governor palin: drop and give me 20! and don’t go crying to obamacare…
Governor Palin has been busy!
This afternoon, she launched - yes, launched - her latest rhetorical dissection of all that is wrong with Obamacare and the “yay-hoos” who foisted it on us. The entire post is worthy of lamination, but below is a choice section tdc found particularly spectacular.
In her discussion of the multi-trillion dollar costs of Obamacare, Governor Sarah Palin writes:
This is probably what President Obama was referring to when he admitted recently that he had known all along that “at the margins” his proposals were going to drive up costs. Give us a break! Only in this administration would they refer to a $3 trillion spending increase as “marginal.” Next time he comes to us with another one of his harebrained proposals for a budget-busting federal power grab, let’s make sure we remember the president’s admission that he was lying all along when he told us his health care plan was going to cut costs. He is increasing costs. He admits it now. Period.
Higher costs and worse care – is it any wonder why people are overwhelmingly in favor of repealing and replacing Obamacare? Politicians who have vacillated on this issue need to be fired. Candidates who don’t support “repeal and replace” don’t deserve your support. No amount of money spent on Washington’s “government-wide apolitical public information campaign” (otherwise known as “propaganda”) will convince Americans that this awful legislation is anything other than a debt-driven big government train wreck. We need to repeal and replace it, and that can only happen if we elect a new Congress that will make scrapping Obamacare one of its top priorities. We can replace it with pro-private sector, patient-oriented reform that the GOP has proposed.
Once again, Governor Palin lays out a concise, informative, hard-hitting argument for fighting back against unfunded government mandates and arrogant politicians.
In March of this year, Governor Palin set her sights on gaining twenty key seats in congress. Now, a few short weeks before the election, she and her team have taken their effort to the next step with a new website, Take Back the 20.
From a design perspective (of course, we have to go there…) the site is nicely done. One page, clearly-organized, informative, and makes an immediate call to action - the Palin team has done their due diligence. Now, though, it’s time for us to do our due diligence.
Visit Take Back the 20. See which candidates you can help - with time or resources - then step up and do so. The race for 2012 starts now. Whether the GOP nominee is Sarah Palin or someone else, November 2010 will decide the extent of the mess he or she has to clean up.
To carry the metaphor a bit too far: grab your broom and help sweep some tired ol’ legislators out of office and into the dustbin of politics-as-usual.
- tdc
on coulter, honey, and the truth of the matter
The government is like the drunk looking for his keys under a lamppost. Someone stops to help, and asks, “Is this where you lost them?” No, the drunk answers, but the light’s better here.
Ann Coulter in Townhall Magazine - December 30, 2009
While I’m certain our intelligence agencies do a great deal of behind-the-scenes work that we may never know about, and have foiled numerous terror plots that haven’t made the papers (not even the NY Times, in spite of their propensity for disclosing sensitive information), I don’t have much confidence in our air-travel safety procedures at the moment.
In her characteristically blunt manner, Ann Coulter gets at the root of the issues surrounding our government’s response to terrorist threats in our otherwise friendly skies: from here, it appears that we are always two steps behind the terrorists.
What business owner or football coach has ever found success by ignoring the strengths of their competition rather than devising a gameplan tailored to defeat them?! Enough with shoes, the shampoo bottles, the nail clippers, and the honey. Let’s come up with a gameplan that puts us on offense!
What technology do we have at our disposal - the so-called “puffer” scanners? Well, find out how many we need and put them in use! Do we need to train TSA staff in the art of reading body language and asking pertinent questions (i.e. if a guy travelling from a terrorist hotbed seems to be walking funny, and can’t tell you why he is traveling to the United States for two weeks without luggage…it’s probably a good idea to ask him to step aside for additional screening)? If so, let’s get it done! And, perhaps most importantly, let’s get a hold on the visa situation! Why on earth Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the (thankfully unskilled) Christmas Day bomber, still had a valid visa to the United States in spite of the dossier we had on him is a question that will leave many of us scratching our heads for the foreseeable future.
Americans are by and large an open and welcoming people, and that is something that most of us cherish. However, even the most trusting individuals have an innate sense of self-preservation that protects them from harm in dangerous situations. The Obama administration, though, has seemed woefully lacking in this regard. The post-911 world is not one in which we have the luxury of utilizing “soft power” to nudge our nation’s foes into submission. This is more than a game of chess.
The war on terror requires decisive and bold action for many reasons - not the least of which is to project a sense of strength and resilience in the face of these admittedly challenging circumstances. If we fail to to do this, and instead continue to ebb and flow in whatever direction the the would-be terrorists decide to push us, more and more of us might find ourselves agreeing with Ms. Coulter when she asks: What’s the point exactly?
- tdc
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