H2: 11/09/09 Frank Gaffney

11090902 Hugh Hewitt: Hour 2 – Hugh talks to callers about the strategic move to fund House and Senate candidates, and talks with Center For Security Policy president Frank Gaffney about the Ft. Hood terror attack, and how we’re forgetting how best to defend ourselves from this happening again.

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H1: 11/09/09 Peter Robinson, Chip Hanlon, Andrew McCarthy

11090901 Hugh Hewitt: Hour 1 – Hugh remembers the anniversary of the falling of the Berlin wall with Tear Down This Wall speechwriter, Peter Robinson, talks economic news this week with Chip Hanlon, and updates on what we’re learning about Nidal Hasan with former U.S. attorney Andrew McCarthy.

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Well, this explains it all

Interesting piece in the LA Times – no, really – about a provision in the health care bill that might forbid insurance companies from discriminating against “religious and spiritual healthcare.” That’s nice ‘n’ specific, eh? I give it a year before someone sues to have voodoo included in the benefit package.

Here’s the part that may sum up the problems we face:

Kerry’s spokeswoman, Whitney Smith, disputed that insurers would be forced to cover prayer. Instead, she said, “the amendment would prevent insurers from discriminating against benefits that qualify as spiritual care if the care is recognized by the IRS as a legitimate medical expense.”

The tax department, the church, and the medical profession together at last – with the first determining the legitimacy of the other two.

Contributing to Toomey and Castle

Over at HughHewitt.com, I use the example of a California start-up, QuantumSpehere, to illustrate how real job growth occurs, and then segue to an appeal for contributions to two GOP senate campaigns in 2010 –Mike Castle’s in Delaware and Pat Toomey’s in Pennsylvania.

Castle is a Republican moderate and Toomey a GOP conservative. We need both to win if we are to re-establish some crucial balance in the Congress. Questions: Have you contributed to either? Will you (like, right now)? Would you be willing to start with the one who is least like you ideologicially as an exanple of giving towards an effective blocking force in the Congress?

And do you think the conservative grass roots understand the need for moderates like Castle and the GOP moderates the need for conservatives like Toomey if a governing majority is to be rebuilt?