The lady from Texas has lost her tennis shoes

(My new American Thinker post)

Like many of you, I heard this headline on the radio and found it rather confusing.  In fact, I went to the Internet to make sure that I was properly informed. 

According to The Dallas Morning News, Wendy Davis said this:

"Wendy Davis said Tuesday that she would have supported a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, if the law adequately deferred to a woman and her doctor.   

Davis, a Fort Worth senator and the likely Democratic nominee for governor, told The Dallas Morning News' editorial board that less than one-half of 1 percent of Texas abortions occur after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Most of those were in cases where fetal abnormalities were evident or there were grave risks to the health of the woman.  

"I would line up with most people in Texas who would prefer that that's not something that happens outside of those two arenas," Davis said."

Here is the problem:  She did not say last July.  Furthermore, I guarantee you that none of her supporters at the Austin capitol were saying that.

First, am I the only one who thinks that this sounds a lot like then Senator Kerry saying that he voted for the $87 billion before he voted against it. or something like that?

Second, how much longer will the Democrats hitch their wagon to a woman who now supports the ban that she opposed and talks more about rifles than abortion?

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Will liberals remember Obama as the man who killed liberalism?

(My new American Thinker post)

At this point, Obama voters can be broken down into groups:

1) The "cultists" or the people who blame everything on the GOP Congress and forget that we have a Democrat US Senate or that President Obama had huge majorities for a portion of his term;  and,

2) The "realists," or those who think that President Obama, and ObamaCare, have pushed liberalism back a generation.

My friend said this yesterday over coffee:  'What future Democrat is going to call for a major government solution after ObamaCare"?

My friend laments that President Obama did not go for a "single payer."  He also honestly recognizes that the Democrats had the majority but not the votes to pass it.

President Obama's biggest challenge is now convincing anybody that he can make ObamaCare work.  It is so messed up that implementation now seem likes a fantasy.

He lost Ron Fournier: 

"Put me in the frustrated category. I want the ACA to work because I want health insurance provided to the millions without it, for both the moral and economic benefits. I want the ACA to work because, as Charles Lane wrote for The Washington Post, the link between work and insurance needs to be broken. I want the ACA to work because the GOP has not offered a serious alternative that can pass Congress.    

Unfortunately, the president and his team are making their good intentions almost indefensible."  

He lost Kristen Powers:  

"The headline is why I'm getting tired of defending Obamacare. And I'm going to say amen, brother, because it's exactly how I feel. People who have supported the law, who support universal health care, are constantly put in the position of having to defend this president, who has really incompetently put this together, rolled it out, and that's why he has to do this. It's why he has to keep doing this, because it's not working."

He is losing liberals because ObamaCare can not be made to work, as John Podhoretz wrote yesterday.  It will die on its own or maybe some Democrats will come to their senses and "mercy kill it" to stop it from suffocating to death.

It is "unimplementable" if there is such a word.  It just won't work no matter what company is hired to fix the computer glitches or how many times they delay it. 

Furthermore, all of these delays make things even more confusing for businesses and the professionals in the health care industry.

As my friend in Texas said yesterday:  "Maybe we bit off more than we could chew"

I don't know how representative of the liberal community my friend is.  Maybe he is an "outlier."  My guess is that there are a lot like him, or will soon be a lot like him, who will come to recognize that liberalism is the real casualty of this mess called ObamaCare.

Again, what future Democrat is going to propose a huge government solution to any of our problems?  That is the legacy of Obama Care.

Who would have believed that when we all went into massive depression the night that he was reelected?

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2014 will be the last time that we will watch Derek Jeter

We heard today that Derek Jeter will retire after the 2014 season.  

First, where did the last 18 seasons go?  Jeter broke with New York in 1996.  He's played in 7 World Series and won 5 of them.   You have to go back to Yogi Berra and those great Yankees of yesteryear for that many rings.

Second, Jeter was a great role model, or the kind of a player that a dad like me loved to tell my sons about.

Thanks for a great career!  You will be missed.

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Obama Care: 3 million but how many have paid?

The Obama administration has released some new Obama Care numbers but we still don't know about paid enrollments:

"At least five states provide such statistics on their own enrollees, showing that the numbers are, or ought to be, generally obtainable.

A quarterly report published Wednesday by HHS announced that 'to date, 3.3 million persons have selected a Marketplace plan during the first four months of the initial open enrollment period, including 1.4 million in SBMs [state-based marketplaces] and 1.9 million in the FFM [federally facilitated marketplace].'

But HHS conceded that its numbers 'include those who have paid a premium and those who have not yet paid a premium, regardless of when their coverage begins.'

'Enrollment is measured as those who selected a plan,' an HHS press release confirms.

Similar disclaimers are offered some 20 times in the HHS report, both in its text and in accompanying graphs.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment."

We discussed the Obama Care mess with Barry Casselman, The Prairie Editor:

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A very interesting novel about Fidel Castro by Joao Cerqueira

We spoke with João Cerqueira originally from Portugal and lives in Viana do Castelo in the north of the country.  He has a PhD in art history from the University of Oporto and is the author of seven books, including one about the Spanish Civil War.   By the way, Joao's interest in the Spanish Civil War is due to his grandfather who took in refugees during the conflict.

This is a fiction story that involves Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy and the Miracle of Fatima.    I won't say anymore.  Read the book.

Click here to order the book:  THE TRAGEDY OF FIDEL CASTRO

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