The “radical” Bob McDonnell

The outrage, the uproar, the audacity of Bob McDonnell!    Supporting traditional marriage and the traditional family??  We know that it is so unacceptable today and, in fact, the biggest “crime” ……intolerance! 

Only problem…..most people agree with him!  I challenge you to read his thesis.  Completely..in context!  Including the quotes from Ronald Reagan (what a radical he was!)

Read it here.

Dirty Deeds…….done dirt (real) cheap!

As Captain Hook said to Peter Pan “Bad Form”

Too bad Senator Webb and Warner can find just a few hours during the August recess to meet with constituents about healthcare reform.  Senator Webb’s form letter is in bad form.

1. “During the coming weeks, I will be carefully examining the reform proposals currently on the table.”  
    
   Good to see he will be reading the bill.  I doubt he read this form letter. Although he says congress will use the recess to “hear from interested citizens.” Really? I’m not holding my breath. 
   
2. “I have stated on several occasions my concerns that the Obama administration should have begun the process with a clear proposal that could have been the starting point for the work of the five separate congressional committees charged with responsibility for this issue.”

Looks like the good Senator is critical of President Obama’s leadership.  He apparently thinks he is incompetent.  Maybe someone should tell the Senator how his FORM letter is being read? 

1. “Currently in the Senate, two committees have jurisdiction over health care – the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and the Finance Committee.  The HELP Committee has completed work on a health reform bill, the Affordable Health Choices Act.  This bill aspires to significant reforms in the health insurance market, including provisions to prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.”

Tell us something we don’t know, Senator.  For instance, what are your position on a public plan that will crowd out private plans and cause thousands of Virginians to loose the plan that they like … and that the President promised we could keep.  Tell where you stand on health savings accounts that promote freedom and responsibility.  Current House bills would nearly outlaw coverage because they are not within 70 percent of the reference benefit package.  That affects more than 105,600 Virginians. Do you care?   We can guess were you stand on Advance Care Consultation and abortion payment (with premiums). How would you protect Virginian’s from the rationing of health care embodied in the House bills?  In general, you to have abdicated leadership by not setting forth policy positions that which you reasonably should have developed by now. 

1. “ In the Finance Committee, negotiations continue on a reform package that might win support from both Democratic and Republican members of the Senate.  The success of these ongoing negotiations will be critical in determining whether a bill can be achieved this year.”

We aren’t stupid. Don’t hide behind Congressional processes.  Don’t substitute the Senate Finance Considerations for your own positions. It makes you look like you’re trying to be the “white knight in the castle.”  Is that you approach to leadership on healthcare policy?  

1. “By the same token, families are increasingly unable to depend on their health plans when they need them the most.  This has contributed to the mortgage foreclosure crisis and the rise in personal bankruptcies.” 

You’re joking, right?  Yes. We know that health insurance premiums have risen more than 80 percent during the last eight years (coincidently that corresponds with the Warner Kaine administrations).  Are you seriously claiming that increased insurance premiums contributed to the mortgage crisis?  That’s a stretch.  One what empircal facts to you reach that conclusion?  No, it isn’t personal bankruptcies.  Single-payer proponents, too, use this argument. We know that it is commonplace for politicians to claim that almost 60 percent of personal bankruptcies in middle class families are caused by increased costs of medical care.  But Himmelstein’s et al study (February 2005), to which you are might be referring, has been closely debunked by professessors David Dranove and Michael Millenson at Northwestern University. They found the data analysis highly suspect. 

“A reexamination of their data suggests that medical bills are a contributing factor in just 17 percent of personal bankruptcies and that those affected tend to have incomes closer to poverty level than to middle class.”   

Other studies show even less reason to believe that medical costs play a major role in personal bankruptcies any more than high mortgages or payments on expensive (though environmentally-friendly) cars, which can also make it difficult to pay medical bills.   

Thank you for time to send a Form letter to your constituents. We might have been better educated by you had you held town meetings to discuss the health care policy.  I must say you No-Show this summer lends little credence to your  assertion that “It is important for us to be very deliberate on an issue of such importance to the lives of our people.“  Bad Form, Caption Hook. 

-The above is courtesy of a guest blogger-

For a complete view of Webb’s form letter and other comments go here.

 

Hot topics

CIA:I am so frustrated and angry over the possible prosecution of some of the heros in the CIA!  I am sure some of you, it should be all, feel the same anger.  The AG and Obama himself should listen to this one minute message from a “few good men”!  It is exactly how I feel.  We also talked about it here!

Ted Kennedy:  Richard asked me if I thought Ted Kennedy’s death was a loss for the country….I answered it here during our show.  A few other questions came up: Is 47 years in the Senate too long?  Should Ted be buried in Arlington Cemetery? Maybe there should be cemeteries for Congressman and Senators!

Deeds and Mermaids:  What do these two have in common?  Well….not much but we discussed it here!  Let’s just say that there are many strange things happening….in and out of politics!

Mark Warner:  He is like any other Liberal!  He finds a good catch phrase that appeals to the emotions of the stupid voter and says it over and over and over again!  Thanks to Doc Thompson’s interview it has been exposed and we focused on it here!  Be careful…it may make you sick to see who his constituents really are!  It is a must listen!

Female Runner?:  I am sure you have heard by now that the winner of the 800 meter world championship race has been challenged…not the race itself…but if the runner was the correct gender!  Yes, no one knows if the winner was a women or a male!  But are there really only two genders in the world still?  Who cares if it is a man in a women’s race…I thought men and women were the same and we shouldn’t treat them differently!  Richard thought I was a nut….listen here!

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HR 3200 exposed

I constantly hear…”Oh … You Lee Brothers would hate anything Obama promotes!”  Well….yes…..but not just because its Obama its because he is a Marxist/Socialists/Statist and everything he promotes will be about making government bigger! His health care plan is no different!

Here HR 3200 is exposed:

This guy is obviously a racists!

Well done!

Then there is this commercial that ABC and NBC won’t play:

We have to raise taxes in VA or else…

say good bye to:

• Education
• Health Care
• Public safety
• Other key services

Well…at least according to Michael Cassidy (michael@thecommonwealthinstitute.org) in the TD today!  Fear mongering at its best!  In other words, it is governments job to provide you health care, its governments job to educate your kid…so just pay more taxes so we (the government) can take care of you, or just bigger arms to hug you!

Here is Cassidy insanity:

Solving Virginia’s budget crisis in ways that ensure future economic growth is not for the faint of heart. It involves difficult choices that might not, at first, seem politically popular.  As a reminder, “difficult choices” do not include tax increases!  That is the easy, gutless thing to do! Much easier to go to the tax payer than to make necessary cuts…don’t give me this dribble about “difficult choices” and then suggest we raise taxes. Gutless wonder!

So far, though, Virginia’s policymakers…. have relied heavily on spending cuts to address the budget shortfalls we’ve faced in the past two years. For every $1 raised in new revenue, the state has made more than $33 in cuts.That just not fair!  I mean…who runs things like this…cutting spending??  What a crazy idea.  My own home and business has been doing it wrong…we have been cutting spending instead of increasing revenue!  But…I don’t have the ability to run to my neighbors and demand they fund my “needs”!

 These cuts have had significant, real-world consequences for Virginia families working hard to make ends meet. The $1.85 billion in spending cuts already enacted this fiscal year mean additional layoffs, (For who?, not me) reduced aid to counties and towns,which in turn means less services or higher local taxes (they can live within their means!), and reduced health care payments to hospitals.(perhaps government shouldn’t have gotten involved anyway??) They have put at risk the very public services Virginians value and demand: quality education for our children (that the parents job, not the state), health care for Grandma and Grandpa (I can handle that..thank you), and cops on the street to keep our neighborhoods safe(LIE-plenty of money for that when priorities are adjusted) — not to mention the niceties of modern life, like rest stops along our highways. 

…president’s budget director, Peter Orszag, have found that during a downturn, targeted tax increases are actually better for the economy than direct spending cuts.  Code for: we can spend it better then you can!  Let’s give it all to the Statists!  They know better then us!  They can supply us with a house, a car, health care, education, a government job, they can do it all!  Utopia!  We need to embrace the Amendment in our Constitution, “From each according to their ability, to each according to their need!”  Do these pure, mental midgets really exist on the planet!  What a loon this guy is!  This explains Obama’s Presidency and Kaine’s Governorship….idiocy!

And then here comes the list of tax increases:

• Closing the corporate loopholes that cost us millions in lost revenue each year is another important part of a responsible revenue proposal. Letting people and businesses KEEP their money does not COST us anything…you bonehead! 
•  Eliminating the Sales Tax Dealer Discount program, through which retailers get to keep a piece of the sales tax Virginians pay, would bring in another $64 million. Businesses would just pass it on to customers!
• Enacting a provision that stops businesses from sheltering profits by creating phony subsidiaries could bring in an additional $110 million. PROFITS=Bad!
• Finally, Virginia’s complex collection of tax deferrals, exemptions, deductions, and special rates cost the state billions of dollars each year.  Once again, letting people keep THEIR money doesn’t COST the precise government anything!

He who is faithful over little will be trusted with much…..so should we just keep giving to government as they waste it!  Government is not faithful! 

The one good thing with less spending is perhaps , just maybe, the people will realize they can actually live without the government in their lives!

Puke!

Spending on Military or Social programs

In terms of GDP, spending on defense has fallen steadily. In 1980, nearly 6 percent of the GDP went to defense. Today, defense’s share is about 4 percent. By 2014, it is estimated the defense budget will decline to little more than 3 percent of GDP. In light of the fact that providing for the national defense is one of the few things the Constitution actually requires Congress to fund — it’s a pretty fair price to pay.

On the other hand, entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid — those mandatory expenditures (so-called because they are expenses funded by permanent appropriations) — currently gobble up well over 11 percent of GDP. That’s equal to about 65 percent of our federal budget. And they continue to grow rapidly. In a grim message to the public, the Trustees Report on Social Security and Medicare states: “The financial condition of the Social Security and Medicare programs remains challenging. Projected long run program costs are not sustainable under current program parameters.” Social Security reserves will be gone by 2037. Medicare is even scarier, with reserves forecast to be exhausted by 2017!

Like trying to appease the monstrous Audrey II in “Little Shop of Horrors,” the desperate struggle to feed the ever-growing entitlement programs has already begun. The president has sliced nearly $1.5 billion from the missile defense program — despite growing threats from rogue nations such as North Korea and Iran. Rep. Barney Frank is calling for a 25 percent reduction in military spending. Said Frank in June: “I am of course struck that so many of my colleagues who are so worried about the deficit apparently think the Pentagon is funded with Monopoly money that somehow doesn’t count.” Funny, I thought that’s what was funding the stimulus and TARP programs!

Cutting national defense to pay for entitlements is akin to throwing good money after bad. It’s like canceling an insurance policy to pay for a crack addiction. Slashing the defense budget will do nothing to improve this recession. In fact, budget cuts would simply grow the unemployment numbers and leave America vulnerable in an unsafe world.

Absolutely right!  Very well said, I recommend reading the first part of the article….and see why Robin stands where she does! 

Do you think the radical left really cares or recognizes that all the things they want government to do aren’t even Constitutional? 

I think it says a ton that the one thing that is Constitutional…they hate! Like this, and this, and this!

Freedom isn’t free!

Trees instead of Food

Yep, and it will be subsidized and incentives by your tax dollars!

“…..the House bill gives financial incentives to farmers and ranchers to plant trees…”

The plan would, however, be hard on ranchers and farmers and potentially food prices, says American Farm Bureau chief economist Bob Young.

Hug a tree…eat later!

Listen here or read here!

Don’t think for a second…..

that Obama’s version on health care will expand choice!  Pure garbage!

House bill H.R. 3200: One key proposal is to mandate an “essential benefit package” for every private insurance policy sold in the United States. Currently, individuals and employers usually make these coverage decisions. This legislation creates a new federal Health Benefits Advisory Committee that would decide instead. For example, if you are a single male with no children, the legislation still requires you to have maternity benefits and well-baby and well-child care coverage. You don’t want or don’t need that coverage? Sorry, you have to pay for it anyway.

Other planned agencies would give the federal government unprecedented and unaccountable control over your healthcare. The so-called Health Choices Administration and the National Health Insurance Exchange would set various standards for all health insurance policies.

No worries…these big, nasty new government programs will expand freedom and choice….utopia is just a few votes away! 

Puke.   We talked about it here!

Truth on Uninsured!

I am sick of the Left telling me that there are 47 million uninsured!  I have always felt that it was exaggerated!  Call it a hunch but even before I knew the facts it didn’t seem accurate! I guess I always thought that people, in general, are self-reliant and capable of taking care of their families.  Kind of like Richard and I….we buy private, stand alone, self-employed health insurance!  I know…you been told that can’t happen…but we are proof that it can happen and at a reasonable cost!  So, when the big-government, Statists tell me there are 47 million…I consider it a ploy to gain more power and Socialize more of our economy.  It turns out my hunches and guesses are right……

Michael Tanner in the TD laid out the facts for us:

1. For example, roughly one quarter of those counted as uninsured — 12 million people — are eligible for Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP), but haven’t enrolled. This includes 64 percent of all uninsured children, and 29 percent of parents with children. Since these people would be enrolled in those programs automatically if they went to the hospital for care, calling them uninsured is really a smokescreen.
2. Another 10 million uninsured “Americans” are, at least technically, not Americans. Approximately 5.6 million are illegal immigrants, and another 4.4 million are legal immigrants but not citizens.
3. Nor are the uninsured necessarily poor……..concluded that nearly three-quarters of the uninsured could afford coverage but chose not to purchase it.
4. And most of the uninsured are young and in good health.
5. The reality is that most people without health insurance are uninsured for a relatively short period of time.
6. Only about 30 percent of the uninsured remain so for more than a year, approximately 16 percent for two years, and less than 2.5 percent for three years or longer. About half are uninsured for six months or less. Notably, because health insurance is too often tied to employment, the working poor who cycle in and out of the job market also cycle in and out of health insurance.

I would rather have freedom then insurance “utopia” by government mandate!

Wake up America! Puke!

Pan Am Terrorist released

Scotland let the terrorist free because he has cancer!  How caring and kind of them.  I am sure the victims families feel much better!

We talked about it here!

Email the one responsible:

kenny.macaskill.msp@scottish.parliament.uk

Weak and liberal.  Fighting terrorism is not for the soft and whinny (Democrats).  It is for those who have the guts and fortitude to handle it!  This might explain the recent poll saying 7 in 10 Democrats say the war in Afghanistan wasn’t worth fighting!  Typical!

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Senator Webb form letter

Send an email to Senator Webb and get the below form letter.  

There so much crap in here but I want to address this one issue that all big, bleeding heart, bed-wetting liberals think is a winning issue!

 I love this one, “including provisions to prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.”   I know we all wish those evil companies wouldn’t be so mean, but maybe we need a business lesson. People buy insurance to transfer risk from themselves to another…insurance companies agree to assume that risk at a certain price.  Why should an insurance company ever assume the risk of someone who already has proven to be an active risk?  This would be tantamount to you looking for auto insurance after you get in an accident! Maybe, big and bad, Jim Webb can come to the rescue of all those people who have car accidents without auto insurance…how dare they not insure those drivers!!

Let’s pretend that Webb and the other loons in the Senate get their way and force insurance companies to “insure” people who are already in need of health care.  What would happen?  Prices will rise at a huge rate for the healthy!  So, once again, you will pay more even while you complain that health care is too expensive!  Not to mention the other unintended consequences of government involvement!  But logic and facts don’t matter when emotions are involved!

Puke! 
 
Dear Mrs ______;
 
To follow-up on your earlier correspondence regarding health care reform, I wanted to update you on where this issue stands.
 
            As you may know, Congress has adjourned for the month of August without enacting health care reform.  During the coming weeks, I will be carefully examining the reform proposals currently on the table. The fact that the legislation is now on hold will give Congress the opportunity to study these proposals carefully and to hear from interested citizens.  It is important for us to be very deliberate on an issue of such importance to the lives of our people.
 
            I have stated on several occasions my concerns that the Obama administration should have begun the process with a clear proposal that could have been the starting point for the work of the five separate congressional committees charged with responsibility for this issue.  Without such a specific format, Congress has had difficulty crafting a bill of such challenging scope and complexity.  I am hopeful that the President will remedy this problem in the coming weeks.
 
            Currently in the Senate, two committees have jurisdiction over health care – the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and the Finance Committee.  The HELP Committee has completed work on a health reform bill, the Affordable Health Choices Act.  This bill aspires to significant reforms in the health insurance market, including provisions to prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.  In the Finance Committee, negotiations continue on a reform package that might win support from both Democratic and Republican members of the Senate.  The success of these ongoing negotiations will be critical in determining whether a bill can be achieved this year.
 
            While most people are understandably satisfied with their health care, the system is not working for millions of American families.  Spiraling costs for health care have placed our biggest industries at a severe competitive disadvantage, as employers struggle to provide insurance for their workers.  By the same token, families are increasingly unable to depend on their health plans when they need them the most.  This has contributed to the mortgage foreclosure crisis and the rise in personal bankruptcies.  In

short, our nation’s continued economic recovery would be advanced by meaningful health care reform, although such reform must emphatically be reasonable in scope, cost, and impact.
 
            In the coming weeks and months, I encourage you to visit my website at www.webb.senate.gov <http://www.webb.senate.gov/>  for updated information about the healthcare reform debate.  Additionally, the Senate Finance www.finance.senate.gov <http://www.finance.senate.gov/>   and HELP Committees www.help.senate.gov/index.html <http://www.help.senate.gov/index.html>   have posted on their websites useful information about their respective proposals.
 
            Again, I thank you for your past correspondence on this issue.  Please feel free to share your thoughts and ideas with me and my staff.
 
                                                                        Sincerely,
 
Jim Webb
United States Senator
 
JW: cc

One of the staunchest, smartest and straightforward conservatives

Human Events tells us that Ken Cuccinelli is the real deal! 

“…the campaign features one of the staunchest, smartest and straightforward conservatives The Old Dominion has to offer: state Sen. Ken Cuccinelli”

“When you have been around as long as I have you can tell the real deal from the fraudulent and Cuccinelli is the real deal,” said Craig Shirley, president of Shirley and Banister Public Affairs in Alexandria, Va. and author of “Reagain’s Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started it All.” “A lot of people who profess to be conservatives or Reaganites don’t really get it, and Cuccinelli does.”

I have been telling you about Ken for a very long time!  Ken Cuccinelli is a statesmen not a politician!  He is a VA Citizen/American Patriotand understands that the cause is Liberty!

We talked to him here!

 www.KC4AG.com

Racists Article

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/opinion/op_ed/article/ED-HORTON12_20090811-181605/285353/

Filling in for Doc

Filling in for Doc today on WRVA from 3-6pm.

Talking about….hum??

Call 345-1140!

Obama’s Science Advisor

You can tell a lot about a man by the company he keeps!  At least that is how most people do it.  Unless your a liberal, loon that over looks Obama’s radical connections (of course, to some these people aren’t radical)!  Or, perhaps, Obama didn’t know he held these views? 🙂

Obama’s science advisor is one of these radicals!  He has claimed that trees should be able to sue and America should de-develop, in fact, zero growth!  But he didn’t end there, he says that a newborn child “will ultimately develop into a human being” if he or she is properly fed and socialized.

We talked about it here.

It used to be that we could laugh at these people but now they are leadingour country!

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