Why the 2010 election is important to save the USA

[el Gusano]

By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann
03.30.2010

We don’t have to wait until we have a Republican in the White House to rid this nation of the shackles of Obamacare. We can do it next year if we win simple majorities in one or both houses of Congress.

The Obama health care bill was an authorization measure which established a program and set down its parameters. But authorization bills are not appropriations. Each year the Congress must act on appropriations for each department and agency in the government. If no funds are appropriated, nothing can be spent.

So if Republicans take the House (where appropriations have to originate) – and especially if they also take the Senate – they will have the capacity to zero fund Obamacare, appropriating not a dime for it in their spending bills. Indeed, they can and should include a specific amendment to their appropriations bills banning the expenditure of any of the funds on Obama’s health care program.

In the wake of the passage of the health care bill, states are filing lawsuits and talk of repeal is in the air. Both are useful efforts. But litigation takes time and the key challenge – to the constitutionality of the requirement that everybody buy insurance – cannot even begin until it takes effect in 2014. And repeal will obviously be impossible as long as Obama wields the veto from his Oval Office. It would be impossible mathematically for the Republicans to get a two-thirds majority in the Senate and unlikely in the House, so an override is out of the question. Repeal will have to wait until 2013, after Obama’s defeat in 2012.

But zero funding can happen immediately after the Republicans take Congress. All this makes the elections of 2010 critical. If we can stop this bill from getting off the ground, it will be possible to repeal it when we take over the White House. But if the Democrats keep their majorities, the program will be so entrenched by the time we defeat Obama that its repeal would be unlikely.

Zero Fund ObamaCare

[Action!]

You are right, save the USA from right-wing republican bigots and hatemongers. The party of no will not take over either the senate or the house. Obama's approval rating went up five points this week with the passage of the health insurance plan. Democrats have nothing to worry about.

[gridbug]

More partisanship from the Party of No? Yeah, that'll make everything all better!

[goomba]

every election is an important one. unfortunately society no longer thinks so.

[morrisonhimself]

Tennessee has the second-lowest voter participation in the nation.

It is reflected in the poor quality of our elected officials.

Then, again, the entire country is ruled by very poor-quality elected officials.

Some cynic pointed out long ago that if elections really could make a difference, they would be illegal.

In Tennessee, genuine democratic elections are almost illegal: Only the two old parties are allowed on the ballot, so voters are not given much by way of real choice.

And that might help explain why so few people do bother to vote.

[morrisonhimself]

Mar 31, 2010 6:48:02 GMT -5 Action! said:

You are right, save the USA from right-wing republican bigots and hatemongers. The party of no will not take over either the senate or the house. Obama's approval rating went up five points this week with the passage of the health insurance plan. Democrats have nothing to worry about.

And if we could also avoid left-wing and Democrat bigots and hatemongers, we might be on the way to creating a paradise.

Alas, the left-wing and Democrat bigots and hatemongers control the "news" media, so getting rid of them will be difficult.

[okz]

Republicans will make mild gains in 2010, but they will be reversed in 2012 with the reelection of Obama.

[Scarlet&Gray]

Dick Morris as soon as I seen his name I stopped reading. He's the male Ann Coulter. I think I'm not convinced Coulter is female. Dick is a touch more handsome with a more toned down adams apple.

[morrisonhimself]

Mar 31, 2010 16:16:26 GMT -5 okz said:

Republicans will make mild gains in 2010, but they will be reversed in 2012 with the reelection of Obama.

Oy, are YOU the pessimist!

[morrisonhimself]

Mar 31, 2010 16:58:39 GMT -5 Scarlet&Gray said:

Dick Morris as soon as I seen his name I stopped reading. He's the male Ann Coulter. I think I'm not convinced Coulter is female. Dick is a touch more handsome with a more toned down adams apple.

Two points: This is the kind of ugly personal name-calling that so often comes from the left rather than any kind of reasoned discussion.

And your closed-mindedness -- "I stopped reading" -- further contributes to divisiveness and in no way contributes to finding answers.

I think it was a great man who said leftists seek complexities and conservatives seek answers. Though I don't have any particular brief for conservatives, I think these days it is shown there is a lot of truth in that statement.

[Scarlet&Gray]

Two points: This is the kind of ugly personal name-calling that so often comes from the left rather than any kind of reasoned discussion.

I agree, I reckon you don't watch much Fox Noise or listen too conservative talkers like Rush, Hannity, Ingraham, Humphries etc..They've maid themselves a decent living off name calling.

[morrisonhimself]

Mar 31, 2010 19:17:46 GMT -5 Scarlet&Gray said:

Two points: This is the kind of ugly personal name-calling that so often comes from the left rather than any kind of reasoned discussion.

I agree, I reckon you don't watch much Fox Noise or listen too conservative talkers like Rush, Hannity, Ingraham, Humphries etc..They've maid themselves a decent living off name calling.

This is a very puzzling comment.

If you agree, then why do you join in the name-calling? I mean, those people you name -- at least most of them -- have indeed "maid" a decent living, but they're not leftists and you're not one of them. So what on earth are you talking about?

Second, I do listen, for a while, to many of the talkers (only in the car, though, because my home radio is permanently set on a classical music station), but I switch off when the silliness and the name-calling start.

I also watch Fox as well as the others, but must count on C-SPAN for the straight facts ... well, at least the non-filtered reporting of certain events,

However, I think for myself, and I do think.

There are certain standards against which I measure what the politicians and posters say. Primarily, the standard is the ZAP, or NAP, which is the Zero or Non-Aggression Principle.

[Scarlet&Gray]

I'm with ya. Your post seemed to say just lefties were name callers. I must've misunderstood. I don't listen to much talkers anymore except sports, local talk and Phil Hendrie. I don't need a talking head to tell me what to think.

[okz]

Mar 31, 2010 18:13:09 GMT -5 morrisonhimself said:

Mar 31, 2010 16:16:26 GMT -5 okz said:

Republicans will make mild gains in 2010, but they will be reversed in 2012 with the reelection of Obama.

Oy, are YOU the pessimist!

Not at all.

Overall the pendulum is swinging back after a 30 year swing to the right. But history shows that there will be a modest gain for the opposition party in this off year election.

[mikeydokey]

I don't need a talking head to tell me what to think.

Really, why waste a perfectly good empty head.

[gridbug]

Some cynic pointed out long ago that if elections really could make a difference, they would be illegal.

Hey! I resemble that remark. I say it frequently and even recently.

But I still vote all the time because it is my civic duty. I just don't actually expect it to help.

[Scarlet&Gray]

Really, why waste a perfectly good empty head.

You tell me brother you do it everyday. Double on the weekends when your meds kick in. Tounge thick with pills,,

[mikeydokey]

pants on the ground, gold in your mouth, hat turned sideways, pants on the ground, pants on the ground, tongue thick with pills, looking like a fool with your pants on the ground

[cvhs67]

Mar 31, 2010 16:58:39 GMT -5 Scarlet&Gray said:

Dick Morris as soon as I seen his name I stopped reading. He's the male Ann Coulter. I think I'm not convinced Coulter is female. Dick is a touch more handsome with a more toned down adams apple.

Hmmm......Is THAT what Jesus would say? (as in WWJD)

[Scarlet&Gray]

Hmmm......Is THAT what Jesus would say? (as in WWJD)

Yes he would he hated wolves in sheeps clothing.

[mikeydokey]

Wolves is plural for wolf, good job wwjd, glad to see your keeping up.

[Action!]

Tennessee has the second-lowest voter participation in the nation.It is reflected in the poor quality of our elected officials.Then, again, the entire country is ruled by very poor-quality elected officials.

I think it's due to the extreme lack of education of the Tennessee people and their backwards bible-thumpin' attitudes, not the politicians.

[mikeydokey]

I think it's due to gays getting married in Massachusetts and thinking that they are still married when they move to Tennessee and then when they learn that their boyfriend/husband/wife doesn't love them anymore(as if they ever did) they'll just find them someone else to take up with and act as if the fake marriage in Massachusetts or wherever never even happened. Because gay marriages DO NOT EXIST IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA,

[Tsavodiner]

Apr 10, 2010 15:25:51 GMT -5 Action! said:

Tennessee has the second-lowest voter participation in the nation.It is reflected in the poor quality of our elected officials.Then, again, the entire country is ruled by very poor-quality elected officials.

I think it's due to the extreme lack of education of the Tennessee people and their backwards bible-thumpin' attitudes, not the politicians.

Well, their elected officials were obviously educated enough to GET ELECTED, which you obviously WEREN'T, you got run off from wherever you came from.

And what'er ya gonna DO? Out-POPULATE the rest of us?

[Tsavodiner]

Apr 6, 2010 19:50:45 GMT -5 Scarlet&Gray said:

Hmmm......Is THAT what Jesus would say? (as in WWJD)

Yes he would he hated wolves in sheeps clothing.

He wouldn't think much of YOU dressing up in women's, either.

[Action!]

Apr 10, 2010 15:44:42 GMT -5 mikeydokey said:

I think it's due to gays getting married in Massachusetts and thinking that they are still married when they move to Tennessee and then when they learn that their boyfriend/husband/wife doesn't love them anymore(as if they ever did) they'll just find them someone else to take up with and act as if the fake marriage in Massachusetts or wherever never even happened. Because gay marriages DO NOT EXIST IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA,

Let's see how hard you are laughing when DOMA gets overturned and I am legally married here is Dumbassee, because it will happen. Regardless, my loving husband and I still both love each other and always will, which is more than I can say for you.

[mikeydokey]

yeah I don't love you or your husband, at least not in the way you like

[Scarlet&Gray]

Dumbassee,

Move. back to fagachusetts. Rump Ranger

[Scarlet&Gray]

Wolves is plural for wolf, good job wwjd, glad to see your keeping up.

No problem ass munch

[Action!]

Apr 11, 2010 12:49:39 GMT -5 Scarlet&Gray said:

Dumbassee,

Move. back to fagachusetts. Rump Ranger

I prefer Queerasee, thanks though.