Well, we happened to read his book, Audacity of Hope (horribly edited we might add). We do recall one line which goes as follows: “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
A comforting thought.
Finally, we post a comment received on the last blog,from one CL: "Liberalism seems closely linked to alcoholism in that it's a disease of denial. One indicator of this is the reaction you get when you try to help either type of person with the facts or objective realities of their condition - congnitive dissonance erupts fanned by emotional fury." Indeed.
Robert Craven
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Whiner-In-Chief
We noted early on that BO does not understand America or Americans. How could he, restricted to the faculty lounge crowd, mixed in with the Chicago machine? But that’s ok, he was elected anyway. “Was” elected. Not a chance now as most of his flock see that they have been fleeced.
What is it that really bothers these types? They’ve got plenty of faults - a dismal lack of scholarship of current events is one of them; a complete lack of sense of history another, yet even they, handicapped as they are can’t stomach whiners. They’ve just realized they’ve elected one.
BO complains incessantly about what Fox, Rush, Republicans, others say about him. He gets upset when his bogus facts are challenged - health, C-SPAN, transparency and bipartisanship. He figures the dark side is after him and wants all of us to believe it.
Peter Wehner points out in a recent article that at a fund-raising event for Boxer, BO whined as follows: “Let’s face it. This has been the toughest year and a half since any year and a half since the 1930's.” What?!
Read this my friends, those of you who may have pulled the trigger for this clown. Now think back. Worse that Dec /7/1941? No? Yes? Worse than what Reagan faced after Carter? Worse than ‘68, with Bobby Kennedy and King both dead, turmoil on the streets? My, my. Worse than what FDR faced when he nearly single handedly provided support for the Brits? Worse than what Truman faced after the war? No? Yes?
Wehner notes that in his autobiography "Present at the Creation," Dean Acheson wrote about the immensity of the task the Truman administration faced after war ended in 1945, which "only slowly revealed itself. As it did so, it began to appear as just a bit less formidable than that described in the first chapter of Genesis. That was to create a world out of chaos; ours, to create half a world, a free half, out of the same material without blowing the whole to pieces in the process." Oh, thank you Dean, forgot all about that.
Come on. This Obama guy, this self-indulgent little man thinks he’s got it tough?
Robert Craven
What is it that really bothers these types? They’ve got plenty of faults - a dismal lack of scholarship of current events is one of them; a complete lack of sense of history another, yet even they, handicapped as they are can’t stomach whiners. They’ve just realized they’ve elected one.
BO complains incessantly about what Fox, Rush, Republicans, others say about him. He gets upset when his bogus facts are challenged - health, C-SPAN, transparency and bipartisanship. He figures the dark side is after him and wants all of us to believe it.
Peter Wehner points out in a recent article that at a fund-raising event for Boxer, BO whined as follows: “Let’s face it. This has been the toughest year and a half since any year and a half since the 1930's.” What?!
Read this my friends, those of you who may have pulled the trigger for this clown. Now think back. Worse that Dec /7/1941? No? Yes? Worse than what Reagan faced after Carter? Worse than ‘68, with Bobby Kennedy and King both dead, turmoil on the streets? My, my. Worse than what FDR faced when he nearly single handedly provided support for the Brits? Worse than what Truman faced after the war? No? Yes?
Wehner notes that in his autobiography "Present at the Creation," Dean Acheson wrote about the immensity of the task the Truman administration faced after war ended in 1945, which "only slowly revealed itself. As it did so, it began to appear as just a bit less formidable than that described in the first chapter of Genesis. That was to create a world out of chaos; ours, to create half a world, a free half, out of the same material without blowing the whole to pieces in the process." Oh, thank you Dean, forgot all about that.
Come on. This Obama guy, this self-indulgent little man thinks he’s got it tough?
Robert Craven
Nowhere To Hide
Listening to Obama in the Rose Garden we must admit to a moral lapse in the man, something which cheers many of his detractors but simply saddens those of us who look to the interests of America before politics.
As Peggy Noonan observed, "When you try to dodge ownership of a problem, when you try to hide from responsibility, life will give you ownership and responsibility the hard way."
Obama, deer-in-the-headlights fashion blamed the oil mess on Bush by noting that, "...these problems have been around for a decade or more..." The fact is that is was bo's Interior Dept which gave BP a "categorical" environmental exemption in '09. Obama administration officials last year short-circuited the process; thus Transocean and BP drilled this well without full environmental and safety review. Oh, that.
In Obama we have an individual ill equipped to do most anything except talk and seek cover. Is that why his ratings are in the tank? Suppose so. Most folk, even Democrats expect a president to get things done, not spend all of his time blaming his predecessor and feeling sorry for himself.
Just for amusement's sake, let's take a look at Excuse Number One: "He's a war criminal," screech the Marin left. The favorite T-shirt of this bunch - "Bush lied / thousands died" This type, an embarrassment to normal folk. You know, if you're with friends and one of the chatterers chirps up, you move out of range to check the oil, whatever. You might have to acknowledge knowing the guy.
In fact, the day after 9-11 consensus in Congress, including that role-model-of-a-man Ted Kennedy believed Saddam was in possession of weapons of mass destruction and for the simple reason that in 1998 he gave a long list of both chemical and germ components to the UN. Was he lying? Ask the Kurds about an earlier time. He may have lied about his arsenal in 1998; that doesn't make Bush out to be a liar. And most of the left have come to understand this fact. They have also come to understand, at least most of them, that they were used, made out to be dupes.
There are plenty who still take DNC talking points to heart, just a whole lot less of them nowadays. Folks don't want to be made out to be fools, certainly not twice.
BO depended on this group's loyalty for nourishment, for his support and he courted them without fail. As the excuses grow older and the stalwarts grow fewer our dear leader finds he has nowhere to hide.
Robert Craven
As Peggy Noonan observed, "When you try to dodge ownership of a problem, when you try to hide from responsibility, life will give you ownership and responsibility the hard way."
Obama, deer-in-the-headlights fashion blamed the oil mess on Bush by noting that, "...these problems have been around for a decade or more..." The fact is that is was bo's Interior Dept which gave BP a "categorical" environmental exemption in '09. Obama administration officials last year short-circuited the process; thus Transocean and BP drilled this well without full environmental and safety review. Oh, that.
In Obama we have an individual ill equipped to do most anything except talk and seek cover. Is that why his ratings are in the tank? Suppose so. Most folk, even Democrats expect a president to get things done, not spend all of his time blaming his predecessor and feeling sorry for himself.
Just for amusement's sake, let's take a look at Excuse Number One: "He's a war criminal," screech the Marin left. The favorite T-shirt of this bunch - "Bush lied / thousands died" This type, an embarrassment to normal folk. You know, if you're with friends and one of the chatterers chirps up, you move out of range to check the oil, whatever. You might have to acknowledge knowing the guy.
In fact, the day after 9-11 consensus in Congress, including that role-model-of-a-man Ted Kennedy believed Saddam was in possession of weapons of mass destruction and for the simple reason that in 1998 he gave a long list of both chemical and germ components to the UN. Was he lying? Ask the Kurds about an earlier time. He may have lied about his arsenal in 1998; that doesn't make Bush out to be a liar. And most of the left have come to understand this fact. They have also come to understand, at least most of them, that they were used, made out to be dupes.
There are plenty who still take DNC talking points to heart, just a whole lot less of them nowadays. Folks don't want to be made out to be fools, certainly not twice.
BO depended on this group's loyalty for nourishment, for his support and he courted them without fail. As the excuses grow older and the stalwarts grow fewer our dear leader finds he has nowhere to hide.
Robert Craven
Friday, May 21, 2010
Marketing The Left
For the first time in US history an extremist group has control of the executive branch.
How can we distill this experience, secure an anchor through the noise and bullets? What then has it meant or may it mean for each of us individually, or for all of us, collectively, for our fortunes, for our children, for our security?
We think there is such an anchor. It is this - those at the helm have set out to effect a great leveling - domestically in the dilution of a meritocracy, internationally through the chiseling away at American leadership.
This is the common denominator. Are we not all impacted, or potentially impacted by this programming? We highlight examples below that demonstrate that we are. (We could just as easily highlight BO’s intentional leveling off shore - his appeasement of Syria, slap at Lebanon; his humiliating effort to appease Iran and coddle Russia while insulting Israel and ignoring our great allies in E Europe, all of which have corroded US security.)
We have examined in past blogs the now well known statist emblem in fashion with the majority. In terms most pedestrian it is this - the more government control the better. But are we at the core issue, or merely surface feeding? Is there something freighted with more horsepower, something which will give timbre and profundity to the thing? We think there is: The left cannot accept the variance of fortune which goes with free markets. They look to effect on all of us a sameness. Why? Because it sells, or did.
For example, the other day at the nursery the conversation was tagged to high Wall St salaries. "That outa be a crime," came the shout from a woman at the counter. That outburst may reflect envy, it may reflect the admission of a poor career decision but it most certainly does not reflect economic literacy. As Tom Sowell notes, "The rest of the country is not poorer by the amount of Bill Gates' fortune today and was not poorer by the amount of John D. Rockefeller's fortune a century ago. The fortunes that the sellers amassed were not a deduction from the buyers' wealth. Buyers and sellers both gained from these transactions or the transactions wouldn't have continued." Most of us understand this yet to the left it calls for a leveling. Why? Because it sells.
Or, consider Obama’s recent statement that, "... at some point, you have made enough money." There is obviously a moral bankruptcy to BO’s notion that others can decide what is good for you. Most normal people understand this but we are more interested in the core issue - the base instinct of the left to level society; it could be by the way of education; in this case, it is by the way of income (unless of course it is their income).
Another example is the health-care plan. There are those in our society who are self-insured, who are prudent and thrifty and have put away $ for medical emergencies. They don’t need insurance. They stand out as role models. And, they will be punished because of it, tamped to the level of their less prudent neighbors. These Americans must pay a yearly penalty of $695 per individual, or up to 2.5% of their income if they cannot show they have bought a gov’t insured plan; the family penalty is $347/child up to $2250 per family. Pay or go to jail.
A meritocracy is an anathema to the left. This is a true thing. There are always enough folk like the woman at the nursery who seek shelter, a soft vengeance against achievers; always enough who demand the easy way; it is these upon whom the left depends for its sustenance, it is these from whom operatives of the left extract their nourishment.
A land of only Trumans and Reagans and Teddy’s would mean an end to that malignancy which we know to be today’s Democratic party.
Robert Craven
How can we distill this experience, secure an anchor through the noise and bullets? What then has it meant or may it mean for each of us individually, or for all of us, collectively, for our fortunes, for our children, for our security?
We think there is such an anchor. It is this - those at the helm have set out to effect a great leveling - domestically in the dilution of a meritocracy, internationally through the chiseling away at American leadership.
This is the common denominator. Are we not all impacted, or potentially impacted by this programming? We highlight examples below that demonstrate that we are. (We could just as easily highlight BO’s intentional leveling off shore - his appeasement of Syria, slap at Lebanon; his humiliating effort to appease Iran and coddle Russia while insulting Israel and ignoring our great allies in E Europe, all of which have corroded US security.)
We have examined in past blogs the now well known statist emblem in fashion with the majority. In terms most pedestrian it is this - the more government control the better. But are we at the core issue, or merely surface feeding? Is there something freighted with more horsepower, something which will give timbre and profundity to the thing? We think there is: The left cannot accept the variance of fortune which goes with free markets. They look to effect on all of us a sameness. Why? Because it sells, or did.
For example, the other day at the nursery the conversation was tagged to high Wall St salaries. "That outa be a crime," came the shout from a woman at the counter. That outburst may reflect envy, it may reflect the admission of a poor career decision but it most certainly does not reflect economic literacy. As Tom Sowell notes, "The rest of the country is not poorer by the amount of Bill Gates' fortune today and was not poorer by the amount of John D. Rockefeller's fortune a century ago. The fortunes that the sellers amassed were not a deduction from the buyers' wealth. Buyers and sellers both gained from these transactions or the transactions wouldn't have continued." Most of us understand this yet to the left it calls for a leveling. Why? Because it sells.
Or, consider Obama’s recent statement that, "... at some point, you have made enough money." There is obviously a moral bankruptcy to BO’s notion that others can decide what is good for you. Most normal people understand this but we are more interested in the core issue - the base instinct of the left to level society; it could be by the way of education; in this case, it is by the way of income (unless of course it is their income).
Another example is the health-care plan. There are those in our society who are self-insured, who are prudent and thrifty and have put away $ for medical emergencies. They don’t need insurance. They stand out as role models. And, they will be punished because of it, tamped to the level of their less prudent neighbors. These Americans must pay a yearly penalty of $695 per individual, or up to 2.5% of their income if they cannot show they have bought a gov’t insured plan; the family penalty is $347/child up to $2250 per family. Pay or go to jail.
A meritocracy is an anathema to the left. This is a true thing. There are always enough folk like the woman at the nursery who seek shelter, a soft vengeance against achievers; always enough who demand the easy way; it is these upon whom the left depends for its sustenance, it is these from whom operatives of the left extract their nourishment.
A land of only Trumans and Reagans and Teddy’s would mean an end to that malignancy which we know to be today’s Democratic party.
Robert Craven
Monday, April 12, 2010
Simply A Nuisance
In the face of what some see as impending doom we remain optimistic. We gained reason to believe in this Country at our family reunion: character and backbone - the predominant theme there. After that gathering we were even more convinced that the current experiment in Washington is a transitory one, not something which will be institutionalized. It will prove to be a needed catharsis, not a tragedy.
We all know that the stars aligned perfectly for a radical element of US society; the far left for the first time in our lifetime gained traction; what Vic Hansen calls "faculty-lounge utopian rhetoric" became no longer just rhetoric.
Result - the dreams of a zealous few have at last become the nightmares of a once-complacent many. Good. Once sampled, these few will be rejected; there will be a great retching, a great heaving as these types are vomited up and out of America’s system.
We predicted earlier that historians will consider BO’s rise to power, his and his fellow extremists’ attempt to re-make American society, as a fluke. None under the oak that afternoon, notwithstanding party affiliation, harbor a distaste for American society, for America’s history or for America’s place in the free world as do the far left. These and others just like them will not accept this attempted heist by a few who believe they have superior wisdom and greater insight than most of us, who believe they have been ordained or anointed to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us.
Ronald Reagan observed, "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." They’ll be reminded of that in the near term. What they thought to be a revolution, a legacy will turn out to be nothing but a spark to ignite their well-deserved end as a contributing segment of society.
They will become once again, simply a nuisance.
Robert Craven
We all know that the stars aligned perfectly for a radical element of US society; the far left for the first time in our lifetime gained traction; what Vic Hansen calls "faculty-lounge utopian rhetoric" became no longer just rhetoric.
Result - the dreams of a zealous few have at last become the nightmares of a once-complacent many. Good. Once sampled, these few will be rejected; there will be a great retching, a great heaving as these types are vomited up and out of America’s system.
We predicted earlier that historians will consider BO’s rise to power, his and his fellow extremists’ attempt to re-make American society, as a fluke. None under the oak that afternoon, notwithstanding party affiliation, harbor a distaste for American society, for America’s history or for America’s place in the free world as do the far left. These and others just like them will not accept this attempted heist by a few who believe they have superior wisdom and greater insight than most of us, who believe they have been ordained or anointed to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us.
Ronald Reagan observed, "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." They’ll be reminded of that in the near term. What they thought to be a revolution, a legacy will turn out to be nothing but a spark to ignite their well-deserved end as a contributing segment of society.
They will become once again, simply a nuisance.
Robert Craven
Friday, April 9, 2010
Americans At Hare Hill
When the Constitutional Convention finished its work Ben Franklin was asked what kind of government had been decided upon. He replied, "A republic, if you can keep it." Many patriots then perceived the threat of loss, of dissolution. There was no precedence for what they had just done.
Today many of us also fear the threat to our Republic but as posed by radicals with traction in Washington. Yet perhaps we have given less credit than is due to the average American. We came upon a few just this past Easter weekend.
In the foothills of the Sierra, near where the Kings runs down to the San Joaquin Valley plain there is a special place to which generations of Yokut made their way every year in search of sustenance and shelter. So too does our family make its way each Easter season to this place, also to seek sustenance yet not by the way of the acorn and deer as did the Toihicha and Aiticha; we are gathered there for a renewal, to reflect and to share.
Fried chicken has replaced the deer, macaroni salad, the acorn; the spring water is now bottled. But just as the Yokut found an anchor at the spot we call Hare Hill so too has our family, and for six generations.
Four living generations still come to this place. Some, just yesterday it seemed seated under the grand old oak are now gone; others, scampering underfoot amongst the wild flowers, give promise.
There’s an immediate connection as we arrive and it is genuine. There is no desultory chatter, no loaded comments. Folks are eye to eye in conversation, putting the other up front and center; it’s all that warmth, care and a heart can deliver.
The Americans at Hare Hill have been dealt a hand. For most, prosperity and happiness but for others, a challenge, perhaps of the body; for a few, a recent sorrow. Yet no whining from these, no complaints as we gather.
There’s a mom, her daughter just taken from her but busy with the little ones under the oak, seeing to them and their joy, and these little ones, without knowing it delivering something to sooth her wound. There are others, recently stricken a body blow but simply inquiring into the welfare of their cousins; nothing of self absorption from them - humor and good nature, the salve of choice. And there are three of the Great Generation, one nearly silent now as he sits wrapped against the breeze, his thoughts perhaps of another time. In another time this great American flew the daring flight so that Ike might have the trigger to launch the liberation of Europe.
Strength of character is the common denominator at the reunion; it is refurbished every Easter. These are the best America has to offer. The very great and very average American was right there at Hare Hill. Just a whole lot of them, doing the best they can and doing it pretty dog gone up and walkin good - self sufficient, beholden to none, accepting life’s adventure while looking to their family’s and their country’s integrity in the bargain.
As we drove home from the Easter gathering we felt renewed, not just for ourselves and our family but for our Country. We knew then that these Americans and the many more just like them will never abandon our Founders’ ideals.
Ben, we’ll be alright.
Robert Craven
Today many of us also fear the threat to our Republic but as posed by radicals with traction in Washington. Yet perhaps we have given less credit than is due to the average American. We came upon a few just this past Easter weekend.
In the foothills of the Sierra, near where the Kings runs down to the San Joaquin Valley plain there is a special place to which generations of Yokut made their way every year in search of sustenance and shelter. So too does our family make its way each Easter season to this place, also to seek sustenance yet not by the way of the acorn and deer as did the Toihicha and Aiticha; we are gathered there for a renewal, to reflect and to share.
Fried chicken has replaced the deer, macaroni salad, the acorn; the spring water is now bottled. But just as the Yokut found an anchor at the spot we call Hare Hill so too has our family, and for six generations.
Four living generations still come to this place. Some, just yesterday it seemed seated under the grand old oak are now gone; others, scampering underfoot amongst the wild flowers, give promise.
There’s an immediate connection as we arrive and it is genuine. There is no desultory chatter, no loaded comments. Folks are eye to eye in conversation, putting the other up front and center; it’s all that warmth, care and a heart can deliver.
The Americans at Hare Hill have been dealt a hand. For most, prosperity and happiness but for others, a challenge, perhaps of the body; for a few, a recent sorrow. Yet no whining from these, no complaints as we gather.
There’s a mom, her daughter just taken from her but busy with the little ones under the oak, seeing to them and their joy, and these little ones, without knowing it delivering something to sooth her wound. There are others, recently stricken a body blow but simply inquiring into the welfare of their cousins; nothing of self absorption from them - humor and good nature, the salve of choice. And there are three of the Great Generation, one nearly silent now as he sits wrapped against the breeze, his thoughts perhaps of another time. In another time this great American flew the daring flight so that Ike might have the trigger to launch the liberation of Europe.
Strength of character is the common denominator at the reunion; it is refurbished every Easter. These are the best America has to offer. The very great and very average American was right there at Hare Hill. Just a whole lot of them, doing the best they can and doing it pretty dog gone up and walkin good - self sufficient, beholden to none, accepting life’s adventure while looking to their family’s and their country’s integrity in the bargain.
As we drove home from the Easter gathering we felt renewed, not just for ourselves and our family but for our Country. We knew then that these Americans and the many more just like them will never abandon our Founders’ ideals.
Ben, we’ll be alright.
Robert Craven
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Where Were The Republicans?
We all hear that perhaps 70% of Americans are opposed to BO’s plan. Perhaps, but we know plenty of lefties who think it’s just fine. Actually, "think" is not the correct word with reference to these poor souls. They don’t think in the sense most of us understand the word. It’s closer to a hot flash or a random blast of emotion, untethered.
Anyway, it’s curious that they claim (change of word) it’s just fine. If they cared about their own self interest and that of their family naturally they would oppose the plan. There’s something else afoot. Part of it is pure partisanship; they’d swallow more Kool Aid if the DNC called for it. Part of it is a sense of embarrassment; there’s no way they’re about to admit a major screw up, and those who continue to look for an admission of guilt just aren’t going to get it. Folks who’ve been taken by their own party may talk about it, but only behind closed doors.
BO has acted perfectly in character, yes, but we don’t think he has got all of us in a heap of trouble. This is not Greece. Even some of the Founders lost hope just after the Revolution. Don’t. Americans won’t let this thing stand. It’s true that BO’s operatives went for health as the vehicle to the promised land because they know that repeal is difficult - conventional wisdom is that once it’s done, it’s done. No, we will get free-market reforms that work.
But certainly the Republicans were asleep at the switch. Some say it is the party’s marriage to the insurance companies, just as others, us included, know that it is the Dem’s beholden to trial lawyers that kept any cost savings out of BO’s bill. For whatever reason, if the Republicans had acted early on they would have saved all of us a heck of a lot of trouble.
However, there is one flip side to the fact they didn’t, and, it’s not a bad one - the recent exercise means an end to the far left other than as an outlier, for generations to come. They 1) gained traction, 2) showed their stuff, and 3) it gagged most normal folk.
We’re optimistic for this Country.
Robert Craven
Anyway, it’s curious that they claim (change of word) it’s just fine. If they cared about their own self interest and that of their family naturally they would oppose the plan. There’s something else afoot. Part of it is pure partisanship; they’d swallow more Kool Aid if the DNC called for it. Part of it is a sense of embarrassment; there’s no way they’re about to admit a major screw up, and those who continue to look for an admission of guilt just aren’t going to get it. Folks who’ve been taken by their own party may talk about it, but only behind closed doors.
BO has acted perfectly in character, yes, but we don’t think he has got all of us in a heap of trouble. This is not Greece. Even some of the Founders lost hope just after the Revolution. Don’t. Americans won’t let this thing stand. It’s true that BO’s operatives went for health as the vehicle to the promised land because they know that repeal is difficult - conventional wisdom is that once it’s done, it’s done. No, we will get free-market reforms that work.
But certainly the Republicans were asleep at the switch. Some say it is the party’s marriage to the insurance companies, just as others, us included, know that it is the Dem’s beholden to trial lawyers that kept any cost savings out of BO’s bill. For whatever reason, if the Republicans had acted early on they would have saved all of us a heck of a lot of trouble.
However, there is one flip side to the fact they didn’t, and, it’s not a bad one - the recent exercise means an end to the far left other than as an outlier, for generations to come. They 1) gained traction, 2) showed their stuff, and 3) it gagged most normal folk.
We’re optimistic for this Country.
Robert Craven
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