Posted on 10/02/2014 12:11:24 AM PDT by Rummyfan
We're interrupting our Republican Senate 2014 Marathon this week for a brief note on the media. (But contribute to Scott Brown immediately, and please don't vote for the third-party, tea party candidate in Louisiana, right-wingers! Remember: Obamacare cannot be repealed without 66 votes in the Senate.)
I've barely been paying attention to the news, except to check Senate polls every night, because, as some of you may have noticed, I've been in the bat-cave under Swiss Guard protection, writing my next book. But based on only about an hour of media consumption a week, I've recently noticed mainstream "news" outlets telling huge whoppers, long ago disproved and forgotten.
First, this past Sunday, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof repeated the canard about guns being dangerous to their owners. A "study in the journal Injury Prevention," he wrote, "found that the purchase of a handgun was associated with 2.4 times the risk of being murdered and 6.8 times the risk of suicide."
No kidding. As a lifelong subscriber to Injury Prevention, I could have told Kristof that people who live in crime-ridden neighborhoods or who have friends or professions that increase their likelihood of being killed -- or who plan to commit suicide -- are astronomically more likely to buy handguns than people whose lifestyles do not put them at such risks.
My own study, soon to be published in Injury Prevention -- and which I expect will similarly amaze Nick Kristof! -- establishes that people in hospitals are twice as likely to die within five years as people not in hospitals. To paraphrase Kristof: People think hospitals can save their lives. Nonsense!
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
Riiight, and Obamacare cannot be repealed with 66 votes in the Senate either because Republicans will find a reason to not act.
They could have 100 votes and still decide that to stop Obama might be considered racist by some.
Since we’re right and they’re wrong, their only recourse is to lie. QED.
From the headline I though Coulter was shilling for Romney again.
Repeal it? The Republicans have been funding it via continuing resolution ever since they regained control of the House.
Talk about myths.
And maybe Ann missed this latest gem about what John McCain is saying will happen if the Republicans win the Senate: “I will work very hard to go back to 60 votes,” said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who boldly predicts a Republican Senate would process Obama’s nominees “more rapidly than [Democrats] do today.”
And as for the House: John Boehner: ‘Very Few’ Republicans Will Oppose Me
So tell me again how much better off we'll be voting for the RINOs.
Sooooooo, lets vote for purity only and lose the Senate. Just like Geraghty’s article stated, Using that non-logic, give your wife and kids the silent treatment, until they finally see how hurt you are and come over to your way of thinking. It doesn’t work, what does work is digging in and doing something. Great empires are lost from omission as much as from commission
I agree. Some people prefer political suicide at the polls.
I remember when conservatives use to rail against the Democraps and their Incrementalism, a policy that got them control of the Courts, Congress and Presidency.
Well, since we don’t see any incrementalism from the ‘Pubbies (they don’t turn things back) why should we vote for them. Our options seem to be slow suicide (’Pubbies) and fast suicide (Democrats).
There is not any silent treatment.
We have told the GOP what we want and they told us to piss off, but don’t forget to vote for us in November.
Unless there are consequences for their actions, they won’t do our bidding.
Remember Mississippi.
If a prez comes forward that won’t veto it, then only 51 votes in the senate would be required.
A self fulfilling prophesy if I ever saw one.
You will never know for sure if you are right unless the Senate gets the majority.... and of course since you have convinced yourself that Republicans need to be punished you will help insure no majority
Congratulations you have just blown your only chance to get what you want....and there are plenty of like minded people on FR these days
I agree as well..... see my comment above
Stop the negativity....our nation is at stake!
Would I rather have an Obama and his Courts, Congresses and Presidency or Reagan’s?
Reagan had to apply Incrementalism that was short circuited by the MSM and the ABCBSNBCNN Consortium, “Bush One” going back on his No Tax Promise followed by Ross Perot’s Protest candidacy.
You just don’t waste your vote, surrender and let the Democrats cut off your head. We are dealing with survival of our children now.
While most of what you say is correct, the last pat is not, “They could have 100 votes and still decide that to stop Obama might be considered racist by some.”
The real reason is they are ALL a bunch of New World Order Fascist/Socialists..
In other words they want ObamaCare as much as any of their Democrat Fascists friends.
What makes you think the ‘Pubbies are any different?
Will they pass a budget, over Obama’s veto if necessary? Stop Obama’s judicial appointees? Defund and repeal Obamacare? Secure the border and expel illegal aliens? Prevent Obama from recruiting illegal aliens in the US Military?
Somehow I don’t think so.
The ‘Pubbies are only marginally better than the Democrats, and it is a very thin margin.
I am not planning on staying home this election, but I am not happy with my choices. My choices for Senate are Nunn or Perdue. And Perdue is a US Chamber of Commerce puppet who will support Amnesty. My Tea-Party approved congresscritter recently voted for a continuing resolution that armed terrorists (”moderate” terrorists) in Syria, among other things.
2016 isn’t looking so great either. If the ‘Pubbies offer me Romney, Bush, or Christie for a presidential candidate, then to Hell with them all.
Bingo!
The last time we had (R) control in D.C.: The border was a wide as ever (Post 9/11) and we were ‘given’ the DHS, TSA, NCLB, etc.
Today, with the purse strings of the House, the (R) CONTINUE to fund D.C. and Dumbo with nary a squeak of protest.
They want MY vote? Tell me, then, just what have they done to advance Life, Liberty, Freedom and the Constitution (aside from the casual platitudes)?
I’ll vote, but it’ll be write-in or blank where I feel it needs to be so, but voting for sake of Party hasn’t gotten us anything better than the slim margin of difference.
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