Obamacare’s Success
Doug Hagmann who writes at Canada Free Press can be characterized by leftists as an extreme conspiracy enthusiast. Sometimes he does come across as too heavy on the dire predictions. However, as this piece, if read with objectivity and the realization that it is factual and no part of it is the wild imagination of a true conspiricist (like Van Jones), one must recognize that the situation America now faces is dire, indeed. He makes reference to the Hegelian dialectic, Marxist thought and the Cloward-Piven model for social change. The title of his article is The Unspoken Success of ObamaCare:
“How is it possible that the United States government can build, implement and manage the most intricate surveillance apparatus in the world, using a complex array of computers to amass data on people not just in the U.S., but all across the world, yet fail miserably on a less complex health care portal, exchange or web site?”
Framing Ballot Questions
Paul Jacob writes a daily commentary Common Sense. This particular item talks about referenda and ballot initiatives. It’s title is Can’t Buy Me Votes. While the subject of his short commentary should be fleshed out, he makes the point, with reference to a recent study, that stopping a ballot measure with a no vote is typically easier or less costly than the money necessary to be spent to convince people to vote yes.
We see that as useful insight to the conservative movement because much of what we can do is to oppose something steamrolled by liberal legislatures or judges in spite of popular opinion. We can win no votes in spite of multiples of money spent by the “pro” side. Essentiall,y if we want to do something about an outrage where the popular ballot is available, we should look to frame initiatives to the “no” effect.
More on Establishment Republicans
Star Parker writing in Jewish World Review is right on with her observations about the establishment Republican’s failure to grasp lessons necessary to win. With reference to the Virginia gubernatorial race and how conservative Cuccinelli was closing in on liberal McAuliff, Parker wrote this (item set in bold is our emphasis):
It was not the tea party that stabbed Cuccinelli in the back but establishment members of his own party. Once a real conservative candidate gets nominated, party leaders lose interest. Then they hold back funds, thus ensuring their own prediction that this candidate can’t win.
Cuccinelli lagged in total funding by $14 million. In the campaign’s early months, he was brutally attacked in ads that went unanswered because of lack of funding.
Last month’s 16-day government shutdown, led by hardline conservatives, supposedly had a disproportionate negative impact on Cuccinelli because so many Northern Virginians work for the federal government. But he was well behind in the polls for months before the shutdown — again, largely because of unanswered attack ads.
Members of the Republican establishment can’t seem to grasp that they would have helped their cause by embracing efforts to defund “Obamacare” led by tea party activists Ted Cruz and Mike Lee.
DLH and R Mall
