This report points out that the contenders for head of the RNC are all making statements and flexing their talking-point-muscles on Blago-gate. This emphasizes a key skill for the post, while the opposition is firmly in power: the ability to make your case in the media. The ability to forcefully, but cheerfully, oppose a popular (for now) President is quite a talent.
Michael Steele and Ken Blackwell have plenty of practice in this area, and regularly appear on TV and talk radio. Oddly, the least expert of the candidates may be the current RNC Chair Mike Duncan. I frankly can’t recall seeing him on any cable or network news show. Indeed, his absence from talk radio has been so noticeable that Hugh Hewitt quizzed him on it in a rare interview this Monday.
The challenge for the RNC is to find someone who combines the organizational and media skills to improve both the GOP’s operation and its public image. The most successful of the past RNC chiefs (Bill Brock and Ken Mehlman come to mind) were able to do both. Finding someone who does even one of these tasks well, and who meets with the approval of party insiders, may be tough. Finding someone who does both, may be next to impossible.
Humour and elegance!
He’s speaking truth to deceitful incoherence.
Obama said America invented the car.
We didn’t.
Obama said America invented solar technology.
We didn’t.
Anybody else figuring this out? Obama is making it up as he goes.
The numbers don’t add up. The rhetoric doesn’t make any sense.
It’s time to see things as they are. The country is in deep trouble. Bush and his government were horrendous — incompetent — when it came to the economy, the Fed, financial regulations, and the budget. Bush was essentially incompetent in this department. And things are going to much, much worse under Obama.
This is right out of the USSR playbook. Don’t you remember their museum with everything they invented from the lightbulb to the personal computer. What a joke!
He might have added: “President Obama calls for ‘a new era of responsibility’ and then tells us that we ought not to be responsible for bad business decisions or home-buying decisions. And then he suggests that we ought not to be responsble for our own doctors bills, or even our own medical decisions. Etc.
Please begin the mantra, “That’s not change. That’s Democratic politics as usual. Chicago style.”
Bush was not incompetent re the economy until his second term. His tax cuts in 01 worked.
The only people who buy this rhetoric are his cultist followers.
Cut and paste groupie and love to site polls everyday that make their days.
What’s wrong here? Where are the trolls and their poll numbers saying that 65% of all Americans absolutely love it when their President makes up his facts as he goes along and contradicts his own policy proposals with every other sentence out of his mouth?
“And then he suggests that we ought not to be responsble for our own doctors bills”
An insurance company denies payment on a procedure approved by the patient’s doctor and is “the standard of practice” because the insurance company correctly classified the procedure as experimental ten years ago,but has not updated the procedure in their system,what’s the remedy? That’s your “free market” working to keep medical costs down.
This is what I observed in the past month. I noted an egocentric, narcissistic man (BO) who has an insatiable need for media adulation, exposure, and a constant reaffirmation of their undying affection..
BO has been a media darling for two plus (2+) years, thus, he cannot and will not surrender the TV face time. BO’s apparent, ONLY quality is his ability to READ mellifluously from a teleprompter: a prepared speech (composed by others). The myth re: HIS INTELLECTUAL acuity… is just that….an absurd fairy tale. His stuttering/stammering, when attempting to be improvisational, is now legend.
Sooooooooo, here we are again: 2/24 = 1 prime time speech; 2/25 = two TV speeches; 2/26 = another AM TV speech. = 4 speeches in 3 days? All this deceitful, in-your-face schmoozing is an attempt to cunningly CON the American masses into blissful submission. These are deliberate, destructive, narcissistic speeches advocating, covertly, the demise of particular portions of the US Constitution; while promoting Marxism, Socialism, and Communistic ideologies.
What is most stunning of all is the prevailing dementia that has impacted most of the media (TV, Radio, Print). The media majority (journalists) brazenly demonstrate their overt prejudice w/unapologetic ogling and drooling:…..while merrily spewing “hearts and flowers” dissertations as the US economy and stock markets continue to TANK. The culprit = O’s negativisms, doom/gloom, fear mongering radicalism and his ravenous need to be totally in control…..of every facet of our lives.
Folks, with every haughty, self-important speech, our FREEDOMS continue to wane. We must attempt to control and/or stop the bleeding of the US Constitution or this living document will CEASE TO BREATH.
BUT HEY, his voice is sooooooo honey-like; a soothing, therapeutic tone that, in actuality, is a planned, Communistic-type, destructive force deliberately formulated to destroy the very “soul” of this wonderful Country.
So very many, many speeches. What is this new President doing??? He was elected to provide “hope and change” and all he is accomplishing is reciting multiple, “prepared” negativisms: speech, after speech, after speech: feeding his ego, thus, providing the American people with the only talent he has…….“hot air” and “US Constitutional destruction“!!!!!!
RCAR. What evidence is there that things like that won’t happen with a government run system? No one claims that no bad things happen under market conditions, although some people like to claim that’s what supporters of the free market think. The question is not to compare the market with some fantasy world where no bad things happen or where not bad decisions are made, but to figure out how to minimize such things. As a rule, although certainly not always, it is wisest to let people be responsible for themselves. As you note, this is already not the case for most health care decisions. Moving further away from responsibility is probably not going to help improve that situation.
#12,”but to figure out how to minimize such things.”
Here’s how, insurance companies shouldn’t practice medicine without a liscense. By the way,dealing with an insurance company is no different than dealing with a government bureaucracy,no value added there.
“certainly not always, it is wisest to let people be responsible for themselves. As you note, this is already not the case for most health care decisions.”
So why are you jamming a round peg into a square hole. Under any health care system, the payor should be bound to honor the decision of the patients health provider;if there’s a question it should go to a totally independent review organization. For the Insurance company to play Doctor is a total conflict of interest.
RCAR…do you really expect that type anecdote to improve when government bureaucrats, or committees, replace the insurance company. Of course, that excuse may become inoperative since the government is likely to stifle “experimental” medicine.
#13, you forget one fundamental lesson of economics: he who pays gets to call the shots. If the insurance company pays, it will call the shots. If the government pays, it will call the shots. That’s why it is importan to get BOTH out of the way and have the consumer be responsible so that the consumer can call the shots.
#11, Pennsylvania’s Beatrice: 4 speeches in 3 days?
Be taciturn;
The royal voice must never lose itself
Upon the air in emptiness, but like
A sacred bell must sound but to announce
Some great disaster or great festival.
(Pushkin, Boris Godunov)
#11, Pennsylvania’s Beatrice,
Well said. I am still grappling with this new ‘through the looking glass’ world that we now inhabit. It is as though George Orwell, Ayn Rand, Ray Bradbury, etc. had their collective dystopic works poured into a cauldron and the resulting poisonous gruel offered up to the masses.
RCAR – on this topic you know not about what you speak. Give it a rest. If third party payers are going to pay for something you use, they are going to set rules on how it is used. And insurance companies hire doctors whose only jobs are to keep up on the latest treatment regimens for certain disease/injury classes and try to get them implemented through out their book of business – because they work the best. There is no way a single physician who has to see patients, deal with running their practices, make rounds, etc, can keep up with the explosion in medical information.