maybe in most cases Keith but in this instance savant should go after idiot.
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote: > Kevin Gutzman is an idiot.... > > > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 8:57 AM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> ROTFLMAO! >> >> Regard$, >> --MJ >> >> "Republicans commonly complain that President Obama and his supporters >> blame President Bush II for much of what is wrong in contemporary America. >> This complaint's chief weakness is that Bush II is responsible for much >> that's wrong in contemporary America. My chief complaint with President >> Obama is that in reappointing Bernanke, rattling sabers over Syria, pushing >> immigration amnesty, continuing the Drug War, legislating via signing >> statements, spending prodigally, pushing through Obamacare, etc., he has >> built on the foreign-policy, constitutional, and spending legacies of Bush >> II." -- Kevin Gutzman >> >> >> >> >> >> >> The Obama Watch >> >> Light at the End of the Tunnel >> >> The passing of the Age of Obama. >> >> By Peter Ferrara – 5.7.14 >> >> Conservatives need to wake up and start thinking past the rapidly passing >> age of Obama. Increasingly likely every day is that voters this November >> will remove Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader. By electing a new >> Republican Senate majority, the voters will also render Barack Obama a lame >> duck, one of the lamest in history, as he will have no prayer of getting any >> of his legislative proposals —” increasingly recognized as hard left — >> through Congress. (Despite his early national rhetoric, Obama doesn’t do >> bipartisanship.) >> >> That new Republican Senate majority will also be a new check and balance >> on Obama’s appointment of federal judges, reversing the effect of the Reid >> rule change eliminating Republican judicial filibusters. That is especially >> crucial given that the five remaining Reagan/Bush appointees on the Court >> constitute the slimmest of majorities, with a couple of occasionally weak >> sisters among them. If just one of these five is replaced by another Elena >> Kagan or Sonia Sotomayor, the resulting shift from a Reagan majority on the >> Court to an Obama one would mean a longer-term Obama transformation of >> America. >> >> Given the long-term cycles of American political history, Obama’s second >> midterm this year should be even worse for Democrats than the disastrous >> Obama first midterm in 2010. And the polls are bearing out that possibility. >> >> The latest is a Pew/USA Today poll finding that 47 percent favor the >> Republican candidate for Congress in their district or state, while 43 >> percent favor the Democrat. That is a sharp turnaround from last October, >> when Democrats held a 6 point lead in the same generic midterm preference >> poll, 49 percent to 43 percent. The new Pew poll also finds a 16 point GOP >> lead among independent voters. >> >> Moreover, the Pew poll finds that “65% would like to see the next >> President offer different policies and programs from the Obama >> Administration while 30 percent want Obama’s successor to offer similar >> policies,†as reported by Jason Riley in the May 5 Wall Street Journal. >> >> In an April 27 Washington Post/ABC News poll, President Obama’s approval >> rating was down to an all-time low of 41 percent. That poll featured an 11 >> point Democratic advantage in the sample, which indicates further weakness >> in that Obama support, especially as compared to the 2010 midterm turnout >> rather than the 2012 turnout. >> >> For context, in April 2010, President Obama’s job approval in that >> Washington Post/ABC News poll was 54 percent. In October 2010, just before >> the voters administered their first midterm beating to Democrats, Obama’s >> job approval was still 50 percent. >> >> Similarly, the April Gallup poll showed an Obama approval rating of 43 >> percent, compared to an April 2010 Obama approval rating in that poll of 49 >> percent, and an early November 2010 approval rating of 44 percent. The >> latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll found Obama’s job approval at 44 >> percent, compared to a May 11, 2010 approval of 50 percent, and an October >> 30, 2010 approval of 45 percent. So consistently in all these polls, Obama >> was doing better in 2010 just before that year’s Democrat blowout than he >> is doing this year. >> >> The Washington Post/ABC News poll also found only 42 percent approval of >> Obama’s handling of the economy, lower than the 44 percent in the October >> 2010 poll. Most damning of all, 53 percent in the 2014 poll say it is more >> important to have Republican congressional majorities to check Obama’s >> policies, compared to 39 percent who believe it is more important to have >> Democratic congressional majorities to support those policies. >> >> Bottom line in that poll, 45 percent say they plan to vote for Democratic >> candidates for Congress this fall, compared to 44 percent who say they plan >> to vote for Republican congressional candidates. But in October 2010, the >> Washington Post/ABC News poll showed Democrats with a 5-point advantage on >> that question, just before voters granted Republicans a 63-seat gain in the >> House, and a 6 to 7 seat gain in the Senate (depending on how you count the >> November 2010 affirmation of Scott Brown’s special election pickup of >> Senator Ted Kennedy’s seat). >> >> These polls above, and state by state polls, are consistent with a >> Republican pickup in this fall’s midterm of as many as 10 Senate seats, >> establishing a new 55 to 45 Republican Senate majority, and 20 more House >> seats. To maximize that victory, Republicans need to campaign on a >> pro-growth platform of specific reforms to get America booming again as >> under Reagan. But in designing those proposals, conservative and Republican >> candidates, think tanks, publications, and policy intellectuals need to >> think past what can possibly be compromised with President Obama, and take >> their case for populist, pro-growth reforms directly to the people. >> >> That should begin with pro-growth tax reform. Directly contrary to the >> Thomas Piketty/MSNBC socialists celebrating around massive, far left, >> anti-growth increases in tax rates on the most productive, Republican tax >> reform should involve sharp reductions in tax rates for everyone, in return >> for eliminating tax loopholes for special interest, crony capitalists. >> >> A good model for that are the tax reform proposals developed by House >> Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, already included in his budget >> proposals approved by the full House. For personal, individual income taxes, >> those proposals involve a 10 percent tax rate for annual incomes below >> $100,000, and a 25 percent tax rate for incomes above that. For corporate >> taxes, the top federal tax rate would be reduced to 25 percent as well. >> >> Republicans should avoid the trap of promising that such reform would be >> revenue neutral, shifting the debate to that rather than the impact on >> growth. Their proposals should involve a net tax cut on a static revenue >> estimating basis (not taking into account the pro-growth effects), and a net >> revenue gain on a dynamic basis, considering the pro-growth effects. >> >> Another pro-growth measure would be to repeal and replace Obamacare with >> the Patient Power health policy reforms proposed by free market health >> policy expert John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy >> Analysis in Dallas. Those reforms would assure universal health care for >> all, with no individual mandate, no employer mandate, and a sharp net cut in >> taxes, spending, and cost-increasing regulatory burdens. >> >> Those reforms would be based on a universal health insurance tax credit of >> roughly $2,500 per person, $8,000 per family, that every citizen could use >> to help purchase the private health insurance of their choice. For those who >> nevertheless still don’t choose to buy coverage with the credit, the >> unused funds would be sent in federal block grants to clinics and hospitals >> that serve the indigent. For those who get too sick while uninsured, perhaps >> with cancer or heart disease, to then buy private health insurance for the >> first time, the tax credit can be used to buy coverage from a state-based >> uninsurable risk pool, or from Medicaid, which would assure coverage for >> pre-existing conditions in any event. Medicaid should also be turned over to >> the states for further reform, with block grants as in the enormously >> successful, 1996 welfare reforms. That has also been endorsed by Ryan’s >> Republican budgets, and by the 2012 Romney/Ryan ticket. CBO estimates that >> would save $1 to $2 trillion in the first 10 years alone. >> >> Some conservative analysts, and Republican health policy staffers, have >> been too pessimistic about the prospects for such reforms. They have >> succumbed to the fundamental mistake that under any market >> repeal-and-replace plan like the Goodman Patient Power plan, tens of >> millions of Americans will necessarily lose the health insurance plan they >> now have under Obamacare, doing to them what Obamacare just did to millions >> of Americans who were falsely told by President Obama that under Obamacare, >> if they liked their health plan, they could keep it. >> >> The egregious error here is that since there is no mandate at all in the >> Patient Power market alternative to Obamacare, not a single health policy >> insurance plan in the entire country would be invalidated by repeal and >> replacement of Obamacare by the Patient Power market plan. Under that market >> plan, each individual chooses the health plan he will buy with the universal >> health insurance tax credit. The federal government does not specify what >> health plan anyone has to buy. So the Patient Power market reforms would not >> require the cancellation or invalidation, of any health insurance plans. >> Anyone who likes the health plan he has under Obamacare can simply use the >> tax credit to help pay for that one. The exact number of health insurance >> plans in the entire country invalidated if Obamacare is repealed and >> replaced by Goodman’s Patient Power market plan would be precisely 0.00, >> not 35 million as some analysts have misled their more credulous readers to >> believe. >> >> With no employer mandate in the Patient Power plan, the effects of >> Obamacare in destroying jobs and full time employment are eliminated. With >> no individual mandate and no guaranteed issue or community rating >> regulation, the primary effects of Obamacare in increasing health costs are >> eliminated as well. The elimination of increased taxes and spending under >> Obamacare would be powerfully pro-growth as well. >> >> Other important pro-growth reforms for Republicans to support would >> include a federal balanced budget amendment, fundamental reform of the Fed >> and monetary policy, possibly including a restored link to gold and other >> precious metals to at least guide monetary policy, comprehensive welfare >> reform based on work for the able bodied instead of guaranteed handouts, and >> personal savings, investment. and insurance accounts for Social Security and >> Medicare (instead of suicidal cuts in those highly sensitive programs). >> >> Such reforms would involve a dramatic reduction in government spending and >> taxes over a generation, and restore booming, world leading, traditional >> American economic growth and prosperity, meaning millions of more jobs, >> higher wages and incomes for working families, and more real equality as a >> result. >> >> The American Spectator Foundation is the 501(c)(3) organization >> responsible for publishing The American Spectator magazine and training >> aspiring journalists who espouse traditional American values. 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