17 Replies to ““Carney: ‘I Would Absolutely Enroll’ in Obamacare; But He Won’t””

1. Jim says:

   September 27, 2013 at 3:19 pm

   I have less and less time to think:

   We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers. Our landholders, too, like theirs, retaining indeed the title and stewardship of estates called theirs, but held really in trust for the treasury, must wander, like theirs, in foreign countries, and be contented with penury, obscurity, exile, and the glory of the nation. This example reads to us the salutary lesson, that private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagance. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, and to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.

   -Thomas Jefferson

2. Blake says:

   September 27, 2013 at 3:36 pm

   60% of the public does not like Obamacare, yet, Progressives and Democrats are forcing the law down the throats of Americans. Americans have tried to air legitimate grievances, only to be ignored, shouted or shut down by government.

   Yet, Harkin has the nerve to blame the TEA Party for the coming civil war.

3. geoffb says:

   September 27, 2013 at 3:47 pm

   The man would eat worms, live ones on live TV if his boss told him to do it.

   I can’t think of any thing, however despicable or cruel that Carney wouldn’t do or say if orders came down from on high.

4. RI Red says:

   September 27, 2013 at 8:01 pm

   Maybe Harkin is finally getting the message. The question is, will they heed the warning or go full speed ahead?

5. LTC (ret) John says:

   September 27, 2013 at 9:09 pm

   Had I the means, I’d be spraying lawsuits at Congress – writs of mandamus against the Administration. All of the law, now – no waivers, unilateral extensions, etc. Own it, eat it.

   Maybe its just the shiraz talking…

6. BigBangHunter says:

   September 27, 2013 at 9:37 pm

   Obama said that “Iran’s supreme leader has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons, President Rouhani has indicated that Iran will never develop nuclear weapons.”

   – Rouhani, the Iranian Lucy with the football, and when it all turns on Bumblefuck the Left will find some way to blame it on the T-party.

   – This insanity will have to stop at some point. Unfortunately its going to end up costing a lot of lives before its over, just like it always has throughout history when the Socialists hold power.

7. geoffb says:

   September 27, 2013 at 10:07 pm

   In a newly revealed videotape of a pre-election interview, Iran’s new president bragged about deceiving the West over the Islamic regime’s illicit nuclear program and claimed credit for vastly expanding it.

   Hassan Rowhani, dubbed a “moderate and reformist” by worldwide media in June after his election, took the oath of office Sunday with the blessing of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

   However, the video shows Rowhani is anything but a moderate – one who not only is committed to the ideals and goals of the Islamic regime, but also who proudly boasted of his deceptions during his tenure as the regime’s nuclear negotiator starting in October 2003 in talks with France, Britain and Germany.

   Taqiyya then. Taqiyya now. Taqiyya always, forever and ever.

   But then they are lying to other liars who only pretend to believe so they can act as they all wish. Fool and rule the foolish. The rest are to all RIP.

8. geoffb says:

   September 27, 2013 at 10:37 pm

   OT: But maybe just future on topic.

   They’ve dipped in a little toe and sensed that the water temp. was agreeable so now a few more toes are lowered into the fetid swamp.

   Cyprus-Style Wealth Confiscation Is Starting All Over The World

   Paying for Obamacare, aka all the best followers that [your] money, lots and lots of it, can buy.

9. serr8d says:

   September 28, 2013 at 8:10 am

   Sorry if this was linked previously, but Mark Steyn brings insight…

   But out there beyond the islands of privilege most Americans don’t have the same comfortably padded margin for error, and they’re hunkering down. ObamaCare is something new in American life: the creation of a massive bureaucracy charged with downsizing you — to a world of fewer doctors, higher premiums, lousier care, more debt, fewer jobs, smaller houses, smaller cars, smaller, fewer, less; a world where worse is the new normal.

   Would Americans, hitherto the most buoyant and expansive of people, really consent to live such shrunken lives? If so, mid-20th century America and its assumptions of generational progress will be as lost to us as the Great Ziggurat of Ur was to 19th century Mesopotamian date farmers.

   George Orwell, after attending a meeting of impoverished but passive miners, remarked sadly that “there is no turbulence left in England.” The Democrats, and much of the Republican establishment, have made a bet that there is no turbulence left in America, and the citizenry will stand mute before ObamaCare’s wrecking ball. Unless they’re willing to accept a worse life for their children and grandchildren, middle-class Americans need to prove them wrong.

   Yes, Americans have been primed to accept whatever our Dear Leaders bring to the table, and Barack Obama is the chosen ‘savior’ who brings about our downsizing.

   BHO arrived at Occidental College in California, looked out across America, at our wealth and our ‘living large’ attitudes, and recalled his childhood in Indonesia, his mother’s and grandparent’s (and father’s?) incessant mind-numbing infusions that Marx-Commun-ism must be America’s future; then, his college years spent ‘maturing’ his beliefs and his hatred for ‘colonial’ Americanism, values and beliefs.

   Because he had VOICE and PRESENCE and COLOR, his path was strewn with rose petals by appreciative left-leaning Democrats, who needed just such a mouthpiece to carry their water.

   But even some of those what brung him must be looking out and wondering, ‘what have we done?’. Or at least I hope they are, because this swirling bowl’s gonna flush out everyone sooner than later. And we will all be ‘equal’ to the rest of the world; much diminished in stature, and wealth, and expectations.

   And Barack Hussein Obama will smile, smile, smile.

10. bour3 says:

    September 28, 2013 at 4:51 pm

    shiraz. I bet that means wine. Oh my goodness that is bee-you-tea-full.

    The lady queen never did say let them eat cake that is an unfortunate misquote but one that rings true and there you go it’s too perfect to let go rather like Bush saying the problem with France is it hasn’t a word for entrepreneur and Palin saying I can see Russia from my house.

    Did you ever get on Google Earth and go to Attu? It’s a logical thing to do, Attu is a “gimme” in crosswords, it can give you a wedge into a gnarly uncooperative corner, everybody wants to know what the place looks like. Surely. I’m imagining. My dad worked up there, not Attu, but one of those. Radar. Ruskies. Line of defense or perhaps line of notification. Told me all about it, and it sounds so interesting. Put him off salmon permanently.

11. McGehee says:

    September 28, 2013 at 5:24 pm

    I know that I could see Russia from Little Diomede, if I ever went to a Little Diomede.

12. McGehee says:

    September 28, 2013 at 5:25 pm

    And of course Little Diomede is in Alaska. And Sarah Palin could have a house there, if she wanted to.

13. geoffb says:

    September 28, 2013 at 5:31 pm

    recalled his childhood in Indonesia, his mother’s and grandparent’s (and father’s?)

    Mama dumped the Indonesian daddy because he was too free enterprise and corporate. Of course “daddy” Frank is another thing all together.

14. geoffb says:

    September 28, 2013 at 5:33 pm

    I never knew that Obamacare had its own anthem. Maybe someone can get Jay to sing it at the next presser.

15. Mueller says:

    September 28, 2013 at 6:47 pm

    . Else that civil war Tom Harkin is predicting (quick, somebody alert Brian Kiteley!) will most assuredly take place. – See more at: https://proteinwisdom.com/?p=51161#comments

    Not too soon , I’m putting new sights on my .45. After that it’s OK.

16. serr8d says:

    September 29, 2013 at 8:10 am

    OT, but a thoughtful read from Public Discourse on the new ‘Jargon of Authenticity’…

    In many ways, the jargon of authenticity is an affront to political friendship, as it demands that the other always capitulate to your claims, for not doing so is tantamount to harm. And since authenticity cannot be determined by any standards external to yourself, even though you require others to support you, appeals to standards such as religion, metaphysics, tradition, even reason, must be viewed as threats and denials of democratic equality, and thus unacceptable.

    This is the ideologically charged rhetorical situation in which we find ourselves. A situation in which the act of posting “=” is a blow for justice, but a nuanced, sophisticated, careful, and charitable public argument can be considered bigotry.

    Symbology over substance, indeed.

17. Mueller says:

    September 29, 2013 at 5:47 pm

    All done. Let the revolution commence!

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