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Re: Power Line - No comment

charless — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:52:29 -0000

I am very saddened. As much as the posts by the Powerline hosts, John, Paul, and Scott are erudite and uplifting, thought provoking and enlightening, the opportunity to challenge and / or add to as well as exchange with other bright minds has always made my visits here very exciting. I will miss this little community a great deal as I check back with the hosts. I didn't realize that the boys monitored on their own. That is indeed way too much work for fully employed individuals.

To John, Paul, and Scott I say thank you so much for all of your efforts.

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - A peace prize for hope

charless — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:05:44 -0000

And can you imagine...these brilliant Nobel judges were able to discern the man's qualifications without having the opportunity to view the world acclaimed YouTube docu-song video, "Barack Hussein Obama, mmm,mmm,mmm!"

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - We are the ones our doctors have been waiting for

charless — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:33:21 -0000

Excellent, Caley. Once we all acknowledge that our health care IS the best in the world, then we have acheived a common ground from which to begin discussions. Certainly no sensible person wishes to destroy the BEST healthcare. Now we can start working on the real problem, which is constraining the growth in cost and working on the pre-existing condition problem.

Many have suggested that health insurance should be indivdually purchased and not employer purchased. I favor that as well as tort reform to limit the high cost of malpractice insurance and defensive medical proceedures. Insurance companies could offer a panoply of coverages or a more simple silver, gold, platinum level of coverage. More clinics for silver level rates which would include less service, longer waits, more inexperienced care givers and much cheaper insurance costs could be helpful. Why not have a McDonald's, TGI Friday's, and Ruth's Chris type of healthcare as long as tort reform acknowledges the difference?

We also need more doctors and nurses. Using education grants to draw highly talented youngsters into the healthcare field without being burdened with hundreds of thousands of dollars in education debt would be helpful.

I just read that of all the major health providers, Medicare refuses more percentages of claims. Medicare is running trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities, while private health insurance is profitable and pays more claims. With those facts on the table, to even consider increasing government's role in private health insurance is ridiculous.

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - The limits of narcissism

charless — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:56:31 -0000

Be careful, elvula, you are beginning to sound like a racist.

Re: Power Line - Is conservatism brain-dead?

charless — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:49:26 -0000

Aye, aye Mr. Hickey. We're not electing a prom king/queen. There are numerous styles and methods used by many differing personalities. The important thing is that these people are being heard regularly by millions as they promote ideas that most of us here tend to mostly agree with. No one is perfect and none of them are running for public office to my knowledge, so why bitch. I, for one, am quite happy that Rush, and Mark, and Sean, and Glenn and many more are so popular. I am also glad that Peggy Noonan and David Brooks and David Frum are known by few and heard by none. This is a non violent war we are fighting and the Dems know it. Mark Levin and the others mentioned are our warriors. They go into the battlefield each and every day. We need to support them as we would our US military. We might not use a particular style as our own method, but these people are effective and I am happy to call them brothers.

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - Is conservatism brain-dead?

charless — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:06:27 -0000

So I was listening to a podcast of Hugh Hewitt the other day and this liberal calls in to promote some socialist health care, like johnboy posts at this website, or some other bleeding heart, factually challenged issue, and Hugh asked him a couple of questions. They were admittedly complex. The first was concerning the length of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency. Finding that question far too difficult, Hugh next asked "What was President Truman's first name?"...moving on to simpler yet, "How do you spell JFK?"

It is not the intelligence of conservatives that worries me, it's the stupidity of liberals. I am not talking IQ or booksmarts as was lacking with the above example. I am talking about understanding human nature, what makes us strive to achieve. Intuitively understanding that private property enables liberty and freedom which, in turn, allows human progress. In truth it is conservativism that is ultimately progressive.

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - Annals of Socialized Medicine

charless — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:21:08 -0000

It boils down to its essence very quickly, Mr. CopperQuark. The only thing Johnboy cares about is his misconception that he will get health care for free when Obamacare is passed. The fact that overall health care quality will be reduced, that our tremendous rapid response "customer service" oriented system will turn into abominable waiting lists (doesn't Canada have only about 1/10th the population of the U.S.?), that research and development of new medicines, techniques, and equipment will dissipate along with the replenishment of our human resources in the medical profession, i.e.: brilliant young doctors, caring and qualified well educated nurses and techs, and clean, pleasant, and well equipped hospitals and medical buildings, means nothing to the socialists. They want the government in control and someone else paying. That is Johnboy and his ilk's bottom line.

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - Cheney For President, Part II

charless — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:54:36 -0000

Palin was invited by a private organization, CLSA, to give a major speach in Hong Kong last week. It was ignored by the media. Here's Palin's facebook link to the speach:

http://www.facebook.com/hom...

Liz Cheney is a wonderful woman. She doesn't have any executive experience to my knowledge. We conservatives, including, on occassion, our hosts at this blog, have allowed the left (even contributed to) the marginalizing of Sarah Palin. I can see no other reason for the viceral, yet vapid, hatred of what should be a great American story of the possibilities for anyone to achieve based on their backbone and abilities in this United States of America. But rather than laud her, the left, the media, and even our elite punditry on the right have done everything they can to make her a backroom joke. It is so very unfortunate and pitiful that we have let this happen to one of our own. Mrs. Palin is definitely a powerful and capable woman...read the speach.

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - Death panels by proxy

charless — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:24:00 -0000

And we sure don't need the government taking over all of health insurance to solve the problem of voluntarily uninsured moochers, do we Drew? Good to hear from a sensible Democrat.

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - Death panels by proxy

charless — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:01:41 -0000

They are just testing us, Sandy. Those remarkably brilliant elites in Congress just want to play with us commoners. It's a game for them. They forgot that roaming the frozen tundra in a far off place called Alaska, there lives amongst the most common of commoners a woman named Sarah. One day after killing a moose for the winter foodstock and thinning out the local predatory wolf population, whilst getting her children ready for school before heading down to Anchorage to run the State government (her day job from which she did resign), she read this ponderous manuscript intended to confuse. Within short order Sarah distilled this convolution: "DEATH PANELS RUN BY UNKNOWN, UNELECTED GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS", she proclaimed. The elite hooted and hollored. Ridicule dripped from all their mouths. She's a common fool, and a radical to boot. She didn't even attend Harvard or Yale. How could she figure out the deception we so carefully crafted within these many many words? She barely knows the location of Russia! But somehow, there it was, so simple, so clear...DEATH PANELS is now the only description we hear. And Sarah Palin is a woman many of us hold dear.

Re: Power Line - Obama's sophomorically utopian oration

charless — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:59:13 -0000

It seems that any profit is obscene to you Johnboy. Tell me again, who was it that struck first in our present war with the islamofascist terrorists? You are correct in some ways about the Nato nations. If they had to pay for their own defense, their socialist world would have collapsed already.

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - How the Conservative Movement Looks from the Outside

charless — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:14:10 -0000

Williamco, the other purpose of the moderator was to require full names. That seems to only work when I forget to add my name at the bottom of one of my brilliant (in my mind, anyway) posts.

In any event, and in the spirit of good sportsmanship, ignore the troll. Intelligent discussion can be illuminating but trying to make heads or tails out of the illogical claptrap that this Caley thing puts out is truly a waste of time. With any luck she will go away.

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - How the Conservative Movement Looks from the Outside

charless — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:00:58 -0000

Actually there is a brilliant strategy at play here. You see, once it is established that everyone is a racist, well then, we have essentially eliminated racism. I would have been proud to have thought of such a dastardly devious tactic myself. Shall we have another march on Washington? Print the signs, "WE ARE ALL RACISTS NOW!"

Who would have thought that Hope and Change, the One, the ObieOne could bring such uplift to the world in just a few short months.

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - How the Conservative Movement Looks from the Outside

charless — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:44:46 -0000

duplicate post due to interminable length of time for moderator to wake up

Re: Google T�

charless — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:28:34 -0000

Do blogs self moderate? I participate in the comments on the Powerline blog and it is slow as molasses. Comments take as much as 3 hours to appear.

Re: Power Line - Dems' Strategy Crashes and Burns

charless — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:10:44 -0000

"Or maybe conservatives would like to see legislation like the Voting Rights Act to be repealed? Probably"

Actually, Darby, most of us would just like to see it enforced.

As most of us are aware, from the Washington Times:
By Jerry Seper (Contact)

The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility has begun an official inquiry into the dismissal in May of a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party and two of its members who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during the November general elections.

The inquiry is disclosed in an Aug. 28 letter to Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee who first raised questions about the dismissal in May and asked unsuccessfully that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. make available the head of the department's Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division for a closed-door briefing on the decision.

In the letter, Mary Patrice Brown, acting OPR counsel, told the veteran congressman from Texas that the office had "initiated an inquiry into the matter" and that it would "contact you with the results of our inquiry once it is completed." A copy of the letter was obtained by The Washington Times.

"I am pleased that someone at the Justice Department is finally taking the dismissal of the New Black Panther Party case seriously," Mr. Smith said Wednesday. "The Justice Department's decision to drop a case against political allies who allegedly intimidated voters on Election Day 2008 reeks of political interference."

Mr. Smith said the department's refusal to provide Congress with an explanation for the dismissal "only further raises concerns that political favoritism played a role in this case."

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - More Cowbell

charless — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:04:44 -0000

You have got to be kidding. I am not an historian, but I have never seen a First Lady that exhibits as mean and hateful a partisan attitude as Michelle Obama. This is her first public speaking engagement since the inaugeration and this is what we get. She only proves that everyone can be loved by someone.

Charle Stuart

Re: Power Line - Dems' Strategy Crashes and Burns

charless — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:48:01 -0000

Beautiful, John Trotz. The only thing that out performs your professional training in this post is the moral compass of your clear thinking mind.

It only figures that Jimmy Carter believes the antagonism towards Obama is because he is a "black man". Talk about a man who has been tone deaf his entire adult life. Jimmy Carter who was fired after one term as President (it would have been sooner if we could have) because of his total incompetance. Jimmy Carter, the man who facilitated the existance of the current vicious regime in Iran. The forbearer of Obamas "kiss up to azzwipes" policy of international diplomacy doesn't understand that Americans love freedom and support fellow freedom loving people. We love our country and are proud of our achievements and we don't like a current or former leader whose every action and spoken word indicates malevolent feelings towards our country...no matter what shade of brown is the color of his skin.

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - A Warrior for the Cause

charless — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:26:32 -0000

At the heart of our problem is the federal burocracy. The Dems have loaded it up with union leftists who never leave and constantly add to their numbers. We can have great Presidents and Congressmen and even term limits, but without limiting the burocracy in tenure and reducing its size, they will remain the one constant in control of the government. A federal employee should understand that they have a limited tenure. Every 4 years the longest serving should be replaced, only with 5-10 percent fewer until we reduce the size of government by 50%. Combined with term limits for congress we could sharpen our government and make it effective for the needs of Americans without sucking all of the "oxygen" out of our country. Neither Reagan nor Bush ever were able to reduce the actual size of the Fed. Actually I don't think Bush ever actually cared.

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - Bush Speaks, Maybe

charless — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:12:19 -0000

This from the NRO Blog, the Corner:

Government Thrives! [John Derbyshire]

A couple of follow-ups on my latest GET A GOVERNMENT JOB! rant.

(1) From yesterday's Wall Street Journal:

The George W. Bush years were very lucrative for federal workers. In 2000, the average compensation (wages and benefits) of federal workers was 66 percent higher than the average compensation in the U.S. private sector. The new data show that average federal compensation is now more than double the average in the private sector …
(Thanks to a pal in Charlotte, N.C., for that.) Then

(2) Tom Piatak over at Takimag picked up the same story I had. Tom notes that:

Of the 50 counties in the United States with the highest percentage of people aged 25-34 making over $100,000 per year, sixteen of them were in the Washington area, and only two counties not near Washington or a state capital made the top ten.
As Tom further remarked to me in an offline exchange, many of our state capitals have become mini-D.C.s. In Ohio, for example, Columbus is the only part of the state doing well.

Unless you have a terrific talent for something like hitting a ball or trading commodity futures, the private sector is a mug's game; and this was, sad but not surprising to record, more true at the end of GWB's eight years than at the beginning.

GET A GOVERNMENT JOB! Be sure to tell your kids.

Not exactly a feather for Bush's cap.

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - So Much for the Bounce

charless — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:38:22 -0000

Is profit a dirty word, Mr Socialist? Do you know what 859mil profit on 21.7bil revenue is in percentage? I'll tell you, it is 4%. The United States of America is the greatest country in all of man's civilization precisely because we are not the same as all the other countries. We don't want to be the same. The world needs us to not be the same as them so when they screw up, they can come to us for help. Health care insurance is NOT a right. I do appreciate your concern and am laughing at your typically leftist language. I am not a VICTIM of erectile disfunction. I would be better off, however, suffering from erectile disfunction than morose braindead socialism.

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - Another One Bites the Dust

charless — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:06:43 -0000

That interview was on Hannity last night with Giles and Breitbart. When Hannity asked the very important question that I asked in an earlier post (important to me, anyway), "'Were you ever told by any of these Acorn offices to just leave, you are breaking the law?" Giles, wasn't quite as solid and forthcoming with her response as Breitbart. But Breitbart was definitive in saying that at every attempt a positive response was given by Acorn reps.

And DavisBowen, you are correct in assuming this is not mainstream journalism. For that you need to go to NY Times where they killed a story by one of their reporters who was working with an Acorn wistleblower.

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - Bush Speaks, Maybe

charless — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:05:32 -0000

Please forgive my lack of volume, William, but here is my short response. On Prescription Drug, you seem to end with "the jury is out". I never liked the concept of creating another unfunded entitlement and still don't. Why do Americans end up paying for all of the R&D costs while other countries buy at much reduced rates for their citizens. Why does Pharma spend billions on commercial advertising, which adds to the costs for Americans? People are taking medications today that improve the quality of their lives tremendously. Why should they be free or paid by our government?

Shamnesty did not work because few trusted the government to enforce the law. The bottom line was to stop illegal entry first, then we will figure out an humane way to deal with those already here. Neither Bush nor McCain understood that (if they even cared). Conservatives saw them as willing pawns in that ruse.

Can anyone tell me where the Tarp funds are and how they saved disaster? What did Bush say, 'we have to destroy Capitalism in order to save it', or some such thing? Sorry William, I must disagree. Bush did indeed open the door for Obama.

I will end where you began. Of course American voters elected, with some help from Acorn, the current congress. I am one who believes in the basic good sense of conservatism. I believe most Americans do as well. However, a poor job done by Bush and the '04-'06 Repub congress, as well as those running in '08 in defining both by words and actions conservative principals of governance to the American people made it a lot easier for the flim flam crew of Dems to take over. I realize this is a simple statement that could require reems of facts to back it up, but this is all I have time for.

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - So Much for the Bounce

charless — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:29:57 -0000

John, you didn't answer my question directly, but with your response, you answered indirectly...you want it for nothing or you want a Cadillac for the price of a Yugo. If you are buying insurance and you get a catastrophic illness, your insurance will cover it. If your employer changes companies, the new company must take all employees. If United Health did indeed make 400 mil on 1.2 bil, I would bet that is gross, not net. But based on your other "facts" , I consider this one highly dubious.

The problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other peoples money. The problem with free or cheap health care is that pretty soon it becomes much less effective and much more limited.

Charles Stuart

Re: Power Line - Bush Speaks, Maybe

charless — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:08:15 -0000

GW most certainly had a great sense of humor. "If bullshit were currency...", that is funny. According to Mr Holl, Bush governed seriously without a fire and brimstone partisan approach. I don't disagree with that observation even though many, many would. He was a solid terror warrior, a soldier's President. He also gave us another entitlement, Prescription Drugs, Shamnesty, and Tarp (which he then used to loan money to GM and Chrysler). The biggest thing Bush left us with was an overwhelming Dem Congress and Obama. But his fellow Repubs get to share the responsibility for that.

Charles Stuart