Posts Tagged ‘Republican’
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) Delivers Weekly Republican Address On Health Care
Hello, Im Senator John Thune of South Dakota. With summer in full swing, children across the country are enjoying vacations and time off from school. Too many of their parents, however, dont get a vacation from their worries about important issues like the rising costs of health care. Those parents, like many Americans, are looking to us in Washington for help, and for real solutions.
Republicans in Congress know that serious health care reform is a top priority of the American people, and we are committed to getting it done. But we need to get the right reform, rather than just rush something through that could leave us in far worse shape in the future.
Republicans want health care reform that works. Reform that brings down costs for families and small businesses, and reform that provides better care to more people. On all these points, the current proposals by the President and the Democrat leadership in Congress fall short. Their plan for government-run health care would disrupt our current system and force millions of Americans who currently enjoy their employer-based coverage into a new health care plan run by government bureaucrats.
In this difficult recession, Americans and our government are already over-extended. The Democrats who control Congress have been spending money and racking up debt at an unprecedented pace. And their plan for government-run health care would only make things worse. Once implemented, the Democrat plan would spend more than $2 trillion and further increase our exploding deficit. Their plan would pile up higher costs, create new Washington bureaucracies, and burden every state through new requirements on Medicaid.
Governors and state legislators from both parties have said that increased Medicaid costs would overwhelm their already-strained state budgets. In fact, one Democratic governor last week called the increases proposed by Congressional Democrats the mother of all unfunded mandates.
In my home state of South Dakota, the new Medicaid requirements could require $45 million a year in new state spending. That may not sound like much, but for a small state thats required by law to balance its budget every year, its a lot. That money would have to come from somewhere, and that means either higher taxes or cuts to other priorities. Thats what were facing not just in South Dakota, but nationwide.
Americans dont want to lose their high quality health care, and they definitely dont want to pay trillions of dollars for a government takeover of health care that could lead to the same denial, delay, and rationing of treatment that weve seen in other countries that have gone down this path.
Republicans think theres a better way. Weve put forth proposals that will cut costs and improve care. And we can accomplish health care reform while keeping patients and their doctors in charge, not bureaucrats and politicians.
Real reform should allow small businesses to pool together to buy affordable health insurance for their employees.
Real reform should protect doctors and hospitals from frivolous lawsuits, so they can stop practicing defensive medicine and instead focus on practicing patient-focused medicine.
Real reform should encourage wellness and prevention programs that have been proven to cut costs.
And real reform should give people who buy their own insurance the same tax breaks as those who get insurance through their employers.
These and other commonsense solutions would provide real reform for our health care system rather than the dangerous and costly experiment that Democrats are proposing.
I hope that as we continue this important debate, we can put aside the politics of Washington and tackle health care reform in the bipartisan way that Americans deserve.
Its time for real reform that works, not the same old answers of more money and more government. Real health care reform should cost Americans less money, not more. It should provide better quality, not worse. And it should empower patients, not government bureaucrats. By working together, we can do just that.
Thank you.
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
This is more a Call to Action than a typical commentary.
We need your video responses, even if you have nothing to say other than “I support open debates”! That’s fine. Anything is better than silence.
We also need to write Google, Obama, and McCain expressing our demand for Nader to be in the debate, along with any other candidate who reaches 5 percent or more in the polls. Pressure Obama not to slink away from a debate which promises to be more democratic than the CPD debates. Call him out on this one.
Below are the entities you need to contact followed by part of a long-winded article I wrote which continues on my website.
Google, Inc.
Ginny Hunt - Google Elections Program Manager
Eric Schmidt - Google CEO
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
(650) 253-0000
Obama Campaign:
Obama for America
P.O. Box 8102
Chicago, IL 60680
(866) 675-2008
McCain Campaign:
John McCain 2008
P.O. Box 16118
Arlington, VA 22215
(703) 418-2008
http://www.neworleanstownhall.org
Click “contact us” in the bottom right corner and request that Nader be allowed in the Google debate.
http://www.opendebates.org
Click “Your Role” at the top and sign the petition to replace the CPD with a non-partisan, Citizen’s Debate Commission that will allow Independent and third-party candidates to be included.
Google is scheduled to hold a debate independent of the corporate Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). This is possibly our one and only chance to get Obama and McCain to debate Ralph Nader and any other third-party or independent candidate running for the presidency. We must pressure Google to lower their requirements to 5% before this opportunity is lost. While using exclusionary tactics to silence opposition, these two major parties seem to think that freedom, a term they both speak highly of, means having power for yourself at the expense of others.
In 1992, independent candidate Ross Perot, who was polling at 7-9 percent, was included in the debates at the request of George H.W. Bush, who made Perot’s inclusion a precondition for his own participation. Under current CPD requirements of 15 percent, Perot wouldn’t have been admitted today.
In 1996, Bob Dole proposed that if Perot were kept out of the debates he would allow the Clinton campaign to decide the terms of the event. Clinton agreed. George Stephanopolous, senior advisor to Clinton at the time, took pride in the undemocratic deal between the two candidates, explaining: “As long as we would agree to Perot not being in it, we could get everything else we wanted going in. We got our time frame, we got…”
read the rest of this article here:
http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/2008/08/11/an-appeal-to-democrats-and-republicans-%E2%80%93-open-the-debates/
much thanks to Blue Gal for the narration
http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com/
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
Biden Should Be Excommunicated For Abortion-On-Demand Record. All credits listed at the end of the video. From the “Catechism of the Catholic Church”, “2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. “A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae,” “by the very commission of the offense,” and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law. The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society.” If I vote for a pro-abortion candidate (pro-choice), and that candidate supports legislation to legalize abortion, then I have formally co-operated in making it possible for babies to be murdered. If fact, section 2272 above says that a person who does so is automatically excommunicated!! Roman Catholics must vote for a Pro-life President, not Joe Biden or Barack Obama, since the Church teaches that formal cooperation (voting for pro-abortion candidates) in an abortion is an grave offense. Film from rosaryfilms, Secret of the Rosary Films.
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
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Sunday, May 24th, 2009
Democrats in the House Energy and Commerce Committee have hired a speed reader, in case Republicans request for the more than 900 page bill to be read aloud. Invoking their procedural right to have the bill read aloud could advance the Republican’s plan to stall a vote on the bill. Committee Chairman Henry Waxman wants the bill voted out of the committee before Congress breaks for its Memorial Day recess next week.
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
B-Roll Footage from the Movie Outrage where popular journalist and political figures discuss who has better sex “Democrats or Republicans”. Their answers will surprise you. The movie is out in select cities now. See the offical trailer here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgESXQccWi8
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Tags: Andrew Sullivan, Democrat, gay, Gay Rights, Kirby Dick, Outrage, Republican, sex
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
Rudy Giuliani clarifies his support for taxpayer-funded abortion.
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/02/04/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson_Pluto_Files
Neil deGrasse Tyson defends government support for U.S. science research under President George W. Bush, and says that, contrary to popular belief, “funding for science under Republican administrations has been historically higher than under Democrats.”
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, the bestselling author and director of the world-famous Hayden Planetarium, chronicles America’s irrational love affair with Pluto, man’s best celestial friend.
Neil deGrasse Tyson was born and raised in New York City where he was educated in the public schools clear through his graduation from the Bronx High School of Science. Tyson went on to earn his BA in Physics from Harvard and his PhD in Astrophysics from Columbia. Tyson’s professional research interests are broad, but include star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our Milky Way. Tyson obtains his data from the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as from telescopes in California, New Mexico, Arizona, and in the Andes Mountains of Chile. In 2001, Tyson was appointed by President Bush to serve on a 12-member commission that studied the Future of the US Aerospace Industry. The final report was published in 2002 and contained recommendations (for Congress and for the major agencies of the government) that would promote a thriving future of transportation, space exploration, and national security. In 2004, Tyson was once again appointed by President Bush to serve on a 9-member commission on the Implementation of the United States Space Exploration Policy, dubbed the “Moon, Mars, and Beyond” commission. This group navigated a path by which the new space vision can become a successful part of the American agenda. And in 2006, the head of NASA appointed Tyson to serve on its prestigious Advisory Committee, which will help guide NASA through its perennial need to fit its ambitious vision into its restricted budget. In addition to dozens of professional publications, Dr. Tyson has written, and continues to write for the public.
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