Day: July 11, 2012

Link Of The Day: Iowahawk

One of the most brilliant but underrated satirists on web is David Burge who goes by the name IowaHawk.

And here is a brilliant piece that those of us who were in middle school circa 1972 might appreciate. It concerns a heap big pseudo-Injun liberal professor
That would be Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado, in this case, not Elizabeth Warren of Harvard who wants to be a U.S. Senator.

Even Old Media Stammers In Defending O

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell — who once worked at KYW many moons ago — interviewed former New Hampshire governor and Romney supporter John Sununu which wound up with with Sununu laughing at her brave but futile attempts to defend President Obama.


Here’s a partial transcript:

ANDREA MITCHELL, HOST: Isn’t it a winning issue for the White House fundamentally, granted that the Politifact folks and the Washington Post pointed out that the President’s campaign ad on that issue had a lot, a lot of questions and a lot of questionable attack lines… 
JOHN SUNUNU: No, they said it was wrong. A lot of questions is not right. It was wrong. 
MITCHELL: Okay, if, but the point is that doesn’t, isn’t Mitt Romney more vulnerable than the President on this issue because there still is, the whole question of private equity of outsourcing? You could argue about when he left Bain Capital, and, you know, whether he was still getting money from Bain Capital and what some of the companies in Bain were doing, companies that did end up working overseas and sending jobs overseas. 
SUNUNU: [Laughs] 
MITCHELL: But isn’t it a bigger problem for Republicans than for the White House? 
SUNUNU: No. When you’ve sent $500 million to Fisker and it goes to Finland immediately. When you send the solar money and it goes to Mexico. When you send the turbine money and it goes to Denmark. And we can go on all day. There is $29 billion worth of purchases that came out of this administration, outsourced jobs to foreign countries. Mitt Romney outsourced zero. Obama outsourced 29… 
MITCHELL: Zero? 
SUNUNU: Zero. He wasn’t there when those issues came up. 
MITCHELL: Well, first of all… 
SUNUNU: [Laughs] 
MITCHELL: …the $29 billion are not all outsourced from the administration because… 
SUNUNU: Sure they are. 
MITCHELL: A lot of those jobs still remained here. There are jobs, when you do a grant, Governor, there are jobs here as well as overseas. 
SUNUNU: [Laughs] You’re struggling, Andrea. You’re struggling. [Laughs] 
MITCHELL: Well, first of all… 
SUNUNU: [Still laughing] 
MITCHELL: …these are competing claims and we will get back to you with all of the numbers. 
SUNUNU: Sure.


Embattled Newtown Chief Gets Public Hearing

A hearing has been scheduled by the Newtown (Delaware County) Supervisors regarding embattled Police Chief Dennis Anderson whose status is the subject of much speculation in the township. 

It is 7 p.m., Tuesday, July 17, at the township building, 209 Bishop Hollow Road. 

Anderson has requested that the hearing be public. The township has not mentioned the hearing on its website.

The hearing has reportedly been rescheduled until July 24.

Texas Says No To 0-Care

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has made it clear that his state won’t be signing up with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 

In an letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, he says:
In the ObamaCare plan, the federal government sought to force the states to expand their Medicaid programs by — in the words of the Supreme Court — putting a gun to their heads. Now that the “gun to the head” has been removed, please relay this message to the President: I oppose bot the expansion of Medicaid as provided in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the creation of a so-called “state” insurance exchange, because both represent brazen intrusions into the sovereignty of our state.

I stand proudly with the growing chorus of governors who reject the PPACA power grab. Thank God and our nation’s founders that we have the right to do so.

Neither a “state” exchange nor the expansion of Medicaid under the Orwellian-named PPACA would result in better “patient protection” or in more “affordable care” What they would do is make Texas a mere appendage of the federal government when it comes to health care.

The complete letter can be found here.
Are you listening Gov. Corbett?