Another argument I've got with Kasich

I guess this is all one has to say:

"COLUMBUS — Republicans on Thursday ratified Gov. John Kasich’s plan to quadruple Ohio Turnpike debt......."

Read more at http://www.toledoblade.com/State/2013/03/01/House-OKs-1-5B-plan-for-turnpike-borrowing-bill-expected-to-get-to-Kasich-s-desk.html#cYHjZu7Y5V1oOCrT.99

We are going to borrow money now against future tolls on the Ohio Turnpike.

Why?  To get matching money from the funny money feds...........when we already have this money in the "rainy day fund".  Why mortgage the future when you can pay as you go?

The Ohio Republican Party is making the democrats look like fiscal conservatives.  I'm really believing that they have completely lost touch with reality.

It's not just the federal government that is having a mill stone of debt around our kid's necks, it's also the majority Republicans in Ohio.  Yes, the same ORP that decries Obama's federal debt and deficits.  They are not really serious about cutting spending, just gaining points when the democrats are the ones spending.

I'm so sick of every primary/election cycle hearing the GOP/ORP saying  one or all of the following:

• "vote for us, we want to spend slightly less than the democrats"
• "vote for us, we are less liberal than the nasty democats"
• "vote for us, we aren't for gay mariage....yet"
• etc, etc..

Dave Yost doing his job?

I like Dave Yost.  However, I was pretty disappointed in him by bowing to the ORP in not proceeding in running for the Attorney General position.  The ORP was looking for a place for Mike DeWine to land and talked Dave into running for State Auditor instead.  I wonder if they are now rethinking that move.

I have a few thoughts on this matter.

Here's a link to one of many stories on this subject:

1. Why do we have a "jobs Ohio"?  Just because it's Kasich's idea doesn't mean it's a good idea.  The government doesn't belong in the job creation business.  It's an oxymoron.  Government, by nature, kills businesses, either directly (killing coal jobs, for example) or indirectly (taxation).  The government, if they really want to create private sector jobs just needs to cut taxes and regulations and get out of the way, and jobs will happen. 
2. Why is "jobs ohio" giving back public money?  This seems weird.  Why give the money back?
3. Why is "jobs ohio", along with Kasich and Speaker Batchelder fighting this audit?  I can understand fighting an audit that is not authorized.  Give us some details why you don't want this audit?  Might be a very legit reason.  It just seems strange that a GOP Governor and GOP Speaker would fight a GOP Auditor about auditing an organization that receives dollars from taxpayers and just returned some of it once this audit commenced.
4. I wouldn't want audited just to be audited either.  Since the Auditor is adamant about it, why not latch on and want to prove to folks that all is cool?
5. As much as I can't stand the ORP (pretend to be conservatives in primary season, then once elected, govern like Jimmy Carter), Dave Yost might be just saving them from themselves before they have another Coingate/Noe moment.
6. Sounds to me like Yost is doing his job.............like it or not.

You mean, just like the GOP did with Mike DeWine?

Below is part of the latest "press release" by Kevin DeWine.

(Columbus) - Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine issued the following statement today regarding Eric Brown's announced candidacy for Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court:

"It's doubtful anyone would be talking about Eric Brown as a candidate for the top seat on the state's highest court if his name wasn't Brown. Democrats love to play the name game with Ohio elections by running candidates who sound familiar but are wholly unqualified for the job. Ohioans are smarter than that.

It's like the pot calling the kettle black.

I am so sick of the ORP and their choosing candidates for us before we can choose our own in the primary.

The local parties are too in-bred with the ORP to be a local voice. Most of the chairs of the local parties are more interested in getting jobs with winning GOP candidates than to be the voice of their own local conservative parties. We end up with a bunch of liberal RINOs that make no one happy. Remember Taft?

The ORP has abandoned conservatives. Want proof? Look what they did to Ken Blackwell. They completely abandoned him, I think they were ashamed that we actually voted for a conservative in the primary. Looks like they're not making that mistake again! They'd rather have Ted Strickland than a true conservative.

Now they want to force anti-gun Mike DeWine down our throats. Unbelievable!

OK, I've agreed with Redfern twice recently.....

First he asks for Athens County democrat chair, Susan Gwinn, to resign. Which, of course, she should have, and did.

Second, he says what we've been saying all along about Dave Yost and Mike DeWine:

Dispatch story here

"Ohio Democratic Chairman Chris Redfern said Yost was "strong-armed" out of the attorney general's race.

"Yost clearly wanted to be attorney general but was forced to play second fiddle to Kevin DeWine's second cousin and the second choice of the Republican base," Redfern said."

What they've done is allow the dems to keep the Attorney General office for another four years. This office could have been won by Yost.

Yost is the one that fits the Attorney General role. DeWine fits a Methodist minister role....in their new liberal teachings.

As detailed in these posts here.

Cordray should be re-elected as Attorney General as he is more conservative then DeWine!

These back room deals and schemes are what has turned folks away from the ORP. Taylor should have ran for Auditor again.....especially since it's very important for the gerrymandering that our 2 parties do after the census.

I am now convinced (I know, I must be a little slow) that the GOP is afraid of their own voters. They'd rather hand pick their candidates before the primary than let their conservative base pick it for them. The conservatives will abandon them again if they keep it up. The difference now is, their base has a place to go.

Jeanette Moll is right again

Below is a recent note to Jeanette's email subscribers.

Apparently I don't have to even think anymore on who to vote for in primaries. Whoever the RNC / ORP support....well, I'll usually support the other...as both organizations have a tendency to push who they "think" can win, not who is the more conservative.

Previous post on Moll / Gibbs.

Dave Yost and Jeanette Moll are both unembarrassed conservatives. Mike DeWine is only a Republican when campaigning. I have no idea about Bob Gibbs.

Makes you wonder sometimes if the ORP / RNC are run by closet democrats.


RECENT LIMITATIONS ON MAMMOGRAMS PROVIDE GLIMPSE INTO THE NEXT STEP FOR ZACK SPACE'S GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE PROGRAM

The Titanic is steaming ahead and the iceberg is in sight. Will we ignore the warning signs and pretend the collision won't do much damage?

The Titanic in this case is the $1.3 trillion government health care program passed this month with the support of our liberal Democrat congressman, Zack Space. Space's program will increase the role of the federal government in your day-to-day life. The iceberg is the massive power transferred to bureaucrats who will eventually determine what medical services we can get. Like the tip of an iceberg, Space's program doesn't look scary at first glance, but the danger runs far.

This week, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, which included no cancer specialists, issued a report recommending that long-time guidelines for breast cancer screening be reversed. They said most women under 50 shouldn't have a mammogram, thus eliminating the use of the best tool we have to detect breast cancer in its beginning stages. The panel then told women age 50 to 74 to only get mammograms every other year, instead of every year. The panel also determined that there's no cost benefit for elderly women to have mammograms at all.

The cruel irony of this heartless decision being announced this week was made clear by the passing of Stefanie Spielman. Stefanie raged a courageous battle against breast cancer for more than a decade, while raising awareness and millions of dollars for research to find a cure. Sadly, Stefanie left her husband, Ohio State football standout Chris Spielman, to raise their four children alone.

Like most Ohioans, my own life has been touch by the struggles and losses caused by breast cancer. I'm thankful that my aunt is a survivor but have also experienced the devastating loss of one of my best friends and another aunt.

What's most troubling about the federal panel's recommendations is that they are based mainly on cost saving. This is a harbinger of things to come, given Zack Space's support of the controversial legislation that will invite federal bureaucrats to use similar cost-saving measures to affect your family's health care.

Zack Space and his liberal Democrat cohorts in Washington say they want to provide more health coverage to millions of Americans, a worthy goal if only there were money available to pay for it. Because the federal government doesn't have that money, panels like the one reducing mammograms will undoubtedly try to cut costs by limiting other medical procedures.

Congresswoman Candice Miller of Michigan noted that when cost is considered, the question becomes "why have all these mammograms because it is very costly, they could test 2,000 women and only one is positive. I guess it doesn't matter. If you're the one, it matters." Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee went further, pointing out "This is how rationing begins...and this is where we start getting a bureaucrat between you and your physician."

James Thrall, a Harvard medical professor and chairman of the American College of Radiology said, "I fear we are entering an era of deliberate decisions where we choose to trade people's lives for money."

And if you don't think the Zack Space government health program will lead to a complete government takeover of healthcare, you need only to recall the promise made by Zack Space's friend and ally, Barack Obama. Speaking to the labor union AFL-CIO in 2003, Mr. Obama said "I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program ... a single-payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that's what I'd like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House."

Now that Zack Space and Barack Obama have their Democrat majorities in place, they can finally achieve Mr. Obama's government run health care. The only thing standing in their way is us -- you and me. We cannot afford for medical decisions to be treated as merely a matter of dollars. We must turn the ship around.

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