Comments Posted By JerryS
Displaying 31 To 40 Of 53 Comments
THOUGHTS ON THE PASSAGE OF HEALTH CARE REFORM
Rick -
The GOP has no one to blame but themselves.
1. It's hard to be credible, as a Representative or Senator, when claiming that you're against government run health care when all congresspersons are covered by government run health care.
2. It's hard to be credible, as a party (the GOP) to claim that you have a better Health Care plan, only to have your plan completely demolished by the CBO when you finally reveal the plan only days before a vote.
3. It's hard to be credible, as a party, to claim that you're against government run health care, then refuse to call for the dismantling of the VA and Medicare, the two largest examples of government run health care.
4. It's hard to be credible, as a party, to claim that you have the answers for health care yet you didn't propose ANY plans during the six years you controlled the White House, House, and Senate.
Comment Posted By JerryS On 8.11.2009 @ 11:55
THE HOPELESS BANALITY OF THE BLOGOSPHERE
Bravo, Rick. Bravo.
Comment Posted By JerryS On 6.11.2009 @ 12:18
SShiel -
Not fully the truth. That district was in a different geographic area than the current area. So, the truth is that that AREA hasn't been represented by a Democrat in 100 years.
Tell the truth.
Comment Posted By JerryS On 4.11.2009 @ 19:36
Rick -
Sigh... You're still under the delusion that the Tea-Party/Birthers/Beck/Palin/Limbaugh wing of the party is not driving the train.
Do you honestly think that they'll be happy with mainstream conservatives (limited government in all matters, fiscal and social)running for office? No. These conservatives want hard right candidates.
I'm still trying hard to figure out how a seat [that was reliably GOP] switching to the Dems is a good thing, yet the boys at RedState keep telling me its true.
Yesterday, Nancy Pelosi had 256 members in her caucus. Today she has 258. In a time when every vote counts, this could be huge.
I feel ill.
If the radicals are "driving the train" how did Dede slip through the cracks?
No, the radicals are pressuring the engineer but at the moment, the establishment - which is considerably less conservative than most of us would like - is still driving the engine. All the radicals can do is make trouble. True, they have some members running scared because they supply a lot of money and volunteers for races. But the power - at the moment - resides with the elites. And they are part of the problem as well.
The radicals are so dangerous because they can throw a monkey wrench into the machinery. If they mount challenges to those they consider too "moderate" the party loses because the waste of resources that could have been better spent in the general election goes to winning a bruising primary.
The radicals can send messages - that's about it. It is displaying a false consciousness if you pay attention to Democrats regarding who is "leading" the Republican party. It is the same folks who led the GOP in 2006 and 2008. The far right is pushing, and I will grant they've made some headway. But it's far cry from them running the party.
ed.
Comment Posted By JerryS On 4.11.2009 @ 11:22
Shorter Vic Hernandez - "I have no positions on issues, so I'll just keep repeating that Obama's visions for America is a disaster and hope that people believe me."
Comment Posted By JerryS On 3.11.2009 @ 10:33
M. Simon -
You do realize, don't you, that Dede Scozzafava was ENDORSED by the NRA?
Do you even know Doug Hoffman's position on the 2nd Amendment?
Comment Posted By JerryS On 3.11.2009 @ 03:05
David -
Reagan SIGNED an Amnesty Bill.
Reagan RAISED taxes (at the time, the biggest tax increase in history).
Reagan had no problems with homosexuals - given his Hollywood history.
Reagan believed the GOP was a big tent, with a coalition of liberals, moderate, and conservatives making the party of Reagan.
Today's GOP is way different that the GOP of Ronald Reagan, and those who compare the two do a disservice to Reagan himself.
Comment Posted By JerryS On 2.11.2009 @ 16:45
Vic -
Are you for shutting down Medicare? If not, why not, since it's socialized medicine?
Are you for shutting down the VA Medical Facilities? If not, why not, since it's single payer health care?
Which departments would you cut, specifically, in order to cut spending?
How would you propose outlawing abortion? Would doctors or patients be responsible when an abortion took place, and what would be the penalties?
How would you cut down on illegal immigration, specifically?
Until the "conservatives" can start answering real questions that have to do with, you know, actual governing, they'll be left in the void. Currently, other than saying "NO", like you're doing, there is no constructive, positive policy positions being put forth by "Conservatives".
Seriously, assuming you can win, how would you govern? 2000-2006 didn't show me much, other than two wars, an exploding debt due to runaway spending. And that was when the GOP controlled everything. Why would it be different next time?
Comment Posted By JerryS On 2.11.2009 @ 15:44
Rick -
Thinking more about your post above....
I've come to the conclusion that you, you personally, illustrate EXACTLY what is wrong with the current GOP. By that, I mean that you're a solid conservative. Your positions on issues are probably in agreement with 95% of most Conservative and GOP voters. Yet because of your religious views (or lack thereof), you'd probably never be elected in a GOP primary, given the current environment.
In California, Arnold Schwarznegger couldn't run for Governor in a normal primary because he'd never get past the GOP primaries - which is why Dems get nominated every year since Pete Wilson left office. Next year, we're going to get Jerry Brown again, and Boxer and Feinstein have jobs for life - as long as the GOP insists on running hard right social conservatives for statewide office. A Republican in California is, more likely than not, pro-choice, pro-gun control, anti-tax, anti-death penalty.
Comment Posted By JerryS On 2.11.2009 @ 15:14
Dear Rick -
As one of those "moderates" that voted for Obama last time around (mainly due to Sarah Palin), I'm puzzled by the seeming 'death wish' of the GOP. As I've written here before, a "conservative" from NY or California is very different from a "conservative" in Mississippi or Alabama. I voted for Ronald Reagan, twice. I voted for George H.W. Bush, twice.
I'm pro-choice, pro(reasonable gun control, pro-death penalty, pro-gay marriage, against government subsidies to businesses, just to name a few issues. Who the f**k am I supposed to vote for with the current GOP ideological wall in place? Seems to me, Republicans who hold positions like Pete Wilson, Rudy Guiliani, George Pataki, Christie Todd Whitman, Arnold Schwarznegger and Michael Bloomberg will not be able to ever run again as Republicans because they'll be deemed RINOs or, even worse, radical leftists.
When someone like Hoffman, who signed Beck's 9/12 pledge, is considered a "mainstream conservative" by party leaders, there is something very, very wrong with today's GOP.
Heh - have you read that pledge? It is the most innocuous, harmless, statement of patriotic pablum imaginable. Those who think it some kind of covenant with the devil or the far right are completely off base. In fact, it's laughable that anyone (even the section on God doesn't offend me, an atheist) would find anything objectionable at all in it.I do agree with the idea that conservatives define themselves quite differently in different parts of the country. This notion escapes the far right because any deviation from their ideological construct is out of the question.
But I am tired of arguing with brick walls. Like the liberals from 1980-2006, conservatives are condemned to minority status no matter how badly Obama screws up.
ed.
Comment Posted By JerryS On 2.11.2009 @ 12:31
