Except that would be a multi-pronged lie since tea partiers werent the ones who instituted the policy of personal freedom (like the freedom to not be forced to pay for someone elses medical bills if you choose not to). Its also a lie since conservatives help their fellow man where as the majority of liberals just want government to do it so they wont be bothered by it. Mitt Romney for example, gave more money to charity than millionaires Obama and Biden combined, but even poor conservatives give more money, volunteer time and even donate more blood than liberals.
Big government is a poison. the bigger the government the smaller the citizen.
If the individual mandate is struck down, we’ve got a president so crazy-untrustworthy that he used his political capital to force through something he did not campaign on, something the majority of congress and the public at large was against AND something that is unconstitutional.
If the individual mandate is upheld, it will be through the commerce clause that gives the government the right to tax the shit out of us, meaning we have a president so crazy-untrustworthy that he campaigned on the pledge to not raise taxes and then made doing exactly that his first priority.
“Half your money is taken away because you have just been lucky. You’re a lottery winner. You didn’t work harder. You didn’t defer pleasure. You didn’t make sacrifices. You didn’t stay up at night while others were watching TV or going to parties. Nah, not at all. Its just your good luck. That’s how the Left see’s it: they’re not taxing your WORK, they’re taxing your LUCK…. I like that line… I wanna write that down…”
-Dennis Prager on the California tax rate and Progressive taxation in general, 3/22/12
Much is being made by the left and what remains of the dwindling anti-Romney right by a post from the far left website Think Progress that headlines: “Top Romney Adviser Says Romney Can Change His Positions After The Primaries: ‘It’s Almost Like An Etch A Sketch’”.
Unsurprisingly, the post by Alex Seitz-Wald is a fabrication. Somewhat surprisingly, though certainly unfortunate: many on the right are blindly following it.
The claim in the headline is no where to be found in the video clip of the exchange. Communications Director Eric Fehrnstrom answered a question on CNN about the tone of the primary and how its conservative focus might hurt Romney in a general election with a historically undeniably accurate answer: after a nominee is chosen, everything changes. The tone, the issues, the focus – it all gets a reboot.
HOST: Is there a concern that Santorum and Gingrich might force the governor to tack so far to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters in the general election?
FEHRNSTROM: Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all of over again.
Couldn’t be more clear… or accurate. Fehrnstrom did not call Mitt Romney an Etch A Sketch. He did not call his political ideology Etch A Sketchy. He made an accurate analogy about the 2 campaigns within an election: the 2012 election is the childs toy, the primary is the first sketch – shake it up – and the general election is the 2nd sketch. It’s a visual in response to the question that the competition among Romneys former primary opponents will carry over to do him harm in the general election. This isn’t a complex or nuanced piece of imagery to comprehend… so why is anyone calling Mitt Romney an Etch A Sketch?
Fehrnstrom never said nor implied that Romneys positions would be the thing that change. ThinkProgress just saw a “flip-flop” opening with the “Etch A Sketch” analogy and went for it with their usual standards of intellectual honesty (see: little to none).
For further debunking of the claim that anyone close to Romney even hinted at (let alone quoted Romney or gave any actual insider-strategy plan revelations on), one needs only to keep listening to the sentences directly following the one with the analogy. The context Fehrnstrom is making these remarks in is crystal clear: Romney
But what are those on the right’s excuse for touting this left wing attack? Ignorance? Granted, the research required to debunk this smear is extensive (you have to watch the 30 seconds of video), so perhaps it’s understandable that people like Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and others who do not want to see Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee would fall for this.
What does it say about a candidate or pundit that jumps on the smears put out by the opposition instead of debunk them? It says that they are selfish, destructive to the ideology and desperate to find something.
In other news: Ohio Art, the maker of the popular toy’s, stock was up more than 200 percent on Thursday and sales on Amazon jumped 1,556%…
Reuters reports that the Obama administration will cut off birth control funding for low-income women in Texas because Texas has cut off the state’s taxpayer-funding of Planned Parenthood:
The federal government will withdraw funding for a Texas program providing more than 100,000 poor women with birth control and other health services because Planned Parenthood clinics are not allowed to participate, a Health and Human Services spokeswoman said on Friday.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the decision in Houston on Friday, prompting a furious response from Texas Governor Rick Perry, who called it an “egregious federal overreach.”
At the heart of the dispute between the administration of President Barack Obama and Texas is the divisive issue of abortion.
Shortly after the Obama administration made its announcement, a Planned Parenthood CEO in Texas was arrested for indecent exposure.
The Greatest Generation did not teach the baby boomers what Americanism is, and that is why Barack Obama is not the biggest issue in this election: Because it is leftism that is the problem, not the individual espousing it. America is losing sight of the “American Trinity”, according to Dennis Prager in this video from the Q & A At University of Denver.
To see what Dennis means when he says The American Trinity”, see this video from Prager University for a 5 minute video explanation by Dennis.
