Posted on 08/30/2012 11:57:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Paul Ryan had never before struck me as an inspiring speaker. I mean, I like the fellow: he has sound ideas, he's charming and he has a demotic, boy-next-door quality which is unusual among cerebral politicians. But his chief appeal has always been as a policy specialist rather than an orator.
Until last night. Ryan's speech to the Republican Convention in Tampa was a masterpiece. As Roger Kimball observes, 'His manner is open, confident, but somehow also humble. There is nothing swaggering, nothing of the braggart or narcissist about him. He seems impressed, not by the sound of his own voice, but by the facts and observations he shares with his listeners'.
Ryan took complex issues – the debt crisis, reform of Medicare, unemployment – and made them simple. He spoke movingly of his home town, the town where he still lives, and of the factory there which Barack Obama had said would be open for another hundred years, but which had closed a year later. He humanised the recession, managing to lay particular emphasis on 'the heartland': the key swing states of the Midwest. College graduates, he said, shouldn't have to live out their twenties in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at their fading Obama posters and wondering when they could move out and get on with life. There was something fundamentally wrong with wanting a society 'where everything is free – except us'.
.....No longer are Americans simply being invited to vote against the government that has presided over the downturn; now they are being given the chance to vote for balanced budgets and recovery. Ryan's newfound eloquence, his ability to convey the urgency of the crisis without sounding hysterical, is a bonus.
Leftist commentators, sensing the danger, have torn into him....
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
Statist.
Grasp this, Statist;
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
— Amendment 10
The Tenth Amendment expresses the principle that undergirds the entire plan of the original Constitution: the national government possesses only those powers delegated to it. The Framers of the Tenth Amendment had two purposes in mind when they drafted it. The first was a necessary rule of construction. The second was to reaffirm the nature of the federal system.
“I don’t back states doing something we wouldn’t want the federal government doing.”
Oh. Then I guess you are a ...Statist!
Okay, then you can’t think of a single thing you wouldn’t want your state government to do. I can think of plenty of things I wouldn’t want my state government to do.
One of those things, would be to set up a government run health care system.
And by the way, just for the record, looking to any level of government to solve these types of problems, is Statist in nature.
Your read of the Tenth Amendment, convinces you that our Founding Fathers wouldn’t have any problem with anything a state decided to do, just so long as it wasn’t the federal government doing it.
WRONG!
Statism
noun
1. the principle or policy of concentrating extensive economic, political, and related controls in the state at the cost of individual liberty.
Federal or state run health care is this very thing. It is a statist effort.
Remember when Reagan reminded us what the nine most fearful words in the English language were?
“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”
That applies to states too.
Guessing... who knew?
Look Statism up for yourself. I’m arguing against it, and you’re running cover for it.
“Okay, then you can’t think of a single thing you wouldn’t want your state government to do. I can think of plenty of things I wouldn’t want my state government to do.”
What YOU want is irrelevant, Statist. What the Constitution says guides my thinking about what SHOULD be the correct thing to do, whether I like it or not. See, adults and conservatives understand that. Statists like you don’t get it.
Okay, then if your state legislature passes legislation that all Conservatives must be hung by the neck until dead, I’ll expect you to fall in line and march right to the gallows of their choice.
THAT is what a Statist would do.
I won’t be joining you, because I’m not a Statist.
Hahahahaha...yeah, that would pass.
That’s the problem with you Statists, when you are exposed you will deny it right to the end.
Since you haven’t expressed comprehension of what the term Statist actually means, charging me with being one is meaningless. And since I’ve demonstrated that I am the farthest thing from being one, and you are still backing Statist fixes to health care, you’re essentially destroying yourself here.
It doesn’t matter if that legislation would pass or not. It matters only that this is something you think the Founding Fathers would support if it did, because of your read of the Tenth Amendment.
You don’t know what a Statist is. You can’t grasp that the Tenth Amendment doesn’t back every whack job idea a state could ever come up with, and your only defense is to call me a Racist... oops, Statist even though you don’t even know what one is.
You’re revealing yourself to be a Leftist right down the line here.
You even argue like one.
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