War on Women

The "Real War on Women"

When democrats use the term war on women to denigrate republicans, they cheapen the term.  There is a real war on women, and the above link proves it is not republicans conducting it.

Rail vs Pipeline

Tankers Carrying Oil Derail in Virginia

North Dakota Oil Train Derailed


Environmentalists object to building the Keystone XL Pipeline.  They claim the pipeline would harm the environment.  So currently the oil that would be flowing via KXL is being shipped via train.  We now have a second derailment of oil tanker train cars causing spills and fires and much damage.

So which is safer?  If we continue to pump oil and not build KXL, then more crude oil will be on the railways across America.  More people and property will be at risk, in addition to the environment.

When was the last time you heard of an underground oil pipeline accident?  Put that in the perspective of two oil trains derailed in less than 4 months.

Budget Director to Replace Secretary of HHS

Sebelius Resigns
Matthews Burwell to Replace Sebelius

So Kathleen Sebelius resigned as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), and President Obama is replacing her with Sylvia Matthews Burwell, the White House Director of Budget Management.  This is not a good decision on his part.

Matthews Burwell is the director of the budget, but the White House has never passed a budget under Obama.  So what on earth qualifies Matthews to be the Secretary of HHS?  Apparently she is responsible for the government shutting down parks and monuments during the sequestration shutdown, which was blamed on Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tx).

Apparently Obama is not so concerned with qualifications for various jobs or he would appoint qualified people to those.  But if you can do your political hacking and hurt opponents in the process, you get promoted to cabinet secretary.

Hank Aaron Compares Republicans That Oppose Obama To KKK

Hank Aaron Compares Republicans That Oppose Obama To KKK « CBS Atlanta



This is a ridiculous statement to make and absolutely without basis in fact.



1.  Mr. Aaron, do you know that the only member of the KKK to be elected to the US Senate was a Democrat from West Virginia, Robert Byrd?

2.  Do you know that a greater percentage of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act than Democrats?  In fact, Democrat Senator Byrd and other tried to filibuster that bill.

3.  We have a two party system where the parties are obviously opposed to one another.  The fact that Republicans oppose a Democrat president is no more offensive than the disdain the Democrats shared for George W. Bush.

4.  Opposition is healthy for the country, or we end up with single party rule.  Single party rule has no obstacles to what it can do.  Would you like to risk that with either party?

5.  What has the Democrat party done for you lately?  Poverty?  Jobs?  Schools?  Black on black crime?

6.  Name calling is the last resort of a person losing the argument.

Is Paycheck Fairness Already Here?

Will Paycheck Fairness Act Help Women?

Key paragraph from this article:

"The so-called Paycheck Fairness Act won’t lead to fairer pay. By establishing more red tape, it will lead to more lawsuits, higher business costs, and fewer job opportunities. Then why are Democrats pushing this bill as a solution to the “War on Women” if it doesn’t actually help (and in many cases hurts) women? Politics, of course."

What Happened to the Indignation?

So today Chris Christie's hired lawyers reported the governor had nothing to do with 'Bridgegate'.

Liberals and democrats alike scoffed at the report, claiming it would naturally find Christie innocent, because the lawyers reporting work for the governor.  Hmm.  Let's extrapolate on that theory.

The Obama administration has several scandals it is facing.  Well facing may not be the best word to use.

The Benghazi scandal was investigated by the Departement of State.
The IRS targeting conservatives, the Justice Department investigating reports at Fox and AP, the Justice Department running guns to Mexican drug lords, were all investigated by Eric Holder and crew.

I really do not recall any liberal or democrat claiming that is improper or biased at all.  I do recall Mr. Obama proclaiming indignation at those scandals, claiming he would get to the bottom of each.  Then more recently dismissing them as "phony scandals".

Contradictions Over PPACA

The politics surrounding the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA, Obamacare) is full of contradictions.

1.  The PPACA was supposed to do several things including lower premiums, insure the uninsured, and improve quality and access to health care.  Yet more the five million insured families had the insurance cancelled, and only 5% of those purchasing insurance via health care.gov were previously uninsured.

2.  Most people purchasing insurance in the exchange have reported increased premiums, increased deductibles, and limited choices, or combinations of the three.  The exchanges only permit three levels of insurance plans: silver, gold and platinum.  And some states don't allow all three of those.

3.  Labor unions overwhelmingly supported the passage of the act, but now many are asking for relief from the requirements and mandates that come with it.

4.  As good as this act was billed to be, it came with delays built into it.  Many of the more painful provisions did not take affect until after the presidential election cycle ended, and Obama was safely re-elected.  If it was actually that good, why wait?

5.  This is the biggest contradiction of all.  The republicans have tried and tried to repeal the law, and delay the law if not repealed.  Senator Ted Cruz tried to include the repeal of the law in the budget dealings which resulted in the government shutdown.  If Cruz had been successful in his tactics to delay Obamacare in the budget deal, the president said he would have vetoed it.  In fact, the president has said on multiple occasions that he would veto any bill aimed at delaying Obamacare.  Meanwhile, the president issued 29 separate executive orders doing just that, delaying various mandates and parts of the law.

6.  Is it a tax or a penalty?  The answer to that question depends on who is asking.  The supporters of Obamacare argue it is a tax when it suits their purpose, and a penalty when that is the politically expedient answer.

7.  Congress voted on the bill without even reading it.  Talk about not only the strangest contradiction, but also the most stupid.  Exactly how can you argue the benefits of 2400 pages of legalese without reading it, and then claim you have to read it to know what's in it?  Not so incidentally, the HHS has added nearly 20,000 pages of regulations to explain and interpret the 2400 pages of the bill.  Those pages were added after the bill became law.

8.  Finally the contradiction on what republicans offered to the conversation before voting on the bill.  Months before the bill was written there was a meeting of members of both parties, and the president and vice-president which was televised.  During the discussions, several republicans, including a couple of medical doctors, suggested several options for debate, including legal and insurance reforms.  To their collective face the president responded with praise for the good ideas and room for further discussion.  Then the president left the room for a press conference where he quickly stated the republicans had no new ideas worthy of discussion, and suggested we "...must do something."

Now that democrats have realized what they're up against in the November mid-term elections, they are beginning to talk about fixing Obamacare.  Even though the government spent more than $700 million and 3 years developing the web site exchange, they are are not talking about fixing that.  They are talking about fixing various parts of the original bill.  Too late, I say.

The bill is so comprehensively bad, that it must be repealed and we must start over.  Closing half of the people out of the debate by improperly declaring they have nothing to offer is bad legislative process.