From Eric Dondero:
Republican State Senator and nominee for US Senate in the special election to replace Ted Kennedy, Jan. 19, appeared on Fox's Hannity show last night. Among the topics discussed Health Care reform. Sen. Brown vowed to be the 41st vote against the measure when it comes up for final passage, thus blocking the bill.
"I would actually stop it, and ask them to go back to the drawing board..."During his comments he brought up an issue that has been highlighted here at Libertarian Republican in the last couple days - Military TriCare. Said Brown (approx. 2 minutes in):
"It's not good for Massachusetts. We already have 98% of our people insured. We're going to cut a half a trillion from Medicare, and then cut TriCare for Military people, and then have higher taxation, about a trillion-plus to pay for it..."Lt. Col. Brown is a 30-year Veteran of the Massachusetts National Guard.
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I sent the link to my article to Hannity yesterday. Maybe that's where the subject came up??? Probably not, but one can dream...
Wish I could vote for this guy! He gets it.
Either that, or someone at the National Republican Senatorial Comm. picked it up from your blog.
YOU! did this! You were the VERY FIRST PERSON in the entire Nation to report on this story.
No coincidence that two days later it gets mentioned by a major US Senate candidate on nationwide Cable News TV - one of the highest rated in the Nation, no less.
Denise, this is a lesson in the trials and tribulations of the rightwing political blogger. He/She pushes stories that nobody else really wants to cover. And then a day or two days later the same exact story gets picked up nationally.
Bet if you Googled "TriCare," right now, you'd see tons of stories in line with what you were saying two days ago at Right Stuff.
Don't hold your breath for a phone call from Hannity's producers thanking you. Or, even a mere Hat tip.
Gotta be happy with the notice of your fellow right bloggers, and the love and respect of your family and friends.
Did a real quick search. Looks like a blog called Internet Women picked up the story:
http://internet-women.blogspot.com/2010/01/tricare-health-care-premiums-for.html
Mudville Gazette, a huge MilBlog, is covering the story:
http://www.mudvillegazette.com/033146.html
(Lower right hand bar under Military Life.)
Hi Eric- one fo your followers here... and guess who owns internet-women.net? Me! Imagine that.... you made my day. :)... TY!! I love your blog.
I of course had to add this story to my list since it was related.. and especially since it's the first time I'm aware of being found in a search. Thanks for the credit here.
Hopefully we'll finally get a republican in that seat.
Oh Dea, that's sweet. Let me know if I can be of help to you with boosting your blog visitors and search results. I'm not quite Stacy McCain, but I've become pretty adept at this political blog stuff - 800 to 1,000 visitors a day.
I'll start by adding you to our Blog Roll here at LR.
And if you ever have any hot news items that you want to get bigger coverage on, I'd be ABSOLUTELY HAPPY! to post about it, and link to you in a brief article here at LR.
"The story" still doesn't make any sense. Look at the numbers.
The Tricare premium increases all come to less than $2 per month, but let's call it $2 just to make the maximum case. That's $24 per year per enrollee or family enrollment.
How many Tricare enrollees are there? Let's go wildly bizarre here and say 10 million. It's actually lower than that because the entire military health system covers only 9.5 million, and not all of those are TriCare, but once again, let's give benefit of the doubt to the "story."
10 million x $24 = $240 million
That's an absolute outside inflated high estimate of the maximum total amount of money involved.
The cost estimate of ObamaCare is in the trillion dollar plus range, which means that the Tricare premium increase comes to less than 1/4000th of that cost.
The idea that that's how they're going to try to pay for ObamaCare is sillier than the idea that Carter was actually trying to fix the energy crisis by turning down the thermostats at the White House.
Question: When President George W. Bush asked Congress to DOUBLE TriCare premiums for senior enlisted and TRIPLE them for officers, was he doing so in anticipation of funding ObamaCare with that change? And did Scott Brown and Sean Hannity and Eric Dondero and blackandgoldfan throw a bitch fit over that proposal?
@Knappster - "help" pay, not totally pay. Seem silly yes indeed that we pay that extra $24/yr. Will it make much difference to my pocket? Probably not, but it will some older vets & families, those not yet put on medicare rolls.
It would be better and I wouldn't mind so much paying it if I got some better services for that money instead of letting it go pay for service to someone else who didn't earn it. Yea, I'm selfish that way.
"I'm a Scott Brown Republican." was a brilliant answer to a stupid question by a stupid interviewer.
I can't help it. I despise Sean Hannity. The guy is a talking doll.
DeaRose,
Well, if they think they're going to get to $1 trillion with "help pay" in 4,000 increments, I think they're stupid. Then again, they're Democrats, so I repeat myself.
Ooooh! That's a major development folks. Tom Knapp has actually cracked a joke about stupid Democrats.
Perhaps many of you here do not realize the significance of that. I've known Knapp for 6 or 7 years. When I first met him on-line he was a biggie Left Libertarian, always praising the Democrats and bashing Bush and the Republicans.
Knapp was always pushing the "Libertarians need to work with Democrats line."
This is the first time EVER! that I've heard him say something bad about the Donkey Party.
Hallejullah! Means even the Left Libertarians are turning on Hussein Obama.
Eric,
Please be more careful with your assertions of fact.
I've generally criticized modern Democrats at least as often and as harshly as I've criticized Republicans (pre-Wilson Democrats are a different story -- the Democrats were, once upon a time, something the GOP has never been, a party of smaller government), and far from saying that "Libertarians should work with Democrats," I resigned my membership in and all offices of trust with the Libertarians when I when I wanted to work with the Democrats.
Very few "left libertarians" ever supported Obama in the first place (I certainly didn't), so they have no need to "turn on" him now.
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