G. Stephens

Unfortunately for the country and Demrat folks they are stuck with a POTUS (Parking -O- Ticket -U- Scofflaw) that just keeps nurturing the angry antagonists.

Delightful offering, Mr. Perrin!

Gerald Stephens
Hartford CT

One set of rules for them; a different set for us. Isn’t that typical?

It would be suicide to force the increasingly radioactive public option through via reconcialiation but besides rendering Reid’s seat basically vacant and pretty giving the Republicans control of the House on a silver platter- I don’t think they can do it. Can they?

I’ve read only a little bit about this – but my understanding is that Reconciliation is ONLY for budget bills – and both parties have occasionally abused it – but never to the degree that Reid is proposing. Anyway what I read is that if the Dems go the 51 vote route the GOP can turn their bill into “swiss cheese” by challenging any portion that involves policy change. I’d say the public option definitely qualifies as that!

Also, I read that bills passed through reconciliation have an automatic expiration date (as with the Bush tax cuts) so even if they did pass something through reconciliation ( which I don’t think they will ) it wouldn’ t be the same bill.

http://www.dailykos.com/search?offset=0&old_count=30&string=Paglia&type=both&sortby=time&search=Search&count=30&wayback=20160&wayfront=0

This is why I don’t take them or their liberal ideas and pals (Obama) seriously. They completely ignore obvious objections to their ideas and refuse to even acknowledge them.

Your past coments at RedState have also indicated that you have an unhealthy preocupation with people’s sexual practices. RedState is a political site; our only concern with people’s sexual practices is when it becomes a poltical issues and especially a possible challenge to conservative principles and policies.

That is, we don’t attack people for who they are or what they do in their personal lives; we don’t engage in the practice of personal destruction like our opponents on the left. Rather, our challenges come in the political arena with what they want to do that will affect our lives.

For instance, arguing why the courts should or should not declare gay marriage to be a fundamental right is most apropos of discussion; vague refernces to the “gay agenda” are out of bounds. Slippery slope arguments had better be grounded on solid logic, not mere hypotheticals.

But above all, do not become a “bot” that has to bring sexual issues into every discussion. We are a full-service store here, not a niche market.

How interesting. President Obama is the Chief Executive, but the blame should go first to the Speaker of the House? How Trumanesque.

I agree with much of what Ms. Paglia has written here, but I’m sorry, the President is primarily to blame for this mess. He is to blame because he has been behaving just as he did when he was one of a hundred Senators (or one of who knows how many state senators in Illinois before that) rather than as the Chief Executive. As a legislator, his M.O. was to lay back in the tall grass and wait for someone else to do all the hard work and heavy lifting and then step in to take or share credit for the work of others. The Chief Executive Officer is not allowed that kind of leeway. In the case of each of the major budget busting bills of his young administration (Cap & Tax, the Stimulus, and now Health Care), the President turned the entire process over to Pelosi/Reed.

To say, as Ms. Paglia implies, that he had no input and hence no blame for the result is to (1) stretch the bounds of credibility, and (2) ignore the obvious. The fact of the matter is that President Obama was perfectly happy with everything that the Pelosi/Reed tag-team has produced. Were he not, he surely would have been able to push for changes to make it more to his liking. He did not. Except for the fact that there has been enormous grass-roots push-back, there is no doubt that Obama would have signed the health care bill in a heart-beat.

The President, like evening news anchor men/women, is a good speaker when he is reading from a script. He was not an effective legislator (either in Illinois or D.C.), and he is most certainly out of his league as a Chief Executive. But out of his league or not, he is still the Chief Executive, and he therefore is the first person on whose doorstep blame for this mess should be laid.

So the Dems are going to pass a tweaked version of HR 3200, the Senate will pass a tweaked version of the Baucus bill, and there’s no way in hell whatever comes out of conference will get killed.

**She’s LEFT WING – THAT’S the problem!!

I too noticed the very personalized anger in your message and it doesn’t fit in on RedState.

Thank you to Messrs Lane, Mullins and Wolf.