Tuesday, October 7, 2014

BloggeRhythms

Following Leon Panetta’s comments in his new book, regarding his disagreement with the incumbent’s withdrawal of troops from Iraq, Bill Clinton’s wife poured additional fuel on the same fire in Canada yesterday.
 
According to the Ottawa Citizen: “Hillary Clinton said Monday that military action against Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria is ‘essential’ to stop the growth of ISIL outside the region.”
 
She told several hundred people at a conference hosted by a Canadian think-tank that, “This kind of jihadist extremism is expansionary.” And that, “Overall, there may be 50,000 to 100,000 ‘hard-core jihadists’ in the world right now. I think we turn away from it at our peril. This is a long-term struggle and we just have to be sensible about it, and be smart, and learn the lessons from the past.’’
 
At the same time, although her comments were in direct disagreement with the incumbent's plans for limiting U.S. engagement to airborne bombing missions in Iraq, she went on to answer a question about the stalled Keystone XL pipeline project that would bring Canadian oil to Gulf Coast refineries, by saying, “Well, you know, I can’t really talk about it because I was in the office that has primary responsibility for making the decision. I don’t want to inject myself into what is a continuing process or to in any way undermine my successor as he tries to make this decision.”
 
Which goes to show once again that her answers continually vary, depending on the political points involved. And, just like any other hack, has no real point except getting herself elected.
 
On another matter, it seems that all of the other critical issues being mishandled by the administration has taken the incumbent’s health care tax off the front pages for now.   
 
However, Anne D’Innocenzio, AP Retail Writer, says that, “Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to eliminate health insurance coverage for some of its part-time U.S. employees in a move aimed at controlling rising health care costs of the nation's largest private employer.
 
Starting Jan. 1, it will no longer offer health insurance to employees who work less than an average of 30 hours a week. The move affects 30,000 employees, or about 5 percent of Wal-Mart's total part-time workforce, but comes after the company already had scaled back the number of part-time workers who were eligible for health insurance coverage since 2011.”
 
This follows similar decisions by Target, Home Depot and others to completely eliminate health insurance benefits for part-time employees while, “Wal-Mart, like most big companies, also is increasing premiums, or out-of-pocket costs that employees pay, to counter rising health care costs.”
 
Wal-Mart further told Associated Press that “it's raising premiums for all of its full-time and part-time workers: For a basic plan, of which 40 percent of its workers are enrolled, the premiums will go up to $21.90 per pay period, up from $18.40, starting Jan. 1.”
 
Therefore, regardless of how many attempts, diversions or cover-ups are employed to keep actual facts from surfacing, real world events continue to override the continual rhetoric spewed by the current administration. 
 
Which means that with the mid-term elections only about a month away, and very few groups or individual's that haven’t been harmed in one way or another by reams of leftist policies to date, Republicans ought to win both houses of Congress by landslides. 
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
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