Tuesday, December 16, 2014

BloggeRhythms

The AP reports that on Monday, the Senate “approved President Obama's nomination of Dr. Vivek Murthy to serve as U.S. surgeon general."
 
He’s worth mentioning because his approval is one of the last chances Democrats have for pushing their agenda before the Republicans take control of the Senate month.
 
The doctor’s most well known for co-founding Doctors for America, a group that has pushed for affordable health care and supports Obama's health care law as well as his support for gun control and past statements that gun violence is a public health issue.
 
That caused Senator John Barrasso, R-Wyo., to say that “most of Murthy's career has been spent as an activist focused on gun control and other political issues, rather than on treating patients. "Americans don't want a surgeon general who might use this position of trust to promote his own personal campaign against the Second Amendment of the Constitution."
 
Therefore, it seems very likely that his tenure will be one of the shortest on record. Because when Republicans gain the Senate majority, this guy will probably be tossed out in a heartbeat.
 
On another issue, it seems that Jeb Bush has decided to run for president in 2016. Today, he announced formation of an exploratory committee organized to assess his chances of success.
 
What's most interesting, however, is the immediate knee-jerk reaction of many who feel he isn’t “conservative” enough, making them clamor for someone else more in line with their beliefs. 
 
In that regard, one Republican whose name I didn’t catch, told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News this morning that when conservatives actually review Jeb’s record in Florida, and how well he performed as governor, they'll soon realize that if they truly want the White House, he’s an excellent choice.
 
Nonetheless, the comments following an article on Drudge were quite solidly against Jeb, many calling him a RINO, and grumbling that they wouldn’t cast votes for him or would rather support a third-party candidate should he eventually win the presidential nomination. Which led me to research the following information.
 
While the unquestioned idol of conservatives that ran for president, whereas William F. Buckley never did, was Ronald Reagan by far. And even today he is recognized by them as the paramount leader, lionized by Rush almost daily. However, President Reagan clearly knew what was called for to get his job done realistically above all else.
 
That point is proven in an article by Amy Gutmann, President and Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania who write about the “Tax Reform Act of 1986  a bipartisan compromise, forged with the support of President Reagan, Democratic House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, and later with the help of Republican Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Bob Packwood and Democrat Bill Bradley.”
 
So, what these hard-line conservatives ought to consider is that in order to gain ground toward fulfilling their hopes and ideals, they first have to find a candidate who’s electable to begin with. And the firmer they stand in demanding that their every wish be met by a presidential candidate, the more they insure victory for whichever Democrat runs for the office.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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