“House Ways and Means Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) hasn’t yet agreed to take the speaker’s gavel, and some conservative activists want to keep it that way.
For America’s Brent Bozell issued a preemptive denunciation of Ryan on Monday. “How can someone with an ‘F’ conservative rating (Conservative Review) be acceptable to conservatives?” he said in a statement to National Review. “Paul Ryan came to Washington with such promise and has been a huge disappointment. At every turn he has done the bidding of John Boehner. He hasn’t taken a principled stand on a single thing of importance. He is just more of the same, sadly.”
“Ryan is still “the gold standard” for conservatives who don’t live and die by the beltway news cycle, according to one House Republican. But “in 30 days, Paul knows that that constant [criticism] will cause those people to have a different view of [him].”
He is already receiving a preview of that criticism. The Drudge Report gave pride-of-place over the weekend to a Breitbart News piece criticizing him. Long-time conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly said he’d be “the same type of leader as outgoing Speaker Boehner.” And RedState’s Erick Erickson described him as a “dangerous pick” because he “will give the veneer of conservatism to whatever he touches.””
And since the Dem debate is tonight, here’s a preview on the 4 major players. They mostly agree, with some small differences. But all of them agree, they need to raise taxes and take your guns. They are Dems after all, so they’re going full on progressive to outdo each other. 🙂
“Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken the world of politics by surprise the past couple of weeks, giving her support to the most liberal members of her party on trade, climate change and Wall Street. She has now joined her foremost competitors for the Democratic presidential nomination — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Martin O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland — in signing on to the same ambitiously progressive program.
That united front contrasts with the discord in the Republican Party, where internal divisions have been on display this past week as GOP factions in the House dispute who will replace Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) as speaker.
This newly solidified Democratic agenda also contrasts with the situation in the party not all that long ago. After a catastrophic financial crisis and 15 years of declining incomes for typical American households, Democrats seem to have diminishing confidence in the potential of the free market to provide an improving standard of living.”
And if you thought the debate tonight would be like the last one, you’re mistaken. CNN will play nice with the Dems, because that’s who they support and don’t want to make them look bad. They reserve that for Republicans only.
“CNN’s Anderson Cooper will moderate the first Democratic presidential debate this week, and unlike the previous Republican debate hosted by CNN, Cooper said he won’t be encouraging confrontations between the candidates.
“I’m always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote some sort of a face off,” Cooper said Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” “Look, these are all serious people. This is a serious debate. They want to talk about the issues and I want to give them an opportunity to do that.”
Cooper’s suggested style is a departure from the GOP debate hosted by CNN and moderated by Jake Tapper in September.
Before that debate, Tapper had said he was “trying to craft questions that, in most cases, pit candidates against the other.”
“During an appearance at a Jon Huntsman “No Labels” event, a female audience member named Lauren Batchelder played the role of a female antagonist toward candidate Donald Trump.
However, Ms. Batchelder is not just an average audience member. She’s a paid political operative of the GOP and a paid staff member of Team Jeb Bush:
Within minutes of her scripted performance at the event, the producers of CNN were quickly editing soundbites and framing a narrative. That story was pushed into the media stream within hours. CNN’s Jeanne Moos was the delivery vehicle for the a hit piece.”
However, as previously noted, it didn’t take long to discover that Lauren Batchelder was not just an ordinary audience member, she is actually a current staffer for Senator Kelly Ayotte and also working in New Hampshire on behalf of the Jeb Bush 2016 campaign.
Batchelder’s LinkedIn profile shows she is a Jeb Bush For President 2016 staffer.”
The difference between Reagan and Ryan on the one hand and their critics on the other is that Reagan and Ryan developed plans to make things better. Reagan compromised with Democrats in order to pass his initial tax cuts, his domestic budget cuts, his defense buildup and the 1986 Tax Reform package.
It isn’t enough to just say: Repeal Obamacare. Our healthcare system was largely socialist ( and was hurting the economy) BEFORE Obamacare. Ryan proposed free market reforms to Medicare as part of his comprehensive budget proposal just as Reagan did in the early 80s. He won’t get everything he wants, but he may move things a little in the right direction.
If Texas or Oklahoma or Alabama was its own nation, it could operate free of abortion and relatively free of socialism and perversion. However, since we live in a country with huge numbers of people who like abortion, socialism and perversion, any improvements are going to be small.
In Texas, we have decided that Putin is like Baylor. They both look strong, but their opponents (SMU, Ukraine, Kansas and Obama) have been so weak that it is impossible to make a fair evaluation.
Someone on FB last week even suggested Carson is probably mentally ill.
I think Carson sometimes isn’t as thoughtful as he could be with the way he says things — you can still speak the truth without stumbling into wording that, in an Internet age, will only inflame your enemies more — but the outright hatred I see directed against him is pretty distressing.
It’s part of the reason I feel so pessimistic right now about our country’s future.
My hope is that there are many still-sensible Americans still out there who, while not very vocal, are turned off by these kinds of attacks and will go to the voting booth.
“…Democrats seem to have diminishing confidence in the potential of the free market to provide an improving standard of living.” (From the post at 10:31am)
We do not have truly free markets here, nor “real” capitalism.
It’s actually painful to watch. 😦 Three of them are literally untethered from reality — Webb is a bit better, but will be hated by the left after tonight (and he’s not nearly conservative enough to be viewed favorably by the other party).
O’Malley is especially annoying to me for some reason.
But Hillary held her own, she looked and sounded ‘good’, if you will — and I have to say that the Democrats don’t eat their own like the Republicans seem to do 😦
Wandering Views 
Conservative? Or just another Chamber of Commerce RINO like Boehner? Depends who you ask I guess….
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425436/paul-ryan-house-speaker-conservative-activists-rebel
“House Ways and Means Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) hasn’t yet agreed to take the speaker’s gavel, and some conservative activists want to keep it that way.
For America’s Brent Bozell issued a preemptive denunciation of Ryan on Monday. “How can someone with an ‘F’ conservative rating (Conservative Review) be acceptable to conservatives?” he said in a statement to National Review. “Paul Ryan came to Washington with such promise and has been a huge disappointment. At every turn he has done the bidding of John Boehner. He hasn’t taken a principled stand on a single thing of importance. He is just more of the same, sadly.”
“Ryan is still “the gold standard” for conservatives who don’t live and die by the beltway news cycle, according to one House Republican. But “in 30 days, Paul knows that that constant [criticism] will cause those people to have a different view of [him].”
He is already receiving a preview of that criticism. The Drudge Report gave pride-of-place over the weekend to a Breitbart News piece criticizing him. Long-time conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly said he’d be “the same type of leader as outgoing Speaker Boehner.” And RedState’s Erick Erickson described him as a “dangerous pick” because he “will give the veneer of conservatism to whatever he touches.””
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And since the Dem debate is tonight, here’s a preview on the 4 major players. They mostly agree, with some small differences. But all of them agree, they need to raise taxes and take your guns. They are Dems after all, so they’re going full on progressive to outdo each other. 🙂
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/four-big-differences-between-the-leading-democratic-candidates-ahead-of-tuesday%E2%80%99s-debate/ar-AAfnwqo?li=AAa0dzB&ocid=U142DHP
“Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken the world of politics by surprise the past couple of weeks, giving her support to the most liberal members of her party on trade, climate change and Wall Street. She has now joined her foremost competitors for the Democratic presidential nomination — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Martin O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland — in signing on to the same ambitiously progressive program.
That united front contrasts with the discord in the Republican Party, where internal divisions have been on display this past week as GOP factions in the House dispute who will replace Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) as speaker.
This newly solidified Democratic agenda also contrasts with the situation in the party not all that long ago. After a catastrophic financial crisis and 15 years of declining incomes for typical American households, Democrats seem to have diminishing confidence in the potential of the free market to provide an improving standard of living.”
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And if you thought the debate tonight would be like the last one, you’re mistaken. CNN will play nice with the Dems, because that’s who they support and don’t want to make them look bad. They reserve that for Republicans only.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cnn-wont-pit-dems-against-each-other-in-tuesdays-debate/article/2573885?custom_click=rss
“CNN’s Anderson Cooper will moderate the first Democratic presidential debate this week, and unlike the previous Republican debate hosted by CNN, Cooper said he won’t be encouraging confrontations between the candidates.
“I’m always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote some sort of a face off,” Cooper said Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” “Look, these are all serious people. This is a serious debate. They want to talk about the issues and I want to give them an opportunity to do that.”
Cooper’s suggested style is a departure from the GOP debate hosted by CNN and moderated by Jake Tapper in September.
Before that debate, Tapper had said he was “trying to craft questions that, in most cases, pit candidates against the other.”
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And I doubt you’ll see this type of shenanigans tonight. These are Dems, so they’ll play nice.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/10/13/busted-cnn-uses-jeb-bush-staffer-planted-in-audience-to-frame-donald-trump-narrativehit-job/
“During an appearance at a Jon Huntsman “No Labels” event, a female audience member named Lauren Batchelder played the role of a female antagonist toward candidate Donald Trump.
However, Ms. Batchelder is not just an average audience member. She’s a paid political operative of the GOP and a paid staff member of Team Jeb Bush:
Within minutes of her scripted performance at the event, the producers of CNN were quickly editing soundbites and framing a narrative. That story was pushed into the media stream within hours. CNN’s Jeanne Moos was the delivery vehicle for the a hit piece.”
However, as previously noted, it didn’t take long to discover that Lauren Batchelder was not just an ordinary audience member, she is actually a current staffer for Senator Kelly Ayotte and also working in New Hampshire on behalf of the Jeb Bush 2016 campaign.
Batchelder’s LinkedIn profile shows she is a Jeb Bush For President 2016 staffer.”
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The difference between Reagan and Ryan on the one hand and their critics on the other is that Reagan and Ryan developed plans to make things better. Reagan compromised with Democrats in order to pass his initial tax cuts, his domestic budget cuts, his defense buildup and the 1986 Tax Reform package.
It isn’t enough to just say: Repeal Obamacare. Our healthcare system was largely socialist ( and was hurting the economy) BEFORE Obamacare. Ryan proposed free market reforms to Medicare as part of his comprehensive budget proposal just as Reagan did in the early 80s. He won’t get everything he wants, but he may move things a little in the right direction.
If Texas or Oklahoma or Alabama was its own nation, it could operate free of abortion and relatively free of socialism and perversion. However, since we live in a country with huge numbers of people who like abortion, socialism and perversion, any improvements are going to be small.
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In Texas, we have decided that Putin is like Baylor. They both look strong, but their opponents (SMU, Ukraine, Kansas and Obama) have been so weak that it is impossible to make a fair evaluation.
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Dennis Prager:”Tthe smearing of Dr. Ben Carson has just begun.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/ben-carson-the-left-is-smearing-him?target=author&tid=900932
Someone on FB last week even suggested Carson is probably mentally ill.
I think Carson sometimes isn’t as thoughtful as he could be with the way he says things — you can still speak the truth without stumbling into wording that, in an Internet age, will only inflame your enemies more — but the outright hatred I see directed against him is pretty distressing.
It’s part of the reason I feel so pessimistic right now about our country’s future.
My hope is that there are many still-sensible Americans still out there who, while not very vocal, are turned off by these kinds of attacks and will go to the voting booth.
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Ricky, someday, Baylor has to play TCU.
Maybe in a couple of years, Putin will have someone on his schedule too.
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Donna – Those people who hate Carson are obviously racist, right? That argument works for Obama’s supporters.
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“…Democrats seem to have diminishing confidence in the potential of the free market to provide an improving standard of living.” (From the post at 10:31am)
We do not have truly free markets here, nor “real” capitalism.
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Democratic debate is a bit jarring. Strange bunch. The party really has swung way to the left.
And Bernie, for one, sounds ready to do away with any vestige of free enterprise.
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It’s actually painful to watch. 😦 Three of them are literally untethered from reality — Webb is a bit better, but will be hated by the left after tonight (and he’s not nearly conservative enough to be viewed favorably by the other party).
O’Malley is especially annoying to me for some reason.
Bernie seems more radical than I’d imagined.
And Hillary is Hillary, the politician.
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But Hillary held her own, she looked and sounded ‘good’, if you will — and I have to say that the Democrats don’t eat their own like the Republicans seem to do 😦
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I didn’t see the debate. But I suspect Hillary won.
That’s the way it was planned.
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Not planned, but she held her own and remains the frontrunner.
Candidates are free to blow it during any of these televised events. 🙂
I suspect the also-rans (O’Malley, Webb & Chafee) are out after this debate. But then they were never really contenders.
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