The Competent Conservative

Here is a piece from a family friend.  A poignant, yet simple, analogy of the reality of the Obama agenda.  I would add that it is in situations as simple as this that someones true nature is revealed.   Something Barack Obama should have obviously said is “I really don’t know all the details, so I [...]

For those critics of the Health plan in MA, put together by former Governor Mitt Romney and the state legislature, you may want to read this article.  One of the most important statements made in this article is this: “These are extraordinarily difficult times for all of state government, and it is not helpful to [...]

Why Obamacare is sinking: By Charles Krauthammer Firday, July 24th, 2009 What happened to Obamacare? Rhetoric met reality. As both candidate and president, the master rhetorician could conjure a world in which he bestows upon you health-care nirvana: more coverage, less cost. But you can’t fake it in legislation. Once you commit your fantasies to [...]

I’ve noticed a disturbing pattern over the past few weeks of Obama’s propaganda onslaught to change healthcare delivery in America.    Physicians are increasingly portrayed as greedy, inept, inefficient operators who would function better under a system of government control.    Here’s the latest salvo in Obama’s ongoing campaign – AP: In trying to rally support for health care overhaul, [...]

By: Barbara Hollingsworth Local Opinion Editor 07/22/09 5:10 PM EDT Every month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes six “measures of labor underutilization” (i.e. unemployment). The official unemployment rate used by politicians and the media, referred to as U3, measures the percent of the civilian labor force that is out of work. (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/lau/stalt.htm) [...]

The Wall Street Journal came out with this article today regarding the triumph of President Obama and Democrats in Congress in grounding the F-22 Raptor, after dueling it out for many days.  Both Republicans and Democrats opposed the cancellation of this stealthy fighter.  Craig Bradford had earlier posted his feelings regarding the Political agenda Robert [...]

By Michael Tanner In making his case for a government takeover of the US health-care system, President Obama is going far beyond the usual Washington truth-stretching. Take a look at just a few of the most common claims: “If you like your current health-care plan, you can keep it.” Even White House spokesmen have said [...]

By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Congress: It didn’t take long to run into an “uh-oh” moment when reading the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought [...]

Newsweek posted this interview with Governor Romney today: By Katie Connolly In the last two weeks, political commentators have expressed doubts over President Obama’s time frame for healthcare reform. Meanwhile, even some Democrat lawmakers appear to be getting cold feet. In response, Obama is relentlessly pitching his plan. He has spoken about healthcare on eight [...]

This Rassmussen poll was released at 10:30AM EST.  It was conducted as a ‘Mitt Romney/Sarah Palin Vs. Barack Obama’ poll and has Romney and Obama in a dead heat.  In an earlier post, I indicated to our readers that it does indeed look like the 2012 prospects are shaping up to be a ‘Romney Vs. [...]