Health Care Crossroads

Campus Report ^ | June 29, 2009 | Anthony Kang

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Health Care Crossroads

by: Anthony Kang, June 29, 2009

Citing the recent failure of a Republican-supported amendment which, among, other things, outlaws cost-analysis or “placing a dollar amount on a person’s life out of rationing purposes as another indication of where this nation’s headed to with President Obama,” U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) advised Bloggers Briefing attendees at the Heritage Foundation on June 23 that networking activism and education by conservative bloggers has never been quite as imperative. Furthermore, the Senator from Texas expounded upon how technology may be the decisive factor for 2010 election outcomes. Recalling the time when the power and influence of blogging was first displayed to him during “Rathergate,” Senator Cornyn believes the tools of Twitter, Facebook, and mobile-texting are crucial to any plausible chance the Republicans may have in winning the swing-states of Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Colorado, and Nevada in 2010.

Bloggers regularly meet at the Heritage locale to receive briefings from newsmakers. Consequently, a substantively-challenged message by Obama was not a shock to most attendees at the briefing, but several voiced agreement that it is nonetheless crucial to blog about the presidential news conference and specify why it offered another bone without its meat. “It goes without saying (that) President Obama carries a great gift for rhetoric. He’s good at making broad 30,000-feet statements but when it comes to putting in actual work it looks like he wants nothing to do with it,” Cornyn said about Obama’s recent speech on healthcare reform....