Category Archives: 2016 Election

Protecting the Legacy of Obama: The Impact of the Media

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sharyl-attkissonSharyl Attkisson posts this and quotes a story from NY Magazine.  Here is the relevant portion (bold mine):

That October, Myers couldn’t get Williams to air a segment about how the White House knew as far back as 2010 that some people would lose their insurance policies under Obama­care. Frustrated, Myers posted the article on NBC’s website, where it immediately went viral. Williams relented and ran it the next night. “He didn’t want to put stories on the air that would be divisive,” a senior NBC journalist told me. According to a source, Myers wrote a series of scathing memos to then–NBC senior vice-president Antoine Sanfuentes documenting how Williams suppressed her stories.

I have been reading Attkisson’s stories for the past several months that document her struggles with CBS to attempt to get investigative reporting on the air.  The major networks all deny that there is some bias, and even today, some journalists will look you square in the eye and deny it when you know they have their fingers crossed behind their backs. Continue reading →

Leftist Techies and the “It’s just an email server. Big deal!”

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hillary-emailI was reading the twitterz today and was surprised by some of the people in my feed, who “claim” to have some experience in IT, try to explain away that Hillary having an email server was not a big deal.  In fact, one person was a little taken aback that a reporter thought having an email server in her own home was a big deal.

Incredibly, he called the entire thing bogus because the reporter was technically ignorant.  His followers were quick to give him quite the backslap.
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Hillary’s Email Conundrum: When the Press can’t save you.

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hillary_ClintonHillary Clinton’s email problems from the NY Times article caused several media supporters to come rushing to her aid by attempting to paint Republicans as also using private email addresses in an effort to temper, and perhaps kill the obvious issue.

Their efforts to demonstrate hypocrisy on the right was ground to a halt when Fox News showed video of a July 2007 speech in which she called out the Bush administration for using private email accounts as part of a larger “cronyism and corruption” scheme to obscure the public on its war efforts.

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Obamacare: The Clock Ticks Towards More Pain

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Open Enrollment ScreenIn an article from the Associated Press:

Three senior House members told The Associated Press that they plan to strongly urge the administration to grant a special sign-up opportunity for uninsured taxpayers who will be facing fines under the law for the first time this year.

The three are Michigan’s Sander Levin, the ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, and Democratic Reps. Jim McDermott of Washington, and Lloyd Doggett of Texas. All worked to help steer Obama’s law through rancorous congressional debates from 2009-2010.

The lawmakers say they are concerned that many of their constituents will find out about the penalties after it’s already too late for them to sign up for coverage, since open enrollment ended Sunday.

That means they could wind up uninsured for another year, only to owe substantially higher fines in 2016. The fines are collected through the income tax system.

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Personal: How Obamacare Has Affected Me

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President ObamaIn 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare) was passed by the Democrat controlled Congress and transformed the US Insurance and Healthcare industries from a free market system with less government control to one of much tighter government control.  Many of its supporters hailed the far sweeping legislation as the next step towards a universal healthcare system (read Single Payer) that would allow all Americans to get the health care they need. Continue reading →

2016 – Race for the White House

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If I had to make a list (and obviously I am going to) of who I consider Presidential contenders, here is what it is:

  1. Scott Walker
  2. Rick Perry
  3. Mitt Romney
  4. Ted Cruz
  5. Rand Paul
  6. Marco Rubio
  7. Chris Christie
  8. Ben Carson
  9. Sarah Palin
  10. Jeb Bush

Few things to note:

This list includes individuals who I believe will be involved in the primary race.

The order is my preference to win.  This is just the first, off the cuff list.  Don’t take offense if your candidate is not where you think it should be.

This list is subject to change and I will update accordingly.

Finally, I will make comments about each, if they appear in the days news, and about how I feel they contributed to their chances of winning and where I would stand.  This list will update weekly on Sunday’s.  Daily updates will occur as needed for specific candidates.