Cindy McCain Has a Twitter Squatter

Some fool is posing as Cindy McCain on Twitter. Fake Cindy finds Sarah Palin annoying and laments that McCain’s campaign isn’t as Internet savvy as Obama’s. Other silliness, preserved for posterity:

Blog Herald calls this a hijacking, but as far as I can tell, the Twitter account name was registered by an impostor, not actually stolen from Cindy McCain. At any rate, we’ll see how long this Twitter squatter lasts.

October 6, 2008 · Filed Under Election 2008

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Understanding McCain’s Health Plan

John McCain’s plan to reform the American health care system has been getting ripped a new one by Barack Obama and his surrogates. Joe Biden described a laughable distortion of the plan during his debate with Sarah Palin last Thursday, and the Obama campaign followed up with an equally dishonest ad to ensure the fabricated details would linger in the minds of voters.

Part of the problem is that even McCain supporters don’t seem to understand his health care plan well enough to defend it adequately. Even the official campaign Web site doesn’t do a great job of laying out the nitty gritty.

That’s why this concrete example of how the plan would work is required reading.

Suppose a worker gets $50,000 in cash wages and $12,000 in health insurance.

Right now, he pays federal income taxes on the wages but not the health insurance. Let’s assume, for reasons of simplicity, that the tax rate he is paying is a flat 25% on his wages. He therefore pays $12,500 in federal income taxes. His after-tax, after-health-care income is $37,500.

Now, under the McCain plan, his employer keeps paying the premium, which is now counted as income to the worker. He therefore pays federal income taxes on $62,000, or $15,500.

But he also gets a tax credit of $5,000 for health insurance, which means that, all in all, he owes $10,500 in federal taxes, or $2,000 less than he does today. His after-tax, after-health-care income is $39,500.

Continue reading at The New Atlantis to understand how McCain’s plan would work if this same employee opted to buy his insurance directly from an insurer in the open market. The McCain campaign would be well advised to add similar examples to the official Web site.

October 6, 2008 · Filed Under Election 2008, Health care, John McCain

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Liberals are Crabs in a Bucket

Alfonzo Rachel, better known as MachoSauceProductions, continues to impress me with video blogs. His monologues and skits about conservative ideals aren’t full of bombastic rhetoric, just a ton of common sense presented by a guy with a natural gift for entertaining. I don’t agree with all of his political positions, but I’ve gotta give respect to a guy raised in a family of democrats in ultra-blue California who’s willing to lay out his conservative views for the world.

He tackles liberalism with particular mastery. In this video on why he’s voting for McCain/Palin, Alfonzo compares liberals to crabs in a bucket: even those that try to climb out of the bucket get yanked back in by the other crabs.

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You can catch the rest of Alfonzo’s videos on his YouTube channel.

October 6, 2008 · Filed Under Election 2008

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NHS Leaves Pregnant Women in a World of Hurt

Imagine being in pain and going without anesthetics, not because of your religious beliefs, not because you’re stoic, but because there aren’t enough doctors to provide you the care you need. You’re probably picturing a Third World nation with doctors who earn $15 a month before they scrape together the cash to defect to the United States.

You’d be wrong.

Hundreds of British women are being denied epidurals to numb the pain of childbirth because there aren’t enough anesthetists to go around, and this has been going on for at least three years. How will the liberal feminist blogs spin this story?

Here’s what we know about one hospital, the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle, courtesy of The Daily Mail:

Women planning to give birth at the hospital, which delivers 1,600 babies a year, are told no epidurals are available because of a lack of senior anaesthetists.

They are needed because the procedure involves injecting a drug directly into the spine.

The failure flouts guidance from four Royal Colleges, including the Royal College of Midwives and the Royal College of Obstetricians, that women should have access to an epidural within 30 minutes of requesting one.

It adds to mounting concern about the quality of NHS maternity care, with midwives in some hospitals expected to attend to three women in labour at the same time due to staff shortages.

Is this the universal health care Obama and his supporters can believe in?

Hat tip: Bookworm Room

October 6, 2008 · Filed Under Health care, Women

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Jim DeMint: A Voice of Reason on the Bailout

Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) opposes the bailout and voted his conscience in the Senate on Wednesday. DeMint has a solid history of fiscal conservatism that includes leading the charge against pork barrel spending in the Senate. His speech on the Senate floor was a welcome voice of reason amidst the pervasive fear mongering:

I don’t agree with Jim DeMint on some social issues, but on this he’s spot on. Let’s hope he’s working the phones to convince his colleagues in the House that the bailout bill can’t go forward in its current iteration.

Deliberations continue in the House today. Contact as many Representatives as you can to let them know that Americans of all political persuasions oppose the bailout. Michelle Malkin has contact info for every House GOP member who voted “No” on Monday.

October 2, 2008 · Filed Under Economy, Jim DeMint

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Click to Support our Soldiers

Squidoo is donating $80,000 to charity, and you can help make sure it goes to a worthy cause by visiting their charity giveaway page and voting for your favorite organization. For each vote, Squidoo will give that organization $2.

Please spare a moment of your day to help fund one of the charities on their list.  My click went to Soldiers’ Angels, the outstanding organization that supports service members, veterans, and their families. This winter they hope to send 180,000 care packages to military personnel deployed overseas.

Help support our troops by voting for Soldiers’ Angels at Squidoo and then spread the word to everyone you can.  Voting ends on October 15th, or when the tally reaches 40,000 votes.

Hat tip: Bookworm Room

October 1, 2008 · Filed Under Patriotism

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