?> ?> Capital Republican » Opinion http://www.capitalrepublican.com News about Republican and conservative activities in the Baton Rouge area Thu, 09 Apr 2020 20:29:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Let Washington Eat Its Own Cooking! http://www.capitalrepublican.com/?p=290 http://www.capitalrepublican.com/?p=290#comments Sun, 10 Nov 2013 22:34:09 +0000 Capital Republican http://www.capitalrepublican.com/?p=290

SEN. DAVID VITTER: LET WASHINGTON EAT ITS OWN COOKING. The recent Obamacare rollout has made things crystal clear in Washington — the liberals will stop at nothing to impose their big government agenda on America. I assure you that I’m not going to sit back and watch this trainwreck, I’m going to fight to repeal, replace, delay, and hope you will too.

Do you remember when President Obama told us “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan,” over and over again?

It was a lie. Although, it’s not really a lie for Washington insiders who shoved ObamaCare into law in the first place. They’ve made sure to spare themselves from this disaster.

You may have heard about this – there’s a provision of the health care law says that members of Congress and all of their staff are required to procure their health care coverage on the ObamaCare exchange, just like millions of other Americans who are being dumped from their previous employer-provided coverage.

But in a classic case of Washington protecting its own, the Obama administration is trying to (illegally) “fix” things for the insiders. They invented a rule out of thin air, allowing members of Congress and their staffs to stay off the exchange to keep many of their staff members off the exchange entirely.

And members of Congress and staff who do go on the exchange, as the law states, would get a huge taxpayer-funded subsidy that is not available to any other American at the same income level!

It is amazing how arrogant some of these people in Washington are. Trying to correct this is one of my top priorities right now.

The Obama administration came up with an illegal administrative fix to this provision in order to take the financial sting out and largely undo it for Washington insiders.

To reverse this Washington double standard, I’ve introduced legislation that would end this ObamaCare exemption for DC insiders.

It would require all members of Congress and their staff to purchase their health insurance on the ObamaCare exchange without the help of special taxpayer-funded subsidies.

The sooner Washington eats its own cooking, the sooner it will start getting things right, on ObamaCare and a lot more.

As always, thanks so much for your support.

David

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Collapse of Obama’s Mideast Policy Leaves Administration Looking Dangerously Inept http://www.capitalrepublican.com/?p=222 http://www.capitalrepublican.com/?p=222#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:42:38 +0000 Capital Republican http://www.capitalrepublican.com/?p=222

Singing Kumbaya With Terrorists Is No Substitute for Military Strength

by Woody Jenkins, editor, Capital City News

BATON ROUGE — The Arab Spring has turned into the Arab Winter.  With it, the utter naivete and ineptitude of the Obama Administration’s policy in the Mideast have become clear for all to see.

In his Cairo speech, President Obama reached out to the Muslim world in the obvious belief that 1,000 years of history was all a big mistake, a misunderstanding that could be solved by holding hands and singing kumbaya together.

Thus began the descent that led to Obama’s complicity in the overthrow of dictatorial regimes which had at least kept the forces of terror at bay.  It was also the beginning of the Obama administration’s gradual abandonment of our friends in Israel.

Today an American ambassador has been murdered, U. S. embassies are under seige, and American interests in the Mideast remain under constant threat.

Terrorism and terrorists are on the rise — dramatically — in the Mideast, and there is no one to stop them except Israel.

The United States and President Obama look foolish, inept, weak, and powerless to control our destiny.

Do you remember that not long ago, President Obama and his State Department stopped referring to terrorists as “terrorists”?  That’s behind his wanting to try the terrorists at Guantanomo under criminal law, instead of military law.

Notice that even with the murder of the American ambassador to Libya, Obama wanted to send in the FBI to “investigate” and bring the wrongdoers to “justice”! Much to the President’s surprise, it wasn’t “safe” for the FBI to go to Libya to investigate.

Obama thinks this is a criminal problem and wants to read everybody their Miranda rights.

What a piece of work we have in the White House!

When American embassies are attacked and American diplomats are killed, it’s a job for the Marines — not the investigators.

When America kicks butt and takes names, we get positive results — and victory!  When we grovel, we get what we deserve — a bloody nose or much worse.

Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups are behind the coordinated attacks on American embassies across the Muslim world, and it will continue and get worst unless we get new leadership.

Meanwhile, the threat of Iran’s building nuclear weapons grows more severe with each passing day.  The clock is ticking, and the annilation of the State of Israel and perhaps the United States becomes more and more likely.

Rome is burning, and Nero is fiddling away.

Nov. 6 is almost here.  I just pray that the American people stand up, and that it won’t be too late.

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