(just yankin yer chain)
Okay. 'Maybe' Rep. Michelle Bachmann isn't on the *official* FR Picture Rule List but she should be.
And she's on mine :-)
Conservative Women are H.O.T.
Progressive 'women' look like Feral Forrest Creatures.
Posted on 07/28/2010 11:06:21 PM PDT by Brugmansian
Not a blog
hardly, man. El Rushbo is numero UNO.
Can we wake a few more of them up in Nevada ?
Where’s Mark Levin?????
bump
I’ll bite on some of your remaining 8:
01 Mike Pence
01 Tom Coburn
01 Dennis Miller
(just yankin yer chain)
Okay. 'Maybe' Rep. Michelle Bachmann isn't on the *official* FR Picture Rule List but she should be.
And she's on mine :-)
Conservative Women are H.O.T.
Progressive 'women' look like Feral Forrest Creatures.
Excuse me...but poll after poll shows over 60% of those in the US of A identify themselves as conservative.
I suggest some Thomas Sowell, Antonin Scalia, Dick Cheney, Jim DeMint, Virginia Postrel. (you can certainly keep Rush tho!)
While I think you have some good ideas, if you read the posts - by people listed on the list - and they left off the biggest of them all “InstaPundit” you will see that 90% of Rush’s radio show is covered the day before by these blogs. Rush has been behind the internet curve for 2-3 years. Rush has interesting commentary but even the local news realizes that more topics and faster is now the norm - Rush beats one idea to death in his first hour. The listerner can handle more.
- "the freedom of speech, [and] of the press" is not a right of the government, and nobility is excluded in the US Constitution - so that means that freedom of the press is a right of the people.
- Although the framers didn't invent the telegraph, they did stipulate that "the progress of science and useful arts" was an objective of the Constitution (Article 1 Section 8).
- So the use of technology of communication, especially the internet, is also a right of the people.
When they were promoting "campaign finance reform" the Democrats prattled about "the rich man's wallet" overwhelming "the poor man's soap box." Well, this is the 21th Century - and the Internet is the poor man's soap box now.
When we used to FReep Digg, it was rumored that the HuffPo would pay people to Digg articles to the top.
Maybe Soros pays for hits.
Krauthammer?
This guy?
“Now, to his column. He begins by pronouncing ObamaCare both “historic” and “irrevocable”, a definitive and everlasting change to one sixth of the American economy. Not only does he ignore the blatant unconstitutionality of the individual mandate requiring every citizen to purchase a private product (which is being challenged in the courts at this very moment), he completely ignores the mechanisms through which this program can be immediately defunded and neutered in 2011 when the GOP takes back the Congress. In 2013, the GOP will almost certainly have more than 60 senate seats and a filibuster will not be able to stop the outright repeal. This monstrosity has more than a few problems. But Krauthammer pronounces it final, res judicata, a fait accompli. It reminded me that Krauthammer was carrying water for ObamaCare in an August 21, 2009 column in the Washington Post when, in response to Sarah Palin’s “Death Panel” torpedo aimed at the rationing schemes in the very heart of ObamaCare, Krauthammer told her to sit down and shut up:
“We might start by asking Sarah Palin to leave the room. I've got nothing against her. She's a remarkable political talent. But there are no “death panels” in the Democratic health-care bills, and to say that there are is to debase the debate.”
Palin has subsequently been proven right (Does the recess appointment of Donald Berwick to the CMS leave any doubt?) and Krauthammer has been proven wrong, but I have heard no apology from him. He is just as wrong about the permanency of ObamaCare and the end of Reaganism.
Krauthammer goes on to pronounce the Financial Regulatory bill as a now permanent fixture that is unrepealable. Again, the “brilliant” Krauthammer ignores not only the constitutional problems with such a bill, but the political ones associated with them. For example, among other things, the Bill purports to delegate the authority to the Secretary of the Treasury to bail out any financial institutions at his discretion without the necessity to go back to Congress to appropriate the funds. This is a blatant unconstitutional delegation of Article I legislative authority to the Executive, which is certain to be challenged and likely to be stricken by the Courts. As the quid pro quo for the massive regulation of the financial industry will imperil not just the constitutionality of the rest of the bill but its political viability as well, that is: Since the financial industry will not be able to access bailout funds (the carrot) without going back to Congress, it will oppose the regulatory burdens (the stick) that go along with it. The Regulatory Bill thus has both constitutional and political infirmities which threaten its long term viability. It should be easy to repeal in 2013.
Finally, Krauthammer sees the $1 trillion dollar stimulus as a “structural alteration of the U.S. Budget”, whatever that means. Congress can decline to appropriate the funds, and a new GOP President can impound (that is, refuse to spend) whatever cannot be repealed outright.
Krauthammer really demonstrates his ignorance (and his Mondale/Obama domestic ideology) with the following sentence:
“Just as President Ronald Reagan cut taxes to starve the federal government and prevent massive growth in spending, Obama’s wild spending — and quarantining health-care costs from providing possible relief — will necessitate huge tax increases.”
Wrong, Charles. Reagan's tax cuts INCREASED revenue to the federal government. A lot. The problem was not a paucity of revenue in the federal treasury but a Congress too willing and eager to spend it all, and then some. I am surprised you don't know such basic economics. But, then you did work for Walter Mondale who as the Gipper once observed “never met a tax he didn't like... or hike.” I am not surprised that, as a devotee of “Coach Tax Hike” which is what we Reaganites (the real kind...not the ersatz, freshly minted versions) used to call your old boss, your first recourse has been, and will always be, tax increases”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2554401/posts
Hey, didn't Krautammmer invite 0bozo to his house for dinner with some other reporters right after 0bozo was elected?
Excellent post. THANKS.
InstaPundit...Glenn Reynolds...is da bomb RE: being in the know. Rush credits him all of the time. However, I can understand Rush wanting to do his own research, just as Drudge, Hot Air, Gateway Pundit, Ace, and others do, before they run with a story.
That’s what I love about conservative sites. They strive to get it right, instead of going on a list serv, or reading a wire, and having everything fed to them.
As far as Rush being behind the curve for 2-3 years...you haven’t been listening. He is on the very tippy top...every...single...show.
Like most talk shows, Rush has a theme...that’s what is “being beat to death” in the first hour.
Try listening to the other two hours...
You certainly listed a great group of heavyweights.
Isn’t it wonderful that we have so many big-brained people on the side of the US Constitution, and the country itself?
Thank you!
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