Weekly Wrap-Up

In case you missed it from yesterday, we’ve focused in on a great candidate, Doug Hoffman, to run on the Conservative line in the upcoming special election to replace Rep. John McHugh. Here are some stories straight from the 23rd Congressional District...

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Doug Hoffman isn’t an Albany insider or career politician. He’s got real experience in the real world, as an accountant and entrepreneur. Learn more about Doug here...

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We’re lucky to have plenty of principled Conservatives to pick from for this race, including retired New York City police officer Jim Kelly, and Jon Alvarez, who is currently serving our nation in Iraq (read more about that here: http://tinyurl.com/5o885o).

Now I’m sure there are plenty in the Republican Party who want us to take a “go-along-to-get-along” approach to this, and just support whoever the powers that be put on the ballot. That’s not happening – not with the GOP offering up a liberal Republican like Dede Scozzafava who does NOT represent the views of grassroots Conservatives or even most Republicans.
Here are some more local stories on this race...

From the Adirondack Daily Enterprise: http://tinyurl.com/nanbsm
From the Watertown Daily Times: http://tinyurl.com/m87wgx

This story is getting national coverage too. I spoke to The Hill, a Washington newspaper, late last week explaining our concerns about the Republican candidate: http://tinyurl.com/l85tyl

Human Events is also covering the 23rd District, aptly describing Assemblywoman Scozzafava as an “Obama Republican”: http://tinyurl.com/m7lm7m

Another big story is that the Democrats lost their first-choice candidate, State Sen. Darrel Aubertine, who decided not to run: http://tinyurl.com/ktk37m.

That led to another early Republican blunder, as reported by the Press Republican: http://tinyurl.com/n3r6n3.

So far the GOP has nominated the wrong candidate, and attacked the wrong candidate. Doesn’t bode well for their political instincts, does it?

This story doesn’t bode well for New York taxpayers who respect human life: http://tinyurl.com/m4yzeq. The headline says it all: “NY Taxpayers to Pay Donors for Stem Cell Studies.”

This story from the Post doesn’t bode well for Gov. Paterson, and his standing among mainstream New Yorkers... http://tinyurl.com/nee2am

Since he’s staying put in Albany, Sen. Aubertine will undoubtedly be hearing about how your tax dollars are being used, and how Gov. Paterson is handling our state’s economic troubles.

And whoever makes it to Washington as the next U.S. Representative from New York’s 23rd Congressional District will be facing a whole host of difficult issues:

A terrible recession: http://tinyurl.com/lg6qjt

Threats around the world: http://tinyurl.com/m3hceh, http://tinyurl.com/mwqh4g

A desperate push for drastic health care “reform”: http://tinyurl.com/mrlyjr (This is "reform" that members of Congress themselves want no part of! See this week’s question.)

Do we really want an Albany insider and “Obama Republican” like Dede Scozzafava to be voting on these issues, on behalf of New Yorkers?

We’ll keep you posted on this race, and on all the issues, here on the blog. Have a great weekend!

State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long said today that he is "leaning toward, without a doubt" supporting Doug Hoffman, a Republican businessman from Lake Placid, to land Row D in the special election to replace Rep. John McHugh.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2009/07/mike-long-has-a-favorite-in-ny.html#comments#ixzz0MmF1PIPt

HOUSE Democrats are playing a game of Whack-a-Mole as they try to devise a health-reform bill to reengineer one-sixth of our economy: read more here: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07302009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/health_care_compromise__182034.htm


On the campaign trail last year, Barack Obama promised to end the “politics of fear and cynicism.” Yet he is now trying to sell his health-care proposals on fear.
Read more here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204619004574318334081271414.html

More on health care here: http://blog.ntu.org/main/post.php?post_id=4799

And to no one's surprise, NY's economy is still sinking: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hWxU-G6pYY0uitKPa6CQHMi8MMZAD99OROL01

September 12, 2009 is a Saturday and if you do not have any plans yet, you may want to march on Washington, DC. More details here: http://912dc.org/ Out of control government spending is the major reason for the march and if you are tired of government spending, help make this march a huge success. If you can't go...forward the website to family and friends to let them know it is taking place.

Speaking of spending, we have a question for the press: Why do we have to read this in a Canadian paper? http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12652

Do we have a "right" to health care? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203517304574306170677645070.html
The Cato Institute has an article on why a public option is hazardous to your health: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10382

John Bolton has an article in the WSJ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203609204574316093622744808.html

Thomas Sowell has some of the same concerns: http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/07/28/disaster_in_the_making

And Senator Gillibrand is so busy changing her mind all the time that no one really knows where she stands on any issue: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07292009/postopinion/editorials/gillibrand_comes_around____again_181824.htm

Hearings are scheduled to begin on Thursday to consider the nomination of Congressman John McHugh as Secretary of the Army. When (and if) confirmed the race will really be on for his replacement. So far, two candidates are seeking the Conservative Line....http://adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/507758.html?nav=5008 and http://www.newzjunky.com/news/0728alvarez.htm. Who knows, maybe by the end of the day/week, there may be more candidates since the date of the "special" has not be set yet.

The President's health care: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07282009/news/columnists/prez_and_pals_are_in_the_best_of_health__181741.htm
And Rich Lowry's thoughts on it: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07282009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/unreality_based_181717.htm
Peggy Noonan has a column as well: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052970203517304574306533556532364.html

The obvious question on health care becomes: If the government can not control the costs on Medicare and people are not getting the proper coverage, why would we trust the government to run a new health care system?

Thomas Sowell writes about President Obama being a post-racial president. Believe me it is an excellent column and certainly worth reading: http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/07/28/a_post-racial_president
(Personally, Thomas Sowell should be nominated as a Justice of the Supreme Court, for his wisdom and insight is exactly the temperament needed.)

Congratulations Matthew Long! I would guess that 99.9% of our readers could not even enter an Ironman contest, let alone complete it!

Just one more reason to be exceptionally careful in choosing judges: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07272009/postopinion/editorials/reservation_racket_181504.htm
And elected officials: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07272009/postopinion/editorials/punish_the_crime__not_the_thought_181505.htm

Why the rush Congressman Rangle: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07272009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/obamacare_follies__a_perilous_rush_181503.htm
More on Congressman Rangle: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574300013592601036.html
And you just have to love Congressman Conyers' logic: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=51610&print=on
One more on health care: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204886304574308472181248330.html

Another place to take action on the Health Care/Insurance "Reform" bill: http://www.savequalityhealthcare.org/

The real reason unions want "card check": http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574300113800780786.html

John Faso's ideas on how to stop NY's meltdown: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204886304574308233570132684.html

Weekly Wrap-Up

President Obama held yet another prime-time press conference this week – this time to push his plan for government-run health care (I guess I’m allowed to say that – more on that in a minute). Here are some questions I’d like to see answered...

First off, does President Obama really believe that your health care plan will NOT have a negative impact on small businesses, seniors, young people – on virtually everyone? If so, he hasn’t read this article from The Wall Street Journal...

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As John Fund notes, “Democrats have been brilliant in keeping knowledge about the pain and sacrifice of health reform from the very people who would bear the brunt of them.”

Next question: Why does the President keep saying that the “other side” of this debate hasn’t offered any concrete plans for reform? You know good and well that’s not true. Here are the latest ideas from Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal...

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Being down in Louisiana, Gov. Jindal has a unique perspective on how government runs things:

“The Democrats disingenuously argue their reforms will not diminish the quality of our health care even as government involvement in the delivery of that health care increases massively. For all of us who have seen the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response to hurricanes, this contention is laughable on its face.”

Now, how about some straight answers on abortion? Specifically, under the Obama plan, will my tax dollars be used to fund abortions? It’s starting to look that way...

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What’s the world coming to, when The New York Times has a somewhat fair and balanced article about the abortion issue?

The Times quotes the National Right to Life Committee, which points out that this new health care plan “would result in the greatest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade.” So much for all of the Democrats’ talk about wanting to make abortion “safe, legal and rare.”

So much for free speech too. Why are the liberals so determined to silence critics of the Obama health care agenda? Two examples...

“GOP Not Allowed to Say 'Government-Run Healthcare” (http://tiny.cc/9GU1H)

“Dems Block GOP Health Care Mailing” (http://tiny.cc/J7AO6)

Fortunately one young lady is not afraid to speak out. Shona Holmes shares with The Weekly Standard a frightening story about how she was almost blinded by Canada’s government-run health care system. She’s the inspiration for this week’s poll...

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For conservatives, this was not a terrible week. We’ve got President Obama and the liberals playing defense on health care. Let’s keep up the good fight – because this is a battle we literally can’t afford to lose.

Have a great weekend!

Now that the President explained his health "insurance" changes, we can all rest assured that our health care won't be decimated! Of course those that believe that also know the world is flat, Neil Armstrong never walked on the moon that is made out of cheese and global warming is totally the fault of human beings. If the NY Times is asking questions, you know there is something wrong: http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/23/new-york-times-fact-checks-obama/

Karl Rove believes Obamacare is in trouble: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203517304574304161389163586.html

Grace Marie Turner is a health care expert: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07232009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/trying_to_talk_around_the_facts_180857.htm
As is Betsy McCaughey, the former Lt. Gov. of New York, if you can listen to Fred Dicker's podcast it is well worth it: http://podcast.talk1300.com/ If you can send this link to your family and friends...the Obamacare bill will never see the light of day!

And Professor Michael Boskin believe President Obama must embrace a centrist position: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203946904574302332578189864.html

Under the "I Guess It Pays To Appoint A Judge" banner: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/nyregion/23ravitch.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion