The latest noise machines in Louisiana comes in the form of U.S. Representative Steve Scalise and U.S. Senator David Vitter. Both spoke at different forums Wednesday September 2nd on health care. Mr. Vitter spoke at a forum sponsored by the Jefferson Chamber and Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Louisiana and Mr. Scalise spoke at a forum in Mandeville, Louisiana as reported in the Times Picayune of September 3rd.
They covered the conservative line describing Obama's health care proposal as a government take over and offered their own health care reform. Tax credits for insurance and Tort reform, the same old conservative ploy that the republicans had 8 years to introduce to congress during Bush's 8 years as President and failed to do so. Their noise is deafening while real solutions are no where to be found. The republicans had a chance to do something about reforming health care and instead rubber stamped Mr. Bush's massive deficit spending and debt.
The junior U.S. Representative from Louisiana Representative Cao said he had not made up his mind yet if he will support Obama's proposal and that his mind would be open. He has shown more maturity on the subject than Vitter or Scalise. The latter are carbon copies of Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey and are following in their path of a ideology that has no creditability nor offers no real solutions.
That same day the Times Picayune also reported in a story from the New York Times that John Goodman, President of the Ntional Center for Policy Analysis, a conservative research group said. "Part of the problem on the republican side is an unwillingness to say, lets find a right way to do this and lets go ahead even if all the special interest don't like what we are doing."
The conservatives will use their noise machine through out the Obama presidency to oppose all of his initiatives because they themselves have no answers to debate the issues. That says it all.
