The RIGHT Alternatives

by Jed Babbin

After a disastrous August recess for the president’s Obamacare plan, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid will call Congress back into session today.

Did they learn anything during “teachable August”? Apparently not. The national unemployment rate is still rising (exceeding the worst level in more than 26 years), the war -- in both Iraq and Afghanistan -- is going badly, and Congress will be devoting all its time and energy to health care “reform.”

But there are better ideas than Obamacare, budget-busting government growth and the economy-killing “cap and trade” global warming tax. Unsurprisingly, they are ideas that conservatives have been proposing all year and on which the national media has imposed an electronic blockade. The hackneyed calumny “Republicans have no alternative” has been applied to everything from the faux-stimulus to Obama’s bloated budget to health care. Enough. Read more.