Monthly Archives: September 2009

There is No Common Ground, Governor Jindal

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crystalballHotMES has a nice posting on a quote from Jindal.  You can read the long version here, but one of the lines from it can be paraphrased as “Let’s work with Obama on health care in a bipartisan way”.

There is no common ground, Governor Jindal.  How’s the “bipartisan” going to happen?

Obama wants a power grab and is calling it health care reform.  If he can make it a bipartisan power grab, all the better.  That way, his party gets more power and doesn’t have to own the damage they caused to do it.  He has no real intention of making health care better for anyone.

In fact, sir, has anything that Obama has done struck you as the kind of thing that would make America a more prosperous, stronger, and longer-lived nation?  I haven’t seen it.  I see debauched currency, losing face in the world, not taking the threats against us seriously, and pay-offs to special interests.

We don’t need any more Rockefellar Republicans.  You had it right when you cut funding for ACORN and ran as a conservative.  You’ll get it right again when you start being one once more.  If you ever were one.

“Conservative Public Option” What?!

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doctorknotHere are three words I didn’t ever think I would see together:  “Conservative Public Option”.  And yet there they are, plain as day.

I’ll grant that after eight years of confusion by Bush, someone might associate the word “conservative” with liberalism.  Bush sure as heck didn’t have a problem with it.  Some people even think that might have been the idea.  But “conservative public option” is just not right.

I even know the context of the quote, which is reported at Michelle Malkin.  Yes, the plan may be a more conservative version of the full-blown public option, but it’s still a PUBLIC OPTION.  That’s socialism, folks.  The same socialism that hasn’t worked anywhere it’s been tried.  You’ll find that out for yourself if this monster of a bill passes and becomes law.  Your head will spin at how fast the rainbows and unicorns will go away.

There is no socialist utopia.  There is no “conservative public option”.  It’s just that simple.

Can We Toss Dan Rather Out Now?

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reporter2As reported by Hot Air:  An appellate court has tossed out Dan Rather’s suit against CBS.

I don’t see how the man has room to complain.  CBS had to accelerate his compensation to fire him.  In other words, he got his salary to the end of the contract before he was shown the door.  Do you think that if you had screwed up as badly at your job as he did in his that you would have been paid a lot of money before being fired?  Me either.

So my next question is:  Can we toss Dan Rather out now?

Seriously, can’t the guy just go away?  I don’t like Bush, but the report Rather gave about him that got the anchorman fired was not remotely warranted.  Furthermore, it was almost certainly deliberate.  So this guy needs to take his shattered credibility and begone.

Sarah Palin’s Memoir Coming Soon

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flag_dogSarah Palin is releasing her memoirs on her campaign with that guy what’s-his-name for the presidency in 2008.  Since she was one of the few bright lights during that time, I’m looking forward to it.  It might be nice to read the thoughts of the person doing all the heavy lifting on the Republican side back then.

She ran against Obama with some bland fellow or another who’s name escapes me at the moment.  I’m sure the AP can remember it though, and you can read their report on this here.