Twenty trillion dollars! That’s how much Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare for All healthcare plan is going to cost over the next ten years. But not to worry, we're told the middle class will be spared from any tax hikes. If you believe that, you’re smoking from the same crack pipe Warren is.
And you thought Bernie Sanders was out there. At least he had the good sense to keep the details of his healthcare plan a secret. Warren appears to be a graduate of the Walter Mondale school of truth in advertising. It was Mondale, you’ll recall, who in a 1984 debate with Ronald Reagan told the American people that if he were elected he was going to raise taxes. The flushing sound you might've heard coming out of your TV that night was his campaign going down the drain. Reagan would go on to win the election in a landslide. The moral of the story is that you can promise voters the moon, but never, ever, let them know what the price tag will be.
Brian Riedl in The Daily Beast calls Warren's proposal "magical thinking." That's a very polite way of putting it, in my opinion. What she's done is painted a huge bull's eye on her back; a bull's eye that, should she win the Democratic nomination, will mortally wound her prospects for defeating the worst human being ever to occupy the Oval Office.
Shame on her, and shame on anyone who thinks this kind of irresponsible, schlock policy has an ice-cube's chance in hell of ever becoming law. I thought Warren was serious. Turns out she is - seriously insane! If this is what she calls a plan, I'd rather be an anarchist.
And please spare me all the "you can't call a woman insane" nonsense. Why? Is there some rule against that I'm not aware of? I've been calling Trump nuts for three years and nobody's objected; at least nobody I care about.
Oh, I get it: it's sexist. Yeah, right. I guess that means I'm also a racist because I believe Carlos Beltran, the new Mets manager, is in over his head, despite the fact that I said virtually the same thing about his predecessor, Mickey Callaway, before he got fired. This, right here, is why so many people hate progressives.
Now obviously I'm not a psychiatrist, so I can't make a clinical diagnosis of Warren. But just based on this policy proposal of hers, I'm going with she's nuts. Seriously, you know a lot of people who think adding twenty trillion dollars to the national debt is a good idea that aren't? Even Republicans wouldn't be this stupid, and no one has added more to the debt than they have.
Forget for a moment that Democrats, if they're lucky, will wind up with maybe 51 seats in the Senate come 2021. How in the world does a President Warren figure to get the likes of Joe Manchin AND Jon Tester to agree to a plan that eliminates private health insurance while doubling the national debt? Even if you blow up the Filibuster, you still don't get a majority of Democrats on board.
But even before that, she still has to win a general election against an incumbent president who will throw the kitchen sink at her. Before Trump is through with Warren, she'll think being called Pocahontas was a term of endearment. And the worst thing about all this is that Trump won't have to break a sweat doing it. Warren has virtually gift-wrapped the attack ads for him. This is the worst case of political malpractice I've ever seen, and I remember watching Michael Dukakis riding in a tank.
I'm getting very worried about 2020. Joe Biden is fading, Mayor Pete still seems like a long shot, Bernie is hanging around and Warren has suddenly become the queen of the prom. Liberals are fawning all over themselves like it's 1968 all of a sudden. If it's fair to say that conservatives are hopelessly stuck in Mayberry, then progressives are hopelessly stuck in Oz.
And it isn't just Warren who's nuts. Just take a look at some of the positions that progressive candidates have staked out for themselves. Free healthcare for immigrants, allowing convicted felons to vote, paying for sexual reassignment surgeries for prisoners, decriminalizing illegal border crossings. What's next, a pony for everyone? Gee, I've always wanted a pony. It can pull my little red wagon.
Democrats are making a colossal blunder by assuming that just because Trump is unpopular, all of his policies must likewise be unpopular. That's simply not borne out by the facts. Yes, the images we've seen from the Mexican border of children being separated from their parents is heartbreaking; but that doesn't mean that most people support open borders or believe that illegally crossing it shouldn't be a crime. While a majority of people support a pathway to citizenship for the Dreamers, they're unwilling to foot the bill for immigrants' healthcare, especially when so many of them struggle to pay for their own. I could go on and on, but you get the idea.
Thanks to this president's conduct, Democrats have the ball on the five-yard line. All they have to do is punch it into the end zone and they win the game. Whacked out plans that are untenable and unpopular with many voters are the equivalent of taking a sack or losing a fumble. You just don't do it, either in football or in politics.
Here's a question: What do George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis all have in common? All three were progressive nominees with bold ideas, and all three got their asses handed to them by the voters. The painful truth that progressives simply don't want to hear and acknowledge is that a majority of Americans do not share their vision for the country. In fact, in a recent poll, only 13 percent of those surveyed identified as very liberal. 13 PERCENT! Is this the beachhead that Elizabeth Warren really wants to die on?
Well, if she does, I prefer that she leave the rest of us out of it.
And please spare me all the "you can't call a woman insane" nonsense. Why? Is there some rule against that I'm not aware of? I've been calling Trump nuts for three years and nobody's objected; at least nobody I care about.
Oh, I get it: it's sexist. Yeah, right. I guess that means I'm also a racist because I believe Carlos Beltran, the new Mets manager, is in over his head, despite the fact that I said virtually the same thing about his predecessor, Mickey Callaway, before he got fired. This, right here, is why so many people hate progressives.
Now obviously I'm not a psychiatrist, so I can't make a clinical diagnosis of Warren. But just based on this policy proposal of hers, I'm going with she's nuts. Seriously, you know a lot of people who think adding twenty trillion dollars to the national debt is a good idea that aren't? Even Republicans wouldn't be this stupid, and no one has added more to the debt than they have.
Forget for a moment that Democrats, if they're lucky, will wind up with maybe 51 seats in the Senate come 2021. How in the world does a President Warren figure to get the likes of Joe Manchin AND Jon Tester to agree to a plan that eliminates private health insurance while doubling the national debt? Even if you blow up the Filibuster, you still don't get a majority of Democrats on board.
But even before that, she still has to win a general election against an incumbent president who will throw the kitchen sink at her. Before Trump is through with Warren, she'll think being called Pocahontas was a term of endearment. And the worst thing about all this is that Trump won't have to break a sweat doing it. Warren has virtually gift-wrapped the attack ads for him. This is the worst case of political malpractice I've ever seen, and I remember watching Michael Dukakis riding in a tank.
I'm getting very worried about 2020. Joe Biden is fading, Mayor Pete still seems like a long shot, Bernie is hanging around and Warren has suddenly become the queen of the prom. Liberals are fawning all over themselves like it's 1968 all of a sudden. If it's fair to say that conservatives are hopelessly stuck in Mayberry, then progressives are hopelessly stuck in Oz.
And it isn't just Warren who's nuts. Just take a look at some of the positions that progressive candidates have staked out for themselves. Free healthcare for immigrants, allowing convicted felons to vote, paying for sexual reassignment surgeries for prisoners, decriminalizing illegal border crossings. What's next, a pony for everyone? Gee, I've always wanted a pony. It can pull my little red wagon.
Democrats are making a colossal blunder by assuming that just because Trump is unpopular, all of his policies must likewise be unpopular. That's simply not borne out by the facts. Yes, the images we've seen from the Mexican border of children being separated from their parents is heartbreaking; but that doesn't mean that most people support open borders or believe that illegally crossing it shouldn't be a crime. While a majority of people support a pathway to citizenship for the Dreamers, they're unwilling to foot the bill for immigrants' healthcare, especially when so many of them struggle to pay for their own. I could go on and on, but you get the idea.
Thanks to this president's conduct, Democrats have the ball on the five-yard line. All they have to do is punch it into the end zone and they win the game. Whacked out plans that are untenable and unpopular with many voters are the equivalent of taking a sack or losing a fumble. You just don't do it, either in football or in politics.
Here's a question: What do George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis all have in common? All three were progressive nominees with bold ideas, and all three got their asses handed to them by the voters. The painful truth that progressives simply don't want to hear and acknowledge is that a majority of Americans do not share their vision for the country. In fact, in a recent poll, only 13 percent of those surveyed identified as very liberal. 13 PERCENT! Is this the beachhead that Elizabeth Warren really wants to die on?
Well, if she does, I prefer that she leave the rest of us out of it.
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