Posted on 09/23/2009 3:01:00 PM PDT by Syncro
LIBERAL LIES ABOUT NATIONAL HEALTH CARE, PART 5
September 23, 2009
(15) Democrats lost Congress in 1994 because President Clinton failed to pass national health care.
I'm not sure if this is another example of the left's wishful-thinking method of analysis or if they're seriously trying to trick the Blue Dog Democrats into believing it. But I gather liberals consider the 1994 argument an important point because it was on the front page of The New York Times a few weeks ago in place of a story about Van Jones or ACORN.
According to a news story by Jackie Calmes: "In 1994, Democrats' dysfunction over fulfilling a new president's campaign promise contributed to the party's loss of its 40-year dominance of Congress."
That's not the way I remember it. The way I remember it, Republicans swept Congress in 1994 not because Clinton failed to nationalize health care, but because he tried to nationalize health care. HillaryCare failed because most Americans didn't want it. (For more on this, see "ObamaCare.")
Bill Clinton had run as an old-school, moderate Democrat and then, as soon as he got elected, immediately became Che Guevara. (What is it with all our black presidents and these bait-and-switch tactics?)
Instead of pursuing "mend it, don't end it" on welfare and no "middle-class tax hike" -- as Clinton promised during the campaign -- he raised taxes, signed ridiculous gun restrictions into law, enacted "midnight basketball" as the solution to urban crime, announced that he was putting gays in the military and let Hillary run riot over health care.
But just to check my recollection, I looked up the Times' own coverage of the 1994 congressional races.
Republicans won a landslide election in 1994 based largely on the "Contract With America," which, according to the Times, promised "tax cuts, more military spending and a balanced-budget amendment." Far from complaining about Clinton incompetently failing to pass health care, the Times reported that Republicans were "unabashedly claiming credit for tying Congress up in knots."
These claims were immediately followed by ... oh, what was that word again? Now I remember ...
LANDSLIDE!
It was almost as if the voters agreed with the Republicans in opposing Clinton's risky health care scheme, then voted accordingly.
The Times' own polling showed that two-thirds of voters believed that "government should be less involved in solving national problems" -- which doesn't sound to me like voters being huffy with Clinton for failing to stage a government takeover of one-sixth of the economy.
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
In a Hail Mary pass just before the election, President Clinton pulled Hillary off the health care beat. CNN's repository of liberal cliches, Bill Schneider, reported that Clinton was trying to calm voters by "removing the most visible symbol of the liberal tilt of the last two years, which is the first lady."Read the rest at AnnCoulter.Com
Here’s Ann’s weekly column!
Ann Coulter: LIBERAL LIES ABOUT NATIONAL HEALTH CARE, PART 5 (HillaryCare II)Wow!
Part FIVE, and she's still going strong!!Go get 'em, Ann!
BTW, where are the conservative MEN in politics/commentary in these difficult times?
Well, some of them are trying to get Sarah Palin to shut up so they will look better.
Oops, that's not conservative men, that's republican politicians.
It would be nice to see some conservative men find their voices on this issue.
If only he really had...
Well, some of them are trying to get Sarah Palin to shut up so they will look better...And, the rest of them are RINOS -- or WORSE. :(
Thank God, ANN stll takes no prisioners. :o)See also, THIS recent thread:
Ann Coulter Tells Geraldo "The Democratic Party is Racist" - Video 9/20/09
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | September 20, 2009 | Michael
Posted on Sunday, September 20, 2009 9:44:50 PM by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of Ann Coulter and Al Sharpton on "Geraldo at Large" talking about Michael Steele's comments on Obama asking David Paterson not to run in 2010.
Al Sharpton said "if I had taken the position that Michael Steele took I'd be accused of playing the race card."
Ann Coulter said "the Democratic Party is racist" and used as evidence the way they have treated New York Governor David Paterson. (Video)-- snip --
To: Federalist Patriot
Annie loves to toy with these morons.
2 posted on Sunday, September 20, 2009 9:47:24 PM by Senator Goldwater-- snip --
To: Federalist Patriot
Not as good as Ann handing Bill O’Reilly his head in her "Shoot Out with Bill on Obama Health Care Speech":
http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2009/09/ann-coulter-shoots-it-out-with-bill.html
10 posted on Sunday, September 20, 2009 10:08:26 PM by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)-- snip --
To: Federalist Patriot
I saw a few minutes of this, only because Ann was on, otherwise I always change channels whenever I see Geraldo.
She chopped off his head and kicked it around the room.
He tried to talk over her, wouldn’t let her speak, and went to commercial every time she unloaded on him, and she still beat him like a rented mule.
Why Fox gives this tabloid leftie punk a show is beyond me.
28 posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 10:47:10 AM by ozzymandusCLICK HERE for the rest of that fun thread
Peter Jennings assessment of the 1994 Republican landslide....
“Some thoughts on those angry voters. Ask parents of any two-year-old and they can tell you about those temper tantrums: the stomping feet, the rolling eyes, the screaming. It’s clear that the anger controls the child and not the other way around. It’s the job of the parent to teach the child to control the anger and channel it in a positive way. Imagine a nation full of uncontrolled two-year-old rage. The voters had a temper tantrum last week....Parenting and governing don’t have to be dirty words: the nation can’t be run by an angry two-year-old.”
— ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings in his daily ABC Radio commentary, November 14.
I watched that show, and poster ozzymandus is RIGHT ON in his assessment of what happened.
Poor Racist La Raza Leftist Loser Geraldo, he does his best to not let her speak and when she does he ends up looking like a little boy who just got caught playing doctor at preschool.
I'm going to have to take a look at that thread!
Yes, Peter is dead but this this arrogance is being resurrected today in almost identical fashion by today’s lefty media gurus. The characters change but history keeps repeating.
These lefty’s didn’t say a word about civil discourse when Condy Rice was assaulted by a scary Code Pink protester in a congressional hearing room several years ago.
In addition, THIS:
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2009/09/23/hr_3200_will_collapse_global_medicine_97423.html
It's amazing how scared the leftists are of those that love America and are trying to preserve the Constitutional Republic that it is and will always be.
And Jennings is/was a Canadian.
It's interesting how he mentions the democrats characteristics...like angry two-year-olds with temper tantrums, the stomping feet, the rolling eyes, the screaming and projects them onto the republicans.
[Barney Frank reference removed so post wouldn't get pulled]
Thomas Sowell, Jonah Goldberg, Victor Davis Hansen, George Will, Charles Krauthammer .. the list goes on and on.
The guys are definitely front and center on this.
bump
Thanks, great article.
Thomas Sowell, Jonah Goldberg, Victor Davis Hansen...Well, maybe SOME of those guys, SOME of the time.
But NONE of them are on the offensive as consistently, and as aggressively as Ann is. And even then, not on ALL of our issues. ...George Will, Charles Krauthammer .. the list goes on and on.
LOL. You should have quit while you were ahead.
At least, three out of those five aren't bad.George and Charles, though, are getting to be MUCH less dependable in their support for solid conservative issues than they USED to be. :(
And, if we could just get her to ghost-write a few briefs for the well-intended (but in over her head) Orly Taitz, Ann would be even MORE perfect!
Ann Coulter Tells Hannity Passage of ObamaCare Will be the "End of the Republican Party" - Video
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:19:17 PM · by Federalist Patriot · 8 replies · 150+ views
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | September 23, 2009 | BrianinMOHere is video of Ann Coulter on with Sean Hannity tonight, where she sounded off on the United Nations speeches today, and the Democrats' determination to pass some kind of a Health Care Bill that will be the "camel nose under the tent," which she said twice, will "be the end of the Republican Party."
Coulter believes any kind of Government Health Care will be "such a game-changer" that it will obligate people to the government to the extent that the long-term impact will be people voting for Democrats...
(VIDEO)
Let me know if you'd like to be added to the Ann Coulter ping list.
I remember that quote. The arrogance of self-anointed elites knows no bounds.
They're out there: Charles Krauthamer, Thomas Sowell, Cal Thomas, Mark Steyn; they're just not as noticeable as Ann. ;)
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