Articles Spotlight: 8/17

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Conservatives Now Outnumber Liberals in All 50 States, says Gallup Poll !!!!!!!

Issues:

Health Care:
Democrats Turn on Obama in Fight Over 'Public Option'
Howard Dean: Gov't Run Health care Crucial
Sen. Coburn: People Have Lost Confidence in Gov't
Health Concession fuels blowback
Overhauling health-care system tops agenda at annual meeting of Canada's doctors
Tim Pawlenty foresees GOP surge if health plan is rejected
No Government-Run Health Insurance, No Bill say liberal supporters of reform
Town Halls Having an Impact? White House Bends on Health Care Provision
Obama Uses Op-Ed to Criticize Health Insurance Industry

Economy:
Poll: Majority Doubts Obama Stimulus Results
Poll: More Than Half Say Stimulus Isn't Working

General:
Are charter schools a price of entry to reform?
Obama disses marriage law as Justice defends it
W.H. Says Marriage Laws Unfair to Gays

Foreign Affairs:
Obama: Afghanistan will be neither quick nor easy
Chavez says Obama "lost in space" on Latin America

Other:
White House will change e-mail rules
White house disables e-tip box
Fox News Surges in Ratings Thanks to Obama
Young Voters Should Take Another Look at Obama
What Obama's Town Hall Charade and Pan Anderson's Breasts Have in Common


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I don't usually post the actual articles in the Article Spotlight but this one was so clear and clearly important to understand that I took the libertieies of posting it. Please read.

When Out of Hope, Feign Change
by Michael F. Cannon at Townhall.com

So even if Democrats promise that someday the new program will become a co-op, what they mean is: "We're going to create that new government health program, just as we intended all along. But we will turn it over to the members in, oh, five years or so. We promise."

That makes Sebelius’s announcement yet another cynical ploy to achieve health reform by deceiving the public.

President Obama keeps saying you'll be able to keep your current health plan, even though the Congressional Budget Office says that isn't true. The president says a new government program wouldn't drive private insurers out of business, even though his allies expect it to do just that. He says he wants choice and competition, yet proposes insurance regulations that would drive most private plans out of existence. He doesn't want the government to take over the health sector, just like he didn't want to take over General Motors. The administration pretends to distance itself from a new government program by embracing…another new government program.

The only administration sympathizer who isn't a master of deception may be New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who describes Obamacare this way: “Basically, it’s a plan to Swissify America.” I suppose there’s a reason Paul Krugman is not the White House press secretary.

The president’s approach to health care reform hasn’t changed at all. All he has done is tried to distract attention from how dangerous and unpopular his approach really is.