Posted on 07/09/2010 12:36:09 PM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan
The Associated Press is lost. It can’t understand what’s going on in America this year, and its hopeless attempts to come up with an explanation are leading it to indulge some of the year’s biggest losers in their predictable exercises in blame-deflection – mixed in, of course, with the AP’s usual propaganda disguised as news.
All propaganda. I give you, Congressman (but not for long) Bob Inglis, Republican of South Carolina. Mr. Inglis was destroyed in his primary this year by local prosecutor Trey Gowdy. How badly destroyed? How about by 42 percentage points? That’s pretty destroyed.
Now, many people can tell you why Inglis lost, although none of them work for the AP. Inglis lost because America finds itself in a precarious fiscal situation and needs to elect people with certain qualities in order to fix that situation – and Inglis does not possess these qualities. America is careening toward fiscal insolvency because of Congress’s refusal to get federal spending under control. Solving the problem means electing people who will reform entitlements, reject pork-barrel politics and stop trying to kick the can down the road so the next generation of Americans can deal with the problem.
Gowdy may or may not prove to be that kind of congressman. He says he will be. And Inglis has already demonstrated conclusively that he is not. So, nice guy though he may be, the voters of his district kindly and quite decisively requested that Inglis vacate the premises.
This has the AP befuddled because it doesn’t fit into the AP’s concept of how the political world works. To them, incumbents who are not embroiled in a scandal of some sorts are re-elected. They certainly don’t go down in primaries. And they certainly don’t get bazooked by 42 percentage points.
(Excerpt) Read more at northstarnational.com ...
RINO Inglis has been sterilized with extreme prejudice.
A nice, solid article.
American Pravda and its ilk have been lying for a long time. Now, fortunately, we have sources of information other than the old media. That is a situation that must be preserved at all costs.
Woo hoo!! The Tea Party Rebellion term limits squad bags another raging RINO!!
It’s open season on RINOs. No bag limit!!
Rebellion is brewing!!
Oh, my, how sour are the grapes, Bob!
Oh, my, how sour are the grapes, Bob!
Now I’m really confused. The guy essentially put down what Sarah Palin said, made fun of her comments, but it’s HER fault he lost? Now if she’d endorsed him and he lost... then perhaps it might reflect just a little bit on her, but it sounds like he was the anti-Sarah Palin.
Case in point, RATcare. Here's a paragraph from the legislation that he insists has no death panels:
INSUFFICIENT FUNDS.—If the Secretary estimates for any fiscal year that the aggregate amounts available for the payment of the expenses of the high risk pool will be less than the actual amount of such expenses, the Secretary shall make such adjustments as are necessary to eliminate such deficit.
A freshman member of Congress should understand that this language confers upon the Secretary of Health and Human Services the power to ration care as necessary to stay on budget. That a long-serving member of Congress doesn't get this is absolutely positively pathetic.
As a matter of fact, I am near certain a previous draft of the bill used more explicit language that included phrases like the Secretary may "reduce benefits" and "establish waiting lists." Apparently that language was taken out because it supported Sarah's claims.
LOL... Meghan McCain: “Are you going to eat those fries?”
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Post of the day.
Just as Dan Calabrese claimed, it really is sad.
“There were no death panels in the bill ... and to encourage that kind of fear is just the lowest form of political leadership. It’s not leadership. It’s demagoguery,” said Inglis
Sounds like Marxist ObamaCare supporting Inglis is an honest to goodness useful idiot. Good riddance!
Dan Calabrese "gets" it. ;)
His loss had nothing to do with Palin or Beck.
1. He voted with the Democrats against the surge in Iraq.
2. He voted for TARP.
3. He was for Cap and Trade.
4. He voted to censure Joe Wilson.
Buh-bye Bobby. And, don’t go away mad — just, GO AWAY.
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