Why Most People Favored Obamacare

For decades the public school system has not taught high school students basic finance or economics. As a result most millennials do not understand what, or how, insurance works other than the fact that they have to have it to drive a car. Beyond that, nothing more than it costs a lot to have a policy. In some cases, mom and dad pay, or paid, their policy while they were still living at home the last few years of high school or college.

Thus, when Obamacare came along many I encountered were convinced that this health insurance plan was the best things since sliced bread because it would allow those who couldn't afford a policy to get one; especially those unfortunate to have a pre-existing condition. When trying to explain why this wouldn't work the way it was set up, I was met with a combination of confusion, ignorance, disbelief and accusation that I was just mean, unfair, biased, prejudiced or uncaring about those who they felt deserved it because Obama meant well in "solving" the problem for millions. 

This type of attitude, based on feelings and ignorance, is a scary and ruinous way to operate policy which is precisely what happened. Remember, we were told by then Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, that we would have to pass the legislation before we could learn what was in the bill.

Now, Prager U has released its latest video which clearly and simply explains what I had attempted to explain years ago, now that we've learned just how poorly Obamacare has failed to produce what it promised and why.

Slowly... Truth Is Being Revealed!

Those of us who've kept our ear to the ground over the last presidential administration know that the level of corruption inside the beltway, or, as Trump as candidate made it popular, "the swamp", is very high. So high, in fact, that new revelations are coming out from Judicial Watch's work in requesting FOIAs on various campaign and federal agency activities during this period.

According to this article, with a video from the Tucker Carlson Tonight show about the latest information on the former F.B.I. Director, James Comey, the Obama administration committed multiple acts which were not appropriate under the law; exonerating Hillary Clinton for her email crimes is just one.

In my view, this validates claims I've been making for years regarding the nefarious actions and policies the former administration was engaged in and why Trump won the election over Clinton; the "fly-over country" knew exactly what was really going on and had grown so frustrated and sick of it all that they realized - even many liberals - they had to step up and "pull the lever" for someone they didn't necessarily agree with, but wanted to save their freedoms and liberties.

Insight Into the Southern Statues' History

As I've posted some remarks on this topic earlier on the blog, I recently came across this video from Dick Morris, who has a regular "Lunch Alert" subscription, in which he comments on the issues of the day and how he understands the situation he's speaking to. Morris was personal advisor to both Clintons from the time they were in the Governor's mansion in Arkansas and into the White House. So, he does have some knowledge and understanding that many do not. Apparently, he's also an historian of some type, as he provides some interesting insights into the background of many national topics.

My earlier post spoke to the fact that Robert E. Lee was first and foremost a state's rights oriented general when it came to the question of where his loyalties lay at the secession of the south and commanding the southern army in the Civil War. During that period of the country's mindset regarding the federal government and the states, most viewed the relationship between them from a perspective of state loyalty primarily, and federal government as playing a role of protector of all states from foreign threats secondarily.

His remarks explain the conditions which existed in the south during what we call Reconstruction and how all the southern general statues ended up being placed where they are today. In this video, Morris blames Lee's continuation of the war after Lincoln's re-election for the unnecessary death of thousands of soldiers on both sides of the battles which ensued beyond the outcome of the election in November of 1864. 

Eight Months... And NOTHING Significant!

I just received this email message from Ken Kuccinelli of the Senate Conservative Fund. It may be stating an already obvious realization - Rush has been beating this drum for some time now - but I am using it on this post because I believe it illustrates just how effective the liberal brainwashing of not just the general public, but the elected representatives in the Republican Party - otherwise known in conservative parlance as "Establishment" or "Deep State" - is significantly impacting our government's ability to make changes voters elected their president to implement, which may well lead to national crisis in the near to mid-term future. However, I reserve the possibility that Trump's current tactics - ie: his Tweeting - may well cause the media to loose control of the reigns of power and things might thus shift in his favor.

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Establishment Republicans always promise to fight for conservative policies in the future, but when that day comes they make excuses and repeat the empty promise to fight another day.

A friend recently simplified the establishment's plug-and-play message that they use in almost every debate. It goes like this:

"If only we had [more power], things would be great. We need to just get past [current fight] and focus on [future election] so we can have [new higher electoral number] and then we will be able to [win policy we are not currently fighting for]."

How many times have we heard this different version of this excuse? Too many to count.

As we watch in utter disbelief as establishment Republicans squander a once in a lifetime opportunity to enact conservative policies, it's important to remember why it's so important to elect conservatives who believe in our principles and will fight for them.

The lie that the GOP establishment has told voters – that they will advance a conservative agenda if they win the next election – is a complete joke. After eight months of controlling everything in Washington, they have no legislative accomplishments.

Majorities in Congress are meaningless if they fail to keep their promises and fail to produce real policy results.

It's why our founder, Senator Jim DeMint, once famously said that he would rather have 30 Republicans in the Senate who believe in our principles than 60 Republicans who don't. You see, we can fill the Senate with 60 or even 70 Republicans, but if they are all closet liberals nothing good will be achieved.

So when the GOP establishment tells us we can only achieve policy goals if we settle for more pro-establishment Republicans, do not be fooled. It's a flat out lie.

We must remain focused on electing true conservatives who can be counted on to fight for our principles and values, especially when it's hard. That is the only way to achieve our policy goals and advance the first principles upon which this country was founded.

Thank you for standing strong for freedom and for doing so much to help us promote conservative leadership in Washington.

Sincerely,

Ken Cuccinelli II
President
Senate Conservatives Fund

Trump's lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship

The author is unknown, but knows how to say what we all realize.

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My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.” 

 

Here’s my answer: 

 

We Right-thinking people have tried dignity.  There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency.

 

We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney? 

 

And the results were always the same. This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.

 

I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party. I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.” 

 

The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today. The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety. With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War.

 

During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”

 

General George Patton was a vulgar-talking, son-of-a-bitch. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum then, Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand-year Reich.

 

Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!” 

 

That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics. That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.

 

Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do. First, instead of going after “the fake media” — and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri — Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal.     

 

Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.” ... Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. ... They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices. They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery. The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve.   

 

It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive. Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s church. Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up.  So, to my friends on the Left — and the #NeverTrumpers as well — do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years. So, say anything you want about this president - I get it - he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights for America!

Establishment Psychology of The Swamp

Psychology

Start with a cage containing four monkeys, and

inside the cage you hang a banana on a string, and

then you place a set of stairs under the banana.

Before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb

toward the banana.

You then spray ALL the monkeys with cold water.

After a while, another monkey makes an attempt. As

soon as he touches the stairs, you spray ALL the

monkeys with cold water.

  

Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the

stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.

Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey

from the cage and replace it with a new monkey. The

new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the

stairs. To his shock, ALL of the other monkeys beat

the crap out of him. After another attempt and

attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the

stairs he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original four monkeys,

replacing it with a new monkey. The newcomer goes

to the stairs and is attacked. The previous

newcomer takes part in the punishment - with

enthusiasm - because he is now part of the "team."

Then, replace a third original monkey with a new

monkey, followed by the fourth. Every time the

newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked.

Now, the monkeys that are beating him up have no

idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs.

Neither do they know why they are participating in

the beating of the newest monkey. Having replaced

all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining

monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water.

Nevertheless, not one of the monkeys will try to

climb the stairway for the Banana.

Why, you ask? Because in their minds, that is the

way it has always been!

This is how today's House and Senate operates, and

this is why from time to time, ALL of the monkeys

need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME!

DISCLAIMER: This is meant as no disrespect to monkeys.***

Russian Collusion Apparently Confirmed - Not Trump

I've long believed that the media narrative is serving a duel purpose; distraction and misdirection, the core strategies of any magician practicing his/her craft. Distraction is used to present enough plausible information to the public such that, after repeating it for six months or more, people who don't get information from any alternative sources than the alphabet soup networks actually believe it to be true.The misdirection involves putting blame on their target; in this case with the "Russian / Trump Collusion" story it's been the man who "stole" Hillary Clinton's presidency.
 
It seems, from the evidence gathered thus far by a veteran CIA agent's research, that there actually is a Russian effort to influence the U.S., but not when it comes to the election. Instead, its efforts are to impact the U.S. energy policy regarding fracking.

Why? Use this link to not only read the article, but to watch a brief and concise video clip from the Tucker Carlson Show with guest reporter Kevin Mooney to learn the details. The dots between Russia and U.S. Environmental groups being funneled millions of dollars to protest and lobby to stop fracking in the U.S. is clearly and convincingly explained.