Thursday, April 10, 2014

BloggeRhythms

Late start today. Very busy morning. Found three items worth mentioning, all from Chris Stirewalt’s column on Fox News.com.

[A] “new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center for USA Today said that a candidate’s stance on the troubled health law is important to them, with 54 percent saying it is “very important.” The worst news for Democrats is that among the majority of registered voters who said the law was “very important,” there were twice as many opponents as there were supporters.

Overall, support for the signature Obama initiative, which pairs expanded welfare and entitlement programs with far-reaching regulations on health insurance, fell to 37 percent. That’s the lowest level since the summer after the law was passed in 2010 when incumbents’ town halls across the country erupted with ObamaCare outrage. The takeaway: The electoral climate this year is defined by ObamaCare and the forecast is getting worse for Democrats.”

Now, although the poll's interesting because it illustrates considerable dissatisfaction with the health care tax on the part of many voters, the situation doesn’t really require too much arithmetic detail. Because, as I’ve pointed out often for quite a long time now, if you disrupt, degrade services while increasing costs for 85% of the population previously satisfied with their health care coverage simply to appease the other 15%, logic alone dictates that the plan can’t ever work well for the vast majority.

However, health care isn’t the only aspect of governance the incumbent’s been incorrect on. Foreign policy has gone down a similar chute. Charles Krauthammer, remarked yesterday that “I think you have to go after Syria, the Iran negotiations, the Crimea, Ukraine, what’s happening in Eastern Europe. I mean this really is a collapse of America’s stature in the world.”

And then we have Bill Clinton’s wife whose '”new book on her time as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state will be released on June 10, her publisher says.”

In reality, however, publication should be quite simple. Because if she lists all her personal achievements in government the text will need about two lines on only one page. And that would be stretching the subject, whereas in actuality, other than marrying Bill, there’s no need for any pages at all.

That's it for today folks.

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