starr Nite, you are staying up too late and based on your post at 4:00 a.m. you may need more sleep LOL!!    You, in no way, are qualified to state that Liz Peek’s credibility is zero.  No where close.   You are personally attacking  her and have absolutely nothing to back it up.

Shame on you!!!!  : ( 

phyllis, as you are weary of Liz Peek’s talking points that in my estimation raises valid points on the direction Obama is leading this country, we, on the right, are extremely weary of the "unconditional love brigade" on the left who never question Obama’s decisions.   It is, indeed, frustrating, I’ll certainly give you that.   As I do agree with Obama on taking more time to assess the situation in Afghanistan, I do not agree with him that he is not accepting of General McCrystals assessment especially since Obama appointed him due to his expertise in this situation and has now decided to ignore him.    Once again, he places himself between a rock and a hard place.  

The health insurance industry has been working until recently to help draft legislation, while publicly endorsing President Barack Obama’s goal of affordable coverage for all Americans. The alliance has grown strained as legislation advances toward votes in Congress.

Late Sunday, the industry trade group America’s Health Insurance Plans sent its member companies a new accounting firm study that projects the legislation would add $1,700 a year to the cost of family coverage in 2013, when most of the major provisions in the bill would be in effect.

Premiums for a single person would go up by $600 more than would be the case without the legislation, the PricewaterhouseCoopers analysis concluded in the study commissioned by the insurance group.

"Several major provisions in the current legislative proposal will cause health care costs to increase far faster and higher than they would under the current system," Karen Ignagni, the top industry lobbyist in Washington, wrote in a memo to insurance company CEOs.

The study projected that in 2019, family premiums could be $4,000 higher and individual premiums could be $1,500 higher.

THE WILL TO COWER

"The single most important essay on the Obama administration’s first year is Charles Krauthammer’s "Decline is a choice." It usefully collects evidence to advance the argument that Obama’s domestic and foreign policy positions work together to support the decline of American power. As Krauthammer more broadly puts it: "The current liberal ascendancy in the United States—controlling the executive and both houses of Congress, dominating the media and elite culture—has set us on a course for decline. And this is true for both foreign and domestic policies. Indeed, they work synergistically to ensure that outcome."

Krauthammer emphasizes the contraction of American power abroad. Krauthammer makes the essential points. Bowing and scraping has become something of a habit, literally and figuratively. One might add footnotes referring to Hillary Clinton’s salute to the Saudi king and the State Department’s $2.5 million foreign-aid earmark for Libya that was to include $400,0000 for two foundations─one headed by Kaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, and another headed by his daughter (reworked upon exposure).

What is to be done? Here Krauthammer is simply prescriptive: "Resist retreat as a matter of strategy and principle. And provide the means to continue our dominant role in the world by keeping our economic house in order." For now, it is enough that he has described the syndrome that afflicts us."

http://www.powerlineblog.com/

Elle Vee,

Oh so do I.  Seems like Liz Peek’s threads are where we can discuss the truth about Obama and what he is doing to our economy and the war.  I like her editorials and she does post on other sites.  Always the best.  She chose a perfect pic of Obama, just like him to have that "non caring look" during a meeting.