Sunday, March 03, 2019
Republicans React To Push For Medicare-For-All By House Democrats: They’re ‘Totally Dishonest With The American People’ | The Daily Caller
Republicans React To Push For Medicare-For-All By House Democrats: They’re ‘Totally Dishonest With The American People’ | The Daily Caller:
Republican lawmakers painted Medicare-for-all as a socialist nightmare after Democratic Reps. Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Debbie Dingell of Michigan unveiled their bill to place virtually all health care payment in the government’s hands Wednesday.
“If I have a beef with the Medicare-for-all, they’re being totally dishonest with the American people,” Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy told reporters at a meeting Thursday. “They’re not telling people how they’re going to pay for it. They’re not telling people … that they have to, against their will, give up their employer-sponsored insurance. That Medicare is the trust fund that is going bankrupt, but we’re about to add 150 million people to it who are currently satisfied with their employer-sponsored insurance.”
“If I have a beef with the Medicare-for-all, they’re being totally dishonest with the American people,” Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy told reporters at a meeting Thursday. “They’re not telling people how they’re going to pay for it. They’re not telling people … that they have to, against their will, give up their employer-sponsored insurance. That Medicare is the trust fund that is going bankrupt, but we’re about to add 150 million people to it who are currently satisfied with their employer-sponsored insurance.”
Must read!!-----WHAT AOC, LBJ SHARE WARNS CPAC NOT TO UNDERESTIMATE HER
Instapundit Blog Archive Yes, she often talks like a lefty loon and …
"WHAT AOC, LBJ SHARE WARNS CPAC NOT TO UNDERESTIMATE HER:
Yes, she often talks like a lefty loon and maybe she is, but she shares something with the young LBJ that should give the Right pause...---Posted by Mark Tapscott "
Do read the comments!
This from the article:
"...The LBJ Example
...To the contrary, she has something in common with a young, unconventional Democratic House member who, decades ago, challenged party leaders, became the most powerful member of Congress, and ultimately made it into the Oval Office.
Currinder explained the bold move that launched Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) on that path after spending his first two years in Congress in obscurity:
...“So what happened in October 1940? Johnson made a career-changing discovery: He could use his connections with Texas oilmen to raise a lot of money for his Democratic colleagues..."
"WHAT AOC, LBJ SHARE WARNS CPAC NOT TO UNDERESTIMATE HER:
Yes, she often talks like a lefty loon and maybe she is, but she shares something with the young LBJ that should give the Right pause...---Posted by Mark Tapscott "
Do read the comments!
This from the article:"...The LBJ Example
...To the contrary, she has something in common with a young, unconventional Democratic House member who, decades ago, challenged party leaders, became the most powerful member of Congress, and ultimately made it into the Oval Office.
Currinder explained the bold move that launched Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) on that path after spending his first two years in Congress in obscurity:
...“So what happened in October 1940? Johnson made a career-changing discovery: He could use his connections with Texas oilmen to raise a lot of money for his Democratic colleagues..."
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Lest we forget-May 2015-----Bernie Sanders: Don’t Need 23 Choices of Deodorant, 18 Choices of Sneakers When Kids Are Going Hungry - Hit & Run : Reason.com
Bernie Sanders: Don’t Need 23 Choices of Deodorant, 18 Choices of Sneakers When Kids Are Going Hungry - Hit & Run : Reason.com"...Channeling his inner Hugo Chavez in an interview with CNBC, Sanders bemoaned the choice of deodorant and sneakers in this country, because children are starving. Via CNBC:
Read all."You can't just continue growth for the sake of growth in a world in which we are struggling with climate change and all kinds of environmental problems. All right? You don't necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country. I don't think the media appreciates the kind of stress that ordinary Americans are working on."
America's Second Civil War Has Already Begun
America's Second Civil War Has Already Begun:
Most of this country is center-right and never considered America a place that needed transformation. Most people can think of things they would change but few believe the nation needs to be torn down and rebuilt. Obama failed but the left soldiers on in its quest for a new America remade in their own image.
When Obama went on his world apology tour, he wasn’t apologizing for America, he was apologizing for Americans. This is the essence of this second civil war. Leftists are demi-gods who believe they are America and that anyone who does not believe in them cannot lay legitimate claim to this country as their own.
Yes, this war has begun. The opening skirmish was the Obama presidency itself, which history will see as a failure, despite what the media want us to believe in the here and now.
When Obama went on his world apology tour, he wasn’t apologizing for America, he was apologizing for Americans. This is the essence of this second civil war. Leftists are demi-gods who believe they are America and that anyone who does not believe in them cannot lay legitimate claim to this country as their own.
Yes, this war has begun. The opening skirmish was the Obama presidency itself, which history will see as a failure, despite what the media want us to believe in the here and now.
I'll tell you what happened. Progressivism. Progessivism happened.
"I've noticed that the AOC lovers are touting her credentials of intelligence - and if accurate, I will admit that they are pretty impressive.
Per Wikipedia:
- [In high school] She came second in the Microbiology category of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a microbiology research project on the effect of antioxidants on the lifespan of the nematode C. elegans.[21]
- In a show of appreciation for her efforts, the International Astronomical Union named a small asteroid after her: 23238 Ocasio-Cortez.[22][23]
- In high school, she took part in the National Hispanic Institute's Lorenzo de Zavala (LDZ) Youth Legislative Session.
- She later became the LDZ Secretary of State while she attended Boston University.
- Ocasio-Cortez had a John F. Lopez Fellowship.[24]
- In 2008, while Ocasio-Cortez was a sophomore at Boston University, her father died of lung cancer.[25][26]
- During college, she served as an intern in the immigration office during the final year of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy's tenure.[27]
- She graduated cum laude from Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences in 2011, majoring in international relations and economics.[24][28][29]"
OK.
If that is her record, that is her record.
Progessivism happened.
Progressivism is like Alzheimer's, it causes people to believe things that aren't true and see things that aren't there.
I disagree with her politics but for a young person, that sure seems to be impressive.
I'll give her full credit for what she did.
Given that she has made some pretty stupid statements and seems ignorant of how things work, even to the point of questioning whether she attended her econ classes, the question really should be, "With those achievements and credentials, what happened?"
I'll tell you what happened.
Progressivism.
Given that she has made some pretty stupid statements and seems ignorant of how things work, even to the point of questioning whether she attended her econ classes, the question really should be, "With those achievements and credentials, what happened?"
I'll tell you what happened.
Progressivism.
Progessivism happened.Progressivism is like Alzheimer's, it causes people to believe things that aren't true and see things that aren't there.
It atrophies the entire left side of the brain (the center of logic and reason) and reduces the activity in the frontal cortex (where complex thinking is done) and inflames the right side (the emotions).
AOC might well have gotten off to a solid start in high school, but she is prima facie evidence of what progressivism does to a young mind."
AOC might well have gotten off to a solid start in high school, but she is prima facie evidence of what progressivism does to a young mind."
But wait!
There's more!!
From the Comments:
- Eileen Priest Then why was she bartending? I know that bartenders can make good money especially tips but why didn't some Fortune 500 company grab AOC to score diversity points?
- Craig Werner There is also another clarification. By saying her degree is in "International Relations and Economics" most people assume that it is a double major in "International Relations" and "Economics." No, the economics courses that she took were not in the Economics dept, but in the International Relations program, more international economics, not as rigorous as formal economics courses.
- Rick Pisciotta Hmmmmm... yet, she was a bar tender prior to running for office. Granted, an attractive female bar tender can clean up big time at the right bars, given her supposed ultra intelligence and achievement, she should have been recruited to many a company, especially given her "diversity" attribute. Something about this smells fishy.
- Paul Weiss Like many of her peers (and those who taught them), she is highly credentialed and still uneducated.
- Brian Terwilliger Yet the best job she could get after college was bartender. Sounds like a lot of grade inflation, participation trophies and unearned accolades that were exposed in job interviews as no one wanted her.
History for March 3
History for March 3 - On-This-Day.com
Alexander Graham Bell 1847, Matthew Ridgway 1895, Jean Harlow 1911
Jackie Joyner-Kersee 1962 - Olympic track and field gold medalist, David Faustino 1974 - Actor ("Married With Children"), Jessica Biel 1982 - Actress ("7th Heaven")
1952 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld New York's Feinberg Law that banned Communist teachers in the U.S.
Saturday, March 02, 2019
Ben Carson on Abortion: Some Think It Is Okay to Murder Babies
Ben Carson on Abortion: Some Think It Is Okay to Murder Babies:
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson spoke at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday in National Harbor, Maryland, about his career as a neurosurgeon, including operating on prematurely born infants and even babies still in the mother’s womb.
“I can guarantee you they can feel,” Carson said. “They can react.”
“You have to give them anesthesia if you’re going to cut them, believe me,” Carson said. “But they can also respond to comfort and to warmth.”
“I can guarantee you they can feel,” Carson said. “They can react.”
“You have to give them anesthesia if you’re going to cut them, believe me,” Carson said. “But they can also respond to comfort and to warmth.”
Olympics to allow transgender athletes to compete without gender reassignment surgery
Live Blog | March 1, 2019 01:48:28 | PJ Media--
STEPHEN GREEN
...And now the IOC has gone and ruined whatever was left of the women's events with this one stupid decision.
STEPHEN GREEN
Olympics to allow transgender athletes to compete without gender reassignment surgery
The Olympics are dead
What a shame."
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Media bias? Check out two 'news' items in the same subject
Media bias? Check out two 'news' items in the same subject
"This goes beyond the "glass half-full, glass half-empty" metaphor.
Apparently, there really are two alternative universes.
Check out two articles on economic growth.
"This goes beyond the "glass half-full, glass half-empty" metaphor.
Apparently, there really are two alternative universes.
Check out two articles on economic growth.
- The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board writes:
Thank You, Tax ReformThe American economy is a tremendous engine of prosperity when politicians get out of the way, and for proof look no further than Thursday's report on fourth-quarter growth. It's clearer than ever that business investment has rescued the U.S. economy by shifting into a higher gear. Tax reform and deregulation, take a bow.Growth in the fourth quarter came in higher than expected at 2.6% after a December financial-market scare, and the internals were better than the top line. Consumer spending declined a bit but was still strong. Growth from government spending was negligible — so much for claims of a deficit-led boom in "demand."The best news was business investment, which contributed 0.69-percentage points to GDP growth. This is even better than it looks because housing subtracted 0.14. Housing has now been flat or worse for most of the last two years, but that may be a silver lining.This means the expansion isn't marked now by ever-rising housing prices, which means growth hasn't been driven by unsustainable home building. If interest rates don't keep rising, and assuming the labor market stays strong, the housing market should return to modest growth.
Wow! That sounds great!
With data like this, everyone must be happy.
With data like this, everyone must be happy.
Trump and GOP promised economic growth much better than Obama's. That's not what happenedPresident Donald Trump's central claim about his economic policies officially crashed into reality on Thursday.Throughout the 2016 campaign and since, the president and his party have vowed to kick-start tepid Obama-era economic growth. Specifically, they insisted tax cuts and deregulation would return growth to its post-World War II average of 3 percent — a level, candidate Trump said derisively, that President Barack Obama became "the first president in modern history" never to reach in a single year.New government data on Thursday morning show that Trump, too, has failed to reach the 3 percent promised land, according to one major metric. The Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis measured 2018 growth at 2.9 percent, matching the peak Obama enjoyed in 2015.
I guess Harwood thinks record low unemployment, rising average wages, and other indicators of major prosperity are meaningless.
In his universe, nobody is better off than under Obama."
In his universe, nobody is better off than under Obama."
Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows refer Michael Cohen to Justice Department for perjury - Washington Times
Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows refer Michael Cohen to Justice Department for perjury - Washington Times:
Two of President Trump’s strongest House allies on Thursday urged the Department of Justice to investigate Michael Cohen for perjury, accusing the president’s former attorney of intentionally lying to Congress during his Wednesday appearance before the House Oversight Committee.
GOP Reps. Jim Jordan, Ohio, and Mark Meadows, North Carolina, sent the letter to Attorney General William P. Barr.
“In sum, Mr. Cohen’s testimony … was a spectacular and brazen attempt to knowing and willfully testify falsely and fictitiously to numerous material facts,” they wrote. “His testimony included intentionally false statements designed to make himself look better before a national stage.”
Last year, Cohen was sentenced to three years in a federal prison for lying to Congress in 2017.
GOP Reps. Jim Jordan, Ohio, and Mark Meadows, North Carolina, sent the letter to Attorney General William P. Barr.
“In sum, Mr. Cohen’s testimony … was a spectacular and brazen attempt to knowing and willfully testify falsely and fictitiously to numerous material facts,” they wrote. “His testimony included intentionally false statements designed to make himself look better before a national stage.”
Last year, Cohen was sentenced to three years in a federal prison for lying to Congress in 2017.
San Fran bigots!-----� GREAT MOMENTS IN COVER STORIES: High-end coffee company Blue Bottle will ban cash at 12 locations…
Instapundit Blog Archive GREAT MOMENTS IN COVER STORIES
"High-end coffee company Blue Bottle will ban cash at 12 locations across the country starting on March 11 as part of a month-long experiment that aims to speed up purchases, the San Francisco Chronicle reports:
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"High-end coffee company Blue Bottle will ban cash at 12 locations across the country starting on March 11 as part of a month-long experiment that aims to speed up purchases, the San Francisco Chronicle reports:Two of Blue Bottle’s San Francisco locations, at 1355 Market St. and 2 South Park, will participate.
“Credit card transactions are smoother for both our guests and the baristas,” said Shawna Sharie, vice president of retail for Blue Bottle, which is headquartered in Oakland and majority-owned by Swiss food giant Nestlé.The move reflects a growing cashless trend across the restaurant industry, which is eager to make service more efficient. But that trend has also triggered a backlash from those who say banning cash excludes people unable to obtain credit cards or other electronic payment methods...
On Twitter, Rob Province, aka, “Educated Hillbilly” asks, “Am I a total racist for thinking this is a way to keep poor & minority customers out of their hip San Francisco coffee shop?”
Not at all.
Beyond that, as Glenn noted in December, “This is mostly a stealthy way to keep homeless people out.”
...---Posted by Ed Driscoll"Read all!
See California or New York for what happens when you subsidize poverty by offering “support” to all comers.
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Greg Harvey shared a link.
Greg Harvey shared a link.
"Let’s discuss this honestly: our Earned Income Tax Credit seeks to do the same thing as Universal Basic Income by bundling the subsidy as an incentive to those who work.
It lowers their labor rate while ensuring adequate support especially for households with dependents.
It lowers their labor rate while ensuring adequate support especially for households with dependents.
True conservatives can understand economic arguments and at least acknowledge when they work.
EITC works by assuring a worker has access by not being priced out of the labor market to acquiring and refreshing essential work skills.
EITC works by assuring a worker has access by not being priced out of the labor market to acquiring and refreshing essential work skills.
UBI? There is very little to hope for the efficacy of a direct transfer payment other than this: conservatives understand the value of block grants: it gets the federal government out of the business of determining how the states solve specific problems.
Generally less red tape is better.
Generally less red tape is better.
I do not believe UBI—anymore than food stamps—would be essentially improved by additional regulation on how it is used.
I also am skeptical of whether it is sustainable.
See California or New York for what happens when you subsidize poverty by offering “support” to all comers.
You get more comers than you could ever imagine to the point that your more valued residents become goers."
See California or New York for what happens when you subsidize poverty by offering “support” to all comers.
You get more comers than you could ever imagine to the point that your more valued residents become goers."
Average tax refund jumps to $3,100, dents Democrat claims of tax cut trickery - Washington Times
Average tax refund jumps to $3,100, dents Democrat claims of tax cut trickery - Washington Times:
The average tax refund so far this filing season is more than $3,100, the Treasury Department reported Thursday, putting things on track and denting Democrats’ claims that the 2017 tax cuts were actually hurting Americans’ wallets.
Returns are still coming in more slowly than in 2018, and not as many have been finalized by the IRS.
But the average refund is $3,143, topping last year’s $3,103.
That’s a major change from just a week ago, when the average refund was about $2,600 — and some prominent Democrats suggested the 2017 tax overhaul had backfired.
Returns are still coming in more slowly than in 2018, and not as many have been finalized by the IRS.
But the average refund is $3,143, topping last year’s $3,103.
That’s a major change from just a week ago, when the average refund was about $2,600 — and some prominent Democrats suggested the 2017 tax overhaul had backfired.
If true, BIG! Read all and the comments!-----The Migrant Mind: How Synthetic is the Keeling curve?
The Migrant Mind: How Synthetic is the Keeling curve?
While tooling around the internet, I ran into a report about an upcoming article in Geophysical Research Letters.
“To assess whether the airborne fraction is indeed increasing, Wolfgang Knorr of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol reanalyzed available atmospheric carbon dioxide and emissions data since 1850 and considers the uncertainties in the data.
In contradiction to some recent studies, he finds that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most recent five decades.
The research is published in Geophysical Research Letters.
“http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091230184221.htm
I was surprised to learn that someone thought that CO2 hadn't gone up. After all we have the famous Keeling Curve.
It has wonderful geometric beauty, and that implies a certitude about the CO2 levels.
...Clearly the Keeling curve looks artificial compared to the other stations on earth.
One could say that maybe the other researchers are simply incompetent, but that seems harsh.
Why is the Keeling curve so regular, especially since it is sitting on a volcano that occasionally spews out additional CO2?
In 40 years has not one single measurment been taken when the volcano was blowing additional CO2 towards the station?
That seems highly unlikely..."
Must read!!
“To assess whether the airborne fraction is indeed increasing, Wolfgang Knorr of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol reanalyzed available atmospheric carbon dioxide and emissions data since 1850 and considers the uncertainties in the data.
In contradiction to some recent studies, he finds that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most recent five decades.
The research is published in Geophysical Research Letters.
“http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091230184221.htm
I was surprised to learn that someone thought that CO2 hadn't gone up. After all we have the famous Keeling Curve.
It has wonderful geometric beauty, and that implies a certitude about the CO2 levels.
...Clearly the Keeling curve looks artificial compared to the other stations on earth.
One could say that maybe the other researchers are simply incompetent, but that seems harsh.
Why is the Keeling curve so regular, especially since it is sitting on a volcano that occasionally spews out additional CO2?
In 40 years has not one single measurment been taken when the volcano was blowing additional CO2 towards the station?
That seems highly unlikely..."
Must read!!
Watch: UCLA Students Support Concentration Camps For Trump Supporters
Watch: UCLA Students Support Concentration Camps For Trump Supporters
"Kaitlin Bennett went undercover at UCLA as Jenna Talia to ask students to sign a petition to throw conservatives into involuntary re-education camps.
Not only were the students she approached ecstatic to sign it, but one member of UCLA’s student government encouraged her to change the language to “diversity” and “sensitivity training” to hide their real intentions so the administration would approve it..."
"Kaitlin Bennett went undercover at UCLA as Jenna Talia to ask students to sign a petition to throw conservatives into involuntary re-education camps.
Not only were the students she approached ecstatic to sign it, but one member of UCLA’s student government encouraged her to change the language to “diversity” and “sensitivity training” to hide their real intentions so the administration would approve it..."
Lynne Patton: Michael Cohen Flipped on Trump because Mueller Threatened to Jail His Wife for 30 Years
Lynne Patton: Michael Cohen Flipped on Trump because Mueller Threatened to Jail His Wife for 30 Years
"Now this…
Lynne Patton was a dear friend with Michael Cohen at the Trump family business.
"Now this…
Conservative Treehouse posted an interesting update to this story.
Patton knew Cohen was under pressure and said in January on Facebook that Cohen flipped on Trump because Mueller threatened to jail his wife for 30 years.
Read all!Lynne Patton: […] 3) Many of you may already know that I considered Michael Cohen to be one of my very best friends. Countless people can confirm that we were virtually inseparable during my employment at Trump – and that he is, single-handedly – responsible for introducing me to the Trump family and effectively changing my entire life. I would be lying if I didn’t admit that my heart still breaks for him and for his family, with whom I had grown extremely close.
4) What many of you may not be aware of is the fact that I can personally confirm that the ONLY reason Michael Cohen “turned on” the President of the United States is because Mueller threatened to throw his wife in jail for up to 30 years. Period. She is the co-guarantor of a $20M personal loan that Mueller discovered Michael secured back in 2015 by falsely inflating the value of his taxi medallions – effectively making her part & parcel to the federal charge of “Making False Statements to a Financial Institution,” to which Cohen ultimately plead guilty. This is also the reason why Cohen’s longtime taxi medallion partner, Evgeny “Gene” Freidman, was granted immunity. (read more)...
Live on TV: The shame and disintegration of the Democratic Party
Live on TV: The shame and disintegration of the Democratic Party:
If their behavior at the Kavanaugh hearings that they engineered with a hoax accusation did not convince people of the craven unscrupulousness of the Democratic Party, the clown show Democrats put on Wednesday certainly will.
While the president is out of the country on a crucial foreign policy mission, the Democrats colluded with Tom Steyer and lowlife Clinton operative Lanny Davis to once more try to convince the public that Trump should be impeached. To that end, they brought the loathsome Michael Cohen, already convicted of lying to Congress and a host of other financial crimes, to testify to "crimes" committed by the president. Cohen admitted that he was prepped for the hearings by Trump-deranged Adam Schiff, Elijah Cummings, and Davis.
While the president is out of the country on a crucial foreign policy mission, the Democrats colluded with Tom Steyer and lowlife Clinton operative Lanny Davis to once more try to convince the public that Trump should be impeached. To that end, they brought the loathsome Michael Cohen, already convicted of lying to Congress and a host of other financial crimes, to testify to "crimes" committed by the president. Cohen admitted that he was prepped for the hearings by Trump-deranged Adam Schiff, Elijah Cummings, and Davis.
Fake hate...EVERYWHERE!!-----EVEN THE TREES ARE HATEFUL IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Instapundit Blog Archive EVEN THE TREES ARE HATEFUL IN SOUTH CAROLINA:
"...In early February, the mayor of Lamar, South Carolina observed a sticky, yellowish substance on her car and her husband’s car.
Believing it to be spray paint, she reported it to the police and issued a statement that “my husband and I refuse to be intimidated by those who perpetrated this act of vandalism which I classify as an act of hatred.”
Police, however, have determined that the substance was likely pollen.---Posted by Gail Heriot"
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