Senate Conservatives Action Fund Targets Republicans "Reject MitchCare! Repeal Obamacare!"

The culture in Washington DC needs to change, and it needs to change right away.

Two years ago, I wanted to get rid of Mitch McConnell as Majority Leader and replace him with Jeff Sessions.

Now that Sessions is our Attorney General--and he is doing a great job, by the way, we still need a better leader who will actually work with the President to drain the swamp rather than shift the mire from one side to the other.

The Senate Conservative Action Fund is on the job:

Arthur, 

Given the fact that there aren't the votes in the Senate to pass Mitch McConnell's bill to continue some of the worst parts of Obamacare, President Trump has called on Senate Republicans to pass repeal FIRST and then consider other health care policies LATER.

This announcement is great news for the country. Trump seemed to hedge his bets, but has come out in full force demanding complete repeal of the Big Government monstrosity ruining our health care industry and throttling access for millions of Americans.

The president is right, but McConnell is breaking his promise to repeal Obamacare "root and branch" – a promise relied upon by millions of conservatives in the last seven years when they decided to donate to Republicans, volunteer for Republicans, and vote for Republicans.

Help us turn up the heat on Senate Republicans by sending them all an instant message to repeal Obamacare first.

If McConnell can't follow through on this most fundamental of promises, then he needs to resign.

Republicans should immediately pass a repeal bill with 50 votes under budget reconciliation, make it effective in a year from now to allow time for transition, and then begin building consensus for other reforms that increase competition and lower costs.

McConnell is insisting on including provisions that continue Obamacare's regulations, subsidies, and insurance bailouts. He's simply wrong. Not only are these bad policies, but they also make this task much harder than it needs to be.

Please contact Senate Republicans and tell them to stand up to McConnell and repeal Obamacare first!

Our advocacy platform allows you to send a message to all 52 Senate Republicans with just a few clicks. We've even drafted a message that you can edit. It's free and it's easy.

If we want to get repeal done so Congress can move on to tax reform and other pressing issues, we need to support the President's call to simply repeal Obamacare first.

Thank you for pushing the Senate to enact conservative policies. We're grateful for your willingness to fight for our country's future.

Sincerely,

Ken Cuccinelli II
President
Senate Conservatives Action

Berniecrat Single-Payer Advocates at California Speaker's Office (Repeal Obamacare!)

Last week (June 27), I found out that all the raving, maddened Berniecrats were going to show up in large numbers to raise hell and burn California State Speaker Anthony Rendon in effigy.

Why?

He shelved SB 562, the single-payer proposal scotch-taped together by State Senators Ricardo Lara and Toni Atkins.

The whole proposal was dead on arrival, especially since three Democratic state senators abstained on the vote, citing the immense, untenable cost of the whole proposal.

Did they really need to scream and shout about the cost on their own?

After all, deep-blue Vermont walked away from a single-payer proposal three years ago, citing the massive tax hikes which would have been needed to get teh program off the ground.

Thank God for federalism.

I scoped out the office and the streets up and down Garfield Ave.

I noticed that I would not face the hardships of parking around this office, as I have faced in the past.

As the California Democratic Party goes further and further to the Left, the leaders and elected officials in the party are fighting to stave off the fiscal utopian insanity of the grassroots progressives.

They are already angry at the DNC for cheating Bernie Sanders.

They are even angrier about Keith Ellison's untimely loss for the DNC Chairmanship.

Now they are even more angry because their progressive star Kimberly Ellis lost the California Democratic Party chairmanship to corrupt crony for Big Pharma Eric Bauman.

"Why does everyone hate me?!"

As for me. I just had to see the growing dissolution of "The Democracy" while hoping that I could change some minds.

First, I visited Rendon's office:

We need to make health care great again.

We need to repeal Obamacare, and that includes not allowing illegal aliens to steal from taxpayers to fund their unhealthy existence in the state of California.

Of course, who was lined up in front of Rendon's office?

None other than then California Nurses Association!

They are angry, and they want blood. They want Rendon's head on a lance.

They want to recall him--and I am more than happy to help, but I want someone else to be Speaker of the State Assembly.

How about Melissa Melendez?

Check out the unions! They are so good at getting lots of people together to make noise, aren't they?!

They love collecting on corners and making people scared, too!

Check out my full video of my exploits among the single-payer advocates here:

Check out the scene on the corner of Rendon's office:

Please repeal Obamacare! And then repeal more of the stupid government rules and regulations hurting our health care system. jacking up prices, and pushing more qualified professionals out.

Some of them were willing to talk to me,

But then this one guy kept following me around, telling other people not to talk to me at all.

Whatever happened to "Love Trumps Hate"?

When they say "Medicare for all", do they bother to ask who will pay for it?

Anyone?

They usually talk about soak-the-rich schemes, which have been very effective ... for shooing businesses to low-tax, limited government climes like Texas, South Carolina, and even Utah.

Brave, Bernieacs!

The already eroding tax base in California is already getting smaller, and the best you can offer is tax the makers more. Brilliant. 

I would say ""No" to Medicare.

I want health care with clear price guidelines, choice, competition, and quality controls based on free market forceds.

The guy in the dark green shirt tried to harrass me, to scare me off.

FAIL!

This guy also showed up at the January 29th, 2017 LAX protest after Trump issued his first travel ban. It wasn't clear what he was trying to do, whether to support us or to stop us from speaking.

Whatever happened, it is clear that day that he was interested in stirring up trouble and shutting me down.

Major Fail!

Some people were willing to talk to me, even though I had my Trump hat and shirt on:

A lot of left-wing agitators and freuent progressive activists lined up

"Gimme free health care! Gimme gimme!"

I wonder what they think of single-payer health care now that the British Government has determined that they will do nothing to help this 10 month old baby Charlie Gard.

No single payer health care! No socialized medicine!

Repeal Obamacare, and then I say repeal more stupid rules!

I had to tell this woman to hold her sign right side up:

Here's the second video I took at the single-payer rally:

Now here are the remarks I would like to leave for everyone.

First of all, the single-payer zealots were determined to silence me every way they could. Well, at least this one guy whom I called "buddy", who was on scene to follow me around.

"Whatever happened to "Love Trumps Hate?"" I asked.

They still hate TRump and they still hate anyone who thinks that the government should not have a core function in our health care systems.

I was open and honest with everyone I spoke to, good or bad.

One constant throughout my engagement with the single-payer advocates came down to this:

"There should be no profit in medicine."

Why? Don't doctors and nurses deserve to make money? How do insurance companies make money to ensure that they can insure clients?

Does anyone want to revert to a system where everyone has to pay for everything out of pocket, including long-term care as well as pre-existing conditions? Insurance companies do not do what they do for nothing. No service should be held to such a draconian standard.

This statement will offend people, but I do not care: health care is not a right.

We have a right to seek health care for ourselves as needed, but the argument that doctors, nurses, hospitals medical practitioners of all backgrounds must provide health insurance at the drop of the hat because it is right--that is wrong.

Just calling something a right does not make it more readily available. The laws of supply and demand remain constant regardless.

Other people complained about the middle man in the health insurance industry. Fair enough, but their argument was that the government should phase out insurance companies altogether. Then they would deal with an even worse middle man: the government bureaucracy!

They are worse, much worse. Rationing, incompetence, disease, long lines, corruption, waste, criminal behavior all are the hallmarks of socialized medicine. The costs do not go away, the demands actually get worse.

No one was willing to listen to allowing for free market reforms, competition, transparency through price arrangements, etc.

This is pretty scary stuff, in my view. The single-payer zealots have turned into True Believers, unwilling to challenge the statist status quo of the regressive left. I am certain that the Democratic Party grassroots are even more burned, now that Eric Bauman has become the state party chairman. After all, he sent out a big email detailing his support for single-payer health care to assure the jittery grassroots and delegates.

But then one month later, what happens? The Speaker of the State Assembly shelves the bill because there are no outlines for how to pay for single-payer. While Rendon chooses to blame the Republicans in Washington and the California state senate, the truth is that the state of California simply cannot afford the $400 billion monstrosity.

There was good news on the single-payer, free market trail, too.

First, a good friend of mine--George Susca--came down to protect me in the midst of the South Gate protest. Some of the men and women there were angry and intent on causing harm, but no one dared lift a finger, and Gregory's help was a big part of that.

One man told me about his father, who had served in Canada before and after single-payer health care was adopted. He said that he liked it. Government employees tend to like their jobs, so they won't complain.

But what about the consumers? Canadians face an average waiting time of 20 weeks to see a specialist. Canadians say they like their health care because of the jingoist peace of mind they feel about it--and the fact that many of them do not go to the doctor at all.

Other individual patients have complained to me about government-run healthcare, which leads to massive cost increases and rationing. Some of the people in the single-payer swarm were willing to listen to me, even if they disagreed with me. Many others were hostile, and many of that group are the same liberal protesters who go all over raising hell and causing trouble, agitating against individual citizens who want to be left alone.

For a full discussion on what can be done to ensure better healthcare and access for all, check out this discussion I had with a group of protesters in Sacramento earlier this year:

But at this point, some of the people in the crowd were willing to listen:

Here's the last video, in which the protesters decided to walk away:

RyanCare Fail: a Victory for the House Freedom Caucus

For strategic reasons, I have signed onto liberal newsletter eblasts, so that I can know what the enemy is doing in my state. After Speaker Paul Ryan pulled the American Health Care Act (ACHA), every Democratic lawmaker, candidate, and special interest group exulted in their victory:

“Your calls made the difference!”

“We did it!”

“You saved health care.”

Uh … no.

Because Obamacare remains intact, healthcare remains in morbid free-fall. Doctors are still quitting the medical field, with premiums rising, health insurance exchanges failing, and hospitals closing. Democrats did themselves no favors in fighting against reforms. Obamacare is still an albatross hanging around their necks, and they will have to blatantly lie to voters that it’s working, or that somehow the Republicans are to blame because … they keep trying to fix the mess created by the Democratic Party.

So, should Democrats around the country pat themselves on the back for stopping another disaster? Perhaps they deserve a little bit of credit, since they were loud. The true glory and applause belong to Republicans across the country who hammered the Congressional majority to reject “Obamacare-lite.”

Yes. I wrote that.

Let’s walk through some surface realities about the bill that met a quiet death off stage rather than an ignominious demise before all. The Unaffordable Careless Act forced through Congress needs to be repealed—period. No replacement needed. This process could have been done and over with within days. All Speaker Ryan had to do was search the archive of dead bills for the budget reconciliation of 2016. That bill would have repealed Obamacare, expect for the coverage for pre-existing conditions and allowance for children to stay on their parents’ healthcare plans until age 26.

I believe that Donald Trump approved of those two aspects of the Affordable Care Act (even though they should be repealed, and the opportunity for such benefits restored to insurance companies and locally-run agencies). It’s time to get back to basics and just do the right thing, yet the leaders refused to do so. What is the matter with the Washington DC leadership in the House?

Here are my thoughts on the matter:

The House Leadership is still part of the Old-Establishment-DC-Two-Step phalanx.  Paul Ryan basically stepped on the neck of the House conference for the job. Since when did a candidate for Speaker of the House ever list a series of demands? The other leaders (and their powerbrokers) never ran for office on promises to drain the swamp and sharply limit the growth of Washington DC into Main Street. They said all the nice things that Republican voters and activists want to hear, but turned around and did the bidding of their major donors.

Now that social media and internet technology of have improved the average citizen’s watchdog role while facilitating grassroots candidates to run for office and succeed, this Mad Men/chain-smoking backroom wheeling and dealing doesn’t cut it anymore. US Senators like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Rand Paul (and I will add Pat Toomey) ran on platforms dedicated to operating outside of the Big Government GOP orbit. They will not be bought, or they will lose their seats.

Also, please stop blaming the House Freedom Caucus as a bunch of stuck-up ideological Pharisees. We need more in their ranks who will demand the best for the Constitution and the American people. Yes, the “compromise critics” will roll out arguments like “The Framers were not ideologues” or “In Washington, you never get everything that you want.” 225 years later, though, the Democratic Party has embraced socialism as a foundational philosophy. They have never wavered or apologized for this false, destructive world view. Republicans want to accommodate with this anti-Constitutional world view? Not going to happen.

From this cause, a new Congressional hero stands out in Washington DC. His name is Thomas Massie, and was crystal clear about his views on RyanCare. Well, he did change his vote, but from “No” to “Hell No!” He came to the defense of our President and his country, too, acknowledging that stopping this rotten stop-gap replacement bill would save face for President Trump—and the country.

Let’s face it, no matter how many majorities or minority results that Republicans yield from election to election, the power rests with us, and more Americans are flexing their muscle. Also, pundits should acknowledge that the House bill was going to be dead on arrival in the US Senate. 

Republicans opposed this legislation, which continued too many subsidies, practically slammed the same mandate on individual consumers, and maintained the worst of Obamacare in place.

What results must spring from Obamacare repeal in the healthcare industry, so that American voters feel that they are getting what they voted for by supporting Trump?

1.       Lower insurance premiums

2.       More access to quality health care

3.       Choices

4.       Freedom

5.       Less interference

6.       No untenable waiting times

Would RyanCare have delivered on these promises? No.

Candidate Trump promised to repeal Obamacare. He also offered a health care program that he would take care of everybody. Nothing could make that happen more quickly than getting rid of Obamacare, then repealing the other mandates, regulations, and limitations which have made bureaucrats happy, but have made Americans unhealthy. Congressional Republicans don’t even have to “start over.” Back to the 2016 Reconciliation Bill, Republicans. Every time I called a House Rep to reject RyanCare, I also told them to reintroduce the previous bill. This is not a difficult process, people. US Senator Mike Lee is already on the job.

There is a silver lining to this RyanCare defeat. The Speaker may face an early retirement, just like predecessor John “Don’t Make Me Do This! It’s Too Hard!” Boehner. Principled Republicans like Dave Brat have further established their non-establishment cred, too. May their tribe increase … and again influence in Congress.

By the way, doesn’t “Speaker Thomas Massie” have a nice right to it?

Donald Trump: Already Better Than Reagan

I was looking over the RNC autopsy from 2012-2013. What a difference four years makes. Republicans were all but written-off after what seemed like a winnable race for Mitt Romney. Then came 2014 and the GOP wipe-out all over the country and in the US Senate particularly.

The RNC "autopsy" actually--foolishly--concluded that caving on immigration and pandering to minorities would make the difference. They even thought that moving left on cultural issues like "gay marriage" would give the Republican Party an aura of "inclusiveness."

What about the Democratic Party? Have they demonstrated any capacity to welcome differences of opinion? Do they even care about the fundamental values of our Judeo-Christian culture?

Ronald Reagan, Official Portrait

Still, was there anything of note worth considering in the RNC report?

One of the most accurate and effective ideas related to the near-fanatical obsession of presidential candidate with President Ronald Reagan. Of course, there is a lot to like about The Gipper, which the Republican phalanx of activists should work hard to reflect:

• He was an outsider
• He connected well with everyday people.
• He cared about their everyday concerns
• He was not afraid to fight
• He showed strength
• He possessed moral acumen, and was not afraid to call evil what it was.
• He was a great communicator

We do not need another Ronald Reagan, as much was we need to seek out candidates who possess those qualities listed above.

But Reagan is dead, and the conservative phalanx in this country needs to do more than just look to the past and say Ronald Reagan 1,000 times. I still remember one of the most contentious debates in 2011, when every candidate on the podium announced that they followed Ronald Reagan's advice and tried to find some kind of hagiographic connection with the former President: "I shook his hand?"  or "He wrote me a letter!" or "I appeared in a photo with him once."

It's time to move on, people!

Now we have Donald Trump. Donald Trump racked up those characteristics and so much more.

He is very much an outsider. He was not a politician in any traditional or recorded sense. Oprah Winfrey asked him if he was thinking about running for President ... in 1988. He toyed with the idea for the 2000 election, but did not run. After all, he was a Reform Party candidate at the time.

He connects will with everyday people. I saw videos of Donald Trump talking with employees in his hotels He put himself in their shoes and did their work, He was really impressed with how hard they worked. The employees were shocked and  moved out how much he cared about their daily tasks.

He didn't hide nor apologize for his wealth, either. He did respect the work of laborers and tradesmen, though. That's important.

Reagan treaded more softly on immigration, which had not broadened into the serious issue which it has become today. He signed off on amnesty in 1986. Trump promised to build the wall which never came up when at the end of the Reagan Administration. Reagan slowed the growth of government, but Trump is already taking a battle ax to spending and bureaucracy.

President Trump (Avatar)

Reagan cut taxes, but did nothing about the massive spending and debt. Trump and his Republican Congress will have no choice this time. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are overburdened. There are more retirees than workers, and the Baby Boomers are getting older but living longer.

While Reagan fought against international communism, Trump must face Islamic Terrorism, in which the rogue fatalists kill themselves in order to destroy as many of their opponents as possible. They have no moral equivalence or self-imposed set of limitations.

Trump has already rescinded the ban on taxpayer dollars for international abortions. He has signed off on the construction of the Dakota and Keystone pipelines. He has negotiated personally with corporations and large firms. He is restoring American prestige after two failed terms from a confirmed anti-American liberal fascist.

Ronald Reagan had to clean up the mess after only one term of the Peanut Farmer from Georgia.

Trump has a coalition of conservative agenda items to advance, and has done more in one week than Obama did in eight years. Trump has undone more of Obama's petty legacy than Reagan did of Carter's failed one term in one week, too.