The Political Inquirer

Two candidate descriptions, and you can guess which one the GOP establishment is supporting for the primary, for the seat Jim Bunning is most likely vacating:

Trey Grayson will certainly win a lot of Democrats as he was a Clinton delegate in 1992 and a lot of the state still sees him as a Democrat.  However, Grayson has not been clear on his positions on many issues and this may become a problem as Kentuckian’s begin to explore those positions.

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Dr. Rand Paul is the latest to throw his hat in the ring and may actually be one of the strongest contenders.With a full card of professional politicians Dr. Paul comes to the ticket with business experience and a proven track record of caring about Kentucky issues from the perspective of citizen of the commonwealth. Founder and chairman of the Kentucky Taxpayer United, Paul is known for presenting awards to those in the Kentucky legislature who have done a great job at not increasing our taxes, and some recognition of those who did. Paul is accustomed to hardcore campaigning as he was instrumental in his father’s 2008 Presidential Campaign.

If you guessed Mr. Democrat Lite, then you are correct:

Rumors of Paul’s candidacy have been circulating for months.  Paul’s anti-tax and fiscal restraint would make him a strong candidate versus the GOP’s preferred nominee, state senate president David Williams.  In the last legislative session, Williams passed four new tax increases, raided the state retirement fund, passed mandatory registration for ATV owners, and helped kill gun rights legislation.

Such a record could never work against a principled opponent of government like Paul, so they now have gotten the secretary of state (a former delegate for Bill Clinton in ‘92—turned Republican) to run for the senate seat.  Since the secretary of state has no voting record, they hope to make him appear to be everything a voter can ever want (conservative, moderate, libertarian, etc.)

Of course, him being a former Democrat does not bother the establishment Republicans.  The state Republican Party’s web site has a positive article on their man.  In fact the district chair has taken a swipe at Paul and said he will support his party’s chosen candidate.

Now that Obama put on his Dog and Pony show on health care including an ‘Exhibit A’ truly sad story… which turns out to be a volunteer in an Obama organization whose ticket was provided directly by the White House.  In fact, all three ‘random’ questioners were  full-time Obama or union shills). True as the story may be, a really cynical piece of stagecraft.

Here is my briefest possible response, given my upbringing by a fifth generation doctor, 8 years of my work in the medical field as a lab tech, my mother’s current experiences in a nursing home, and my son’s medical condition.

My son is Exhibit B.  He suffers with a rare 1 in 40,000 disease which manifests itself radically differently in every one of the sufferers, but seriously delibilitates all at some point of life. Nineteen of the top 20 experts of it reside in this country and our medical insurance has done an excellent job covering the mulititude of doctors required to evaluate his condition adequately, assess the best course of treatment and assure him the longest and most productive life while living with it. No other country in the world has such capabilities. And it wasn’t government health care that got that infrastructure in place, nor supports the finest minds in the world (many of whom are refugees from other countries and their government health care systems).

When things are really serious there is no finer system in the world; period.

Peter Schiff, predictor of the economic collapse, and champion of free market economics is most likely going to run for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. A new poll shows that even with little name recognition in a liberal state, he is behind long time crook and senate leech Chris Dodd within the margin of error (42-38). It might actually be more difficult winning the GOP primary!

..You get really bad law. Especially with placeholders for sections to be written after passage.

Wouldn’t want anybody to actually read about the out-and-out vote-buying going on. Not to mention the doubling of your electric bill.

Just a tiny taste of what’s in the non-pork portions of Crap & Trade that few have figured out yet.  EPA wll set new energy efficiency guideline that your home must meet before it can be sold.

The bill, which now goes to the Senate, directs the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and implement a national policy for residential and commercial buildings. The purpose of such a strategy – known as the Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance (REEP) – would be to “facilitate” the retrofitting of existing buildings nationwide.

“The Administrator shall develop and implement, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, standards for a national energy and environmental building retrofit policy for single-family and multi-family residences,” the bill reads.

It continues: “The purpose of the REEP program is to facilitate the retrofitting of existing buildings across the United States.”

The bill leaves the definition of a retrofit and the details of the REEP program up to the EPA. However, states are responsible for ensuring that the government’s plans are carried out, whatever the final details may entail.

Brought to you by the same regulatory mindset that wants to regulate Cheerios as a drug.

Pat Buchnan, who is spot on about foreign policy and the role of government, is wrong when it comes to Evolution. His latest column is pretty painful to read as he goes off on one of his increasingly common religious rants. That’s right everyone, Darwinism is responsible for every bad thing in humanity over the past century.

I’m wondering why Darwin and his theory are suddenly responsible for all ill conceived applications of it in the future.

As Pat puts it:

Darwin suited Adolf Hitler’s purposes, too.

“Although born to a Catholic family Hitler become a hard-eyed Darwinist who saw life as a constant struggle between the strong and the weak. His Darwinism was so extreme that he thought it would have been better for the world if the Muslims had won the eighth century battle of Tours, which stopped the Arabs’ advance into France. Had the Christians lost, (Hitler) reasoned, Germanic people would have acquired a more warlike creed and, because of their natural superiority, would have become the leaders of an Islamic empire.”

I don’t blame Darwinism for things like that, I blame it on the fact that Hitler was obviously borderline (if not fully) insane.

And then:

Windchy goes on to relate such scientific hoaxes as “Nebraska Man” — an anthropoid ape ancestor to man, whose tooth turned out to belong to a wild pig — and Piltdown Man, the missing link between monkey and man.

Because hoaxes in the name of greed, attention, and money, only happen when it related to human evolution. People have been known to create fake projectile points to sell as collectibles, this doesn’t mean there weren’t Indians in North America making stone projectile points up until contact with Europeans.

And of course, the most blatant lie of all:

For 150 years, the fossil record has failed to validate Darwin.

Anyone familiar with Physical Anthropology or Human Evolution 101 knows that the fossil record does validate this. A line of bones and fossils have been found showing a slow trajectory from our ancestors to our common form. Characteristics can be analyzed from bone morphology. Bipedalism (2 limb walking) and cranial capacity are just two examples of characteristics that have been traced back. Research in this area goes on in east and central Africa, and they aren’t frauds.

“Perhaps we should all lie low and rally round the flag of strict Darwinism … a kind of old-time religion on our part.”

Exactly. Darwinism is not science. It is faith. Always was.

Darwinism is not the be all end all explanation of life on Earth. But it is science. The scientific method, hypothesis testing, and research are all employed in this area. It’s not their fault that you don’t like the results.

Does having 80% of your rulings overturned by the Supreme Court suggest a nominee lacks the sensibilities to hold a position on that court? I believe it does.  Upon appeal, four out of five of Sotomayor’s decisions have been reversed.  This clearly demonstrates a lack of understanding of the Constitution. If the nominee in question was overruled on a single issue (even repeatedly) it would mean nothing because courts can and in the past have been in error and it took later courts to correct them. Dred Scott and Brown v. Board of Education come to mind. However, when nearly every decision, spanning several issues, is found in error by the Supreme Court, this is a very damning indictment against the nominee. I must conclude this nominee is unfit to sit on the court and in fact a danger to the freedoms we have fought so hard to secure.

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I wonder what he would have said about our own Revolutionary Coup?  And with every day Obama is in office, the US moves further to the left.  So let’s see, while he reluctantly stood up up for the Iranian people, he wasted no time along with Chavez and every other leftist leader chastising the Honduran people.  What’s next, a new flag?  This one is much more relevant.  A falling star complete with pinko stripes. 

I won’t lay money on an RSVP on this one; I’ll be there to see for myself:

Has there ever been such a case of legislative mafesence within the American government before?  NO ONE in the House had read the Cap & Trade Bill before it was passed! Good, bad or indifferent, it doesn’t matter; it can now be ‘finalized’ to include ANYTHING!

It is absolutely critical that the current Congressional leadership be ousted in 2010!   Unfortunately, that would require putting the GOP back in charge (and they are only marginly better).  But even that is beeter that this.

Dragging 535 random people off the streets would do far better than either party.

Certainly proof that the fastest way to make sure that a business will make the absolutely wrong choices is let the government and the unions to make the decisions.

The biggest problem GM has is the excessive expense of it’s older labor and plants in the traditional sites like Detroit. which also have little expertise or competence in the area building smaller cars.  Naturally the New Masters (now led by a 31-year-old Yale dropout political activist with no manufacturing experience) have made the decision to close the new, efficient (and less union-constrained) plant in Tennesse and use one in Michigan.  A political payoff that assures Government Motors will burn mor taxpayers dollars for decades to come.

No way I’ll ever buy another GM or Chrysler vehicle (and I own one now, with 3 vehicles needing replacements over the next 2 years)

And these people want more say in how to run healthcare efficiently??

As said before: good luck to the Iranian people (who are demanding the same thing the neighboring Iraqis now have- with our help). And this uses a number from before the exceptional singer disappeared into quirkiness and pedophilia:

Looks like the bill might go to a vote in the House today. Nancy Pelosi stated that it will create “millions of jobs”. Haven’t we heard that same thing recently about another piece of legislation?

Communist Party official suggests buying gold, natural resources and United States land.

Our soon to be Chinese masters, brought to you by the Federal Reserve, Republican Wars, and 10593469 government departments and programs.

Syria(an ambassador), Venezuela(restore ties), and Zimbabwe ($73 million) .  Abbas, Chavez and Mugabe, oh my!

At least the Big Zero punished the Iranians severely for slaughtering their people in the streets today; he disinvited them from the July 4th picnic (only reluctantly and they weren’t coming anyway, but he has to be tough!)  I’m sure Neda’s family- who has not been allowed to hold ANY memorial service for her and has been evicted from their home- is proud of such a strong response!

Governor Mark Sanford’s public political suicide is bad news, mostly for his wife and kids, but also for his supporters, fellow party members and philosophical subscribers. His integrity has been compromised and, because of that, I do not believe he can or should continue to govern. Nonetheless, I caution his political rivals, be they Democrats or faux Republicans, from trying to use Sanford’s demise for their own gain.

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Governor Mark Sanford has admitted to an affair with an Argentinian woman, the reason for his bizarre disappearance this week. He is now in a position of weakness, all his enemies (many of whom are in the SC legislature, and even his own party) are now in positions of power over him. Sanford is known for trying to reject stimulus money, self imposing his own term limits, and bringing a pig to the SC legislature to protest spending. This pretty much ends any 2012 probabilities with him.

And so soon after the Ensign thing. Terrible.