Well done, pulling the rug out from under the Democrat's strategy of passing laws via regulation, rather than via a Congressional vote.
The continuing resolution, which would fund the government through the end of the fiscal year, is the latest attempt by Republicans to stop EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Republicans argue that pending EPA climate rules will destroy the economy and result in significant job losses. GOP lawmakers, including House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), have introduced legislation to permanently block the agency's climate authority.
The bill would block funding for all current and pending EPA climate regulations for stationary sources.
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The continuing resolution makes massive cuts to the EPA's budget. The legislation cuts EPA funding by $3 billion, 29 percent below fiscal year 2010.
On the other hand, there's still plenty of stupid left in the party:
If [Mitt Romney] runs, and he will, his origination of [the Massachusetts Health Care mandate] policy will give his opponents in the primaries a stick so large to beat him with that no amount of clever one-liners purchased from high-paid freelance political speechwriters and joke writers will be able to mitigate the damage. And that’s to say nothing of Obama talking throughout 2012 about how he doesn’t understand what the Republicans are complaining about — one of their lead candidates agrees with him!I've said before that Mitt was an OK Governor, from what I saw in Massachusetts. A Republican will have to compromise with the Legislature in that bluest of Blue states.
I know Romney thinks he can get away with saying there’s a difference between an individual mandate at the state level and one at the federal level, and that might technically be true, but it’s not true when it comes to the conceptual origins of the policy. Plus, it’s sophistry.
To be completely honest, I can’t understand why on earth he is even bothering to run. This isn’t an albatross. It’s a two-ton weight chained to his torso, and he’s not Houdini.
What I object to is his claim that he's the most conservative of the crowd. If that's true, why didn't he veto the stupid Assault Weapon Ban there? We all know that he was looking for a "signature" accomplishment, which is why he enthusiastically pushed the beta test of ObamaCare. Fine, whatever. Just don't imply that I'm an idiot, and that I'll swallow your CPAC "Conservative" posturing. It makes you look like a liar.
There's a huge lack of trust in the political establishment today. Mitt is establishment to the core, and is in fact a poster child for why there's a lack of trust.
Amen.
ReplyDeleteI read that the "Rent is Too Damn High" guy was going to run for President. I'd vote for him over Mitt, and probably vote for him over any of the other candidates that have been fronted so far.
ReplyDeleteIf you thought Romney was an okay governor, it only because of what you had to compare him to in Massachusetts.
ReplyDeleteI think your assessment is correct, he cannot win the nomination, but if he did, I would not vote for him. Romney supports the "assault" weapons ban and supported the Brady Bill. There is nothing he could do or say that could possibly get me to pull the lever.
I would write in a candidate and know that I was making a statement that only helped the Democrats regain the White House before I would vote for Romney. I would prefer an honest Socialist that told me straight up he was going to remake America to a chameleon that changed his colors every time he thought it would gain him something.
The Stupid Party needs to pull their heads out and find a real conservative to lead us forward or risk be so marginalized that a true Conservative Party forms and moves past them.
Just remember that whatever your say about Romney, his PR staff is pre-offended at your dislike of Mormons. You may be unconcerned with Mormons, or you may actually like them, as I do, but it doesn't matter because YOU WILL object to his Mormonness, whether you care to be explicit about it or not.
ReplyDeleteBefore the mittheads discuss their guy on the news, a wave of Mormonangst must first hit your ears. It's the only way he can get attention, because a thick-headed cookie cutter socialist calling for the repetition of lame, failed government ideas is about as rare as a shot glass at a Kennedy family picnic.
I, too, am disappointed with National Review's presidential candidate. I'd prefer a conservative run against Obama this time.
ReplyDeleteSlick Mitt is a lot like Bush the Younger, in that he is not a conservative, but rather an entitled Tory drone...
ReplyDelete...each like his father before him.
Suppose Hugh "Radio RNC" Hewitt is gonna dive back into the tank for him, or will he go Pawlenty this time?
If my choice is a RINO, Obama, or a third party candidate,I'll go with the third party. Damn tired of voting for the lessor of evils.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Kahr 40....
ReplyDeleteI'm tired of voting for the lesser of the presented evils.
Cool. I offended by their pre-offendness. There must be some genuinely conservative Mormons, they just made the 1911 the State gun in Utah.
ReplyDeleteFind one. Let him present some genuinely conservative libertarian ideas about freedom, America, individual rights, fiscal responsibility, and the enumerated powers that the Constitution delineates for the federal government, and I will consider him as a candidate.
Glenn Beck but he doesn't seem to want to run.
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Josh
I wouldn't consider Romney if he was the last "GOP" on earth. I'll just vote for the greater evil and be done with it.
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his claim that he's the most conservative of the crowd
ReplyDeleteWell, he opposes teh ghey marriidge!!!1111eleventy-one!!! That seems to be good enough street cred for a frighteningly large number of "conservatives"...
If Romney's in I'm out...
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