President Roosevelt once remarked that Winston Churchill had fifty ideas a day but only three or four was good. Newt Gingrich, who is expected to run, or not run, for president tomorrow, has kind of appropriated that claim, only with fewer ideas per day to bump up the percentage of good ones (never mind the novel about what would happen if the Nazis took on the Confederates and Huey Long took on Strom Thurmond in a cage fight over who'd be the King of America).
One of the consultant/bloggers is kinda like that, only with no novels and all the ideas turning out badly.
They're just one bark short of frothing at the mouth over health care and tort reform (the latter: close the courts to real people, just let in the artificial corporate ones).
The latest brainwave? Kids who think they will never get sick don't want health care, so Republicans should, apparently, drop it as an issue, because nobody ever really cares about it at election time (citing all of one example, the PA Senate race when Dick Thornburg lost to a health care wonk, Harris Wofford, twenty years ago. Wofford lost the seat three years later, mostly over his votes on gun control and abortion rights, losing by two points to Rick Santorum, who, in due course, got thrown out and had to become a presidential candidate to pass his time.So, all in all- other than that TPS- no, not that one- seems to want to compare itself to Baegala and Carville, that's gotta be considered a wash as an example.)
Health care is like the Bible- there's something in it for every point of view, but to segue from "young voters don't care coz they think they are immortal" to "everyone else can't afford it because we haven't lowered the wages rates enough to make sure they can get jobs hat ensure they can't afford it" (enter Jim DeMint, stage right, crying, "FREEDOM!")- well, that takes some doing. And, maybe, a pitch for some work from T-Paw.
But the underlying theme is a simple, if repetitive one: go back to industrial revolution working conditions to return the state to its old school economic development model, and let the rich have health care they care afford with the tax cuts they'll be given.
One of the consultant/bloggers is kinda like that, only with no novels and all the ideas turning out badly.
They're just one bark short of frothing at the mouth over health care and tort reform (the latter: close the courts to real people, just let in the artificial corporate ones).
The latest brainwave? Kids who think they will never get sick don't want health care, so Republicans should, apparently, drop it as an issue, because nobody ever really cares about it at election time (citing all of one example, the PA Senate race when Dick Thornburg lost to a health care wonk, Harris Wofford, twenty years ago. Wofford lost the seat three years later, mostly over his votes on gun control and abortion rights, losing by two points to Rick Santorum, who, in due course, got thrown out and had to become a presidential candidate to pass his time.So, all in all- other than that TPS- no, not that one- seems to want to compare itself to Baegala and Carville, that's gotta be considered a wash as an example.)
Health care is like the Bible- there's something in it for every point of view, but to segue from "young voters don't care coz they think they are immortal" to "everyone else can't afford it because we haven't lowered the wages rates enough to make sure they can get jobs hat ensure they can't afford it" (enter Jim DeMint, stage right, crying, "FREEDOM!")- well, that takes some doing. And, maybe, a pitch for some work from T-Paw.
But the underlying theme is a simple, if repetitive one: go back to industrial revolution working conditions to return the state to its old school economic development model, and let the rich have health care they care afford with the tax cuts they'll be given.
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