Today is the day of the big summit and Karl Rove has some good suggestions for standing ground and calling the President on any untruths that might be spoken.
He notes:
Having won the battle for public opinion on this issue, Republicans are on the rise. They should act like it. Mr. Obama may have a home court advantage, but Republicans have facts, ideas, and most of the American people on their side.
Any interesting tangent here. I was just on a road trip and listened to a ton of talk radio. While the right will make fun of the left’s ideas, the left makes fun of the right’s looks. It’s bizarro world and I don’t understand how these people live with themselves.
On another side bar, yesterday Rep. Weiner got a lot of press concerning all the people he knows in the GOP. (each of them are in the pocket of health insurance).
Here’s the quote that struck me.
WEINER: Look, the point is very simple, there are inequities in the present way we distribute insurance.
Since when is it the government’s job to distribute??
And finally, yesterday the NYTimes had this story about salt. As a person who eats in order to ingest salt, I can easily see this possible result noted there. If the food industry cuts back on salt, people eat more to get more salt. In the end, the salt intake is the same only we’re fatter.
The results were so similar in so many places that Dr. McCarron hypothesized that networks in the brain regulate sodium appetite so that people consume a set daily level of salt. If so, that might help explain one apparent paradox related to reports that Americans are consuming more daily calories than they used to. Extra food would be expected to come with additional salt, yet there has not been a clear upward trend in daily salt consumption evident over the years in urinalysis studies, which are considered the best gauge because they directly measure salt levels instead of relying on estimates based on people’s recollections of what they ate. Why no extra salt? One prominent advocate of salt reduction, Dr. Lawrence Appel of Johns Hopkins University, said that inconsistent techniques in conducting the urinalysis surveys may be masking a real upward trend in salt consumption.
John Kranz of ThreeSources said to read this by Michael Barone too concerning the Obama nannystate. I haven’t read it yet, but put it here for later.
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