Health Care

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Not a smidgen of corruption?

When Fox’s Bill O’Reilly asked the president about the perception of corruption in the IRS scandal with records showing former director Douglas Shulman visited the White House on a 157 occasions; his response was “no mass corruption, not even a smidgen of corruption.”

Despite the fact that directors normally have staffers handle project detail, the president insisted Shulman’s visits were tied to meetings involving the set-up of HealthCare.gov, adding that he didn’t recall meeting with Shulman.

While the president appears to consider the IRS targeting issue closed with no corruption, DOJ appointee Barbara Bosserman and the FBI continue to investigate it  At least that’s what we are told. Continue reading →

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Where’s the outrage?

THERE THEY WERE, the nation’s five top intelligence officials, Clapper (DNI), Brennan (CIA), Flynn (DIA), Comey (FBI), and Olsen (NCC), sitting before the House Intelligence Committee hearing yesterday.  Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL) asks, “Can anybody at the table tell us when somebody will be held responsible for the murders in Benghazi?” … read more

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White House scandals not going away

While an estimated 111 million people viewed the president’s interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly prior to the Super Bowl, it’s unfortunate if they didn’t see the extra exclusive minutes afforded O’Reilly for use later on his evening show.  They missed seeing the president at his worst.

ObamaOReilly Interview (NYDaily News photo)

O’Reilly interviews Obama (NYDailyNews photo)

O’Reilly asked the president if he thought his coverage of him and his administration was unfair. ”Absolutely,” the president answered, “we just went through an interview in which you asked about health care not working … the IRS, were we wholly corrupt (and) Benghazi.”   O’Reilly politely responded saying, “but these are unanswered questions.”  I found it hard to believe the president wasn’t prepared.  After all, he wasn’t dealing with his water carriers at the other networks or the New York Times. Continue reading →

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Addressing abortion in 2014

As the Republican Party begins its campaign to hold on to the House and retake the Senate in the up-coming mid-term elections, it is getting strong advice from  a number of quarters on a subject of which it has long been identified  – abortion.

Some argue this is a losing issue and remind the party that it lost unmarried women by 36 points in the 2012 election.  Others point to the fact that the country is fairly split on abortion now Continue reading →

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From the sidelines …

Problem for the Administration – Just 18 per cent of young adults say they are likelyYAF Guidestar.org image to enroll in ObamaCare, compared to 46 per cent who are not likely to enroll, according to a survey conducted by the Young America’s Foundation.  More revealing was the fact that 48 per cent consider the government too big compared to just four per cent who believe it’s too small. … read more

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On the front burner …

Those health care insurers received another reminder of what it means to get in bed with big government as Moody’s Investor’s Service analysts have downgraded the industry’s outlook yesterday, noting that the administration’s changes to the rules make it difficult to know if insurers will end up with the customer base they need to make the economics of ObamaCare work out.… read more

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You are a Democrat

You might be a Democrat, wrote Janice Shoemaker in her Progressive Views column.  It reminded me of the story New Mexico’s Governor Susana Martinez told at the Republican convention. The Governor related how she was brought up as a Democrat, but she and her husband were invited to lunch by a couple of Republicans interested in her switching parties.  She had planned to just meet with them as a courtesy, but she said, “when we left that lunch and got in the car I looked over at Chuck and said, ‘I’ll be damned, we’re Republicans.’”

Unfortunately, Shoemaker’s broad brush attempt to paint Democrats in a light that would test Republican positions on issues falls flat.  Not only does she not understand the issues she cites, she ignores other issues of deep concern to conservatives.  Continue reading →

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Not so fast

Last year I wrote a piece, This is no time to concede overturning ObamaCare, in response to a speech given in San Antonio by Dr. Gail Wilensky, who stated it was a waste of time since it was the “law of the land now.”

Today, Jon R. Wampler took up the charge in a letter to the editor of the San Antonio Express-News in response to Eugene Robinson’s column in which he states that the fight over ObamaCare is history. … read more

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Madison cautioned against bills like ACA

       Laws “so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood …” were cautioned against by President James Madison in Federalist Papers No.62. Considered the father of the Constitution and the author of the Bill of Rights, he added “if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow.”  How prophetic.

      Democrats, with their fascination for “comprehensive” programs, again overreached with the complex Affordable Care Act (ACA), more commonly known as ObamaCare. The result was a 2700-page bill nobody read that now has over 10,000 pages of accompanying regulations, said to be eight times the number of pages in the Gutenberg Bible.  Continue reading →