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Posted at 12:16pm on Apr. 13, 2008 Barry Obama Discovers the Limits of His Experience
In Politics, Never Tell The Truth
By blackhedd
By his own standards, young Barry Obama is more than experienced enough to be President of the United States. We know all about his childhood travels to Indonesia, Pakistan, and other places.
But of course, with his remarks in San Francisco, he inadvertently reminded us of the low bar he has set in regard to experience. His desultory damage control ("Hmm, from your reaction, it seems I expressed myself badly") only reinforce the image of out-of-touch elitism he has now constructed for himself.
Obama's campaign is based on his quite correct recognition that politics and politicians are hated because they never tell the truth. He set about producing a product that would meet this underserved need.
He got the marketing right but the technology wrong. He lacks the experience to know that in politics, you never tell the truth. It just gives your opponents too much to work with. When Barry learns this, he'll be left with nothing but his not-inconsiderable style and charisma. And it so happens that these are the things that really drive electoral success in America.
But wait just a moment. There's something else in what Barry said in San Francisco, and it really matters, because it explicitly laid out the approach he would take as President. And you need to understand exactly what it was.
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Posted at 11:41pm on Feb. 14, 2008 San Francisco health care tax appealed to Supreme Court
There are a whole lot of Democrat-led cities and states watching this case very, very closely
By Jeff Emanuel
An association of restaurant operators in San Francisco has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule a decision by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowing the city’s health insurance employer mandate law to go into effect. It will be best for all of San Francisco if the Court sides with the association on this one.
The association is seeking reinstatement of a federal judge’s ruling that the city’s Health Care Security Ordinance conflicts with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), a longstanding federal law addressing government regulation of employee benefits.
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Posted at 1:18am on Jan. 8, 2008 San Francisco “play or pay” health care mandate will negatively affect economy, health coverage for residents
By Jeff Emanuel
The day after Christmas, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White ruled that San Francisco’s attempt to expand its public health care initiative violated a federal law regarding government regulation of employee benefit plans. Judge White’s ruling halted the implementation of a mandate, scheduled to go into effect on New Year’s Day, that would have required employers to offer their employees health coverage or pay to support “Healthy San Francisco,” the city’s health care program.
The mandate struck down by Judge would have required every business in the city with between 20 and 99 workers to spend $1.17 per employee per hour for health care benefits, and those with more than 100 to spend $1.76 per hour, either on their own plans or in payments to the city.
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Posted at 2:52am on Dec. 28, 2007 Court rejects San Francisco insurance mandates; Governor's plan next?
By Neil Stevens
US District Judge Jeffrey White threw out part of a San Francisco law this afternoon, one that required employers to provide or pay for medical insurance for employers. White ruled that the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) preempts and prohibits the states from imposing such requirements on employers.
Ordinarily I wouldn't care, because San Francisco is such a freaky place, and if a conservative worried about every bad bill passed there, he'd never sleep. But this is important because Governor Schwarzenegger's plan for all of California includes a similar requirement, and thus could also be illegal under ERISA.
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