Rasmussen reports today that Americans remain opposed to government-run healthcare by a solid 55%-40% majority.
Just 17% believe passage of the legislation will achieve the stated goal of reducing health care costs while 57% think it will lead to higher costs. If 40% are in favor of having a government that can’t run anything very well run their healthcare but only 17% believe it will achieve its stated goal of reducing health care costs, then somewhere around 20%-25% must not care that it will increase costs. Maybe they think someone else and not they will be paying those costs. That’s not smart. Never send for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.
The intensity is on the side of those opposed. Just 19% of voters Strongly Favor the plan while 45% are Strongly Opposed. Thus, the approval index for Obamacare is −26.
For many months, I have watched over the decline and fall of rationality as this rag has entrapped its readers in a web of politically correct mumbo-jumbo picked up from every third rate behaviorist, irrationality-promoting, capitalism-hating, hack economist in a growing population of intellectual mediocrities.
It gives me no pleasure to demonstrate that The Economist now has no clothes, that it stands stark naked in its ignorance before a still largely-credulous readership.
The Scott Brown Campaign is working to make the Massachusetts Miracle happen by raising a half million dollars today. They have $80,000 so far. [UPDATE:$93,000$117,000$181,000$260,000$415,000$619,000 at 4:50 PM Eastern, goal raised to $750,000$1,050,000 Raised!] You can probably still contribute here.
Scott Brown is a Republican from Massachusetts so I have no illusion that he is a Ronald Reagan Republican, but he will cast the 41st vote the Republicans need to stop government-ruin health care. If that is all he ever did for me I would feel fine about my donation to his campaign.
The big IF’s:
If, by some miracle in Massachusetts Brown Wins…
If, after Brown wins the special election Deval Patrick, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama fail in their efforts to keep Brown out of the Senate until they ram the destruction of American health care bill through…
If, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins don’t defect…
Then the United States of America might remain a free country for a little while longer…until the next Democrat attack on freedom.
On October 16, 1991 George Hennard drove his pickup truck through a plate glass window of Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. He then took out his gun and proceeded to murder 23 people.
Susan Gratia Hupp was there having lunch with her mother and father. She had a small revolver that she had been carrying in her purse for protection but left it in the glove compartment of her car that day because Texas did not have any provision for citizens to obtain permits to carry concealed weapons at that time. She was concerned about losing her chiropractors license if she were caught carrying her gun.
When the shooting started Susan and her parents dove under the table as did most of the other patrons. At one point Hennard stopped to reload his gun and Susan realized that if she had her revolver she could have stopped him at that moment from killing more people. He finished reloading and then killed several more people, including Susan’s mother and father.
In this video Susan testifies at a Senate hearing a year later when Congress was considering the Clinton Gun Ban which became effective in 1993 and expired when Congress failed to re-enact it in 2003. Her appearance that day is noted for her comment that the Second Amendment is not about duck hunting. It begins at minute 4:45 in the video:
The London Daily Mail says the Northern hemisphere could be heading into a mini ice age that will last 20-30 years. The article cites some impressive evidence.
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in
summer by 2013.
According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.
No matter that there has been no warming since 1999 and all indications are that we are now entering a cooling period, global warming proponents aren’t about to let go of their massive fraud that once promised fame and fortune:
Last week, as Britain froze, Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband maintained in a parliamentary answer that the science of global warming was ‘settled’.
Rasmussen daily tracking poll today puts Obama’s approval index at −18 again, right where it was on December 31st. His approval index has bounced up and down and had improved to −10 as of 5 days ago, but the latest tracking poll puts it back where it was at the end of the year. Obama’s lowest ever approval index was −21 on December 22nd. A single poll represents a snap shot in time but the trend is what matters. His overall approval was at 46% on December 31st and today it is 45%.
Democrat politicians in Massachusetts apparently fear that Scott Brown may defeat Martha Coakley in the special election for the U.S. Senate to be held barely a week from now on January 19th. Since Scott Brown has vowed to be the crucial 41st Republican vote to block the government-run health care bill with a Senate filibuster, Massachusetts politicians have vowed to delay confirmation of the election results should Brown win, thereby giving the Senate additional time to pass government-run health care over the objections of the voters.
The current interim Senator Paul Kirk, appointed to fill the late Ted Kennedy’s seat without a special election and thereby get the health care bill done before the voters could speak, says he won’t leave the Senate if Brown wins the election until government-run health care is finally passed. When Kirk was appointed and the upcoming special election was scheduled it was believed that health care would be completed before the special election. But the people threw a wrench into those plans with massive opposition to having it crammed down their throats. Hence, the politicians have gone to Plan B.
With at least one million more Democrats than Republicans in Massachusetts, the fact that Brown has any chance to win this election shows just how strong is the opposition to government-run health care, even in Massachusetts. That may stem from the reality check Bay State voters have been given by the State-run health care “reform” that Mitt Romney bequeathed to them, which even The Boston Globe concedes is a failure. Whether that is true or not, 98% of Massachusetts residents are already insured under it.
Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick and Harry Reid will no doubt do whatever it takes should Brown win to keep him out of the Senate for as long as it takes to get their government-run health care bill with its many layers of new taxes passed and on Obama’s desk. Brown responded with this statement:
“This is a stunning admission by Paul Kirk and the Beacon Hill political machine. Paul Kirk appears to be suggesting that he, Deval Patrick, and (Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid intend to stall the election certification until the health care bill is rammed through Congress, even if that means defying the will of the people of Massachusetts. As we’ve already seen from the backroom deals and kickbacks cut by the Democrats in Washington, they intend to do anything and everything to pass their controversial health care plan. But threatening to ignore the results of a free election and steal this Senate vote from the people of Massachusetts takes their schemes to a whole new level. Martha Coakley should immediately disavow this threat from one of her campaign’s leading supporters.”
Massachusetts politicians might be in for a surprise, as the best laid plans of tyrants and crooks go awry. If Scott Brown actually does win in Massachusetts, on the heels of recent Republican victories in New Jersey and Virginia as well as Democrat retirements by Senators who know they will lose in the next election, it will be a political earthquake that will shatter the glass career hopes of other Democrats and spread fear in the House and Senate. It could be that a possible vote against health care by Scott Brown will be the least of their worries because other Senators and Congressmen who want to keep their jobs may be shocked awake.
That may already be happening. Even Ultra-liberal Missouri Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill conceded on The Dana Show radio show KFTK 97.1 FM St. Louis, that there should be a conference committee process covered by C-SPAN and not the secret cram down procedure behind closed doors being pushed by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi:
