RedStateEclectic : 4 entries from December 2016

Judge Napolitano On His Meeting With Trump

Liberty lovin' Judge Andrew Napolitano got to spend an entire hour with president-elect Trump. Here's what he had to say about the meeting:

Posted by AngelaTC on 12/15/2016 at 04:45 PM in Angela Thorn, Anti War libertarians, Republicans | Permalink | Comments (0)

Rand Paul: Why I Will Vote To Repeal Obamacare

via Time, Senator Paul's op-ed about the battle to end Obamacare. He explains the "arcane" processes of the Senate to clarify that it will require much more than an up-or-down vote. He then goes on to opine:

Congressional leaders are now engaged in a misguided attempt to attach Obamacare repeal to a budget that increases spending, increases debt and does little to nothing to fix our fiscal mess.

There is no reason for this. Often up here we are told, “We need the White House to cut spending and debt.” Well, we have that now, along with total control of Congress.

Then the next excuse often is “we need 60 votes to get anything past a Democrat Senate.” Well, this is the one case that is not true. All budgets require only a simple majority of 51 to pass. Not a single Democrat vote is needed in either the House or the Senate to pass a budget that cuts spending and taxes.

He clarifies his position:

"I am taking this stand — I will not vote for any budget that doesn’t have a plan to balance, regardless of what is attached to it and I’m calling on other conservatives in the Senate to take the same stand. Let’s repeal Obamacare, and let’s do it with a budget that leads us to balance in the near term."

Posted by AngelaTC on 12/11/2016 at 08:35 PM in Angela Thorn, Economics, Rand Paul | Permalink | Comments (0)

KY Rep. Thomas Massie On Kennedy

Some chit-chat about president-elect Trump and patent / intellectual property rights! Rep Massie said he surprised Kennedy at the end of the interview.

Posted by AngelaTC on 12/11/2016 at 03:13 PM in Angela Thorn, Republicans | Permalink | Comments (0)

Veteran Dies With Maggots in Wound in OK VA Hospital

Via Fox News:

Four staff members have resigned from a southeastern Oklahoma veterans facility rather than face the possibility of getting fired, after a resident was found to have maggots in a wound.

Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs executive director Myles Deering said the maggots were discovered while the patient was alive at the facility in Talihina, about 130 miles southeast of Tulsa. Deering said the maggots were not the cause of his death.

But it's not as cut and dried as one might think: According to local bureaucrats and legislators it is the fault of the building.

(Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs executive director Myles) Deering said the agency has been considering moving from the nearly 100-year-old facility, because fixing the existing building would take millions of dollars. Sen. Frank Simpson said the facility was also faced with the inability to find and retain staff.

I have a hunch that allowing the staff members to resign is related to the probability of them keeping their nursing licenses or at least keeping the incident off their records.

By all means, let's socialize medicine so we can all get government care.