Though not of course for politicians and their staffers, nor for Obama’s chosen cronies. Some pigs being more equal than others. So you may as well get used to bending over and taking it, subjects:
Declaring that the “Affordable Care Act is here to stay,” President Obama on Thursday urged Americans to ignore Republican misgivings about his signature legislative achievement just five days before the launch of open enrollment in Obamacare.
Unable to shake persistent wariness of his health care reforms, the president insisted that Americans would warm to the new health law once they understand how it works.
“Go check it out for yourself; make up your own mind,” the president said in Largo, Md., just miles from the White House.
Obama added that Republicans weren’t worried that his health care overhaul would fail, but that it would actually work.
Yes, of course. Because we mouthbreathers — unlike the post-partisan Obama — care only about politics. The fact that study after study, along with real-world reactions to the law that we’re already seeing, give lie to the President’s suggestion that we’ll learn to love our new subjecthood, is an inconvenient truth that can be glossed over and bracketed by the promise of more lofty, flowery Utopian rhetoric of the upopular law’s future successes.
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Over the next six months, the administration will look to convince the uninsured to sign up for the most comprehensive overhaul to the health care system since Medicare was created in 1965.
To hear Obama tell it, beginning next week, Americans will easily be able to shop for competitive health plans.
Republicans counter that the federal government and states aren’t prepared to facilitate the massive network of exchanges. The administration already delayed the mandate that employers provide their workers with health insurance or pay a fine, GOP leaders point out.
Obama on Thursday looked to frame his appeal in personal terms, telling the friendly Maryland audience about a family trip to the hospital when he was just a young father.
“We were fortunate enough to have good health insurance,” Obama said. “I remember looking around the emergency room and thinking, ‘what about the parents that aren’t that lucky?’”
As Obama championed his health care reforms, congressional Republicans moved ahead with a plan that would link an increase in the nation’s debt ceiling with a one-year delay in Obamacare.
And Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., came out in support of delaying the individual mandate, giving Republicans ammunition in their anti-Obamacare crusade.
The president reiterated on Thursday that he would not negotiate around increasing the nation’s borrowing capacity, saying it would be irresponsible for Republicans to risk default and another downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.
The biggest question Obama has to answer for skeptical observers is whether the costs of their health plans would skyrocket under the federal blueprint.
A new Bloomberg poll released late Wednesday found that 60 percent of respondents believe Obamacare will increase medical-care costs. One in three Americans said they would be worse off than they were before the law was implemented.
The president argued that such fears are overblown.
“Think about it, good health insurance for the price of your cellphone bill,” Obama said in an appeal to younger Americans.
For Obamacare to succeed, younger, healthier people must enroll or premiums will soar for older, sicker Americans.
However, Republicans on Thursday were unmoved by the president’s latest health care sales pitch.
“It must be frustrating for the president that folks seem to keep tuning out all the happy talk anyway,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said. “Well, it’s not hard to see, frankly, why Americans aren’t buying the spin.”
And yet you’re ready to give the Democrats and up or down vote — with the defunding provision stripped out and no allowance for amendments — as part of your “fight” against Obamacare’s implementation, right Senator McConnell?
We already know the President is a petulant, imperial, true-believer in Marxist wealth redistribution and unbridled centralized power. So we’ve long ago tuned out his happy talk.
It’s the “spin” that you and your establishment GOP old boy’s club is trying to pass off — you’ll vote against ObamaCare once you’ve assured its passage by Democrats in the House, so that you can gain politically from it when it crushes the American people (but not you, conveniently!) — that we aren’t buying.
We want protection from the bad law. We don’t exist to help you out in the political long game. Real lives of real constituents are going to be ruined. You can stop it. But you won’t.
So don’t piss on our heads and tell us it’s the Democrats who are claiming it’s but a cleansing rain.
Well, that is a very comforting statement given that virtually everything he says is bullshit.
Insty linked to a piece by Megan McArdle which concerns itself only with the IT problems in the implementation of exchanges for Obamacare, while assuming that implementing it is a good thing and that the exchanges are what passing the law was about.
Insty also highlighted one comment from the article which delves deeper than the IT mess into how things got this way and that the Obamacare “cure” is simply the disease itself turned up to 11. That is true but also doesn’t go to the heart of what Obamacare is about.
Obamacare is designed to fail in the private sector and devolve into single payer government run heathcare for all. This is the creation of an America that is a “water empire,” one where the “water” is your ability to get the services of a doctor/nurse/hospital when the inevitable time comes that you are sick/injured.
The USSR was a “water empire” where the “water” was jobs. No one could work a job without government approval. Without that approval your survival would consume your entire miserable existence and was a punishment meted out called “internal exile.”
With complete control over the healthcare system our own government will then have in its hands a similar power of life and death that can be used not through the legal system but administratively. Punishment and reward can then be done at whim and submission to the will of those running the system will be a matter of life and death for you and your loved ones.
Guess who just learned he gets shitty coverage for twice the premium, twice the out-of-pockets and has to find a new doctor? <—-This guy!
my cellphone bill is stupid fucking exorbitant I think
Heh, right.
“Think about it, good health insurance for the price of your cellphone bill,” Obama said in an appeal to younger Americans. –
Good luck with that, Obummer. Young adults can’t afford their cell phone bills either.
Of course, Obama thought he could buy four apples for a dollar from a vendor.
Who’s out of touch?
I can’t wait until he enlists the glitterati to start pimping for healthcare purchases. Lady Gaga perhaps? Katy Perry?
“Think about it, good health insurance for the price of your cellphone bill,” Obama said in an appeal to younger Americans.
See, all you need to do is give up something you use every fucking minute of every fucking day, and in exchange you’ll get something that you’ll never use at all. But hey, at least you’ll be subsidizing your grandparents, so that you can keep providing them free tech support for years to come!
Window into the minds of liberals, for you guys. The bad parts of Obamacare? The parts that cause it to suck?
That’s the fault of the Republicans – The democrats modified the plan to get it through.
Yes, I heard this last night. I was honestly too shocked to respond. Then I realized the liberal I was talking to was too far gone to bother.
If only the stupid conservatives had just let them go full-blown socialist. It would work wonderfully.
Kids have $600+ phone bills every month? WTFF?
What kind of insanity is this? Not one Republican voted for it! Was this fool you were talking to an MSNBC viewer?
from the McArdle piece I linked above.
It’s always not their fault when their schemes turn out to be a clusterfuck.
Which is why no Republican voted for the bill? That’s seriously brain dead thinking. Like zombie brain dead.
Stay away from low information voters. They want to eat your brains!
They modified the plan to get it through the Senate on Democrat votes alone using reconciliation.
Stay away from low information voters. They want to eat your brains! –
Yes … but, he gave me a bunch of perennials from his garden today. I am ideologically pure, but I can co-mingle for garden shit.
They modified the plan to get it through the Senate on Democrat votes alone using reconciliation. –
Sorry, but they HAVE to find a way to blame Republicans for this.
And – hopefully – Bush.
First Charles Grassley and now Jeff Sessions are talking MATH on the Senate floor.
It doesn’t add up, they say! It’s a lie, they say!
Dick Durbin awaits his turn to say “Nuh UH!”
Obama: “We’re Now Only Five Days Away From Finishing The Job”
lunatic speaks
Pelosi on the Debt Limit: Obama Has the Power!
Oh, his “signature legislation” will live on, all right — just like the SCOTUS ruling that history has declared to be Roger Taney’s “signature jurisprudence.”
Nothing says either had to remain in force, however. Brezhnev and his doctrine found that out.
Cruz vs. McConnell and Why it Matters
By: Matt Bevin
Note from Erick: Matt Bevin is a candidate for the United States Senate, challenging Mitch McConnell in the Kentucky primary.
Cruz on w/ Levin, live right now.
Senior Obama Adviser Compares House Republicans To Terrorists, Kidnappers, And Arsonists
I seem to recall hearing about a particularly heated election, as to whether or not “the law of the land” should stand, with heated arguments dividing the States along party lines, and the party opposing the Democrats being fractured and divided. The issue then was whether people would be forced to give their labors to others at the point of a gun, or whether all men could be free.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1856
We ended up killing each other over the issue.
Just as I expect will happen in this instance, because when the welfare checks stop coming, those “inner-city youths” will remember that the suburbs have both money and food. What they won’t remember is that the suburbs are also likely to have guns.
Then things get worse.
Then things get worse.
– But later, when a bunch of the entitled insanity motherfuckers are dead things get better in a hurry.
“…this is known as bad luck.”
They’re making a list,
Not checking it twice,
Let us know who’s low info, not nice,
OFA says, your another brick in their wall.
You’re, dammit.
nah “your “works for the statist
and even less do we have a political conception
to help us bring things back under human control. We look on
helplessly as that coldly functioning machine we have created
inevitably engulfs us, tearing us away from our natural affiliations
(for instance from our habitat in the widest sense of that word,
including our habitat in the biosphere) just as it removes us from the
experience of ‘being’ and casts us into the world of ‘existences’.
havel et al
Pink Floyd – Welcome to the Machine
Our greengrocer’s attempt to live within the truth may be confined
to not doing certain things. He decides not to put flags in his window
when his only motive for putting them there in the first place would
have been to avoid being reported by the house warden; he does not
vote in elections that he considers false; he does not hide his opinions
from his superiors. In other words, he may go no further than
‘merely’ refusing to comply with certain demands made on him by
the system (which of course is not an insignificant step to take). This
may, however, grow into something more. The greengrocer may
begin to do something concrete, something that goes beyond an
immediately personal self-defensive reaction against manipulation,
something that will manifest his new-found sense of higher responsibility.
He may, for example, organize his fellow greengrocers to
act together in defence of their interests. He may write letters to
various institutions, drawing their attention to instances of disorder
and injustice around him. He may seek out unofficial literature,
copy it and lend it to his friends.
havel et al
ted cruz as greengrocer. i need a falafel or a little debbie. chop chop.
OT:
Religion of Pieces (of humans).
Doesn’t seem to be reported in US media yet. Only UK.
Heck, type Kenya into Google news and the mall terror doesn’t even make the drop down list that I saw.
>Most of the defeated terrorists, meanwhile, were reportedly discovered ‘burnt to ashes’, set alight by the last extremist standing to try to protect their identities.<
go baracky
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