Ah, the classics. Ok, it isn't a classic, just a treacly pop song by Lesley Gore. But Robert Samuelson is calling the "economic stimulus" talk by politicians nothing more than lollipop politics. Because the ugly fact is that there is literally nothing that can - or should - be done to the economy that would actually work. But the politicians are arguing about what flavor lollipop to hand out with great earnestness.
Hillary is flat out wrong when she states that police deaths are going up around the country “in large measure because the bad guys have assault weapons.” As the Miami Times (which I quoted on Monday) stated a few days ago, of the 69 police officers murdered with firearms last year, only one was killed by an “assault weapon.”
All three of them want the “assault weapons ban” act back in place with Edwards saying he doesn’t think we need an AK-47 to hunt. Well thank you very much but I think I have the right to decide for myself what I’ll hunt or sport shoot with. He goes on to state that he’ll do everything in his power to get the AWB reinstated. So does Clinton.
Compared to them, Obama almost sounded moderate, yet, he is on record as supporting a complete ban on semi-automatics by civilians.
Alphecca is, obviously, a “one issue” blog but that issue is gun rights and I think we can safely rule out any of these three (I know, you’re shocked — shocked!) as becoming our candidate of choice.
That leaves the Republicans, but only two of them: Fred Thompson and Ron Paul. Thompson needs a big win in South Carolina because while the race is wide open, Giuliani and Romney could pick up a lot of states on Super Tuesday. Paul? I just don’t see it happening, much as I like many of his ideas and a call to live strictly by the Constitution.
...family ties for Obama:
http://news.bbc.co.uk./2/hi/africa/7176683.stm
Barack Obama’s Race Problem: White Liberals
Obama's spiritual mentor - Powerhouse Chicago preacher draws attention, and plenty of controversy
Countering Kerry’s Orwellian History: FReeper Review of To Set the Record Straight
Which is Broken, the Government or the People? by J.R. Dieckmann-- On the Democrat side there are three candidates who can only be described as rank amateurs with no qualifications at all for the job of president and a lot of Democrats recognize this. We have a do-nothing Senator and wife of a former president, a black inspirational speaker in his first Senate term, and a trial lawyer adept at extorting money from big business and the healthcare system. Not one of them has any management or executive experience but think they can somehow run America.
| Governor Set On Universal Care (NM-Richardson health plan, blasts greedy Doctors)--Fisked: |
* Health care is a basic human right.
No it is not. Health care is about choices. Choices that will be restricted or taken away by government mandated health care.
* Universal health care is doable this year and it won't break the bank.
Of course it will break your bank. It has everywhere else it is tried.
* Physicians are too greedy and need to give a little.
Wage and price controls destroy the market place and quality. KMart health care is quackery.
* A so-called single-payer system is out of the question.
Which means that I have to grease the palms of my buddies in large health care coporations to ram this through.
Expert Says $150 Billion Stimulus Needed--Honestly, the more these people talk about fixes, the more they scare me. Frankly, I think they are shortsighted idiots who will do anything, regardles of the consequences, to push the day of reckoning off just one more election cycle.
I will probably get flamed for this, but lately I’ve been thinking that maybe a long, deep recession is just what this country needs. Not that I relish economic misery, but I suspect decades of economic prosperity has made us lazy, spoiled, foolish, and (yes) increasingly liberal. We need some pain to wake us out of our stupor. 9/11 did it for a while, but then we backslid with a vengence.
Not to mention that I think the financial genuises on Wall Street have been/are doing tremendous economic harm to this country. The subprime crisis is the first harbinger of many others. For the last three decades we have sat back as we have exported jobs, technology, and wealth. Now our competitors have all our $$ and most of us (not to mention the Government) are in debt up to our eyeballs.
