This will go over well with the conservative base...
If you thought the fact that RNC Chair candidate, Maria Cino, was an Obamacare lobbyist was outrageous wait until you hear the latest...
The leading candidate in the race -- Reince Priebus's law firm supports Obamacare and says its constitutional!
Yes, you read that correctly. Reince Priebus's law firm supports Obamacare and says its constitutional.
Unbelievable.
The far left Think Progress website reported this today:
On January 14, 168 standing members of the Republican National Committee (RNC) will hold an election to select the next national chairman of the party. Current RNC Chairman Michael Steele is running for a second term against a number of challengers, including Saul Anuzis, Ann Wagner, Maria Cino, Gentry Collins, and Reince Priebus.
Priebus, the current state chairman of the Wisconsin GOP, is positioning himself as the true conservative alternative to Steele...
Despite his heated anti-Obama attacks, Priebus makes a living at a law firm far more comfortable with the policies of President Obama. Priebus works as a partner at the Milwaukee law firm Michael Best & Friedrich LLP. Over the summer, the firm created a series of presentations to explain health reform to its clients and to pitch the firm's services for employers looking to comply with new health reform regulations. In one presentation, John Barlament, a colleague to Priebus at the firm, said that a health reform repeal is not only unlikely, but that the lawsuits brought by Republican Party allies to declare the law unconstitutional probably have no merit. Referring to the controversy over the individual mandate, Barlament explained that the commerce clause of the constitution "gives Congress authority to act on his legislation."
It will be interesting to hear what GOP Leader John Boehner, GOP Whip Eric Cantor and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell have to say about this. Since this is coming from a Far left site, I say salt to taste. But if true, the Republicans better think long and hard about putting another RINO in charge to lead the party off a cliff. A third party is almost guaranteed.
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As someone on Glenn Reynold's site pointed out, it doesn't necessarily mean that Priebus himself supports Obamacare.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
12/30/2010 18:37 Comments ||
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A third party is almost guaranteed
There is nothing that liberals and RINOs everywhere would welcome with more relish than a third or fourth party to siphon votes from any conservatives.
This is the part that got me. "The plan also calls for establishing a pilot "Pay as You Drive" car insurance program, which increases car insurance rates the more miles a person drives, and is seen as a way to give drivers' incentive to stay off the road. Bowles said the voluntary pilot, which doesn't have a start date yet, will measure the program's effectiveness and whether consumers accept it."
Another way to transfer costs from the elderly to the young, who do so much more driving, and from those in jobs that enable them to work from home (programmers and managers, f'r instance), to those who can't (secretaries, shop clerks, factory workers). On the other hand, if the voters fuss too much, this may go away -- Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Bowles is only "floating the idea".
The state's energy chief on Wednesday released a plan to sharply cut Massachusetts' greenhouse gas emissions that calls for better efficiency, more hydroelectric power and an experimental insurance program aimed at curbing driving.
The "Massachusetts Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2020" tries to reduce emissions to 25 percent below their 1990 levels within the decade. The target is the maximum allowed by the state's two-year-old anti-global warming law, which required Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Ian Bowles to chose a range between 10 and 25 percent.
The plan by Bowles outlines more than two dozen steps to get there that mix existing policies with expanded or new programs.
Bowles called the document "a roadmap of multiple routes" that will require diligence to ensure Massachusetts reaches the law's mandates and helps mitigate climate change. He said the plan won't require new regulation or cost businesses and residents more than they'll get back in savings. The whole article is worth a read if you have taken your blood pressure pills this morning.
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We ALL already have that, it's called "Gasoline Taxes".
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
12/30/2010 19:49 Comments ||
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...All those Massachusetts liberals driving their Priuses because it's green and costs less have got to be asking themselves, "WTF?"
Now as soon as they get their 'pay-as-you-drive' road tax bill every year, they'll really be wondering what to do next.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
12/30/2010 19:55 Comments ||
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Any rep or senator who votes for this had better plan on retiring after that.
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gorb, if this is a car insurance plan, there's no need to get the legislature involved at all. They could probably do it all with an order from the state bureau of insurance.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
12/30/2010 22:17 Comments ||
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WASHINGTON US President Barack Obama has bypassed the US Senate and directly appointed four new ambassadors, including Robert Ford, who will become the first US envoy to Syria since 2005.
Specific senators had blocked or refused to consider the confirmations of the nominees for various reasons, including questions about their qualifications. But in the most high-profile case, that of the new envoy to Syria, a number of senators objected because they believed sending an ambassador to the country would reward it for bad behavior.
"Making undeserved concessions to Syria tells the regime in Damascus that it can continue to pursue its dangerous agenda and not face any consequences from the US," Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the incoming chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement. "That is the wrong message to be sending to a regime which continues to harm and threaten US interests and those of such critical allies as Israel."
The administration had argued that returning an ambassador to Syria after a five-year absence would help persuade Syria to change its policies regarding Israel, Lebanon and Iraq as well as its willingness to support extremist groups. Syria is designated a "state sponsor of terrorism" by the State Department.
Former President George W. Bush's administration withdrew a full-time ambassador from Syria in 2005 after terrorism accusations and to protest the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, killed in a Beirut truck bombing that his supporters blamed on Syria. Syria denied involvement.
Obama nominated Ford, a career diplomat and a former ambassador to Algeria, to the post in February but his nomination stalled after his confirmation hearings and was never voted on.
Posted by: Steve White ||
12/30/2010 10:49 ||
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Bush and other presidents do this all the time so I don't think this will be worth the political cost for the Republicans to go after it, unless one of 'em is a pedophile or something. I expect a strongly worded letter and then they move on.
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"Making undeserved concessions to Syria tells the regime in Damascus that it can continue to pursue its dangerous agenda and not face any consequences from the US,"
The only thing Syria understands is FORCE, Kick their asses publicly and they'll bluster then Bow, it's all they understand, there is No ally, only Master or Slave.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
12/30/2010 12:26 Comments ||
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But it's fun to note, Darth, since Bambi and the Dhimmicrats were so angry about Bush's use of recess appointments.
Note that Bambi also deplored signing statements, which he now does routinely.
Posted by: Steve White ||
12/30/2010 13:09 Comments ||
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Recess appointments, as the article points out, are only until the next session of Congress. The appointments expire at that point. Recess appointments have typically been in situations where the official going "poof" in two months does no harm, right? What the hell is the host country supposed to think when their new ambassador vaporizes inside of nine weeks?
Posted by: Mitch H. ||
12/30/2010 14:44 Comments ||
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Gentle correction: the recess appointment is good until the end of the next session of Congress. These appointments are good until December, 2012.
Posted by: Steve White ||
12/30/2010 15:52 Comments ||
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Funny how Bambi the Obumble's stance on recess appointments and signing statements changed once he got the big chair.
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This will go over well with the conservative base...
