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Bob Dole reminds me again why I voted for Harry Browne in 1996

By Michelle Malkin • October 8, 2009 11:41 AM

Big government conservative and Beltway lobbyist Bob Dole prattled on yesterday about the “need” for “bipartisan” health care “reform.”

The Kansas City Star article about his speech failed to mention that Dole is on the dole of Alston & Bird, the D.C. law and lobbying shop that also employs Obamacare architect and human toe fungus Tom Daschle and Howard Baker:

Former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole says “there will be a signing ceremony” for a health care reform bill either late this year or early next. But the former presidential candidate says he isn’t sure what the bill will say. Dole, 86, spoke with reporters after an hour-long speech at a health care reform summit sponsored by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City. He told the group that he and former Sens. Tom Daschle, Howard Baker, and George Mitchell will issue a statement later today urging Congress to enact health care reform as soon as possible.

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UPDATE, 4:43: The statement is just from Dole and Daschle, and it’s attached below. An excerpt:

“…Congress could be close to passing comprehensive health reform. The American people have waited decades and if this moment passes us by, it may be decades more before there is another opportunity. The current approaches suggested by the Congress are far from perfect, but they do provide some basis on which Congress can move forward and we urge the joint leadership to get together for America’s sake.”

Bipartisanship for bipartisanship’s sake gave us the massive No Child Left Behind expansion of the federal government’s role in education, the massive Medicare prescription drug expansion, massive tobacco tax hikes to pay for the S-CHIP expansion, and the massive TARP spending orgy, to name a few.

“Leadership” means knowing when to say no — and demonstrating the willingness to defy the Washington herd.

It’s a foreign concept for K Street fossils.

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#101

On October 9th, 2009 at 7:34 pm, love2rumba said:

Only children, political novices and those of arrested mental/emotional development do not understand those facts.

Roland, speak for yourself.
#102

On October 9th, 2009 at 8:24 pm, rightwingrocker said:

Liberal power brokers in the Republican Party do not nominate candidates.

Well they do seem to have a pretty good handle on who gets offered a shot at the nomination.

You did not answer how conservatives could take the country when they cannot even take the Republican Party.

This won’t even be necessary if the current trend continues. We won’t have to take the Republican or Democrat Party; they’re doing a fine job of running themselves into the ground without us.

Point is that we don’t WANT the Republican Party or its corrupt history, and from the looks of things, neither do the American people. In these next elections, you are going to see people voting (as I now do) for CANDIDATES as opposed to supporting any particular party.

The only voting block that’s getting any bigger is independents. These people are mostly conservatives. Anyone that wants all that socialism can join the Ds or the Rs and go down with them.

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
#103

On October 9th, 2009 at 8:26 pm, rightwingrocker said:

It makes no sense. Your feelings appear to be blocking you from recognizing an unhappy and difficult truth about the system.

And as long as you participate in that “unhappy and difficult truth”, then you are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Geez. Why am I even bothering. By 2012, you will be agreeing with me anyway.

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
#104

On October 10th, 2009 at 7:49 pm, love2rumba said:

It makes no sense. Your feelings appear to be blocking you from recognizing an unhappy and difficult truth about the system.
And as long as you participate in that “unhappy and difficult truth”, then you are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Geez. Why am I even bothering. By 2012, you will be agreeing with me anyway.

RWR

Well said, RWR.
#105

On October 11th, 2009 at 10:59 pm, Dasher said:

I voted for Harry Browne in 96 too. Even though I am a Repub, and even went to a breakfast for Dole. Nice guy, but not as president. McCain and Dole were equivalents: The next guy in line… but where is that line?
#106

On October 12th, 2009 at 11:29 pm, WarEagle82 said:

Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain. It is difficult to think of four better reasons why I am not a Republican any longer. Stop voting for left-wing, big-government types and vote for an actual conservative!

I am done with the GOP! They aren’t conservatives and they haven’t been since Reagan left office. And they have proved it for the last 20 years!
#107

On October 13th, 2009 at 12:03 am, Joy said:

Yeeeup… figures.

These politicians like to pit one party against the other, but in reality they all want the same thing. Power. So they convince the majority of the populace that they have to vote for one of the two to keep the other, e=vil, one out!

Biggest scam ever ever. And most are still falling for it. But I have reason to hope because Americans are waking up. Finally. I just hope it’s in time.
#108

On October 13th, 2009 at 11:12 am, rightwingrocker said:

Biggest scam ever ever. And most are still falling for it. But I have reason to hope because Americans are waking up. Finally. I just hope it’s in time.

Amen.

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com