Posted on 05/10/2011 3:31:23 PM PDT by NYer
INDIANAPOLIS, May 10, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Indiana has become the first state to cut off Planned Parenthood from taxpayer assistance because of its role in the abortion business.
Governor Mitch Daniels, a potential contender for the 2012 GOP presidential ticket, signed on Tuesday a measure to block public funds from going to organizations that perform abortions, depriving Planned Parenthood of an estimated $3 million in both state and federal funds.
According to the Associated Press, Planned Parenthood of Indiana has promised to take to federal court to seek a temporary restraining order and injunction Tuesday against the new law.
That said, the second part of my post still stands.
If that's what you want, Daniels is your man. Look at how effective he was in making the case for school choice in Indiana. Or how about his cogent arguments about why it is inappropriate for public employees to have unions?
Want another example? Look at his speaches on the new "red menace" of our debt, in support of Paul Ryan and House Republicans on entitlement reform.
There are few people out there now as articulate as Daniels when it comes to making the case for conservative solutions to our looming fiscal crisis.
Who-Ra One small step for humanity!
>>> Please tell me when you think Daniels “went McCain.” >>>
He went very McCain when he slighted talk radio (and the listeners) in his CPAC speech and went McCain again the other day when he said no Republican would be able to challenge Obama now on foreign poicy.
I like him a lot at times, but he has this knee jerk reaction to “go McCain” and not fight publicly for conservatism. I will admit he does govern better than McCain though. LIke I said, he walks the walk better than he talks the talk.
He is a cunundrum.
You have to pick your battles. Every other “social conservative” seems to be all talk and znd zero action.
Actually, he didn't do either of those things. Where are you getting your information from?
I like him a lot at times, but he has this knee jerk reaction to “go McCain” and not fight publicly for conservatism.
So decertifying all public employee unions his first day in office, fighting for and winning the most expansive school choice program in the country, and defunding Planned Parenthood somehow doesn't qualify as fighting publicly for conservatism?
Sick, and what's even sicker is that there is a chance this could happen. It's almost even odds it seems that they will get a judge more interested in following fashion than the law.
Pat Dollard’s site is a very good site! Apparently Fresno thinks so, too. ;o)
Thanks for the link. It’s nice to know that other states are joining in on the fight.
There are wars on many fronts, in many states.
I love knowing that!
Look, no reason to get sarcastic. He clearly did insult talk radio hosts and listeners by buying into the template publicly with his statements.
As for walking the walk, I clearly stated that he was an enigma in that he seemed to be a rare breed that can do that but does not talk the talk. His public statements going forward will prove him out one way or the other.
In the meantime, don’t spill your kool aid on me.
Seriously, I do not know what you are talking about. I have yet to see a single instance in which he insulted talk radio. Got a source?
>>> Seriously, I do not know what you are talking about. I have yet to see a single instance in which he insulted talk radio. Got a source? >>>
In his address to CPAC - which should be an audience that Daniels would have felt comfortable letting it all hang out at - he said that we must expand our base beyond the audiences of Rush, Sean, and Laura, etc. His context was clearly that we must “reach out” to moderates instead of boldly explaining who conservatism is right and liberalism is wrong. It was eerily the same as Obama’s “listening to Rush Limbaugh is not how you get things done.”
I heard it and it was very McCainish. I admit Daniels does not govern like McCain, but he does speak in some of the same code. And when you add that to the fact that clearly the Washington Post is hoping he’ll get the GOP nomination, it raises very red flags. He can over come it, but it will take a very aggressive rhetorical effort to make conservatives trust him.
How is that insulting to talk radio? He's just stating a fact! Conservatives can't win elections unless their base of support is larger than talk radio audiences. That's simple math! Do you honestly disagree with it?
His context was clearly that we must “reach out” to moderates instead of boldly explaining who conservatism is right and liberalism is wrong.
I watched the speach, and that's not what he said. His point was simply that we have to get moderates on board with entitlement reform, or else we will never get it passed.
Again, that is just a reality. How can you possibly disagree with it?
Are you really so obtuse to think that any conservative policy goals can be acheived without winning over some moderates?
I heard it and it was very McCainish.
Well, if reaching out to moderates or trying to expand the base is McCainish, then Reagan was McCainish.
I don’t buy for a second that Daniels was talking “simple math.” Neither does the main stream media for the record.
It was not Reaganesque at all. Reagan never reached the moderates by tamping down his conservatism or by telling conservatives they must do so and so. He attracted moderates by convincing them to come over to his side. That is not how I read Daniels.
It’s not how Rush reads him, not how Sean reads him, or how Laura reads him. Maybe you have insight they don’t. Or maybe you have kool aid they don’t.
Read the trancsript! He makes it very explict that is exactly what he is talking about!
We must be the vanguard of recovery, but we cannot do it alone. We have learned in Indiana, big change requires big majorities. We will need people who never tune in to Rush or Glenn or Laura or Sean. Who surf past C-SPAN to get to SportsCenter. Who, if they’d ever heard of CPAC, would assume it was a cruise ship accessory.
If you think that is insulting, then you don't know the meaning of the word. If you don't like that passage, please tell me what part of it you disagree with.
Al Hunt, and he interviewed Mitch Daniels.”A familiar GOP refrain in recent months has been that Barack Obama is weak on foreign policy, a multilateralist who doesn’t believe in American exceptionalism and the like. You praised Obama, as did many other Republicans, for getting bin Laden. Politically, does that take the national security issue off the table?”
DANIELS: If it does, that would be good. What we want is an effective foreign policy, and we want this — I want this president to succeed. I’m very pleased for him and his team at that one victory, and I hope it’s followed by many more. If it is, that’s a great thing for the country.
In other words, Daniels hopes Obama succeeds. In other words, screw Rush and his “I hope he fails” message.
...oh, and there’s more from HARD RIGHT (cough) Mitch:
DANIELS: We need a lot more revenues. If you take what I believe is a very flawed tax system, way too complicated, too many preferences and gimmicks in it, many of them, by the way, tilted toward upper income people —
Thats right Mitch, that’s what we need, more anti rich rhetoric. That’ll show em.
...oh, and there’s more from HARD RIGHT (cough) Mitch:
DANIELS: We need a lot more revenues. If you take what I believe is a very flawed tax system, way too complicated, too many preferences and gimmicks in it, many of them, by the way, tilted toward upper income people —
Thats right Mitch, that’s what we need, more anti rich rhetoric. That’ll show em.
This isn't the economy we're talking about or obama's efforts to create a socialist state, it's actual lives....how many American dead would you and Rush find acceptable? Is a thousand enough or too many? How about a hundred?
And wouldn't it be cool if you two got to pick out their names and then go deliver the news to their families...
It's ironic that your tagline refers to "American Thinker," given how little evidence of thought you've provided in your "analysis" of what Daniels said.
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