As mentioned above, though, most elections have a primary to take care of this sort of thing. It was a gross miscalculation on the part of the NY party to let it all unfold like that. It is sad when an election would have gone better for us if neither the state or national party had weighed in at all…what does that say about our organizations?

This is not about next year’s election. This is about stopping this budget-busting, freedom-smashing, stinking heap of garbage.

We have lost a battle, but have not lost the war.

Now the Senate will be compelled to act. And we fight another round. I wont let anyone tell me this fight is moot. Its is everything and it is winnable.

Thanks to all the fighters out there.

“**Including the Don’t spend money that you don’t have, you idjits one.”

provides pretty conclusive evidence that The Politico is not the unbiased website that it claims to be.

Only a leftist tool could look at cold hard facts and call them a “dirty trick” without disputing the facts themselves.

We have a long, long way to go before we can sell that to the American people. The voters have become so accustomed to being fed from the trough and so comfortable with the idea that Uncle will care for them in every situation that we’ve got some re-education to do before addressing that subject.

You want to run people who will be “pure” in your little red eyes on these two issues and you’ll see 535 Democrats being sworn in to the next Congress.

We win this battle the same way we’ve lost it. Incrementally. Get the hell over it. Become a Precinct Coordinator in your district and make something happen.

Every time I hear the party faithful lamenting third parties my advice is the same. Don’t suck so much and there will be no third parties.

On the other hands, Republicans look like would-be philosophers of government, somewhat more theoretical than practical in orientation, and nothing sticks in a Democrat’s craw like the lurking suspicion that his party is the dumb party of ‘the haves.’

McDonnell must be a moderate … since he won.

He he he! Sorry for being an “idiot” (urgh!!!).

The employer and employee contributions went into what is styled the Supplemental Benefits System. Your funds are yours and managed individually. Last I looked there were five or six investment schemes ranging from high yield, high risk to low yield, low risk. Back in the Tech Boom days, employees were constantly on the phone with SBS moving money around between funds; it actually became a performance issue people were so into it and spending time on it. My wife was a high level employee with lots of seniority so she was making a good salary yet in those days she was making more every month on her SBS earnings than in salary, on paper anyway. You do have to ride it up and down but you can’t lose your individual contribution and you get the cash when you quit or retire. Some employees have retired as millionaires in SBS funds alone, but to get to that kind of money you have to have been at the political appointee level at the beginning of the program and hung on for twenty or thirty years, not an easy thing to do.

High deductible Major Medical and an HSA system to deal with “maintenance” of your body is what makes sense, but people want the just sign the form and never pay anything level of health insurance and many have had it for so long that it is inconceivable to them to actually pay for medical care. The drug stores here have begun to put the retail price of prescriptions on all their sales just so people know what they cost. I’ve never paid more than $10 for any drug, even the ones that cost hundreds of dollars for a few days. My oldest stepkid has asthsma and uses inhalers that he was pretty addicted to and which he had never paid for. So, he turns 23 and we can’t cover him anymore and has to start buying that stuff himself at over six hundred dollars for a pack of three. He’s learning to do without that stuff!

Republicans, hide any old copies of The Nation you might have lying around. Keep all televisions tuned to Fox News at all times. The Palinite Putsch might be coming for you.”

How does he explain this:

http://www.texastribune.org/stories/2009/nov/06/hopsons-choice/

Rep. Chuck Hopson, D-Jacksonville, will seek reelection, but as a Republican — a move that might save his neck while wrecking the party’s chances at winning a majority in the House.

Hopson, who barely scraped by in 2008, initially planned to make an announcement this afternoon but moved it up to this morning as rumors spread and the Texas Democratic Party scorched him in a press release.

“President Obama and the Democrats in Congress just don’t reflect the values of this district,” he said.

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I think we will see some Blue Dogs actually switch parties after today’s rush to cram PelosiCare down American’s throat. Pelosi has put many of them in a lose/lose scenario.

http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba514

This article was posted in 2005, and, I wonder how the current economy has impacted the plan, if at all. Also, the plan was created shortly before Congress closed the opt out of SS loophole in 1983. The best plan that Republicans can come up with as a reform of SS in the future, would be to make the plan or something similar to it, voluntary, at least at first. However, we will need to get a majority of Republicans in Congress to overturn the federal mandate which bans opt out programs. I would also like to see future Republicans push for HSA’s, of course with it be voluntary, again, at least at first. I am not saying that I believe the Federal Government should be involved at all, but, they already are, under both Democrat and Republican administrations with respect to SS and Medicare. We all know how you cannot take away entitlements once they start.