I’ll be on Sean Hannity’s Great American Panel tonight at 9:30 with Gov. Bob Ehrlich and Rev. Jacques DeGraff.
It’s going to be a really good panel tonight, so I hope you’ll tune in to it.
Consider this an open thread.
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Moe Lane: MoeLane: #rsrh "Nah, I'll just beat him now." http://t.co/RmMPHath
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Steve Maley: US GoM Shelf ranked #2 most hostile fiscal environment for #oilandgas. #1? Venezuela. http://t.co/RqkC07j4 #rsrh
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KnightsofMalta: Liberals implicitly belittle the poor. Apparently they are too dumb or weak to be chaste. Sex without consequences is a human right. #rsrh
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Dan Spencer: Obama campaign and the DNC spent $120 million in 2011--twice as much as all the GOP candidates combined. http://t.co/fm7XhsUd #2012 #RSRH
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Moe Lane: MoeLane: #rsrh I think that I'm going to miss the rest of CPAC. http://t.co/GNOnCEUY
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Steve Maley: @FrackNation update: @kickstarter financing approaches $40K in 4 days. http://t.co/4XAsk7Gv #rsrh #natgas #fracking
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Steve Maley: @PopeBenedict to @Maddow: "You no play-a the game, you no make-a the rules!" #earlbutz #whatgoesaround #rsrh http://t.co/IIEAPu1g
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Dan McLaughlin: Curtains for Newt? RT @TPM Adelson cash runs dry for Newt: http://t.co/MNJGjEmj #rsrh
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Dan Spencer: CA Dems kick off convention with reception for disgraced "green jobs czar," "truther" and admitted communist Van Jones. #RSRH
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Dan McLaughlin: The stakes: nobody seriously believes this contraception flap will be the last time govt goes this far under Obamacare. #rsrh
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muffin Friday, November 20th at 7:41PM EST (link)Looking forward to seeing you, Erick.
I am furious that Sen. Ben Nelson will vote to start the health debate in the Senate. Once it hits the Senate floor, Reid can use reconciliation to pass this monstrosity. I tried calling my Senators, but everything went to voice mail (which I’m sure they won’t check before voting tomorrow.)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/20/sen-nelson-says-vote-start-health-reform-debate/
Fortitudine vincimus – By endurance we conquer
Please do bring up 100 mn bribe up
antisocial (Diary) Friday, November 20th at 9:24PM EST (link)Will be watching.
Obama Doctrine – Boot On The Throat
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What is to be done?
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The Emperor has no clothes!!!
Thanks for calling it.
antisocial (Diary) Friday, November 20th at 10:06PM EST (link).
Obama Doctrine – Boot On The Throat
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What is to be done?
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No. You can’t – Moe Lane
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The Emperor has no clothes!!!
"I read it every day." -- Hannity
barrypopik (Diary) Friday, November 20th at 9:32PM EST (link)Not bad!
Dithering... Twiddling thumb... questioning the General
antisocial (Diary) Friday, November 20th at 9:35PM EST (link)good going
Obama Doctrine – Boot On The Throat
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No. You can’t – Moe Lane
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The Emperor has no clothes!!!
You looked good.
NeoKong (Diary) Friday, November 20th at 9:53PM EST (link)Green tie with a light blue shirt. I wouldn’t have tried it but you pulled it off well.
I’m kidding.
You had the best tie.
Seriously though. Your comments about Obama being an amateur in office and his dithering vs. deliberating were quite devastating without a hint of being angry. It was just a fact and you stated it effectively.
It was a good segment.
I hope you become a regular.
That guy Jacque Degraff seemed pretty reasonable for a leftie.
He stated his opinions well.
Did Sean ask about me…?
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Dittos -- great job on Hannity!
ColdWarrior (Diary) Friday, November 20th at 10:28PM EST (link)Great job, Erick!
Thanks,
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Yeah, best tie of the bunch!
Cheryl (Diary) Friday, November 20th at 11:07PM EST (link)And this Degraff guy doesn’t seem reasonable to me, Kind of mouthy.
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America, than the whole force of the common enemy.” –Samuel Adams
“The administrative state has inserted its big paws into our houses, from the toilet bowl to the light socket. Now if it would just stretch those paws from the one to the other at the same time, we might begin to recapture the spirit of ’76.” –Scott Johnson, Powerlineblog.com
I meant for a leftie.
NeoKong (Diary) Friday, November 20th at 11:19PM EST (link)He wasn’t throwing out insults or yelling and getting angry.
Follow me on Twitter.
No, but I think I saw a little spittle depart from his mouth (nt)
Cheryl (Diary) Friday, November 20th at 11:33PM EST (link)“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America, than the whole force of the common enemy.” –Samuel Adams
“The administrative state has inserted its big paws into our houses, from the toilet bowl to the light socket. Now if it would just stretch those paws from the one to the other at the same time, we might begin to recapture the spirit of ’76.” –Scott Johnson, Powerlineblog.com
DeGraff acted like a woman,
Steph C (Diary) Friday, November 20th at 9:55PM EST (link)one of those particularly annoying ones who bring up things that happened years ago to “prove a point.” It’s like pushing a button and off they go instead of making a rational argument.
Until January 20, 2013, everything will still be the fault of Cheney and Bush.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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What's $100 million in disaster relief for Louisiana got to do with health care, Mr. President?
SoFiMil (Diary) Friday, November 20th at 11:19PM EST (link)Obama: “I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a health care bill, not an abortion [or disaster relief] bill.
I tried about 150 times throughout the day to ask Senator Landrieu about the $100 million pork rider for Louisiana, but never got through. I will try again Saturday morning. I also tried calling Senator McConnell’s office about 75 times before finally getting through and asked this same question.
www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com
The $100 mill. is health care money.
Steve Maley (Diary) Friday, November 20th at 11:37PM EST (link)LA’s demographics were temporarily altered by Katrina. As a result, the state qualified for substantially less Federal money paid toward Medicaid.
The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.
Still sounds like "health care" in name only. - n/t
SoFiMil (Diary) Friday, November 20th at 11:43PM EST (link).
www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com
I'm missing something in that whole story
bk (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 2:48AM EST (link)Most likely it’s due to stupid ways that medicaid formulas work.
If medicaid people from NOLA ended up in Houston or Atlanta or Baton Rouge or whereever, it seems like the funding would follow them. If they move back to NOLA, then same story.
If LA’s population is down since Katrina, then it seems like they would be getting less from the federal kitty.
As a side note, it shows how screwed up laws are in Washington that it takes some misleading change to a Social Security law to deal with this. And isn’t doc fix just as much related to health care as this is? Why does Reid still insist on hiding that $250B?
Love the concern for the "troops"
proudmarinemom (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 12:47AM EST (link)…that so many of Obama’s supporters like Degraff express with such touching sincerity.
Those of us whose lives are actually effected by what the “troops” do from week to week appreciate the concern, but we’d like a decision.
I have a “troop” in my family. He had missed two Thanksgivings and two Christmases at home by the time he was 20 years old. Now, at 21, he is waiting for this so-called Commander-in-Chief to decide his fate. Tick. Tick. Tick. Should he enroll in some college classes, look for off-base housing, keep seeing that pretty girl he likes . . .or spend all his time at the firing range, keep PT-ing and read up on Afghan history?
Waiting . . .
Great going EE
PatriotForLiberty Saturday, November 21st at 2:34AM EST (link)You should be a regular!
I am.
Erick Erickson (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 6:35AM EST (link)Heh. Every month. They’ve got lots of people who want to be on.
And thanks everyone for the kind words.
By the way, I was personally deeply impressed by Rev. DeGraff. He was an exceptionally nice guy.
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He may be,
Steph C (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 7:22AM EST (link)but when the blame game starts, I tend to shut down. Those who do that aren’t helping anybody. When he said “8 years” that was it.
The thing he ignored was health care was a straw man issue until Obama made it a “crisis.” The reason it’s an issue at all is because every year, Congress has taken a bigger role in controlling it with incrementalism and this, that they’re doing now, is one of the final steps to complete takeover; to fix what they broke in the first place.
Somebody, you or Hannity, tried to point out that medicare will be broke and it was completely ignored while the blame fest continued. He can be a nice guy all day long, 365 days a year but he’s doing everybody a huge disservice with always palming off the blame.
We (Republicans) are expected to hold our officials accountable for every misdeed, from the smallest to the largest. Democrats blame “us” instead.
I hear Beckel is an exceptionally nice guy, too, but I can’t stand to listen to him when he starts the blaming garbage.
When it becomes about what “the other guy” did when instead of what “their guy” is doing now, the debate is over and the opportunity to find real solutions is lost .
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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yahoo says L is going to vote yes
mom2oneson (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 1:16PM EST (link)http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul
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mom2oneson (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 1:16PM EST (link)WASHINGTON – Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu says she will vote “yes” on a crucial test vote on the health care bill.
The Louisiana lawmaker made the long-awaited announcement in a speech on the Senate floor Saturday. Her comments came just hours before the 8 p.m. EST vote.
Landrieu says her vote is to move forward but that work still needs to be done on the bill.
Landrieu has been one of two Democratic holdouts; the other is Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid needs 60 votes to prevail in the 100-seat Senate. The 40 Republicans are unanimously opposed.
A largely overlooked provision in the Senate bill would send $100 million to Louisiana to help it cover costs for Medicaid, the federal-state health care program for the poor.
And to think MN sent Al Franken to Washington, I feel horrible for that. nt
Common_Cents (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 2:41PM EST (link)Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.