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45,000 Boy Scouts Rave Over President Trump’s Speech

Democrats seem to be apoplectic over President Trump’s remarks to the Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia this week — too partisan, too sharp…

…too enthusiastic a response from the Boy Scouts is more like it.

Consider this: 45,000 young men, their parents, and their Scout Leaders all cheered President Trump.  They weren’t bothered at all with Trump’s tribute to the Boy Scouts of America, an institution that the political left has hammered hard against by leveraging their sponsors to bend to agendas that frankly have splintered scouting in America.

Boy Scout values are American values. And great Boy Scouts become great, great Americans.

Here’s the line that probably riled the media up more than anything else.

I’m waving to people back there so small I can’t even see them. Man, this is a lot of people. Turn those cameras back there, please. That is so incredible.  By the way, what do you think the chances are that this incredible massive crowd, record setting, is going to be shown on television tonight? One percent or zero?

The Boy Scouts?  CHEERED.

Agree or disagree with Trump, the institutions that the left has so carefully taken over these last few decades are being systematically exposed by the Trump-style populism.

By the way, just a question, did President Obama ever come to a Jamboree?

That line right there?  Was the loudest response from the Boy Scouts themselves — a loud “NO!” from these young men.

So long as the Democrats continue to be tone deaf to realities on the ground, they will continue to be shocked at the reception — and that’s what this was — the Boy Scout Jamboree gave to President Trump.  These young men are going to go back home remembering this event, and remembering that they were not alone in their support of the president.

What’s more, these are the future leaders of America.  For the media to write an alternative narrative of what actually happened will be remembered by those present.

That the political left still doesn’t understand that progressive policies and the Democrats writ large are by far more unpopular than the president himself?  Speaks volumes as to how shallow the left has truly become, especially in the face of Middle America’s response.

In Four Minutes, McEwen Effortlessly Destroys Obamacare

Perhaps the only four minutes you will ever have to spend explaining to friends and family why government run services fail — every time.

Suppose the boss gives you $150 to buy a door prize for the office party. In a store window, you see a six-foot tall stuffed frog marked $149.00 You think, Oh, that’s perfect – let’s buy it. The raffle winner is awarded the six-foot frog. Everyone laughs at the gag.

Now, this is called a third-party purchase – a purchase that is made with money that is not yours (therefore you don’t care about the cost) to buy something you’re not going to consume (therefore you don’t care about the quality).

Here’s the point: By definition, all government purchases are third-party purchases. The government spends other people’s money on things it won’t consume. It doesn’t care about the price or the quality. Thus, there will always be waste in government spending.

With health care, this is the precise problem.  The federal government isn’t paying for it; you are.  The federal government isn’t using it; you are.  Ergo, costs go up via waste and quality goes down via inefficiency.

…and that’s why free markets work for all of us, because when costs go down and quality goes up, availability follows in due course just like all other forms of insurance (fire, life, auto).

McConnell’s Remarks on Why Obamacare Repeal Failed Deserves Two Minutes

“I imagine many Democrats were celebrating last night.  I hope they consider what they are celebrating. The American people are hurting, they need relief, and it’s regretful that our Democratic colleagues decided early on that they did not want to engage with us seriously in the process to deliver that relief.  But that doesn’t have to be the end of the story…”

— U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
18 July 2017

The U.S. Senate is a fickle thing.  50 votes can get you there if you have the tiebreaker… but in a body where Republicans have a 53 seat majority, if three go one way or three go the other?  Things get rough.

Consider for a moment that we are no better off than we were with Obama in the White House and Democrats in control of the U.S. Senate.  Consider further that we are one or two votes away from Obamacare repeal in the U.S. Senate, even though they passed a much stronger bill in 2015 that had the added luxury of the knowledge that Obama would veto the plan…

Meanwhile, the Democrats are reveling in the fact that people are being hurt by Obamacare

Once again, we find ourselves faced with two — perhaps three — realities:

FIRST, that legislation is a bloody process, as it was designed to be by the Founding Fathers.

SECOND, that a Republican majority is not necessarily a conservative one.

There’s a third reality to face in all of this, one where McConnell’s remarks (and Chuck Schumer’s nastiness afterwards reveal) — this is indeed the Democrats’ mess.  They crafted Obamacare.  They designed it to fail.  Once again Republicans have taken it upon themselves to fix a failing social program.  Isn’t there some truth to President Trump’s claim that Republicans should just “let it fail” and then sweep up the pieces afterwards?

Of course, this is the entire debate over “repeal and replace” to begin with.  Repeal was never enough, even with the two-year concession that Senator Rand Paul included to delay the actual repeal (still not enough for the trio of Republican Senators on the left).  What replaced Obamacare had to be something that lowered costs, increased coverage, and prevented people from slipping through the cracks.

Is it a unicorn we are chasing?

Perhaps so… and perhaps Republicans were better served chasing smaller tag items such as tax reform, immigration enforcement, and infrastructure improvement — three things the GOP is united on; three issues where the White House is willing to do the heavy lift.

Meanwhile, the Democrats are reveling in the fact that people are being hurt by Obamacare — more than happy to let it fail, more than happy to watch as Americans pay more than they can afford for healthcare they never asked for, more than happy to hang around until they get the insurance company bailout that Senator Feinstein wanted (in the name of bipartisanship) just to keep a failing system propped up for another five years.

The good news is this: Republicans are tangibly close to getting something passed in the U.S. Senate — literally one or two votes.  If McConnell gets a commitment and gets to 50 votes?  Expect a quick vote in the U.S. Senate and a march to a reconciliation bill in order to get the package back in front of the U.S. House.