Blog Posts - March 2010

Repealing ObamaCare – a Flight of Fancy

By Bob Giuda, on Mar 24, 2010

Some federal candidates are appealing to the sweeping populism and public anger resulting from the passage of ObamaCare with pledges to “Repeal the bill!” if elected.  While such “chest thumping” sounds impressive and feels good, the simple fact is that repealing ObamaCare is not going to happen. Here’s why:

Repealing ObamaCare will bring a swift Presidential veto. Over-riding that veto will require a 2/3 of both the U.S. House and Senate. Public outrage or no, while it is possible to regain a simple majority of the Senate, it is statistically impossible to gain the 2/3 needed to override an Obama veto.

Reactionary battle cries like “Repeal!” sound and feel good But they will not produce a legislative outcome. Given the enormity of the Constitutional and economic danger in which our nation finds itself, this is a time for careful legislative action to deliver the outcomes we must achieve.

The Undoing of a Nation

By Bob Giuda, on Mar 17, 2010

Our Founding Fathers gave us a brilliant system of government that requires three things:  personal responsibility, individual liberty, and economic freedom. Over the course of the past 100 years, we have witnessed a dangerous erosion of these critical elements.

Erosion of personal responsibility comes in the form of entitlements and apathy. Entitlements foster dependency on government, toxic to the human spirit. Who can be free when their sustenance depends on the government? And apathy has disconnected the majority of Americans from self-governance, allowing special interests to control both the political agenda and the political process for decades.

First Lady Gale Thomson Remembered...

By Bob Giuda, on Mar 10, 2010

I join the thousands of citizens in New Hampshire in expressing condolences to the Thomson family at the loss of their Mother and our former First Lady, Gale Thomson. Truly a gracious lady, she touched the lives of many of us who visited both as friends and supporters. She epitomized what is right about the world of politics, and will be greatly missed. Godspeed, to a dear and wonderful Mother and patriot.

Bob on Fox News

By Bob Giuda, on Mar 8, 2010

Fox Strategy Room

Time to Clean the House (and Senate)

By Bob Giuda, on Mar 1, 2010

While he was a U.S. Senator, John F. Kennedy wrote a book titled “Profiles in Courage.” In it, he chronicled acts of personal courage by sometimes unsung heroes who did the right thing regardless of personal cost. In every case, the people profiled in JFK’s book were faced with difficult decisions framed in the context of conflict. Sometimes the conflicts were the result of the perpetual struggle between right and wrong. Sometimes their struggles were the result of having to define what is right and what is wrong. 

Times have certainly changed since the publication of President Kennedy’s book. The struggles in Congress are no longer to define what is right, or even to do what is right. In Congress, the struggle has become how each member can best feather his or her political nest at our expense.