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Obama shocked by Political cost of Obamacare

by Phantom Ace ( 285 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2012, Fascism, Health Care, Liberal Fascism, Progressives at November 8th, 2010 - 6:30 pm

In a sign of Barack Hussein Obama’s 3rd world style elitism, he was stunned by the political costs of his Eugenics based health care plan. Starting in the summerof 2009 polls showed the American people didn’t want Obamacare. Yet Obama and his Progressive minions in Congress still pushed the bill down people’s throat. They lied about the costs and the Eugenics nature of this boondoggle. The Left showed contempt for American opinion about this bill. Instead it was rammed down our throats and the result was that last Tuesday, the American people had their payback.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the political cost of overhauling the health care system turned out to be higher than he had expected. And he admits that he gets discouraged at times when dealing with the economy.

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“I made the decision to go ahead and do it, and it proved as costly politically as we expected — probably actually a little more costly than we expected, politically,” he said.

Read the rest: President Obama Surprised by Political Cost of Health Care Law

This shows the elitism of the Progressive establishment of this nation. They live in little Academic bubbles and don’t deal with real people. They are Neo-Feudlists to the core but they have discovered to their detriment that Americans don’t Serf. Obama clearly has not learned his lesson and doesn’t plan to move to the center. He’s a Leftist ideologue who believes the American people are too stupid to appreciate what he has done. He’s no Clinton and hopefully the GOP leadership in the House will pass bills to show his radical ideology.

We Must All Stand Fast – No Backpedaling!

by 1389AD ( 156 Comments › )
Filed under Elections 2010, Elections 2012, Free Speech, Health Care, Healthcare, Progressives, Tea Parties at November 8th, 2010 - 2:00 pm

A Backhand to Backpedaling

Posted on Burn the Koran for Freedom 11/06/2010 by Chuck

Reposted here by author’s request.

There is a new and very important attack on the Tea Party.

“Teabaggers are socialists too.” “Teabaggers are anything but libertarian.” Suddenly this is popping up in forum posts all over the internet. I don’t know where the commie-bots get their programming updates, but they sure do get them.

They’re not being stupid. This thing is a calculated strategy. They’re trying to trap us into a hypocrisy that they can then use against us by getting us to renounce unalienable individual rights. They hope we will backpedal rather than send sacred socialist cows like Social Security and Medi-blah to the slaughterhouse. Today a YouTuber admitted it:

“This is a precursor to what will come once the Republicans take over: the Tea Party BACKpedaling and then getting deleted. Enjoy your movement’s fifteen minutes.”

A forced backpedal is what Rachel Maddow tried against Rand Paul regarding elements of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Paul’s answer to her was substantively correct: yes to prohibiting discrimination by government, no to prohibiting discrimination by private business. But he spent several minutes guiltily diluting it with hemming, hawing and diversions, and those moments ended up being the replay clips from that interview. Stating his meaning outright would have deprived the Left of those clips.

If our new Tea Party politicians backpedal, they become mere Republicans, only without being in the in-crowds, and without any friends among the other Republicans. That is how the Tea Party would be either “deleted” from the solution, or assimilated into the problem.

Do you think the Tea Party has a lot of Republican friends? Our YouTuber above claims to be a “right-leaning Independent”.

The going may get tough. The Left is counting on it. They will try to force us into either accepting socialism, or making the most politically incorrect statements imaginable, such as defending anti-black racism or killing an untouchable sacred cow that keeps someone’s mother alive.

Don’t be a vegetarian. Slaughter that cow, roast it, have it for lunch, and save me a piece.

“Yes, I fully support the right of all private business to serve or refuse to serve anyone they choose, for any reason they choose, so long as they commit no force or fraud in implementing their choice. If a black-owned diner doesn’t want to serve me because I’m white, that is their right of “free association”, which is covered under their First Amendment right of peaceable assembly. Let them advertise their standards up front. I want to know if they hate me before I eat what they bring.”

“Yes, I fully support ending the immoral and insolvent Social Security ponzi scheme. Money promised to those who have paid in will still be repaid as promised, but no new promises will be made. The final act of that ponzi scheme will be dissolve itself once those last debts are paid. The market can take over in the meantime as it sees fit – and it will. Social Security is retirement insurance, and capitalists love to sell you every bit of insurance they can.”

“Yes, I fully support ending all forced contributions to the health-care of other people. Your need does not give you the right to rob me any more than my need gives me the right to rob you. Coverage already promised to specific people will be given AS promised, but no new promises will be made. The market can take over in the meantime as it sees fit – and it will. Medical professionals go into medicine precisely because they want to heal people, as opposed to all the other equally-paying things they have the brains to do. Keep them honest by keeping them accountable to the market.”

We must stand up for our unalienable rights even when the going gets tough. The enemies of freedom will do all they can to ensure that it is tough. Defy them. A free people must always defy tyrants. The one we don’t defy is the one who enslaves us.

And if we renounce our unalienable rights even once, we fail to defy. Rights are unalienable or they are not. No middle-ground is possible. So if we agree to any socialist scheme, we agree to all of them.

Which is how we got to The Obama Years.

Of course right now most of the Tea Party is still learning about fundamental principles of freedom, so there will inevitably be ignorant concessions to things that must not be conceded to. So just say “my bad”, and backpedal them.

For the first time in many decades – if not since our Founding – the new trend is toward freedom, toward reclaiming our place as unalienably righted free individual Americans.

Welcome to the revolution. Fight righteously. Make the enemies of freedom compromise to its defenders. Make them compromise time and time again, until none of them are in positions of influence, and all of them are shamed into silence.

I now return you to the fire pit. Koran to ashes, sharia to dust.


What the new congress can – and cannot do – about ObamaCare

by Mojambo ( 292 Comments › )
Filed under Health Care at November 7th, 2010 - 5:30 pm

Delay, delay, delay (hold hearings, subpoena administration officials), try to defund it and let’s get Obama the hell out of there in 2012 is our best bet. Here the loss of Senate seats we should have won comes into play.  Harry Reid is still the majority leader and he will never schedule hearings on repeal of Hellcare.  Had we taken the Senate (yes even if it meant “just counting heads” and those three seats in Nevada, Colrado and Delaware would have helped), we would have been able to have public hearings in which the nation could have seen and heard of the corrosive effects of this bill.

by Michael Tanner

In the first hours after Republicans reclaimed the House, the presumptive new speaker, John Boehner (R-Ohio), made clear his plans for the health care bill passed last March: “We must do everything we can to try to repeal this bill and replace it with common sense reforms to bring down the cost of health care.”

Voters made themselves abundantly clear on Tuesday — Democrats who supported the health care bill lost in droves. Eight Democrats in the House, including New York’s Scott Murphy, switched from opposing the bill on early votes to supporting it for final passage. Six sought re-election; five, including Murphy, lost. Arizona and Oklahoma passed ballot measures opposing the law’s individual mandate, and Colorado voters fell just short of doing likewise. Missouri voters had already done so earlier this year.

Election night exit polls showed that at least half of voters wanted to repeal the bill. While that is an almost unprecedented level of opposition for a major entitlement expansion, it may actually understate the anti-ObamaCare sentiment because exit polls tend to tilt Democratic. A better measure might be an election night Rasmussen telephone poll that found 59% of voters in favor of repeal. Another post-election survey found that 45% saw their vote as a specific message of opposition to the health care bill.

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But that is as far as repeal is likely to go. The Democrats remain in control of the Senate, and Harry Reid, returning in triumph, is unlikely to even schedule a vote.

Repealing ObamaCare is just not going to happen while Obama is in office.

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In addition, President Obama’s recess appointment of British-style rationing fan Donald Berwick as head of the Medicare and Medicaid systems expires with the new Congress. If Obama reappoints him, Republicans should use his hearings to explore how ObamaCare threatens the quality of American health care and access to it.

Next, Republicans should seek repeal of those parts of the new law that are unpopular with Democrats as well as Republicans. There are a lot of Democratic senators up for re-election in 2012 who represent states Republicans swept this year. They may not be willing to go all the way to repealing the law, but they may still be anxious to show that they got the voters’ message and are willing to work with Republicans to “fix it.”

For example, Democratic senators like North Dakota’s Kent Conrad have expressed concerns that the law’s new long-term care entitlement is “a fiscal time bomb.” Several Democrats have indicated a willingness to repeal the law’s requirement that even small businesses file a 1099 tax form for every vendor that they do $600 worth of business with. Even President Obama has indicated a willingness to revisit this provision.

ObamaCare would all but wipe out the popular Medicare Advantage program. With seniors having voted heavily against Democrats on Tuesday, there may be bipartisan support for revisiting cuts to that program. Congress could also look to repeal restrictions on popular options like Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts.

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Finally, Republicans in the House now control the power of the purse. They should refuse to fund implementation of the bill. For example, the IRS says it will need to hire as many as 13,500 additional IRS agents to administer the law’s unpopular individual mandate. Congress should refuse to appropriate the money to do so. All sorts of provisions could be subject to defunding. Theoretically, the House could go so far as to forbid HHS officials from spending any time working on any aspect of the law.

Cutting off funding risks having the Democrats shut down the government in an attempt to put public pressure on the Republicans to pass a budget with the health care funding that the president wants. President Clinton used this tactic successfully against the Republican Congress in 1996. But the public, as shown by this election, is in a very different mood now. And Obama is no Bill Clinton.

Of course, the real battle over ObamaCare will be fought two years from now in the 2012 presidential elections. But there is still a lot to be done between now and then.

Read the rest: What Republicans can – or can’t do – about Obamacare

Gassing Up Unit 1

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 121 Comments › )
Filed under Cars & Trucks, Environmentalism, Health Care, Humor, Open thread, Technology at October 17th, 2010 - 10:00 pm


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Combining the benefits of recycling with efficient cost management provides a way to keep healthcare within the reach of many who could not previously afford it. With modern technology, this vehicle has been modified to run on bullshit, liquified and pumped into a methane collector, to get an amazing 74 mpg between fill ups every mile and a half. Is this a great country or what?

Speaking of bullshit, let’s see how much we can pitch on this Overnight Open Thread.