Friday, February 13, 2009
Barry / Politics Bredesen: "Arrogant, Autocratic, and Seemingly Allergic to Legislative Accountability"
Posted by Bruce Barry on Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:05 PM
"His defensive remarks are revealing. He is willing to entertain the ideas of advocacy groups who represent the interests of constituencies for whom he has respect, but the ideas of those who speak for ordinary citizens of modest means are dismissed as unimportant....Those who have followed the Tennessee saga through legislative hearings and voluminous court records know that his response to criticism is vintage Bredesen behavior. Over the years, first as mayor of Nashville and then as governor, a clear and consistent picture emerged of a political figure who is arrogant, autocratic, and seemingly allergic to legislative accountability. His characteristically belligerent attitude to those who disagree with him, along with his misplaced confidence in the lessons from his own experience in the commercial health care sector, make him a singularly unsuited candidate for the job."Powers writes that Bredesen "wants to do to the nation's already inadequate system of private health insurance what he imposed on the participants in Tennessee's public program." Is the White House listening? If he must go to DC, Phil is perhaps a better fit at Commerce, and his confirmation hearing for that gig would spill a lot less blood in the committee room.
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Arrogant and autocratic is a perfect description of all the liberals who want to use the federal government to force us all to participate in and pay for a socialized healthcare system.
Particularly since the federal government has never had any legitimate Constitutional authority to mandate any such thing.
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Arrogant and autocratic is a perfect description of all the liberals who want to use the federal government to force us all to participate in and pay for a socialized healthcare system
And for conservatives who don't question giving a half a trillion to rebuild Iraq but balk at spending it on working Americans. "Country First" my ass.
Using government to steal money from one group of citizens to fund handouts to another group has nothing to do with "country first" and everything to do with socialism first.
The top 50% of income earners already pay over 96% of federal income taxes colllected.
They aren't getting 96% of government services in exchange for their money.
The bottom 50% are getting government services that they aren't paying for.
This country already does way too much to punish success and reward failure. Increasing it will do nothing to improve the country.
