It’s good to be a fascist …
This week the reality of the ObamaCare roll-out appeared in a set of news stories that serve as an ironic juxtaposition. Over 500,000 individuals have seen their insurance policies cancelled in just 3 states. In all 50 states, only 476,000 applications have been “filed” in an exchange. (Even though we are still learning the true definition of “filed.”)
First from Anna Gorman and Julie Appleby at Kaiser Health News: Thousands get health insurance cancellation notices
Florida Blue, for example, is terminating about 300,000 policies, about 80 percent of its individual policies in the state. Kaiser Permanente in California has sent notices to 160,000 people – about half of its individual business in the state. Insurer Highmark in Pittsburgh is dropping about 20 percent of its individual market customers, while Independence Blue Cross, the major insurer in Philadelphia, is dropping about 45 percent.
That is far north of half a million lives dropped due to new ObamaCare regulations in just 3 states. That doesn’t even include recent reports in North Carolina of Blue Cross planning to cancel a sizable portion of their plans, or carriers doing the same in Illinois or Nebraska.
So while the Obama administration is claiming 476,000 “applications” for insurance, it is as much a lie as “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.”
Therefore the 476,000 number is misleading. My best guess is that for the 17 states that have reported out some data, the number is closer to 193,818 applications (once you pull out the Medicaid applications that have been reported on). Of course, this number is also still too high as it is compromised by the jointly reported data.
What becomes clear, is that the federal exchanges in 34 states are accounting for a single digit percentage of the accounts being filed.
#Winning!
Steve is gonna be here in a minute to tell us why this is a good thing.
So I’m just going to sit here and wait.
Cambyses to Cyrus: *** For example, if you wish to seem to be a good farmer when you are not, or a good rider, doctor, flute-player, or anything else that you are not, just think how many schemes you must invent to keep up your pretensions. And even if you should persuade any number of people to praise you, in order to give yourself a reputation, and if you should procure a fine outfit for each of your professions, you would soon be found to have practiced deception; and not long after, when you were giving an exhibition of your skill, you would be shown up and convicted, too, as an impostor. ***
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/obamacare-glitches-paper-phone-applications-98872.html
Paper and phone applications not working either (which I already knew — those have to be manually entered into the same broken system).
Poor Slaphead.
Steve is gonna be here in a minute to tell us why this is a good thing.
Any. Minute. Now.
Exeunt Omnes, chortling.
Why are you summoning the troll?
Shhhh. Be vewy vewy quiet…
He won’t show up in this thread. There’s no way to spin this.
And he won’t show up merely to admit that the system he has been bragging about is a failure, just like the guy who came up with the idea for no other reason than because he couldn’t think of anything else to say to a crowd of people talking about health care.
Vaporware, based on off-the-cuff remarks by a proven liar.
Meanwhile, TheClownDisaster goes out on stage with his (fainting) back-up chorus to sing and dance the praises of his signal achievement.
on the road again
Obama — and Washington — return to fundraising
Is he still planning on taking his expen$ive vacation to Hawaii this Christmas? The man has a heart of stone.
A very tiny stone.
– None of the lies being floated by the gestoppo mean shit because as we learned yesterday, the idiots have set up a system that can’t even confirm its own applications. Nada. As of now there is zero creditable info on a single application. They can’t be confirmed or even be shown to have been accurately entered, which will turn out to be yet another nightmare for anyone who has actually entered into the ObamaCareless™ circus.
– McCafee says hes never seen another instance of a system that does denial of service against itself. *snort*
– Hey Steve-dolt – give ‘er hell Brotha.
….In other “Progtardia is the new Black” news, apparently the good Rev is feeling a bit testy over the dressing down he got for being the most racial devisive black leader by several prominent Conservatives Pols this past week. Either that or he’s running out of play time money for his bevy of house ‘ho’s, because hes back at his old stand, the Upscale brand shakedown scam.
– Proving that not everyone in DC is insane and drunk on the Obama koolaide.
– “Yeah, but then again, every body in Or-ree-gone lives in a hemp farm commune anyway, so who gives a fuck.
Look, you ignernt wingers, those policies were CRAP, and so Teh Won has done them a huge favor.
Mandy said.
Mystery solved: Michelle Obama’s Princeton is executive at company that built Obamacare website
Or rather, “details of mystery filled in.” We knew the no-bid contract was a personal favor: we just didn’t know who the persons were.
Minor quibble: there are three women including Michelle shown at the top of the article. No caption. Which one is the classmate?
I’m sure the Sisters at the Sacred Heart Catholic Hospital (not the nurses, but the cloistered nuns) appreciate the thoughtfulness of TFG forcing them to pay for abortions…
I Am the State your God, and I Am a Jealous God.
Admiral Ackbar has a sad.
I have found the people of Ore-gone to have mossy brains. That includes a number of people I knew in high school who moved from sunny SoCal to soppy Portland.
I mean really, what other state has let a cult take over an entire town, even changing its name?
I mean really, what other state has let a cult take over an entire town, even changing its name?
See also “Hollywoodland Housing Project”
Aaaany minute now. just you wait and see.
– Aaaaany minute now…..Yeeessss-sir-reee-bob…..(whos bob?)
Bob’s your uncle! (Duh.)
All the Wrong People Are Getting Obamacare
“If I like your plan you can keep your plan!”
“If I like your plan you can keep your plan!”
As per usual, POTUS has pronoun problems.
He’s the reason the most common word in English is “I”.
(I should specify “spoken” English.)
hellomynameisclowardpiven
The policy is just on me. I am a 61 year old male with no health issues. I asked my agent, “Why is this policy not compliant with the ACA?”
Answer: “Your policy doesn’t include maternity care”.
CGI Federal
Every word and image on that website screams “Cronyism Central”
They were even in charge of $2 billion in Sandy relief: http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/26/company-behind-obamacare-website-in-charge-of-nearly-2-billion-in-sandy-relief/
ICYMI, Valerie “Rasputin” Jarret
Success wasn’t even a goal let alone an option. This was about enriching cronies first, an immense Fed power-grab, second.
the madison blonde
“NO BID CONTRACT: Michelle O’s Princeton classmate is executive at company that built Obamacare site…”
– 1st half – Ohio State 42, Penn state 7…..So much for a rated team testing OSU. Maybe they could have an NFL team play them.
– As long as number 5 stays healthy the only team thats going to beat OSU is OSU.
OU 38
TX Tech 30
Boomer!
Wait, what?
Let’s just see what percent of America is insured on March 31 2014 compared to March 31 2013.
If you wait long enough, hellomynameisprincesscamilla, I’m sure Prince Charles will marry you!
hellomynameisstupid sez just you wait, it will all be ok in 9 months, you’ll see. (when pigs fly out of his ass. Oh wait, nevermind, they already do.)
You’re betting against your masters, Steveinaz. Obamacare isn’t supposed to succeed, and if you fail to realize that, you are easily deceived. Rose-colored glasses alert, as is stylish with ObamaNirvana infatuants.
– Yes, yes, Ocare is so successful every fucking Demorat in Congress who’s up for reelection is on hands and knees begging for a delay.
Let’s just see what percent of America is insured on March 31 2014 compared to March 31 2013.
How many people have had their insurance cancelled since March? And how many people have been given insurance under ObamaCare?
I would ask you to divide the first into the second, but dividing seven-digit numbers by zero always causes errors.
– If you even try to answer the second question Steve-dolt you’re a liar from the git-go. No one, in particular the people who wrote that monstrosity. can answer that question. They can’t even answer it AFTER an application is completed. Its a 24 carat train wreck and it won’t get fixed. The Decieiver in chief is plowing forward with single payer which was always the plan. You and all your wilfully ignorant bretheren have been duped.
Let’s just see what percent of America is insured on March 31 2014 compared to March 31 2013.
dude you can’t be that stupid. you’re betting fed gov’t suckcess. hahahaha
I wonder how steveisnamemyhello would explain the percentage of Americans employed when Bumbles took office, versus (say) any point AT ALL during his time in office. Of course, he could always blame Bush, and show us evidence that he was blaming Bill Clinton for Bush’s economic troubles in ’05…
mynameissteve is an unemployed cobol programmer looking for work. or an idiot.
Well, I didn’t have medical insurance in March of this year and don’t expect to have it next year, either.
So that’s one in the “does not have” file.
Next!
– Since you have most likely been studiously avoiding any of the info coming from the hearing, heres a few factoids for you hemroids Steve-dolt:
* Not one of the six proof-of-concept prelaunch tests run, nor were any of the contractually required test and faliaure reports completed. Thats zero. Nada. What sort of idiots do that?
* They lack any means for confirmation of completed applications. That was by intent in case the whole thing was a mess, which it is.
* They lack any means for data checking before or after an application is completed. they can’t even confirm completion.
* The taxpayers paid for a browsable site. Browsing was turned off two weeks before launch by White house request to hide real costs from the public. So 625 million later to Moocheles buds and we got nothin’.
* No leading programmer thinks it can be fixed. They all say it has to be replaced top to bottom and it will take at least a year or more, not including full testing.
– Give it up Steve-dolt.
steve, what is it you do for a living again? $250000 is some healthy coin. Yet you want the taxpayers to take it on the chin for you, the Little Woman and the spawn.
I’m unclear why you think this is a good idea in a down jobs market.
Please advise.
He must be off looking for confirmation on your numbers/stats BBH.
Or combing his old posts to see what it is he claims he does for all that dough.
Sebelius is blaming the failure on the government shutdown, which was exactly the same day as the launch, and was nevertheless responsible for all the failures to test drive the software before launch date.
Republicans are magic!
– A few other observations from the hearings….
* Are there any “leads” in any enterprises that Obama’s gestoppo funds that are white. Talk about racism.
* The black “lead” on the website program had to be told by a congresswoman to stop trying to hide behind CMX to avoid answering questions. CMX is a FED operation and reports to Congress and the American people, therefor she and her company work for the tax payer. she obviously thinks she reports only to the fucking little tyrant king.
* she doesn’t know the names of any of the companies that worked for her writing the actual code, or how much she was paid. She cou;dn’t answer a single question concerning the contractual details. she has until 9 AM <Monday to have all of the answers on the Congresswomans desk.
– What a CYA pile of bullshit. When the backlash finally comes against all the theivery and graft in the Bumblefuck administration, his legacy is going to be the least of his problems. The White populace was concerned that a minority in the office would take advantage, but they had no idea just how bad it would be. When the tally up comes its not likely hiding behind constant bleats of "racism" is going to save his half black ass.
– 63 to 7 – OSU using the third string QB and offensive line.
“Let’s just see what percent of America is insured on March 31 2014 compared to March 31 2013”
Let’s just see what percent is insured on January 1, when their old insurance gets canceled.
That would include you, Slaphead, under the generous assumption you were telling the truth.
Oregon’s site is still down, innit?
The Feds can’t help you, either. Oh, you can call them, but they can’t actually do anything for you. They have to put information into the same broken system as everyone else.
You’re screwed, dude. Better figure out how to break it to the “little woman”.
Republicans are magic!
– Yeah, because 625+ million is just not enough to write a fucking website.
– But hey Steve-dolt, you should be feeling really smart and secure, especially smart, for placing the health of you and your family in the hands of the same people that were the architechs of the website.
– What could possibly go wrong.
Okay, now THAT was just rubbing salt in… LOL
salt seems to be an important component of a whitewash
I see the doltish leftist has been around for some more abuse.
Good call.
The obstruction call, that is. StL whups the Sox on an obstruction call.
“Intent does not matter in regards the obstruction call.”
One fact you all seem to be missing – you can buy insurance directly from the insurers. You don’t have to buy through any government site.
But those insurers have to know whether you qualify for subsidies as they are entering the information you give them into the website, which requires registration on a system that has already been hacked multiple times, before they can tell you how much your rates have gone up (because 61yo males looking for individual insurance need to pay for maternity care).
Fail, schlepple. Try again.
“One fact you all seem to be missing – you can buy insurance directly from the insurers.”
One fact you seem to be missing — the insurers aren’t going to be processing 7 million applications by hand between now and January 1.
That’s ignoring that you can’t get a subsidy if you do that or (if you’re using the federal system) even comparison shop.
Idiot.
The 2014 elections are going to be brutal.
I could buy insurance directly from insurers before Obama. I didn’t have to.
One fact you can’t argue is that health insurance companies are now very limited in what they can do under parameters set by Government Controllers (ObamaCare). Who is insured is the most important…the sickest are flocking to grab a subsidized insurance plan; the young and well must exist in numbers sufficient to ‘cover’ the former. That’s not the free market in action.
If one can buy coverage from any old insurer, then why are multiple millions being disgorged by insurers all across the USA? because Obama’s rules they must now abide under (aesthetics of Marxism) have set parameters they cannot now operate under.
Face it, steveinaz, this plan is seriously flawed, and by design. And will not succeed, as has been patiently demonstrated to you time and again, by people who aren’t wearing (Red-tinted) rose-colored glasses.
You know whose fault it is that Obamacare will never work? The people who always said it wouldn’t work.
It only works if everyone believes hard enough. Community Based Reality and also SCIENCE!!!
“Face it, steveinaz,”
Point of order: steveinaz is a different guy. He’s been complaining about people confusing him with Slaphead, so we should probably try to keep them straight.
hellomynameissteve says October 26, 2013 at 8:20 pm
Let’s just see what percent of America is insured on March 31 2014 compared to March 31 2013.
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You made it!
You mean by the ACA or overall?
Are you including the people on medicare and medicaid as well?
Because I predict that there will be more people on medicare and medicaid than will be served by the ACA.
Why, Steve, do you want to force people to not to act in their own interests?
“It only works if everyone believes hard enough.”
And we wouldn’t want Tinkerbell to die, certainly.
Here ya go ,Steve.
A market. Any market, is when two or more knowledgable people get together for the purposes of trade. Without any restrictions or coercion. The deal is made only when both parties walk away satisfied.
Now add a third party to regulate the seller. The seller is no longer interested in satisfying the buyer. They only have to satisfy the regulator. Prices and conditions will be altered to suit the regulator. Not the buyer.
When regulations are imposed to regulate the buyer two things happen. The buyer will seek to find an alternative source or simply not participate. Black markets ensue.
See where this is going?
The current healthcare fiasco is a rather imposing example of the above. Both buyer and seller are being regulated. Prices for insurance have increased. Since the healthcare industry only has to satisfy the government and the market is essentially closed to new players, the buyer it at the mercy of the regulators. No amount of buyers participating in the system will drive down the prices since they have no choice but to pay the price asked or risk a penalty. The price of premiums will only go up.Buyers will begin-if they haven’t already- to devise ways to opt out of the system to avoid any penalties.
Honestly.
What the hell did you think was going to happen?
Totalitarians believe that the market will behave how they want it to behave, but the market continues to behave exactly the way anyone who isn’t delusional knows it will behave.
None of the “unexpected” things that have happened as a result of Obamacare is a surprise.
heh. So totalitarians, like Oedipus, pluck out their eyes, but unlike Oedipus, they then exclaim “Holy Shit! Everything suddenly got dark! What’s up with that?”
Lib Cartoonist Ted Rall: ‘Truth Behind ACA Mess Is Obama and His Gang of Golfing Buddies Are Idiots’
Lose Ted Rall and you’ve lost . . . one more useful idiot.
yea but he is telling the koskooks that sarah palin was right
Via Sarah Palin: How Obama’s Idiotic ACA Might Lead to Real Healthcare Reform
by Ted Rall
he is telling the koskooks that sarah palin was right
Nope. He’s saying she was wrong.
I agree with sdferr, nr. Rall is saying that Single Payer isn’t the default of the failure of O’care.
I never thought I’d say this, but: From Sarah Palin’s lips to God’s ears.?
Read the piece again, nr.
So, newrouter, are you seriously suggesting that the thing supposed to traverse from Sarah Palin’s lips (Americans will get full-on government controlled socialized medicine) to God’s ears is the outcome Sarah Palin wants and will come to pass, if willy-nilly, according to Rall contra Palin, because ClownDisaster and co. are idiots, and therefore Rall is agreeing with Palin? Are you fucking nuts?
Please don’t give any ideas to hellomynameiswaitwhatwasmynameagain. He’ll start using Rall as a legitimate news source…
i think i’ll stick to armadillo sitings.
cranky-d says October 27, 2013 at 8:51 am
Totalitarians believe that the market will behave how they want it to behave, but the market continues to behave exactly the way anyone who isn’t delusional knows it will behave.
None of the “unexpected” things that have happened as a result of Obamacare is a surprise.
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Holy crap, cranky!!
Does that mean the Steve is the asshole he’s warned us about?
The Clown Disaster and his Obamarrhoids have always blamed their fuckups on those who tried to keep them from fucking up. It’s a progfascist thing.
Angelo Codevilla: The War on Us
I’m supposed to be working on a stupid obamacare project for work right now
we had a fraught conversation Friday about whether we would call it obamacare or the “Affordable Care Act”
We decided to do both… Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) – but I suspect this may have been a tentative decision and I won’t be surprised if there’s a further edit
but instead of working on the obamacares I’m drinking brandy and that chinese laxative tea instead
aiming for an early bedtime
someone just textered me so I’m a get up and walk over to my handheld mobile telecommunications device
I guess I’ll get up early to do the obamacares
or – comma – maybe I’ll just get up early and poop like a racehorse
same difference
Some commenter somewhere said “The left has formed an emotional attachment to ObamaCare,” and I wondered, sheesh, that hardly seems possible: imagine some leftist moron like Harry Reid treating one of his grandchildren that way, carefully tying the child down to a railroad track with a train coming on at full throttle. Hardly seems like an emotional attachment to me.
I think it’s the power they’re attached to, which in itself has nothing at all to do with ClownDisasterCare.
it was a healthcare related text
one of my friends said pika I am coughing up blood
I said how much
he said a lil
I asked him are you taking aspirin?
and he said yeah cause of my knee
I said ok stop doing that
This is what health care looks like now.
they have an emotional attachment to obamacare the same way they have an emotional attachment to squackering about fracking and pimping dead connecticut baby corpses
here is a funnie
A new set of post-shutdown polls, commissioned by MoveOn.org Political Action, show Democrats not only have an opportunity to take back the House of Representatives next year, but could win a sizable majority if voter anger over the shutdown carries into 2014.
WHEN I THINK ABOUT THAT GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN THING WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR AT SOME POINT TO WHERE PEOPLE WERE LIKE HAVING TROUBLE GETTING INTO PARKS I JUST GET SO FUCKING MAD
“LAST YEAR”?
Try “less than three weeks ago”.
No wonder you are so delusional.
when he veers into whining about video games it kind of undercuts his argument what he was so ably making
does he want the pigfascist american government to look into this heinous and troubling problem? If so he should up and say so. But better to let the kids play their video games and focus on for reals actual problems instead.
Mr. drumwaster you are not Thinking Critically but you know what that is ok it’s a brandy and poop tea kinda day
make sure wash your hands after handling obamacare.
Is attributing events that happened less than three weeks ago to “LAST YEAR” what you refer to as “Thinking Critically”? I ask merely for information…
i do not have the time or the patience for your impudence Mr. Drumwaster
hah just kidding I have gobs of time and patience
but is time to maybe watch some tv the winger blogs are tired today – no new posts either here or at Mr. P’s and at the Hot Airs over half the links up top are to Wapo Or NYT
that’s just lazy
lazy and sad
Yeah, I didn’t think so.
The ump calls self(Craig)-obstruction(Middlebrooks) running the basepaths to comprehension(score!): awards the run to “last year” on grounds of fictional imaginative license, looking backward.
oh drat it all to heck where is leigh to explain the obvious we have a full-blown apprehension crisis here people
ALL HANDS ON DECK
oh.
crisis abated
Thank you Mr. sdferr that was perfect
You could have just said “making shit up”. There was a reason I used the word “delusional”.
But what’s delusional is the Moveon.org conclusion, not hf’s satire of it.
if voter anger over the shutdown carries into 2014.
the peeps noticed it was partially shut down?
if voter anger over
the shutdownhaving to pay for that free healthcare carries into 2014 . . .That’s the Dem base, I’ma talking about, happy. The “Yea! Free shit!” crowd are now scratching their beards and saying “That ain’t right!”
If we can get someone to harpoon Christie and put a real good scare into Jeb Bush, we may have a chance.
hi you
yup
very quickly this obamacare shit is going to start laying claim to a LOT of resources your pelosibitches would’ve rather used more strategically
and the fat-ass united autoworker sluts? – even if they can’t read they’re still gonna figure out sooner rather than later about how when you jack up the health insurance premiums of the only people who can afford cars, they buy less of them is what they do
it’ll take your average united autoworker a bit of time to figure out all the implications here, but they’ll get there
I won’t hold my breath. You remember when the auto industry all but collapsed in the 80s? Those assembly liners had boats, lots of cars and trucks and a vacation home, but not a dime in the bank. A bunch of them are still sitting around in Flint whining about the good ole days. I can’t imagine that your average UAW member is any sharper today.
The torches and pitchforks will really come out when the choices of mister and ms. average is between paying the utilities, buying groceries and rent or paying insurance premiums.
i’m an optimist: i think algore’s superhighway will run over obamacare for the irony
now i’ll go back to armadillo sitings
Armadillo sitting? Is Jeff away? You better hide the liquor and your credit cards and car keys.
– The Conn. site went totally down today, which is an improvement since it won’t be transmitting false applicants medical data at least.
#Forward.
Better include any metal utensils from the kitchen drawers unless you just want to be threatened with them as you go and get the liquor and credit cards and car keys for that little panzer rat.
Say, Tanner got a crossbow and a Bowie knife for his half birthday, didn’t he? Better make sure the ‘dillo isn’t packing.
leigh
the uaw guys and gals are not in Flint bitching… they are out in Lapeer, having fled Flint, leaving it to the black nationalists.
Lions won though.
I wonder how many of the Detroit Lions pack a weapon in the center console for the ride home
Ah. Thanks, SteveG. I knew that many had fled, but couldn’t recall the names of the other towns.
I am shocked (and pleased) that the Lions beat the Cowgirls.
maybe sightings then
California obamacare is down today too
I spotted an armadillo the other day at the dump. He didn’t stop and flip me off, so I figure it wasn’t the ‘dillo. Just one of his cousins.
California obamacare is down today too
the emergency room is the key in this battle everything else can be done by others online
Sure, Mr. Low Information Voter. But that was just because Mr. Ted Cruz was trying to stop that Obamacare abomination that has laid waste to your family and community and Mr. Obama hurt to try and make you mad at Mr. Cruz. Don’t you think Mr. Cruz should be President and make the evil Obamacare stop now?
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there. Did they eat Michael Moore yet?
MM lives on the UWS of Manhattan.
That’s right, 2chins, the everyman is a 1%er. I’ll bet hellomynameisstupid knows him.
mikey lives in fattywood fyi
Will Mr. Low notice he’s been lied to about other stuff as well? Would it hurt Mr. Low to look up from his bowl of gruel every now and then?
He moved?
oh ben gazi gets the grrl. what difference does it make?
Hurting Mr. Low is one of the best ways to get him to look up from his bowl of gruel. Titties are another.
– Another major data center bites it, which in turn essentially stops any possible process at all at the web sites, so thats also an improvement.
– Speaking of Benghazi, has anyone seen the 60 minutes thing, and is it just another white wash for Bumblefuck and Hildebeast?
>what difference does it make< cont.
Sebelius finds a silver lining in Obamacare ‘data hub’
None of this can be true, BBH. Juan Williams assured us this morning on FNS that it would be up and running by the end of November. Of course, Cousin Juan fell and hit his haid back in the day and he’s a might teched now.
The following script is from “Benghazi” which aired on Oct. 27, 2013. The correspondent is Lara Logan
It’s nice to know what happened in Benghazi, but I want an explanation into what DIDN’T happen, i.e., why the President DIDN’T send help, why the SECSTATE DIDN’T keep the security at the consulate, etc.
60 Minutes confirms Benghazi is a real scandal, and you’ve been lied to
Those are questions that only the players in question can answer, Drum. Where exactly was Bumblefuck? What the hell was he doing? Who knows…except him?
60 Minutes: Benghazi Is Too Awful a Scandal to Cover Up
60 Minutes Benghazi Report: ‘Tough Thing to Understand’ Why No Military Rescue Attempt; Former Gitmo Detainee Planned Attack
Methinks the Park Service Gestapoage happened “last year” in much the same way that the Constitution was written “100 years ago,” except that even a hepatic hamster knows better and is being all ironical and shit.
Also, by the time of the 2014 election Mystery Shutdown Theater 3000 will be “last year.”
I don’t question the timing of the CBS report, but I do wonder about it, insofar as ClownDisaster’s favorability ratings are plummeting, and bingo, CBS decides to tell a story largely available to anyone concerned to find it three-quarters of a year ago.
“Some commenter somewhere said “The left has formed an emotional attachment to ObamaCare,” and I wondered, sheesh, that hardly seems possible”
You have to distinguish between the leaders and the followers. The leaders are after the power, as they always are. The followers don’t hear anything but “Great Obama gave free health care to all the starving chillun”, which belief they will continue to hold until it becomes utterly untenable, and a little longer. At that point the failure of the warm fuzzy free program will become the fault of the Republicans, or the Koch Brothers, or kulaks, or the friggin’ Tooth Fairy — whoever the leaders tell them to blame.
I’m pretty sure the yellow peril was creating a quote that would occur next year during the election season. I’m also pretty sure he was advancing the notion that it wouldn’t work. So, sarcasm.
And in other news, an illegal Chinese immigrant goes berserk in NYC and stabs a mom and her 4 kids to death.
Of course, this is merely a “local story”, and any observations on the fallout of instilling envy as a virtue in our society – since the ideal goal of everyone who isn’t us is to be a victim, and therefore blameless – will be pointedly ignored.
Oh, and noting that you can have mass-murders just peachy without any guns at all, well, that’s probably not helpful either.
Umm… these wouldn’t happen to be the same insurers who are cancelling policies right and left by any chance, would they?
(Late to the party, I know, but I haven’t seen anyone mention that in my skim of the comments.)
Because they were more concerned about a “Blackhawk Down” type disaster playing out in the media during the campaign than they were about saving the lives of Americans in Benghazi.
That’s the best case scenario.
Worst case, it seems to me, is that nobody could make a decision because making a decision meant owning the consequences.
Good thing there aren’t 80 (was it 80?) armored divisions parked in Eastern Europe today, huh? The Soviets would be washing their dirty sock in the English Channel before this gang could decide on the wording of their sharp letter of protest to the U.N.
You ain’t kidding.
It is the true war to them. They plan to win it, BAMN.
– It was the Chinaman in the apartment with a meat cleaver.
– The train wreck that just keeps on getting better.
What’s Working in the Marketplace: The Data Services Hub
Data center glitch is latest problem in ‘Obamacare’ rollout
The Launch of the Freedom Academy
ohellisstevemyname: “Let’s just see what percent of America is insured on March 31 2014 compared to March 31 2013.”
“One fact you all seem to be missing – you can buy insurance directly from the insurers. You don’t have to buy through any government site.”
Wow. That’s it?
Remember this? “If you like your current policy, you can keep it.” I don’t think there’s a memory hole big enough for the number of times “I’m A Better Speechwriter Than My Speechwriters” emitted that lie.
Doesn’t it bother you even a little that he lied and lied and lied to you, hellomynameisgullible?
hellomynameisrube might benefit from clicking here:
He needs to change his name to hellomynameispatsy.
My less than staunch senator, Dr. Tom Coburn, was on the news this morning trashing Ocare. And not strictly Ocare, but all of the waste in government medical programs.
He had numbers and everything. And he’s not running for re-election.
With a crisply creased pant-leg the triumphant utilitarian modern virtue the sucker necessarily goes along hand in hand, exhibiting the signal vice of our time. It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
Over at Taki Mag, Theodore Dalrymple has a piece about virtue and the modern acceptability of hating “the rich”.
He calls Socialism the anti-Semitism of the Intellectual set.
– Well, you have to admit that, like Al Qaeda, the Marxo-Socialists target and demonize the only group that has anything worth stealing.
Wait, what? abc
– That should give the Lefties and Progtardians a good case of the vapors.
Related to sdferr’s above.
Glimpses of sanity have become scary as all get out, if only because their rarity sets off the predominating lunatic landscape with such force.
I don’t think we’re Steves kind of people.
We ask too damn many questions.
I don’t see any reason to read Ted Rall telling us his recent realization of things that were pretty obvious near the start of Obama’s first term.
Even idiots learn that down is | thataways pretty freaking quickly.
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It isn’t the asking of questions, it’s that we actually listen to the answers with the intent of wanting to actually know what the answer was, not simply that an answer had been given.
“Let me be clear that no one is angrier than I am about {insert latest impeachment-worthy scandal}, and we will get to the bottom of this!” will be reported that the President and his staff is doing all they can do, and the ongoing lapse of actual action gets lost in the next impeachment-worthy scandal.
But since no follow-up questions are asked……………..
Drum, there is no reason to ask follow-up questions. After all, damnit, the President says he feels bad. What more do we want?
“Let me be clear that no one is angrier – that you found out about this – than I am about {insert latest impeachment-worthy scandal}, and we will get to the bottom of –who leaked – this.
The only thing that Obama isn’t more of than everyone else is responsible.
“Steve is gonna be here in a minute to tell us why this is a good thing. ”
No he’ll just accuse you of wanting the United States to end so you can shoot people like in that stupid movie that only idiots like with the racist white Wolverines or whatever using Russian guns to shoot Russian peacekeepers.
The sign on O’s desk reads: The buck dies here”
Buck is a racist slur. Typical. (One I’ve also never heard in “Live” use in 42 years.)
I’ve concluded that everything is racist, palaeo.
Embrace it, my palefaced brother.