Libertarians react to Obama’s government take over of Health Care

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Clearly UnConstitutional

Cong. Tom McClintock of California, remarks House Floor, Auburn Journal, March 16:

My constituents have read the Constitution, including the provision that requires both houses to vote on a bill before it can become a law.

M. Speaker, if the Democrat majority attempts to impose this law without a direct vote, two things will be obvious to every American.

First, that the Democrats are ashamed to cast the very “up-or-down” vote on the health care takeover that the President promised as recently as yesterday.

And far more disturbing, that the Congress has now placed itself above the Constitution.

Republican leadership wimping out; should call for complete Privatization

Syndicated Radio Talk show host Larry Elder, Column, Orange County Register, "Republicans in cahoots with collectivists":

The entire Obamacare debate starts off in the wrong place -- with Republicans agreeing that "reform" is necessary, health care "costs too much" and that government must "make health care more affordable." But it is because of government -- laws, regulations and policies -- that users pay more for services and drugs than they otherwise would...

they should encourage a full-throated deregulation/privatization of the health care industry.

Because government pays for nearly half of medical costs, we have a nation of government-provided-health-care dependents.

Are Republicans sounding the alarm about government's present intrusion in health care and its counterproductive effect on quality, affordability and accessibility?

A collectivist, whether an active or passive one, is still a collectivist. Having an "R" after the name provides no defense.

Impeach Obama and these "power mad clowns"

Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs:

Why are House Democrats so suicidally focused on pushing through an unpopular bill? Because they believe that the Republicans will never be able to repeal it and that they will have established a permanent new government entitlement that will only grow in future decades, pushing this country permanently farther toward the left.

But there is something different about this bill. Previous welfare-state expansions enjoyed public support and passed with bipartisan majorities—which served to demoralize any opposition. Never has a bill like this gone through on a strict one-party vote when the American people oppose it by nearly two to one...

If there is any justice, impeachment proceedings await Pelosi, Reid and Barry Obama if they putsch the health bill through. The American people don't want it. Period.

We are a government of the people, by the people, for the people. Who the hell do these power-mad clowns think they are?

Health Care nowheres to be found in US Constitution

Wes Benedict, Exec. Director, Libertarian Party (release):

The words "health care" and "medicine" are not found anywhere in the Constitution. Accordingly, the Libertarian Party asserts that Congress has no authority to regulate or appropriate money for health care.

"We oppose this horrible federal government expansion into health care... It is a virtual certainty that the cost estimates of this legislation are drastically understated... said Libertarian Party National Chairman Bill Redpath. "This is a top-down, Washington-mandated control of health insurance and health care in this nation. It is the antithesis of consumer-driven health care, which is what will ultimately be necessary to control health care costs and to provide the best health care for the greatest number of people."

Just like Sarah Palin said, rationing and even death panels for real

Michael Tanner, Cato Institute, NR Weekend

The bill will cost more than advertised. It won’t be long before Congress is shocked — shocked! — to discover that health-care reform is going to cost a lot more than expected. It’s not just the budgetary gimmicks that Democrats have been employing to hide the bill’s true cost. It’s also that government programs — and government health-care programs in particular — almost always end up exceeding their cost estimates.

And the government will increasingly intervene in medical decision making, micromanaging medical decisions and deciding what treatments are most effective or, frighteningly, most cost-effective...

insurance premiums will double in the next few years. In fact, for the millions of Americans who get their insurance through the individual market, rather than from an employer, this bill will raise premiums by 10–13 percent more than if we do nothing. Young and healthy people can expect their premiums to go up even more.

No trust left for Obama

Dennis Miller, O'Reilly Report, Fox News:

I heard the guy blow too much smoke over the year. He said he wasn't going to take the public funding. Then he became the candidate. Then he immediately went back on that or he would take the public funding. I just don't trust the guy anymore...

you know, if we vote for this bill, you are trusting President Obama and you are trusting the Democratic Party because all the Republicans are against it.

Tea Party tidal wave coming...

Rand Paul, Republican candidate for US Senate - Kentucky, SmallGovTimes.com

Show us the government program that came in under cost. They're always two to three times wrong in underestimated the budget...

[If this passes] I think there’s going to be a tea party tidal wave like you’ve never seen...

Obama didn't get the message of Scott Brown; but he will in November

Marco Rubio, candidate for US Senate - Florida (Marco2010.com)

How many Massachusetts-like pushbacks is it going to take for President Obama to understand the American people want to reform health care without changing and abandoning all the things that have made our system great? How many town halls, tea parties and elections will it take for the American people to finally convey to Washington that we need to scrap this flawed proposal and process, and start anew on step-by-step reforms?

I join the American people in opposing this proposal on policy grounds as well as the procedural approach being considered to ram it through. If President Obama and Congressional Democrats go down the road of reconciliation, they will leave no doubt in the American people’s minds that Washington is broken and 2008’s promise of ‘Change’ was little more than a campaign slogan that should not have been believed in the first place.

A note of Optimism

Dr. Jack Wheeler, To the Point News

It took Pearl Harbor for us to recognize the evil of Tojo's Imperial Japan. It took Hitler's declaring war on us after Pearl Harbor to open our eyes to him. Then we did what it took to rid the world of Nazism and Japan...

The struggle for freedom and against the forces of fascism will always continue. We have the morality of freedom, America's founding principles, and 300 million guns in private hands on our side. That's a very good basis for realistic optimism.

An optimism tempered in the reality that the evil we face is in fact evil, that it means us and our country harm, that it is ruthless, that it is relentless, that it will never abandon its attempt to control our lives.

Only by facing this reality can we begin to not only hold Democrat Fascists at bay from further destruction of our freedom, but start to recapture the territory of freedom they have stolen from us.

no matter what happens to ObamaCare, we can use its passage or failure to expand our freedom, and make Pelosi-Reid-Obama evil if not go to sleep... victory over them will come with one final Waterloo... a tsunami wipeout of Dems next November, Zero (Obama) losing to Sarah Palin in 2012, et al.

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Gene Simmons of KISS: Obama’s foreign policy "Wimpy" and "Pathetic"

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Hit them overseas, before they attack us

Gene Simmons was interviewed by Fox's Megan Kelly on Thursday. The interview centered on Simmons' new business projects. But he answered some public policy questions, as well.

From Fox News:

I voted for Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama. We can disagree for instance on certain social issues, and completely disagree with our pathetic foreign policy. It's wimpy. We don't have the backbone to step up and recognize danger a thousand miles before it hits us. Unfortunately, we react better when its Pearl Harbor. We have to get a punch in the nose. I don't believe that.

Simmons on Domestic Policy: No to ObamaCare, Yes to Personal Liberty

Simmons went on to comment on Obama's health care proposal:

I think the worst thing we can do right now is health care... When the government gets involved it's disaster.

Gene Simmons has been called "Ayn Rand in the extreme." He has described himself as an Ayn Randian of sorts, in numerous interviews over the years, and has cited her as an inspiration for his works.

In response to reader mail, Simmons once wrote on his website:

Ayn Rand: One of my heros

Simmons authored a book in 2003, "SEX, MONEY, KISS"; an ode to capitalism and rugged individualism. Wrote Simmons:

"Stand there proudly, unapologetically, unabashedly, and say, I love cash. It will get me everything I want in life."

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What’s General Petraeus doing in New Hampshire?

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Domestic Policy views largely a Mystery

The London Telegraph is reporting that General David Petraeus has a speaking engagement set for March 24, in of all places, the First in the Nation Primary State of New Hampshire.

From the Telegraph, March 19:

The shrewd and articulate military commander, credited with turning around the Iraq war, will deliver a speech at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire next week, a traditional staging post in the state where the first presidential primaries are held every four years. Each of the last eight presidents has spoken at the college on their way to victory.

Aged 57, Gen Petraeus was catapulted to fame when then President George W Bush sent him to Baghdad in early 2007 to carry out the "surge" strategy that helped rescue Iraq from all-out civil war.

He drew up the counter-insurgency strategy that helped transform that conflict and is now being deployed with some encouraging early signs in Afghanistan.

A Northeastern Scott Brown Republican?

The General has given very few hints as to his political leanings over the years; saying only that we ought to "look at" revising the gays in the Military issue, and most recently taking a balanced approach on the Israeli - Palestinian conflict in the Middle East.

The Telegraph goes on to suggest that Petraeus may lean more towards the Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe wing of the GOP.

He has also described himself as a "Rockefeller Republican" – a pro-business, socially liberal New Englander...

But there are other indications that he might be more closely identified as a Scott Brown Republican. Also a northeasterner, Brown is fiercely Pro-Military and a 30-year officer in the US Army.

HotAir.com regular contributor Dafydd ab Hugh theorizes:

Petraeus has an intensely American view of life, duty, and the world... He comes from a conservative section of New York State, Orange County.

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Former Ron Paul supporter now rejects his non-intervenionist Foreign Policy views

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Paul and his supporters, apologists for Dictators and Tyrants

Their views have transformed into a "strident anti-Americanism"

Supporting Saddam Hussein "very anti-libertarian"

Josaih Schmidt has a piece over at Rightosphere, "A Free Market in Foreign Policy." Schmidt rejects both NeoConnism, and Ron Paul strict non-interventionism. He most recently left the Paul camp. He found Paul supporters to be too quick to make excuses for Saddam Hussein and Iran's Ahmadinejad. Schmidt rather, now advocates a gradual move towards a privatized Military.

Excerpt:

Personally, I have adhered to several different schools of foreign policy thought over the span of my adult life.

After 9/11 and the Iraq invasion, I became a hardcore neoconservative: the American government ought to reprise an aggressive Wilsonian strategy of spreading democracy, changing regimes, and treating the opinions of foreign governments and international bodies as secondary concerns. As the wars dragged on, and I began to recognize the financial unsustainability and myriad unintended consequences of the government's actions abroad, I started to drift toward a Ron Paulian non-interventionism.

However, I have lately been finding myself feeling a bit out of place in all of the major foreign policy camps. In recent months, I have found some differences between Ron Paul's approach and mine. For one, many non-interventionists are so scornful and cynical of the US government's foreign policy, that it has almost transformed into a type of anti-Americanism. A lot of Paulian non-interventionists, in their well-meaning quest to avoid war, have taken to defending and apologizing for dictators and tyrants. There is a very good case to be made that the Iranian government may be developing nuclear weapons, but instead of talking about how a Paulian foreign policy could handle such a situation, most Paulians simply fervently deny that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons at all, and label any assertions to the contrary as "war-mongering". When it is reported that Ahmadinejad threatened to 'wipe Israel off the map', non-interventionists are usually among the first to claim that the Persian ruler's words were mistranslated or taken out of context. And non-interventionists' adoption of the legitimate, CIA-documented phenomenon of "blowback" often leads them to oppose foreign intervention or criticism of foreign governments by even private citizens or groups. Some Paulians even make the very anti-libertarian claim that the Saddam Hussein regime was the best government Iraqis could hope for, and that Saddam's brutality actually provided security and stability!

Schmidt goes on to suggest that privatization of the Military industrial complex would better allocate resources in War, than centrally-planned Government strategies. He further comments:

conservatives and libertarians understand better than anyone that government lacks the knowhow to plan other peoples' lives, and that central planners (in the absence of a market pricing system) lack the means to rationally allocate resources to their most value-productive uses...

return war and foreign policy to the free market, we must advocate the government spend less taxpayer money on these services, and reduce government involvement and regulations in this area, etc. Allow private firms and individuals to decide which dictators to topple (and private firms and individuals do have an interest in getting rid of these types of thieves and thugs), allow private firms and individuals to decide which nuclear facilities to bomb, allow private firms and individuals to decide how to negotiate peace between fighting factions, etc. etc.

Read the full article at Rightosphere (formerly Race42012.com)