Headed to New York City today for a couple of days. If you are there and want to meet for a cup of coffee, ping me.
The House of Representatives passed a spending bill the other day. The Democrats didn’t like it. No surprise there. No one ever likes what the other does.
The House bill is being spun by the media as totally atrocious because it defunds Obamacare. Some Senate Republicans like John McCain have come out against it. Senator Ted Cruz has said he will filibuster in the Senate. His stance, “A vote for cloture is a vote for Obamacare.”
Senate Democrats don’t like it because it forces some of them to cast a vote for or against Obamacare in with an election on the horizon. Really, who wants to upvote a program that is less popular than the Iraq War?
Well, Obamacare whether you like it or not is not ready for prime time. No one even knows how anything is going to be set up. It’s in disarray.
If anyone bothered to look at polls of the American public, they’d see it’s totally unpopular. Most of the American public doesn’t support it, and if the ones that supported Obamacare knew how it would really work many of them would switch sides too.
I have been against the law since its inception since there are plenty of ways to accomplish what the law seeks to accomplish using the private sector. Democrats and many Republicans are unwilling to consider certain reforms in our medical system that would change the economic incentives, and decrease costs.
On virtually every front, Obamacare increases costs massively.
The New York Times has said the Republicans are unorganized. They are. There is a growing faction of the Republican party that hates business as usual. Outlined in the book, America 3.0, there is an ever larger faction of Republicans that favor smaller government, less special interest, few government programs, and laws in favor of individual liberty.
That’s a good development. The more libertarian we get as a country the better.
I have seen a lot of tweets decrying the lack of progress on just about everything from spending, to immigration. That’s what happens when each side sets up every bill to fail by polluting it with special interests. If we wrote laws in the spirit of the original words of the Constitution, we’d see progress on things like immigration.
There are lots of reasons that this persists. The main one is gerrymandering. Check out how the Democrats in Springfield drew this Congressional district.
Crazy. We won’t make any progress politically until both parties quit gerrymandering. I think there is a small faction of Democrats, and the growing legions of libertarian style Republicans that can take over the Republican party and move the nation forward.
Until then, the special interests on both sides will have us in gridlock-and a continuous debate over the debt ceiling. It’s really not about the debt ceiling, but how many goodies each party can dole out to it’s crony capitalist special interests. Our country has been gerrymandered, block by block.
People that want change should support Ted Cruz. Pass the bill, don’t shut down the government and send Obamacare back to the drawing board.
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