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eddobloggo - Defending the right to rant in the USA!

by Ed Donath

January 15, 2012

 

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“The America’s Choice agenda is really all about a strategy to break through the communication barrier and compete with the presidential bully pulpit.” Sen. Ron Johnson

“The America’s Choice agenda is really all about a strategy to break through the communication barrier and compete with the presidential bully pulpit.” — Sen. Ron Johnson

·         The size and role of government — “President Obama wants a large government, intrusive and controlling. We want to grow the private sector to reduce our debt.”

·         Energy exploitation — “President Obama is all about limiting the use of our domestic energy resources, we actually want to utilize [them].”

·         Government regulations — “We don’t want to eliminate regulations.  We want to first put a moratorium on them to give businesses a chance to grow and heal.”

·         Tax reform — “President Obama is playing class division. He’s about punishing success. We want pro-growth tax reform.”

·         Healthcare — “President Obama wants to take over one-sixth of our economy, which will do great harm to our healthcare system as well as blow a hole in our already horribly broken budget. We want to repeal that and replace it with patient-centered, free market-based reforms.”


America's Choice was conceived by Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson. With Tea Party support Johnson ousted liberal Russ Feingold in 2010 to become Wisconsin's first conservative senator since 1992.      


Ron Johnson's observations about Obama are valid and his proposals are quite sensible. Nonetheless, there is something wrong with the America's Choice picture (with the possible exception of a clip-art logo inserted by this renegade scribe). The problem is that there is not a single pulpit in America from which to preach a message like Sen. Johnson's where the sermon could be heard by anyone but the proverbial choir.

 

More so than at any other time in our history, with a huge assist from the organized liberal establishment media, the presidential bully pulpit is, today, everywhere.  You can't even log on to the most popular e-mail providers' websites without being exposed to at least one disingenuous pro-administration headline about "real" current events and that headline will get changed-out for yet another anti-conservative banner before your next message check.

 

Except for conservative-dominated talk radio and a handful of well-visited right-leaning websites there isn't anywhere you can go that Obama propaganda is not in the forefront of the so-called news.  Should America's Choice garner any mainstream media coverage at all it is likely to be buried deep enough to be inconsequential and/or peppered with counter-quotes and analyses by the usual left-wing shills and pundits.

 

Then, of course, there is the Pulpit Bully himself.  If the demonizer-in-chief gets anti-America's Choice talking points loaded into his teleprompter he'll rail against Ron Johnson's agenda at every campaign stop until his manufactured counterpoints begin rolling off lefties' lips as if they had actually thought them up on their own.

 

In other words, like many of the pro-growth, government-shrinking, deficit-reducing programs put forth by conservatives over the last three years, America's Choice stands a greater chance of being demonized and marginalized than it does of serving its intended purpose.

 

Only the GOP's eventual nominee will have a pulpit with anywhere near the "bully" of Obama's.  But it's a longshot that any of the current contenders for that candidacy would adopt Sen. Johnson's message over their own talking points, let alone chant them as a mantra at each and every public appearance and media opportunity.

 

The bad news is that, given a choice, Americans would opt out of hearing all political messages.  The good news is that their disdain for political rhetoric now includes hearing messages from the bully pulpit.  Unfortunately, the liberal media is not going to allow a rhetorical moratorium in this presidential election year.

 

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In your opinion President Obama wants a large government, what he really wants is a government that balances it’s budget and a good safety net program and health care for all. That will make America more secure.

Obama does not oppose growth in the private sector, because putting more people to work means more tax revenue and reduces the deficit, provide we collect adequate taxes.

President wants to move to the next generation of energy sources and reduce fossil fuels that pollute and increase global climate change before it is too late.

Obama has been working to streamline regulations and consolidate departments for better government. A moratorium is deregulation and we all know how well that worked in the past.

Obama is about fair taxes that reduce deficits, not punishing success. There is no empirical evidence that lower tax rates result in more growth in the economy.

Taxes are lower than they have been for decades and it is time to reform the tax code and close all the loop holes.

Since health care is one-sixth of our economy and the costs are increasing steadily, it is paramount that the government reign in this area of the economy.

With Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act more Americans will get coverage, nobody will refused insurance or cancelled, and cost will go down.

The private doctors, nurses, hospitals, and clinics will still deliver health care services. We can get better health care for less money like all the other industrialized nations we compete against.

John Enk

Wausau, WI

[Since I believe that you would not intentionally misrepresent facts I must conclude that you continue to be duped by teleprompterized rhetoric and nearly four years of campaign propaganda. Fortunately for the rest of us, you now represent the fringe of American voters who are pleased with the "successes" of Obamunism. (24% of LIKELY voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, Jan. 15). Nonetheless, thanks for the personal good wishes...the same to you and yours. -ED]


It is hard to believe that any portion of this country would want to continue on the path we are being led down with this President and people like Nancy Pelosi. We are wobbling on the edge of a real steep decline and unfortunately I'm afraid that too many don't even see it.

 

Tdaigle

Lafayette, LA Daily Advertiser


Well, it's alright riding around in the breeze for the masses and Newt Gingrich just about said it all when he defended himself against the mediums. We have not seen the worst these centipedes that call themselves journalists have to offer. We used to cut them up in the jungle and each piece ran off in different directions. The end of the line when our government tells us everything...

 

boned

Florence, MT


Truer words were never spoken.

 

SDJammer

St. Cloud, MN Times



 

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