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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato (429-347 BC)

Monday, January 05, 2015

Obama's Back | Grubergate Continues | Israel Wiped Off The Map

by Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: Obama's Back - Here's one reason why Republicans need to show some fight: Barack Obama's approval ratings are up. A new CNN poll has the president at 48% -- his best showing since May 2013, while a new Rasmussen poll puts him at 51%.

Has the public already forgotten the 2014 elections? Obama said that his policies were on the ballot. Clearly, the voters rejected them. So what has changed in the past two months? I suspect the reason Obama is looking better is that his continued left-wing radicalism has largely gone unchallenged since November 4th.

All of this has happened against the backdrop of a vicious anti-law enforcement campaign driven by the left and cheered on by Al Sharpton, Eric Holder, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Barack Obama. It culminated in the predictable deaths of two NYPD officers.

This would have been a good time for a confident Republican Party to identify with the vast majority of Americans. Everyone, regardless of race, wants safe streets. No one wants to hear the sound of gunfire or breaking glass in the middle of the night. They know it is the men and women in law enforcement who keep anarchy away from their communities.

It shouldn't have been hard for Republican leaders to verbalize their support for the rule of law and the men and women on the thin blue line. Instead, the party seemed largely stuck in a crouching position, afraid that they would face accusations of racism.

But de Blasio has been on defense in New York City. Obama should have been on defense nationwide. Instead, he's been calling the shots on virtually every major initiative from the "Cromnibus" and immigration reform to normalizing relations with Cuba.

Grubergate Continues - For critics of Obamacare, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber is the gift that keeps on giving. Last week, we learned that Dr. Gruber, described by some as the "architect of Obamacare," admitted that its health insurance policies would not be affordable. In 2009, Dr. Gruber contended that the Affordable Care Act was really about getting people covered.

"Why are we closer than we've ever been before? Because there are no cost controls in these proposals. Because this bill's about coverage," Gruber said. "Let's get the people covered and then let's do cost control."

And how do you control costs? According to Dr. Gruber, "The real substance of cost control is all about a single thing: telling patients they can't have something they want." Translation: Government rationing.

Given what we already know about Dr. Gruber's glibness, I doubt this latest revelation comes as much of a surprise. But I am indebted to my friend and columnist Mona Charen for connecting other dots.

About ten years ago, the pro-abortion movement in America attempted to seize on the argument that abortion was a positive social good that had contributed to reduced crime rates. The idea that society was in some way better off because innocent babies had been destroyed was a tough sell and the left quickly abandoned that bizarre notion.

As Charen notes in her latest column, that argument was based on an economic analysis by -- you guess it -- Dr. Jonathan Gruber.

Charen concludes by expressing her unease with Gruber's "casual readiness to calculate lost lives as so many numbers on a balance sheet." She is right to be worried. The left's disregard for the sanctity of life -- whether it's abortion on demand or the rationing of health care -- is cause for great concern.

Israel Wiped Off The Map -- Literally
Radical Islamists have long dreamed of a world without Israel. Iran's former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, often vowed to "wipe Israel off the map." Evidently, one publishing company was willing to oblige their fanatical desires for a second Holocaust.

HarperCollins recently published new atlases that were "developed specifically for schools in the Middle East." The maps do not include the nation of Israel. Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank are there, but the Jewish state is not.

A subsidiary company admitted that it was pandering to "local preferences" because publishing accurate maps featuring Israel would have been "unacceptable" in the Middle East. That is how prevalent anti-Semitism is throughout the Islamic world.

This sorry episode tells you all you need to know, my friends, about the reality confronting Israel each and every day. America must continue to stand with Israel. And the Obama Administration should stop pushing a Palestinian state when it would clearly be yet another terrorist, Jew-hating nation.
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families

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