Harry Reid Blast From the Past

Quote du jour

"You’ve got this crazy system (Obamacare) where all of a sudden 25 million more people have health care and then the people are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half. It’s the craziest thing in the world."

-Bill Clinton

D-Day at the VA

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Don't T Read On My Obamacare

If You Like Your Cherry Tree, You Can Keep It...

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"Obamacare's Grandmother"*

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* H/T Jonah Goldberg

Obamacare Illustrated

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Obama: "Trust Me, If You Like Your Jobs, You Can Keep Your Jobs"

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Fibber McPOTUS' Closet

We take you now, back to the days of yesteryear, back before there was a "C" in CGI, back before there was video...back when special effects relied solely upon the theater of the mind! Once upon a time, there was a radio program called "Fibber McGee and Molly". Fibber McGee, as his name might imply, was known for his tall tales and 'face saving' lies, though none were of a magnitude with "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it"!

There was a running gag in the show, that Fibber McGee had a closet that was stuffed to overflowing, and the poor, hapless soul who opened the door of said closet, was subject to an avalanche of junk, brick-a-bracs, pots and pans and who knows what, to come crashing down upon him, all conveyed with only the sound effects of falling objects to stir one's imagination.

Thinking of the Fibber and his closet made me think of Obama and his Obamacare closet...once they opened the door to that "bill they had to pass to see what was in it", all kinds of garbage came crashing out. Millions of people lost affordable plans they were satisfied with, others discovered to their shock and chagrin, that their premiums would double and triple, and their deductibles would skyrocket under Obama's new "Affordable" health care.

In the imaginary world of "Fibber" McGee, there was no clean up of the mess. It was all imaginary - sound and fury, signifying little. Much like Obama's policy pronouncements. In Obama's case, the mess is only imaginary insofar that none of the statements used to sell the program had any semblance of reality. But, the mess is real, and will likely take decades to clean up, only if we can manage to elect some honest, adult leadership who are willing to uphold the Constitution of the United States.

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Cross posted at LCR

"Good Grief" to Coin a Phrase!

"The 5 Stages of the Obamacare Rollout"‏
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Obama's Signature Accomplishment

Running on empty.

Cross posted at LCR

Quote du jour

#Obamacare: The Only Nursing In Your Future Is a Grudge.

-Proof

Re-Branding Obamacare

How the mighty (in their own minds) have fallen! The signature accomplishment of Obama's tenure was to enact some form of universal healthcare, the "Holy Grail" of Democrats and progressives for the last century. Originally dubbed "Obamacare" in derision, Obama came to embrace the name: "Because I do care", and, after all, it is all about him! Now, Obama wants to "re-brand" the (Un)Affordable Healthcare Act, as if giving it a new name somehow would change any of its odious attributes. I'm thinking he should take a page from the "Geico gecko" campaign, although, I'm not sure that the "Obamacare Weasel" has quite the same cachet. Next time you see roadkill, for example, just think of it as a "random alternative to life". Hey! That's pretty good! Maybe Obama could re-brand "Random Alternative to Life Panels" in Obamacare?

So, in Obama's mind, the way to fix a bad law, that caused millions more to lose their affordable insurance than to gain it, is with more words, by re-branding it, and by delaying it for a year? That presents several problems:

A) if all these plans Obama would allow people to keep are, as the liberals keep telling us, "faux" insurance, substandard and inadequate policies, how is it doing anyone a kindness to keep these people in them another year?

B) if the law, as enacted, will cause millions of people to lose their healthcare plans and millions upon millions more to see their costs doubling and tripling over what they have now, how is merely delaying a bad plan for a year any more than just a band-aid upon a life threatening condition? Why not go for a cure, instead?

C) The Big "C", Obama has no Constitutional right or authority to randomly rewrite portions of the law all by himself. Obama assumes for himself the powers of the worst kind of banana republic, tinhorn dictator when he attempts to do so. All of the liberals who bleated that conservatives should accede to Obamacare because it's "the law of the land, passed by Congress, signed by the President and affirmed by the Supreme Court", should at least have the shame to admit that every change Obama makes in the law illegally, goes against both the spirit and the letter of the law they claimed to uphold.

But getting back to the re-branding. The Geico gecko tells us us that 'Fifteen minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance'. If the Obamacare Keystone Kops can ever get the website functional, and there's any truth in advertising: "Fifteen hours and triple your premiums can put all your personal information at risk from hackers".

Operators are standing by.


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Democrats Running For Re-election, Run From Obamacare

"Silence Of The Dems"‏
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"Oh, What a Relief it Isn't!"

Inspired by Time Magazine

A Modest Proposal

I was watching a news story about the president’s plummeting popularity and trustworthiness numbers, when the reporter attributed the president’s lack of credibility, in large part to the failings of the Obamacare website, particularly in regards to its security. They showed a clip of congressional hearings where one congress critter asked four men directly responsible for security at the Healthcare.gov site, point blank, if the site would be secure by Dec 1st. To a man, they all answered “No”.

Now the White House insists that Healthcare.gov is secure. Hmm... Given the track record of this administration, that could hinge on what your definition of “is” is, or “secure”. But I had an idea. Here is the opportunity for Obama and the Democrats to show true leadership. Having exempted themselves from all the wonderfulness that is Obamacare, there’s no real reason for them to go to the Healthcare.gov website, right? So, here’s the deal. President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and all the Democrats that voted for this catastrophe , er, boon (doggle) to mankind, should all personally open an account at Healthcare.gov and enter all the private information required of John and Jane Doe, average Americans.
Like that guy from Life Lock who bought mobile billboards with his real Social Security number on them, because he was confident in the security of his own system. If the White House “insists” that the site is secure, then the President and Congress Critters who voted for it won’t mind at all personally inputting their own Social Security numbers, bank accounts and whatever else in the way of personal or otherwise private information required of them, would they?

And, of course, they should sit down and do this personally, and not delegate it to some paid staffer. Mr. and Mrs. America don’t have paid personal staff to do this sort of thing for them. The President and Congress should lead by example here.

Anyone care to wager that if the President and Congress were personally required, or shamed into going on this site, that they would make sure it is a darn sight more secure than it is for you and me?

So, make the darn site more secure, or scrap it.



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Quote du jour

"This is a cover up of cosmic incompetence."

-Charles Krauthammer, on Obamacare

Obama Proves Once Again the Liberals are Irony Impaired

"On Capitol Hill, one side is invested in failure."

-Barack Obama

Barack Obama finally speaks the truth and doesn't even realize it! The party of Solyndra, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, barricading the veterans' memorial, the stimulus that didn't, high unemployment, multiplying the national debt, the 'Arab Spring', IRS targeting, NSA spying, reporter eavesdropping, Healthcare.gov, and turning NASA into a self esteem program for Muslims, has been invested in failure for years.

Their biggest investment in failure stood in front of Styrofoam columns, prattled on about lowering sea level, being more flexible with the Russians, keeping your healthcare and doctor if you like them, and brandishing a Nobel Peace Prize he didn't earn.

I've often said it about one of his disciples, but it appears to be true of Obama as well:

He has more projection than a multiplex!

It Wasn't Obama's Asterisk**

**Sound it out... If you need help, consider the following poem:

Mary had a pony.
The pony was quite 'frisk'.
Now wasn't Mary very brave,
her little *.

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New Surgeon General Warning

...on Obamacare!

"Warning: Obamacare may be hazardous to the health of your wealth."