C U R A H E E!!!

Stand Alone!

Conservatives can use children too

Yesterday I posted about a 9 year old boy who was being used to push a political point-of-view.

Today I feature a whole classroom doing the same thing from the other side.

"Because then everybody can be happy."

Little Willy Jones provided the opening line for today's post. He made this comment connected with his participation in the nation's first full public read-through of the health care bill in Scranton PA, which only took 15 hours, not 2 days. Apparently this precocious 9 year old didn't need two lawyers to understand the health reform plan better than Congressman Conyers (D-Huh?) as he stated that it's passage will assure that "everybody can be happy."

Willy may have a future in Congress!

15 hours is about what I have been working every day to help President Obama succeed in creating jobs, so I haven't had time to post (or really even read the news). But the furor over the President speaking to all the public school children (and many private schools too) about doing better in school (and my wife's commentary - she homeschools our 6 children) got me thinking.

Why is everyone so upset that the head of the government would speak at the government schools? If the government is paying for their education, why shouldn't the head of the government speak to his students? It's what the White House wants teachers do with the students before and after the speech that I'm interested in.

The Specter of defeat

Senator Specter will not have any trouble with debates in 2010 because he will be able to debate himself on just about every issue.

Lollipops and Unicorns

Congressman Carney hosted his 33rd town hall today in a hot fire hall in Dickson City. After almost breaking his arm patting himself on the back for being a fiscally conservative Blue Dog that slowed down the bill so we could "debate" it, he continued his unbroken record of promising everyone everything they want and never talking about specifically how we are going to pay for anything.

He has this neat technique where he allows people to vent while he nods and grins approvingly. Then he picks out some non-issue to agree with them on and asks for the next question.

No confrontation of the tough issues. No real answers. Nothing on the record.

Given his abysmal performance in the only debate in the last election,

this may seem like a sound strategy, but the audience wasn't buying it. I heard several people on the way out observe that, while they admire his courage to come and face an angry crowd, they still had no idea what Carney stood for.

The perfect "moderate". All smiles. No substance.

Carney did give some insight into the rationale Nancy Pelosi told him to use to explain his eventual support for government run healthcare. He tried to focus attention on the unsustainable nature of the current inflationary costs of care and then said if the insurance companies don't solve the affordability and transportability issues, the government would be forced to step in and solve the problem.

He evoked involuntary laughter when his promise to one woman that disabled children would not be denied health care in a government-run system led her to ask "How much care would be provided to disabled children?". Carney's response? ..."to whatever you need."

Really? No limits? Lollipops and Unicorns for everyone!

President Obama has the courage to tell grandma to take a pill, but look where that has gotten him.

He did the same kind of happy evading on illegal immigrants by saying the bill specifically denies care to illegals but never addressed what would happen when the President grants amnesty next year. Mr. Carney is one of the best at playing both sides against the middle, but he better be very careful on that fence because the "middle" is getting very small indeed.

The strongest crowd reactions occured when someone derided Carney for voting in the "crazy" Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and when someone else said lawyers were the problem.

My number did not get picked, but if it had I would have liked to know who is going to feed the Unicorns. I hear they have quite an appetite.

AARP oops?

I thought AARP said they were not supporting ObamaCare



Sure looks like support to me. But what do I know, misinformed stooge that I am.

The corners are going to come up.

Congressman Mike Roger's exposes the false choice being presented in Congress right now.

We need to have an honest discussion about reforming our healthcare financing.