Barack Obama’s Heathcare Reform Plan- Once Again…Let’s Socialize! A Liberal State of Mind pt. 2 (Attack of the Republican Blogs)

Today on my Republican blog: Once again, let’s socialize! (The current state of the Democratic Party aka the Republican version of The Best Week Ever). For a group of individuals who’ve spent the last few years campaigning (and somehow winning) on the promise of making a change in politics, it’s extraordinarily funny to see just how much in disarray the democratic party is in today. From my perspective, it looks like the only change they’re trying to affect is socialism- and they’re not even good at accomplishing that. From nationalizing banks, car manufactures, TARP, and now this health care initiative fiasco? It’s almost like democrats are trying to give us (Republicans) the country back in 2010 and 2012. That’s the exact reason that I keep saying we’ll be ready by 2011 to win in 2012. I just had a gut feeling from the beginning that if democrats got into any form of office in 2008, they would do what liberals always seem to do: find new and innovative ways to ruin America. As evidenced by Barack Obama’s national (socialized) health care plan, it’s apparent that they’re just picking up just where Hillary Clinton left off in the mid 90’s. I’m just assuming that most democrats just enjoy failing at everything they do. Think about it. Whatever city or town or municipality you happen to live in, take a second and ask yourself what ward or district or community has the most crime, the most unemployment, the lowest property values, the worst schools, ect, ect, ect. Now ask yourself this: what party does the mayor, alderman, committee members, county executive, school board members, senators, state representatives, local politicians, ect, ect, ect belong to? If you couldn’t guess- it’s the Democratic Party. It’s so perplexing to me that the very people who claim to be the party of the people (look up democracy), who claim to care about their children and their grandchildren’s future (global warming anyone?) would vote these indecisive, liberal clowns into office at all levels; year, after year, after year. To us (Republicans) it’s really of little consequence now, because we all know that each day that passes by, you’ll have more time to introduce more asinine, trite, nonsensical proposals, propositions, bills, legislation and other comedy that your party thinks will fool the American people. And guess what? Nobody’s buying it. What have we gotten so far with democratic leadership? Higher taxes, a larger government presence and an off kilter attempt at socialization. Wake up people! 2012 is ours and we’re currently organizing this very second for 2010 and 2012. But before I let you read this funny (to Republicans) and accurate article my friend e-mailed me, I have to give my respect and thanks to Erica Werner and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar from the Associated Press, all of our Armed Forces, the RNC, the Missouri Republican Party, the Illinois Republican Party, the College Republican National Committee, the National Black Republican Association, the Wall Street Journal, KSDK Channel 5, KTVI Fox 2 News, my personal assistant /gf #2 Jeanette, all of my Republican Blogs and Bloggers (I’m still here!), my Libertarian blogs and bloggers (like your tax hikes?), my Democrat blogs and bloggers (keep giving 2012 to us on a silver platter!), and to all Political blogs and bloggers: Let your voice be heard. GOP in 2012! If you’re not on the right, you’re wrong. Ready by 2011 to win in 2012! And visit http://grandoldparty2011.blogspot.com Enjoy!

WASHINGTON – Dissension within Democratic ranks over President Barack Obama’s health care initiative all but paralyzed the House Friday, typifying just how many political land mines are littering the path to enactment.
The Obama White House figured on some pushback from congressional Republicans, but leaders of his own Democratic Party struggled to get things moving. A powerful House committee chairman threatened to force a floor vote to break the impasse within Democratic ranks — a drastic step that could roil the House.
Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said negotiations with fiscally conservative Democrats on his panel cannot continue indefinitely. But a floor vote would put fellow Democrats in an exposed position, having to cast a vote on a $544-billion upper-income tax increase that the Senate is unlikely to embrace to help pay for covering the millions of uninsured Americans.
The problems on the House side of the Capitol come a day after Senate Democratic leaders announced they would not go ahead as planned with a floor vote before Congress departs for its August recess. Senate Democrats are also divided. While some are negotiating with Republicans, others want to plow ahead on their own.
“We’re going to have to look at perhaps bypassing the (Energy and Commerce) committee because we’ve got to get moving on this legislation,” Waxman said. “I hope we don’t come to that conclusion.”
Two House panels have already passed legislation. Waxman is stymied because seven conservatives on his committee — part of a group called the Blue Dog Democrats — are sticking together.
Negotiations are continuing, but Waxman said he’s running out of patience.
“We’re not going to let them empower the Republicans to control the committee,” he said.
“This can’t be an interminable discussion,” Waxman added. He’s agreed to a study to address why Medicare rates are lower in rural areas in hopes of mollifying the Blue Dogs, many of whom represent small town constituencies. Billions of dollars are potentially at stake. Meanwhile, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said he hoped the talks would end on a positive note and the bill could proceed through Waxman’s committee.
As lawmakers continued to haggle, the White House said Obama will keep working on health care in August even if Congress goes home.
“Nobody in planning meetings decided we should just take August off,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. “For a long time we planned to continue the discussion on the issues that are important, be it the economy, health care … education. That had always in many ways been priced into the scenario.”
Obama envisions legislation that would, for the first time, require all Americans to be insured. A new government insurance program would compete with private insurers, and insurance companies would be barred from excluding people with pre-existing conditions. The goals are to hold down costs and extend coverage to most of the 50 million uninsured. The price tag: $1 trillion-plus over a decade.
Obama met Friday morning at the White House with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont. Reid said Thursday that the panel will push to complete a bill before the Senate breaks Aug. 7. Baucus has been negotiating with the panel’s Republicans in hopes of producing a bipartisan bill.
Finance Committee negotiators are looking at a bill that probably won’t satisfy Democratic liberals. One of their top goals is a new government-sponsored insurance plan, and that was a centerpiece of legislation passed by the Senate’s health committee. But Finance Committee members are looking at nonprofit co-ops instead.
In the House, the Blue Dogs want more done to try to control rising medical costs.
Democratic leaders say the back-and-forth is a normal part of the legislative process, but Republicans are latching on to the disarray in delight. The Republican National Committee has taken to issuing news releases headlined “Chaos” that highlight disagreements within the Democrats’ ranks.
In a Tweeter post on Friday, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, gave a shout-out to the Democratic dissidents: “bludogs keep barkin.” Grassley is Baucus’ counterpart in the Senate health care negotiations.

The Dumbing down of the Republican Party

Today on my Republican Blog: This morning I happened to be thumbing through today’s issue of the paper and I noticed two very interesting letters to the editor. While this paticular rag is well known for its anti-Obama stance, they also choose to print a second letter that perfectly expressed what a lot of us moderate Republicans have been feeling for years. Lets start with the first letter: this “alleged” republican wrote that he feels Barack Obama is directly connected with the Gov. Blagojevich scandal; I suppose based on some secret knowledge he has, that apparently wasn’t available to any of the law enforcement agencies that have been investigating the governor for years. He then brought up all the usual knocks against Obama (Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, Tony Rezko, PLO, he’s really a muslim, etc); the usual far, far, far right wing blog material that makes us all look bad. But the most abhorrent aspect of his tirade was the fact that he kept referring to the president elect only as “Hussein Obama”. See, this is the reason I hate telling people I’m a Republican; because then I have to spend the next 30 minutes explaining that we’re not all ignorant, ill informed, disrespectful and slightly racist individuals. You can disagree with a man’s politics, but the ridiculousness that I’ve heard coming from a small minority of my party on blogs, radio, and television is just disheartening. If you don’t like black people, then just say that. But don’t do it under the guise of being a Republican. Don’t you get it? That’s what’s wrong with our party. Since the southern strategy of the 1960’s our party has resigned itself to courting the lowest common denominator for political gain. Don’t believe me? Remember the 2004 elections? All the Bush-Cheney bumper stickers? I used to make a habit of asking random people with said stickers what they knew about either Bush or Cheney. I’d say only about 10% could tell me anything relevant about them. And what’s even worse is when I would direct them to the RNC website or to their local headquarters to get more information and maybe volunteer; almost all said no. And think about the War in Iraq. Most of my family is military and I have several family members and friends serving our country in the middle east; also a few that lost their lives protecting our freedom. It’s easy to get a magnetic ribbon from a gas station and put it on a car, but when I would ask if they would like to donate to the many charities that help our troops at home and abroad; that offer was also declined. It’s like all you have to do to call yourself a Republican is oppose Abortion, Gay marriage, be Christian (while still hating all minorities and everyone different than you; because that’s what jesus would do) and basically make sure the poor and middle class (you) do your best to make sure the rich (people you will never meet in your life) get richer. It’s shameful how far we’ve fallen. The second letter I can sum up very succinctly. To everyone out there under 30, remember when your grandparents first discovered you were interested in politics? The stories they’d tell you about some of the great Republican leaders of their time? When being an intellectual, college educated, productive citizen was actually a good thing? When being patriotic meant enlisting, volunteering or donating to the cause; rather than having a bumper sticker or a magnet or wearing a lapel pen? When making sure growing the middle class was more important than making it harder for people to reach that level? When we prided ourselves on our great industrial complex as opposed to supporting sending jobs overseas? When it was more important to make sure that all men had equal rights as opposed to the Dixiecrats (google it), who would kill, imprison, and oppress those that looked different than them? Or for that matter, had a different religion? We used to be a Grand Old Party. And it’s up to us young Republicans to bring those days back. So, go to your Republican blogs, start your own blog or link to mine and lets get our party back where it needs to be.