Last night’s New Hampshire debate was a strange affair. Mitt Romney has a commanding lead in New Hampshire, so one would assume he would be attacked by the other candidates. Instead, the only person who went after Romney was George Stephanopoulos. The mainstream media is just flat out irritating. Just when I think a debate can’t get any worse ABC lets a former Clinton campaign staffer moderate.
In the movie War Room, which chronicled the 1992 Clinton campaign, Stephanopoulos celebrates the victory and surmises that the United States will finally have universal health care. I think of that moment because the 2012 election is going to be about the economy and about ObamaCare. Yet, there wasn’t a single question about ObamaCare. The only question about the economy was about infrastructure.
Instead, Stephanopoulos asked questions about states banning contraceptives, gay marriage, and gay adoption. The candidates spent 30 minutes on issues that aren’t important and about which a President has little, if any, power to change. Stephanopoulos’ stupid question about contraceptives led to what I believe is Romney’s best moment in the campaign.
I thought Romney handled Stephanopoulos’ question about contraceptives very well. The whole premise of the question is comical. Stephanopoulos is supposed to be fair? He has no business moderating a debate, nor does what’s-her-face. The questions were ludicrous. One can gain insight from how delusional liberals are about the current state of affairs simply by watching these media yahoos rodeo clown their way through a debate.
The nation is on the brink of financial ruin and they’re worried about gays getting married and having kids? None of the GOP candidates pointed out that they share the same position on gay marriage as President Obama. I’m so excited that Stephanopoulos is back to host This Week. I didn’t even notice he had left.
If Mitt Romney is sworn in on January 20, 2013, he should shake Ron Paul’s hand first. Ron Paul has been the center of each of these debates. He attacks everyone and the liberal moderators love asking him questions. I can’t see how last night’s debate changed the race. Mitt Romney is simply running out the clock. Exit question: Could a Donald Trump moderated debate be any worse that what I watched last night?
Liberals really want to raise taxes on the rich. I mean really, really bad. Raising taxes on the rich would generate around $700 billion for the federal government. Apparently, liberals only care about $700 billion when it comes to taxing the rich. When the government passed the porkulus bill for $800 billion under the dubious claim that it would stimulate the economy liberals patted each other on the back. Yes we can! We are the ones we’ve been waiting for, and man are we stupid!
Now that the political reality of the mid-term elections has set in President Obama knows he can’t raise taxes on anyone. The neoleft wing of the party wants a climate bill, gay marriage, and higher taxes on anyone making $250,000 or more. None of these items are a high priority with the American people. Fake but accurate former news anchor Dan Rather appeared on MSNBC to discuss the political problem for the president.
Raising taxes on the rich won’t kill the economy, but it certainly won’t help it. Even the most hardened Keynesian would admit that it would hurt the economy on some level. The best argument that could be made to raise taxes on the rich would be to help balance the budget, but that’s short sighted. If the budget was balanced tomorrow it wouldn’t solve the long term fiscal problems facing the nation. Simply taxing the rich isn’t the answer. Besides if the liberals are so concerned with balanced budgets they should look for real solutions. Namely scaling back forty years of unsustainable entitlements.
Liberals live under the delusion that if taxes were simply a little higher and if military spending was less suddenly we would have enough money for all their entitlement fantasies. The minimum wage could be raised to $10 an hour. Jobless benefits could be extended to 10 years. What’s next? The amulet of immortality? When it comes right down to it that extra $700 billion wouldn’t be used responsibly. It’s not the state’s job to penalize people for being rich and until the left comes up with a better argument that’s all they’ve got.
"Tim Tebow is a Christian who actually acts like one. Man, I hate that guy. I don't know why, but I'm sure there's no God." Anonymous
Stigmata: Today’s big news is that a homosexual judge ruled that California’s Proposition 8 violates the 14th Amendment. Also, according to Judge Vaughn Walker, “Proposition 8 places the force of law behind stigmas against gays and lesbians.” What stigma is that, you ask? I guess the stigma that the people of the liberal state of California will always be overturned by judges who have an obvious conflict of interest.
Add this to the list of decisions to be eventually made by Supreme Court Justice Kennedy. Personally, this “issue” is getting way too much attention. Maybe the Judge can ban some of the disgusting gay pride parades while he’s at it. That’s more damaging to the homosexual cause than the ban on gay marriages. I wish our liberal friends who are judges would actually strike down some laws that would actually help the average American. They could start with ObamaCare.
So Goes Missouri: The state of Missouri has an anti-health care mandate on ballot and a mere 75.8 percent of voters oppose the mandate. Republicans who are too cowardly to repeal ObamaCare need to get the message.
Stacking the Fed: Two years ago I wrote about how the Democrats were taking the unprecedented measure of blocking Bush’s appointments to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. The blocking maneuver was a success because now Obama has appointed five out of the seven seats. The Senate panel headed by the corruptocrat Senator Chris Dodd told reporters “the members of the board will clearly have their hands full.” Thanks to Dodd the Board of Governors has faced a fiscal crisis short handed for the past two years. Where’s the press coverage on this?
Undecided: What!?! Brett Favre hasn’t retired? Who could see this coming?
Hating Tebow: I’m not a fan of Tim Tebow. I don’t really have a choice. I’m a Georgia Bulldog fan, which means I spend every bowl season in a gutter with a bottle of gin. Tebow seems like a likable and decent guy, but he played for those annoying jorts-wearing faux Southerners who call themselves Gators. Michelle Olson hates Tim Tebow and the Denver Post tells us why.
Michelle Olson calls herself the anti-Tebow. She is a diehard Broncos fan but has no love in her heart for its limelight-stealing sensation, rookie quarterback and evangelical everyman Tim Tebow.
“He’s a big distraction and has done nothing to prove he’s NFL material,” the 25-year-old Fort Collins woman said Tuesday morning at Broncos training camp in Dove Valley.
It’s Tebow’s eagerness to share his Christian values and beliefs that really irks her.
“That’s why I hate him,” she said. “It’s my personal opinion that if you don’t have a uterus, you don’t have a right to express an opinion about abortion,” Olson snapped.
I’m all for this! Women are more opposed to abortion than men. If this issue were solely up to women it would be illegal. My guess is Olson hasn’t really “thought” about that. I wonder what she thinks about people who give opinions who don’t have brains?
Tweet of the Day: Dennis Miller sums up the New York City mosque issue up perfectly.
That Muslims can build a mosque at the WTC tells you everything about America. That they WILL build it, tells you everything about Islam.
Sounds a lot like Mark Steyn. Steyn, where are you?
Very true, because I oppose gay marriage. When I use the phrase “gay marriage” I mean the type sanctioned by the state. Maybe the state shouldn’t be involved in marriage at all, but that’s a different topic for a different time.
Fact is, homosexuals can get married. Just march yourself down to the local Unitarian, Episcopal or mainline Protestant church and do it. I don’t care. I’m certainly not in the minority here. Most people are like me; live and let live and don’t tell me about your sexual idiosyncrasies.
I’m neither scared of nor angry at homosexuals, so give me a break. I’m so freaking tolerant it’s ridiculous. But I am not tolerant of the state endorsing homosexual marriage as somehow equal to marriage between a man and a woman.
The foundational issue here is the family and what properly constitutes a functional family. The left would have us believe that any family arrangement is fine as long as everyone “loves” each other. Here again, the left takes us into the realm of unverifiable emotion devoid of facts or logic.
The fact is that children thrive in a household with a husband and wife. Single-parent homes are a statistical disaster, especially in homes where men are absent, yet the left is constantly cheerleading for this harmful construct. I don’t know what the results are of homosexual couples raising children, probably because it’s too early in the game and the data is spotty at best.
Still, society should encourage what is obviously and quantifiably the ideal, rather than constantly trying to destroy it. Some will argue that heterosexuals haven’t done much to strengthen the family, what with all the divorce and dysfunction manifest in the modern family. But this is the typical leftist “two wrongs make a right” argument. So if I understand this argument properly, we should make something bad worse. That’s a great idea! It’s so brilliant that the left has adopted this approach to the current administration’s spending spree. “The Bush administration started this by getting us so heavily into debt,” they say with a straight face. So, once again, let’s make it worse!
Anyway, I’m going off topic here and probably belabored the point, but it should be crystal clear that we need to shore up the family for a health society and a strong nation rather than look for ways to undermine it.
What you’ve just read was written by Club Soda, a semi-regular contributor to The Daily Plunge. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of its host, Henshaw.
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