Sunday, November 17, 2013
How could any voter in America...even liberal Californians...elect such a mindless, rambling, self-righteous idiot as Pelosi? Please pass this post to any liberal friend you have and ask them how they could ever be in the same political mindset as this poor excuse for an American.
Video link:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/carolplattliebau/2013/11/17/gulp-nancy-pelosi-clueless-about-obamacare-n1748317
Be sure to look at Pelosi's face after being shown the first clip of her earlier, false assurances (at about the 1:00 mark)? Priceless.
Of course, if David Gregory were actually on top of it, he'd notice that she's arguing that nothing in the law requires that Americans' insurance policies be dropped . . . so is she throwing the Obama administration under the bus for interpreting the grandfather clause so narrowly? Ah, well, at least he's actually willing now to ask the tough questions that should have been asked before the law was passed.
Here's what I cannot decide about Nancy Pelosi: Is she faking cluelessness in order to dodge the tough questions, or is she truly that clueless? It's scary either way.
We may indeed REALLY Restore America to greatness again...and we may do it soon thanks to the disastrous policies of the Communist - er, I mean Democrat party...and five years of the worst President this country has ever known...
November 17, 2013
8 Reasons The Republican Party Has A Bright Future
11/16/2013 12:01:00 AM - John Hawkins
Losing to
Barack Obama in 2012 shook the confidence of many Republicans and it's easy to
understand why. After all, if you lose to the worst President in history, what
does that say about you? Combine that with the frustrations so many
conservatives have with the GOP and it's easy to write off the Republican
Party. However, it's often darkest before the dawn and many people are missing
the fact that the GOP is well positioned to thrive over the next couple of
decades.
1) We have the most potent grassroots movement in politics:
The GOP has the Tea Party Movement, while the Democrats HAD the Occupy
Movement. The Tea Party Movement is about small government, cutting spending,
and sticking to the Constitution. The Occupy Movement was about demanding free
stuff and avoiding taking baths for weeks at a time. The greatest moment for
the Tea Party was the GOP's incredible success in the 2010 elections. The
greatest moment for the Occupy Movement was when the occupiers were protesting
Wall Street and a bunch of traders dumped hundreds of McDonald's job
applications on them out of a window. The Tea Party Movement is still alive and
kicking. The Occupy crowd eventually gave it up when the rich liberals stopped
sending the protesters free food and they ran out of open space to poop in the
city parks.
2) 2010 was the GOP's best year since 1948:
It's funny to hear, "The Republican Party can't win anymore,"
when the GOP had its best year since 1948 less than three years ago. In the
2010 election, the GOP added 6 Senate seats, 63 House seats, and 680 seats in
state legislatures around the country. Does that sound like a party that can't
win any more? Does that sound like a party that's dying?
3) We should control the House at least until the next census:
Not only does the GOP control the House, because of gerrymandering,
we're likely to remain firmly in control until the next census. That will give
us the capability to slam the brakes on government no matter what happens with
the Senate and White House.
4) The party is thriving on the state level:
The GOP is doing fantastic on the state level. We control 29
governorships and in the state legislatures, we control the upper chamber in 30
states and the lower chamber in another 28 states. That gives us a deep bench
and proves the GOP can be not just competitive, but dominant as long as we play
our cards right.
5) Our numbers with minorities are only going to go up:
White Americans tend to vote Republican while black and Hispanic
Americans tend to vote Democrat. Because demographically there are going to be
more black and Hispanic Americans in the coming years, some people think that
means the GOP is in deep trouble. Of course, that sort of thinking assumes the
GOP will continue to get the same percentage of the black and Hispanic vote
that it has always gotten. In actuality, since the GOP has done no outreach of
significance in past years, we have every reason to think that our current
numbers with minorities are a floor, not a ceiling. The GOP made its first real
attempt to showcase minority Republicans during the last GOP convention and the RNC has
just begun to pour serious money and manpower into minority outreach.
It won't happen overnight, but our numbers with minorities are going to go up
significantly in coming years.
6) Short Term: Obamacare means a strong 2014:
All the GOP needs to do to have a great 2014 is hammer away
relentlessly at Obamacare and highlight scandals like Fast and Furious, the IRS
persecution of the Tea Party, and Benghazi next summer while taking care not to
aggravate the base. If we do just those three things, we're practically
guaranteed to pile on even more seats in the House and we'll have a better than
even chance of taking back the Senate.
7) Barack Obama gives us a medium term opening:
Barack Obama really is the single worst President in American history.
The economy has been bad the entire time he's been in the White House; there
are 10 million more Americans out of work than when he came into office. He's
incredibly divisive, his foreign policy is in chaos, and his signature
achievement is the Hindenburg of government policies. Conservatives have seen
how bad he was from day one, but many other Americans are just starting to
figure it out. After finally concluding that Democrats can't govern, the
American people are going to be much more willing to give the GOP a chance to
prove Republicans have what it takes over the next few election cycles.
8) Long term, the ground is very unfavorable to the Democrats:
As Grover Norquist likes to say, the Democrats are made up of competing
parasitic interest groups. So, when Democrats get into office, they immediately
start doling out taxpayer money to their allies to keep them in line. Margaret
Thatcher identified the coming problem with that strategy long ago when she
said, "The
trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's
money." Unfortunately for all of us, we have a little too
much socialism in this country and we are indeed running out of other people's
money. This is bad for the country in general, but it's catastrophic for the
Democrats whose entire electoral model is centered around recklessly spending
money. The unions, which gulp down an inordinately large slice of the taxpayer
pie, are already starting to pay the price. Their membership is down to its
lowest level since the thirties and even liberal Meccas like Detroit are
slashing their pensions down to nothing because they're out of money and have
no other choice.
If we want out
children to have the same opportunities and bright future that previous
generations of Americans have grown up with, then this country needs a
conservative Republican Party to dominate our political process over the next
couple of decades. We're going to have the opportunity to save our country and
the only question left is whether we're up to the challenge.
I dream of a Republican (better yet a Conservative Republican) controlled House and Senate after 2014...
Democrats flee from ObamaCare disaster but voters will find them in 2014
By Scott Brown
FoxNews.com
Nearly four years ago, voters sent a very powerful message to President Obama
and Democrats in Washington by electing a little-known Republican state senator
to the so-called “Kennedy seat.” The message then was simple: “we don’t want
ObamaCare.”
Then, like now, Democrats in Washington ignored the will of the people, twisting themselves into pretzels to ram this bill through Congress using backroom political maneuvering.
Back then, voters opposed this bill because they didn’t want the federal government taking over something as private and personal as health care coverage. On top of that, ObamaCare levied 18 new job-killing taxes and gutted Medicare for seniors by more than half a trillion dollars.
Today, after the catastrophic rollout of the last month, the
anti-ObamaCare message has only intensified. It’s more than just a
non-functional web site – which is an embarrassment in and of itself, but only
the tip of the iceberg.
Now, we are learning that contrary to the promises made by President Obama and his supporters in Congress, Americans who like their current health care plans actually can’t keep it. In fact, millions of Americans across the country have received cancellation letters in the mail telling them their current health plans will soon cease to exist.
Supporters of ObamaCare blatantly misled their constituents with this broken promise. The American people are fed up with this fiasco, and voters are ready to make their voices heard.
But it’s not just President Obama who needs to be held to account. It is also every single Democratic senator and congressman that voted for the health care bill. Without their support, it wouldn’t have happened.
These Democratic legislators are all on the hook. Any attempt to offer legislation to delay implementation or extend the sign-up period is nothing more than a transparent political stunt from an incumbent senator or congressman literally running for their political life.
If they didn’t want this health care plan, they shouldn’t have voted for it and made it the law of the land.
Everyone shares the goal of ensuring that all our people have access to affordable and high quality health care.
Republicans have a much different view on how we get there.
We believe health care reform should be left to the individual states so that they can come up with a plan best tailored for their citizens and their needs. What works in New Hampshire or Massachusetts may not work in New Mexico or Nevada, and vice versa.
Instead of a government takeover from D.C., we should let the states experiment and be the “test tubes of democracy” that our Founding Fathers envisioned when they established our country.
Unfortunately, that didn’t happen and our nation now faces the prospect of a nonfunctional health care bill that will destabilize the entire market and lead to higher premiums across the board.
Democrats who voted for this bill may be running for the hills, but they can’t hide forever.
In next year’s midterm elections, voters across the country are ready once again to send an unmistakable message: if you ignore the will of your constituents, before long, you’ll find yourself looking for a new line of work.
That’s the beauty of our democracy, and is exactly what the Founding Fathers envisioned.
Scott Brown is a Fox News contributor. He served as Republican Senator from Massachusetts from 2010-13. While in the Senate he served as a ranking member on Armed Services, Government Regulations/Homeland Security and as a member of the Veteran's and Small Business Committees. Follow him on Twitter @scottbrownma or find him on Facebook at scottbrownma.
Then, like now, Democrats in Washington ignored the will of the people, twisting themselves into pretzels to ram this bill through Congress using backroom political maneuvering.
Back then, voters opposed this bill because they didn’t want the federal government taking over something as private and personal as health care coverage. On top of that, ObamaCare levied 18 new job-killing taxes and gutted Medicare for seniors by more than half a trillion dollars.
Democrats who voted for this bill may be running for the hills, but they can’t hide forever.
Now, we are learning that contrary to the promises made by President Obama and his supporters in Congress, Americans who like their current health care plans actually can’t keep it. In fact, millions of Americans across the country have received cancellation letters in the mail telling them their current health plans will soon cease to exist.
Supporters of ObamaCare blatantly misled their constituents with this broken promise. The American people are fed up with this fiasco, and voters are ready to make their voices heard.
But it’s not just President Obama who needs to be held to account. It is also every single Democratic senator and congressman that voted for the health care bill. Without their support, it wouldn’t have happened.
These Democratic legislators are all on the hook. Any attempt to offer legislation to delay implementation or extend the sign-up period is nothing more than a transparent political stunt from an incumbent senator or congressman literally running for their political life.
If they didn’t want this health care plan, they shouldn’t have voted for it and made it the law of the land.
Everyone shares the goal of ensuring that all our people have access to affordable and high quality health care.
Republicans have a much different view on how we get there.
We believe health care reform should be left to the individual states so that they can come up with a plan best tailored for their citizens and their needs. What works in New Hampshire or Massachusetts may not work in New Mexico or Nevada, and vice versa.
Instead of a government takeover from D.C., we should let the states experiment and be the “test tubes of democracy” that our Founding Fathers envisioned when they established our country.
Unfortunately, that didn’t happen and our nation now faces the prospect of a nonfunctional health care bill that will destabilize the entire market and lead to higher premiums across the board.
Democrats who voted for this bill may be running for the hills, but they can’t hide forever.
In next year’s midterm elections, voters across the country are ready once again to send an unmistakable message: if you ignore the will of your constituents, before long, you’ll find yourself looking for a new line of work.
That’s the beauty of our democracy, and is exactly what the Founding Fathers envisioned.
Scott Brown is a Fox News contributor. He served as Republican Senator from Massachusetts from 2010-13. While in the Senate he served as a ranking member on Armed Services, Government Regulations/Homeland Security and as a member of the Veteran's and Small Business Committees. Follow him on Twitter @scottbrownma or find him on Facebook at scottbrownma.
Friday, November 15, 2013
You know something? There are just so many lame excuses being bandied about by the Liberals who are all doing what they do best - place blame for their calamities in the laps of the most unsuspecting non-conspirators...
But,
after reading through all of the stories that have emerged after our clueless
president once again tells us he knew so very little about the impending
tragedy that bears his name (at least one of his names), I selected two.
One from a recurring name to the roster of unflappable dim bulbs that has
ever been afforded a podium. Sheila Jackson-Lee can truly spew such
incredible nonsense, it really is often times just downright unbelievable. But here it is to gauge for yourself. The other liberal lug nut is none other than
the architect of Obamacare – Ezekiel
Emanuel (you know, the brother of well-known communist Rahm who is
currently taking Chicago further down the drain along with Detroit).
These
two stories so well exemplify the adopted game plan of Saul Alinsky – demonize,
blame, and profess ignorance….
Thursday, November 14, 2013
"Ignorant Omniscience"...so well put Mary Katherine
The ignorant
omniscience of President Obama
posted at 10:01 pm on November 14,
2013 by Mary Katharine Ham
He knows everything. And yet he seems to know nothing. He’s passionate
about the details of domestic policy but wasn’t privy to the details of his own
legacy law. He’s an academic with a command of every issue at once but
seemingly only finds out what his administration is doing in news reports. He’s
so brilliant every normal endeavor he’s tried has bored him, but he couldn’t
bother to entertain himself with more than one monthly meeting on the
make-or-break program of his presidency. He’s the captain of the Culture of
Competency who has overseen the most incompetent rollout of an entitlement
program in history.
I was struck by a moment in President Obama’s press conference today
where this paradox was on full display. The president floated, throughout the press
conference, from profession of utter ignorance to confident declaration and
directive. Allahpundit noted that Obama distanced himself from the website’s
problems by saying he was never informed of its problems. He knew nothing.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: OK. On the website, I was not informed directly that
the website would not be working as — the way it was supposed to. Has I been informed,
I wouldn’t be going out saying, boy, this is going to be great. You know, I’m
accused of a lot of things, but I don’t think I’m stupid enough to go around
saying, this is going to be like shopping on Amazon or Travelocity, a week
before the website opens, if I thought that it wasn’t going to work.
So, clearly, we and I did not have enough awareness about the problems
in the website. Even a week into it, the thinking was that these were some
glitches that would be fixed with patches, as opposed to some broader systemic
problems that took much longer to fix and we’re still working on them.
Neat how his ignorance is proof of his smarts. “I don’t think I’m stupid
enough…”
But he later explained how cumbersome and problematic federal IT
procurement is, and that he knew that before the website build started, yet inexplicably did not act on this knowledge:
What is true is that, as I said before, our IT systems, how we purchase
technology in the federal government is cumbersome, complicated and outdated.
And so this isn’t a situation where — on my campaign, I could simply say, who
are the best folks out there, let’s get them around a table, let’s figure out
what we’re doing and we’re just going to continue to improve it and refine it
and work on our goals.
If you’re doing it at the federal government level, you know, you’re
going through, you know, 40 pages of specs and this and that and the other and
there’s all kinds of law involved. And it makes it more difficult — it’s part
of the reason why chronically federal IT programs are overbudget, behind
schedule.
And one of the — you know, when I do some Monday morning quarterbacking
on myself, one of the things that I do recognize is since I know that the
federal government has not been good at this stuff in the past, two years ago
as we were thinking about this, you know, we might have done more to make sure
that we were breaking the mold on how we were going to be setting this up. But
that doesn’t help us now. We got to move forward.
Ya think?! More time dealing with a problem you claim you knew about and
less time spent smearing people who pointed out this problem would have been
productive. So, in this instance, Obama knew the federal government’s bad track
record with IT but did nothing to correct the problem.
So, what does the president act on? Why, an utter lack of knowledge, of
course:
One thing that we’ve discovered, though, that I think is — is worth
noting, a lot of focus has been on the website and the technology, and that’s
partly because that’s how we initially identified it; you know, these are
glitches. What we’re discovering is that part of the problem has been
technology, hardware and software, and that’s being upgraded. But even if we
get the — the hardware and software working exactly the way it’s supposed to
with relatively minor glitches, what we’re also discovering is that
insurance is complicated to buy. And another mistake that we made, I think,
was underestimating the difficulties of people purchasing insurance online and
shopping for a lot of options with a lot of costs and lot of different benefits
and plans and — and somehow expecting that that would be very smooth, and then
they’ve also got to try to apply for tax credits on the website.
Apparently entirely ignorant of the process of buying insurance, the
president decided to demand an overhaul of the entire insurance industry,
building the purchasing mechanism himself.
So, when you know something pertinent about federal technology failures
that could increase the chances of success for your pet project, do nothing.
When you know absolutely nothing about the subject of your ambitious pet
project to remake 1/6 of the economy, try to do everything. And, when
you do nothing with the knowledge you do have to prevent the Charlie Foxtrot
created by your insistence on acting, ahem, audaciously with knowledge
you don’t have, insist that your lack of knowledge is proof of your
intelligence.
Hey, I’m smart enough that if I knew this was going to be such a
lumbering catastrophe, I wouldn’t have said those dumb things about how it
would be great!
He knows everything. And yet he knows nothing. The reason for this is
the animating feature of Obama’s leadership style, if you can call it that, is
not presuming to know all the facts and micromanaging every project ala Jimmy
Carter. Nor is it acknowledging he doesn’t know all the facts and surrounding
himself with experts he trusts ala George W. Bush. And, no, it’s not combining
an intellectual strength and a mind for policy detail with a populist flair ala
Bill Clinton. The animating feature of Obama’s leadership style is simply
making pronouncements. Making them about things he knows, things he knows
not, and waiting for everyone and everything to fall in line. And, when things
don’t magically come together, he pronounces his disappointment and anger.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
“We’re going to get this done, all right?”
Sure. If you say so.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Maybe we are reversing the "Stupification of America" trend that has been going on for the past 4 1/2 years!
President Barack Obama's
approval rating is at its lowest level since he entered the White House in
2009, with a majority saying for the first time in a Quinnipiac University poll
that the president is not honest and trustworthy.
The survey of 2,545 voters conducted Nov. 6-11 found that only 39 percent of respondents approved of Obama's job performance, compared with 54 percent who didn't. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.9 percentage points.
Among women voters, one of Obama's biggest support groups, only 40 percent said they approved of his performance in the White House, versus 51 percent who said they did not.
For the first time in the Quinnipiac survey, 52 percent of voters said they thought Obama was not honest and trustworthy. That compared with 44 percent who said he was.
The president's previous lowest marks on honesty were on May 30, when 49 percent of voters surveyed said he was honest and 47 percent said he was not.
"Like all new presidents, President Barack Obama had a honeymoon with American voters, with approval ratings in the high 50s," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
"As the marriage wore on, he kept his job-approval scores in the respectable, though not overwhelming, 40s. Today, for the first time, it appears that 40 percent floor is cracking," Malloy said.
"Any Democrat with an 11-point approval deficit among women is in trouble. And any elected official with an 8-point trust deficit is in serious trouble."
The latest Quinnipiac poll results come as problems continue to plague the rollout of Obamacare, with the president saying last week that he was "sorry" millions of Americans would be losing their health insurance under the beleaguered program.
Many critics called Obama's apology too little, too late — especially in light of the president's repeated promises that Americans could keep their health plans and doctors under Obamacare if they wanted to.
"President Obama's misstatement, 'If you like your health plan, you can keep it,' left a bad taste with a lot of people," Malloy said. "Nearly half of the voters, 46 percent, think he knowingly deceived them."
House Speaker John Boehner was among the many Republicans who attacked the president's admission last week.
The apology, the Ohio Republican said, was "certainly in order, but what Americans want to hear is that the president is going to keep his promise."
House Republicans are expected to vote this week on legislation that would allow Americans to keep the healthcare plans they liked.
Voters also blamed Obama in part for the 16-day shutdown of the federal government last month, which furloughed as many as 800,000 workers and cost taxpayers $2 billion.
The overall Quinnipiac survey results released on Tuesday compared with a 49 percent disapproval rating on Oct. 1. In that survey, Obama's approval rating was 54 percent.
His previous lowest score in the survey was 55 percent to 41 percent disapproval in a poll conducted on Oct. 6, 2011.
Voters in every income and age group disapproved of how Obama is doing on the job, with the biggest disapproval rating, 59 percent to 36 percent, coming from voters over 65, the Quinnipiac survey found.
Respondents also told Quinnipiac — 53 percent to 43 percent — that the Obama administration was incompetent in running the government.
They also said, 51 percent to 43 percent, that the president was not paying attention to the workings of his administration.
Obama received a 52 percent to 42 percent approval rating, however, for handling terrorism, compared with negative scores for handling these other foreign and domestic issues, Quinnipiac found:
The survey of 2,545 voters conducted Nov. 6-11 found that only 39 percent of respondents approved of Obama's job performance, compared with 54 percent who didn't. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.9 percentage points.
Among women voters, one of Obama's biggest support groups, only 40 percent said they approved of his performance in the White House, versus 51 percent who said they did not.
For the first time in the Quinnipiac survey, 52 percent of voters said they thought Obama was not honest and trustworthy. That compared with 44 percent who said he was.
The president's previous lowest marks on honesty were on May 30, when 49 percent of voters surveyed said he was honest and 47 percent said he was not.
"Like all new presidents, President Barack Obama had a honeymoon with American voters, with approval ratings in the high 50s," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
"As the marriage wore on, he kept his job-approval scores in the respectable, though not overwhelming, 40s. Today, for the first time, it appears that 40 percent floor is cracking," Malloy said.
"Any Democrat with an 11-point approval deficit among women is in trouble. And any elected official with an 8-point trust deficit is in serious trouble."
The latest Quinnipiac poll results come as problems continue to plague the rollout of Obamacare, with the president saying last week that he was "sorry" millions of Americans would be losing their health insurance under the beleaguered program.
Many critics called Obama's apology too little, too late — especially in light of the president's repeated promises that Americans could keep their health plans and doctors under Obamacare if they wanted to.
"President Obama's misstatement, 'If you like your health plan, you can keep it,' left a bad taste with a lot of people," Malloy said. "Nearly half of the voters, 46 percent, think he knowingly deceived them."
House Speaker John Boehner was among the many Republicans who attacked the president's admission last week.
The apology, the Ohio Republican said, was "certainly in order, but what Americans want to hear is that the president is going to keep his promise."
House Republicans are expected to vote this week on legislation that would allow Americans to keep the healthcare plans they liked.
Voters also blamed Obama in part for the 16-day shutdown of the federal government last month, which furloughed as many as 800,000 workers and cost taxpayers $2 billion.
The overall Quinnipiac survey results released on Tuesday compared with a 49 percent disapproval rating on Oct. 1. In that survey, Obama's approval rating was 54 percent.
His previous lowest score in the survey was 55 percent to 41 percent disapproval in a poll conducted on Oct. 6, 2011.
Voters in every income and age group disapproved of how Obama is doing on the job, with the biggest disapproval rating, 59 percent to 36 percent, coming from voters over 65, the Quinnipiac survey found.
Respondents also told Quinnipiac — 53 percent to 43 percent — that the Obama administration was incompetent in running the government.
They also said, 51 percent to 43 percent, that the president was not paying attention to the workings of his administration.
Obama received a 52 percent to 42 percent approval rating, however, for handling terrorism, compared with negative scores for handling these other foreign and domestic issues, Quinnipiac found:
38 percent to 53 percent on foreign
policy.
35 percent to 53 percent on
immigration.
32 percent to 62 percent on the
federal budget.
36 percent to 60 percent on
healthcare.
38 percent to 59 percent on the
economy.
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Talk about stating the obvious...
Horowitz at Heritage Foundation: “The communist party IS the Democrat Party!”
On Tuesday, former Marxist-turned-conservative icon David Horowitz spoke
at the Heritage Foundation to mark the launch of what will be a ten-volume
compendium of his writings on leftism, The Black Book
of the American Left. In his wide-ranging speech, Horowitz
described his transition from left to right, and discussed the shortcomings of
a conservative movement unwilling to deal with the ugly realities of what the
American left represents.
Horowitz began by
distinguishing the David Horowitz Freedom Center from other think tanks,
instead characterizing it as a “battle tank.” He labeled himself “monomaniacal”
in his focus on the left and its relation to communism. “There are hedgehogs
and foxes. The foxes know many things. And the hedgehogs know one thing. I am a
hedgehog,” he joked.
“My parents called
themselves progressives,” Horowitz explained with regard to his communist
parents. “The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party
in those days was peace, jobs, democracy. Sound familiar?”
That was the theme
of Horowitz’s speech as he continued: how the communists had taken over the
Democratic Party. “The communist party is the Democratic Party,” Horowitz
stated. “In The Great Gatsby, [F. Scott] Fitzgerald describes the rich
as people who break things and leave them for others to clean up. That is a
wonderful description of the left.” Horowitz, who began as a radical Marxist,
said that the modern left had learned stealth from their failures in the 1960s:
“The left have learned from the 1960s...we in the 1960s didn't want to pretend
to be Jeffersonian democrats...That's why we failed in the 1960s. That's why
they've succeeded now.”
But the right,
Horowitz pointed out, has failed to acknowledge that reality. On Obamacare, for
example, Horowitz railed against the language used by the left: “single-payer.”
Instead, he said, “it is communism,” pointing out that it was state ownership
of the means of production. He added, “The left hate the Constitution because
Madison designed it to thwart them.”
Horowitz then
analyzed what he claimed were the four features of the leftist mentality.
First, he said, the left and right are on opposite sides of the “fundamental
divide of the modern age”: the left believes that human beings are inherently
good and infinitely malleable, and so can be shaped by proper state guidance.
Conservatives, by contrast, believe that human beings are responsible for
social problems, and concentrating power in the hands of humans is dangerous.
Second, Horowitz
said, the left are characterized by the belief that “history is a forward
march.” Obama, Horowitz claimed, is a deep believer in this concept, all the
way down to his carpet in the Oval Office, which assures those who enter that
the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice. “Leftism is a
crypto-religion,” he explained. “They see themselves as a savior. People who
believe that redemption will take place in this life and I will be a part of
it, that's Hitler. That's Mao...That's the American left.”
Third, Horowitz
said that the left was characterized by “alienation from this country... What
weakens America is actually good.” Horowitz cited the Obama administration’s
eager withdrawal from Iraq as evidence of that proposition: “Obama betrayed
every American who gave their life for the people of Iraq.” He also slammed the
Obama administration with regard to Benghazi: “Benghazi is the most shameful
act in the history of the American presidency.”
Finally, said
Horowitz, the American left “lie. And it's not like politicians spinning...you
cannot be a leftist without lying about the most basic strategic facts about
who you are.”
Horowitz summed up
pessimistically: “We are within reach of a totalitarian state in this
country…These are very very dark days for this country.” But, Horowitz held out
hope: “there's been an earthquake on the conservative side since I switched
sides...the tea party is the earthquake. The best thing that Republicans can do
is stop the fratricide.”
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