Pennsylvania: Keystone State will be Bellwether State in 2010

Ohio got a lot of press in 2004 because Democrats made unfounded claims of voter fraud. What we forget is that Bush's narrow loss in PA was even closer than Kerry's loss in OH.

So let's look at PA, which could cost Democrats more congressional seats than any other state in 2010. Toomey leads Specter by a healthy margin. Corbett also leads statewide. Corbett's election would really signal a warning sign to the supporters of a government healthcare takeover.

What we should find is that a Republican Attorney General who promotes suing the federal government to BLOCK implementation of Obamacare is highly favorable and popular in a blue state... and the favorite to become governor. Corbett can ride opposition to Obamacare to victory every bit as much as Scott Brown rode to victory by openly declaring that I WILL BE THE 41st vote AGAINST Obamacre!!

Come to think of it, is there any state in the Big Ten in which Republicans can't win the governor seat? Democrats' tax-and-spend schemes have failed. And Democrats' cap-and-tax schemes would cause even more damage to the "Rust Belt". For that matter, it was Democrats' slavishness to unions and bureaucrats and environmental extremists and high taxes and oppressive government regulation that turned the Great Lakes into the great Rust Belt.

But Pennsylvania should be a great test case.

Opposition to Obamacare is very strong

New Poll Finds Americans Really, Really Don’t Like Obamacare

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/03/new-poll-finds-americans-really-really-dont-like-obamacare/

· Most Americans oppose (81%) health care reforms that would increase insurance premiums for healthy people to offset premiums of people who wait until they are diagnosed with an illness to purchase insurance.

· Eight Americans in ten (81%) oppose allowing the government to decide what kind of health care coverage Americans are able to purchase.

· Most Americans (87%) oppose having a government panel recommend or decide what medical procedures or medical advances your doctor or health plan can or cannot use. (ed: this would include the "death panels" that the left likes to PRETEND don't exist in the bill --- but they do!!)

· More than eight Americans in ten (84%) support reforms that would allow people to buy health insurance where it is the least expensive, such as across state lines.

---) Government healthcare is extremely unpopular. And it is unpopular because the government goes too far in abridging the liberty of the American people, NOT because (like some on the left claim) it doesn't goo "far enough".

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OPPOSITION to the Democrats' healthScare bill is rising faster than support. As many as 38 states may sue the federal government to block implementation of the insurance mandate.

Idaho: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g0LSHNfmnWDnZ_JylqiFxeT5GKEQD9EGLNDO0

Virginia:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/03/cuccinellis_office_confirms_vi.html

Arizona:
http://www.azhealthcarefreedom.com/article/arizona-legislature-passes-important-bill-to-protect

developing....

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Health care isn't even popular in Obama's adopted home, deep-blue Illinois. "Illinois voters, by a 52 percent to 39 percent margin, oppose the massive health care reform bill in its current form, preferring Congress pass smaller bills that address individual problems in a step-by-step approach."

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/18/gop-uses-people-strategy-in-bid-to-grab-obama-seat/

Mandating Health Insurance is Wrong for America

Hazards of the Individual Health Care Mandate
http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v29n5/cpr29n5-1.html

Mandatory Health Insurance:Wrong for Massachusetts, Wrong for America
http://www.rememberourconstitution.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Mandatory-Health-Insurance1.pdf

The Failure of RomneyCare
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703625304575115691871093652.html

Obama bribes congressmen with water?

California's central valley is being allowed more water by the federal government as its congressmen announce their votes for Obamacare.

http://nrcc.org/blog/blogitem.aspx?id=261

Obama's disapproval higher than approval

Disapprove 48, Approve 47
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

Strongly disapprove 42, Strongly Approve 24
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

1984: A Review

While 1984 is now considered a cautionary tale about totalitarianism, it should be remembered that Orwell was an ardent socialist. Perhaps the most important (and least discussed) element of the story of 1984 is the doublethink of its author: Orwell's ability to condemn an outcome, while advocating its cause. Even as Orwell portrayed the corruption of socialist government in Animal Farm and the cruelty of totalitarian government in 1984, he insisted that these are perversions of socialism, rather than the inevitable fruit of socialism.

This is the same foolish idea as Marx had; that human nature is malleable and can be forced to adapt to a socialist zeitgeist. Sadly, many people suffer the same delusion today: believing that government has the right to mold human nature rather than the responsibility to yield to human nature and respect our natural rights. Socialists do not like that human nature opposes slavery (i.e. socialism) and insist that with enough socialist indoctrination and through the force of socialist government, human nature can be remade to love subjugation.

When we look to the troubling conclusion, it appears to be a break from the tradition of a successful resolution for the hero of the novel. Just as Brave New World ended with the State purging its misfits from its midst, 1984 ends with the arrest and reeducation of its misfit. Could it be that this was a successful conclusion in the mind of a socialist? Could it be that socialists are so wedded to their ideology that they have lost the ability to sympathize with human rights to liberty and freedom of conscience and would rather sympathize with the State? What if the ending reveals that the hero of a socialist novel was never meant to be the individual; is the hero in fact the State?

Understanding the Nature of "Rights"

The left's dependence on government to "provide" their "rights" proves that they don't understand the nature of liberty and rights at all.

read: Health Care and the Left’s Perverted Definition of ‘Rights’
http://biggovernment.com/kbyrne/2010/03/06/health-care-and-the-lefts-perverted-definition-of-rights/