Posts Tagged ‘ObamaCare’

LinkSwarm for November 27, 2013

Wednesday, November 27th, 2013

I’m guessing a lot of people will be traveling or furiously cleaning their house today, so here’s a small pre-Thanksgiving LinkSwarm for the distracted:

  • Dear America: In case you didn’t notice in the ObamaCare meltdown, the economy is still screwed.
  • Current estimate for people losing their employer health insurance thanks to ObamaCare: 80 million.
  • Abbott Labs CEO: ObamaCare provides “clear incentives for companies to drop their health care plans and move people onto the exchanges.”
  • Noted right-wing white supremacists Al Sharpton and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter say the Knockout Game is real. (Hat tip Jammie Wearing Fool.
  • Israel is not the only country upset over Obama and Kerry’s Iranian cave-in; the Saudis are pissed, too.
  • The pro-Amnesty lobby thinks they can punish politicians for agreeing with the will of American voters. Fuzzy, feel-good “immigration reform” polls well right up until voters realize what they’ll actually get is illegal alien amnesty.
  • Leander ISD is bankrupting its children.
  • LinkSwarm for November 25, 2013

    Monday, November 25th, 2013

    This was supposed to go up Friday, but Stuff and Things interfered once again.

    Obama’s “deal” with Iran drops sanctions and lets them enrich uranium to their heart’s content. I guess Obama needs the Iran agreement as a disastrous fake achievement to distract from ObamaCare, his last disastrous fake achievement. I haven’t read all the details, so I can’t tell if it’s Madeleine Albright bad, or Neville Chamberlain bad, but it doesn’t appear to address Iran’s continued support of Assad, Hezbollah, or their other terrorist activities. Still to be decided: whether Obama personally plants the knife in Benjamin Netanyahu’s back, or has aide do it. (If Hillary Clinton wanted to put distance between herself and the Obama Administration, now would be a great time to denounce the Iran deal.)

  • Mother forced into Medicaid. “There was just one option—at the very affordable monthly rate of zero. The exchange had determined that my mother was not eligible to choose to pay for a plan, and so she was slated immediately for Medicaid.”
  • The real rationale behind ObamaCare was the redistribution of wealth. “The redistribution of wealth has always been a central feature of [ObamaCare].”
  • “Insurance is complex to buy”? Really, Mr. President? I’m pretty sure Forest Gump could have figured that out in less than 3 years…
  • The real reason behind Obama’s laughable deal with Iran is to shore up his shrinking liberal base, the only group that still supports him after the ObamaCare debacle.
  • John Bolton calls the deal “abject surrender”.
  • End result of the Iran deal? “War has now become a much more likely prospect.”
  • Given all that, Harry Reid nuking the Senate’s filibuster gets pushed further down the Stack of Perfidy. What it tells us is that Democrats believe they’re going to lose the Senate. “They think it’s very likely that they will lose their Senate majority in 2014. They are essentially writing off the last two years of Obama’s presidency, which means getting as much done as possible right now. They are going to spend the next year packing as many liberal justices and appointees onto the courts and various bureaucracies as they can.”
  • Democratic Rep mugged in DC. Does this mean she’ll turn Republican? (Hat tip: Ace of Spades.)
  • 16 things people couldn’t believe about America until moving here. (Hat tip: Michael Totten.)
  • I wonder how John Carter feels about being labeled part of “the House’s own pro-amnesty gang”?
  • Related: How Amnesty dies: Part 1, Part 2.
  • Syrian Kurds declare autonomy.
  • Crystal Mangum, the central accuser in the Duke Lacrosse “rape” case (which wasn’t) has been convicted of murder. Somehow I managed to miss Nancy Grace’s wall-to-wall coverage of her trial…
  • California to People Losing Their Policies: Drop Dead

    Thursday, November 21st, 2013

    California rejects Obama’s ObamaCare “fix” of extending non-compliant policies:

    Also includes Charles Krauthammer (yet again) bringng the smackdown. “It was a fraud and a sham from the very beginning.”

    ObamaCare LinkSwarm for November 19, 2013

    Tuesday, November 19th, 2013

    I actually forgot to add a bunch of ObamaCare links to yesterday’s LinkSwarm, so here they are along with some of newer vintage. Every day, the disaster get’s worse for Democrats (and the nation). It’s like a Hindenburg that never stops exploding.

  • More now think Obama bungled ObamaCare (63%) than now think Bush bungled Iraq (44%), or even at the Iraq war’s nadir of unpopularity (57%)
  • Why ObamaCare is on life-support.
  • How unpopular is #ObamaCare? Try “Fugitive Slave Act in Boston in 1858” unpopular.
  • Speaking of unpopular, Obama’s ratings are off the chart bad. (Hat tip: Moe Lane.)
  • It took Obama to turn the American public libertarian. “Majority in U.S. Say Healthcare Not Gov’t Responsibility”.
  • Ace explains the difference between the Upton and Landrieu bills.
  • D.C. insurance commissioner fired 24 hours after questioning ObamaCare “fix.” (Also via Ace.)
  • The New Republic develops a case of the vapors over ObamaCare dooming big government.
  • Does Obama’s latest “ObamaCare means what I say it means” open him up for a Supreme Court challenge?
  • Number of successful #ObamaCare enrollees in NC: 1. Wait, they haven’t paid yet. 0.
  • Not even Obama is saying the ObamaCare website will be fixed by the December 1st deadline. Now it will be “improved”. I guess they’re changing the clip-art…
  • LinkSwarm for November 18, 2013

    Monday, November 18th, 2013

    Some links to start your week with, ObamaCare still looming as topic one:

  • Chao before Congress: ObamaCare is hunky dory! Chao in internal memo the day before: we are so farked!
  • Over four million Americans have their policies cancelled thanks to ObamaCare.
  • Less than 50,000 sign up for ObamaCare.
  • One of the Democratic Senators running as hard as she can away from ObamaCare is Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu. Too bad she already embraced 100% accountability for it.
  • Race-baiting provided a shield that allowed Obama to fail.
  • And remember that calling Obama’s critics racist was a deliberate strategy by MSM members wanting to boost and protect Obama.
  • Don’t expect Obama to bounce back.
  • So is Politico actually covering the dysfunction within the Obama cabinet, or are they trying to shield a favorite from the stink of failure engulfing same?
  • A look back at Communist genocide in Ukraine.
  • Fitch gives Chicago bonds three steps, yes they gave them a three step cut toward the floor.
  • Michael Totten: “The case for walking away from Egypt and dusting our hands off is sound.”
  • Antisemitism getting worse in Europe says notorious Zionist shill, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.
  • Islamists in Nigeria doing what they do best: murder children.
  • Sex crime investigator arrested for sex crime with a minor. That’s really cutting out the middleman…
  • How the holy hell can Amtrack lose one BILLION dollars on food service? You could feed Ethiopia on that!
  • Dwight has an EarthQuest update.
  • Julian Castro to force streetcars down the throats of San Antonians despite votes against them.
  • Another super-genus criminal. Just click the link and look at the pics.
  • Meet the New Obama Navigators: Same As the Old ACORN

    Friday, November 15th, 2013

    James O’Keefe is exposing the “ObamaCare Navigators” the same way he exposed ACORN. Indeed, I strongly suspect they;’re the same people.

    And both those videos were filmed in Texas.

    Once again, both the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party seem remarkably comfortable aiding and abetting the willful defrauding of the American taxpayer. Just as they were for the Pigford scandal:

    It’s obvious that more than just ObamaCare needs to be repealed…

    Another Roundup of the ObamaCare Festival of Fail

    Thursday, November 14th, 2013

    I keep trying to cover other things, and ObamaCare keeps being such a wondrous disaster for Democrats (and the nation) that I keep getting more than enough links of interest to keep throwingthem up here.

  • You need to read this Jonah Goldberg piece on the schadenfreude of watching ObamaCare fail all the way through. It’s one of those “I can’t start quoting or I’ll have to quote all of it” pieces.
  • The 17 Lies of Obama’s ObamaCare address.
  • “Obama’s Health Care Press Conference Gets Trashed In The Media.” (Via Ace of SpadesHQ.) When you’ve lost the media…
  • Also via Ace: “Obamacare plans will cost MORE ‘in many cases’ even with government subsidies, officials admit for the first time.”
  • This is wondrous on a number of levels:

    When you’ve lost Howard Dean…

  • House Dems “about to go crazy” over how badly they’re getting beaten up on ObamaCare.
  • So why are the blocking Republican attempts to fix the problem? Don’t answer that: They don’t want to fix the problem. Forcing people with insurance to pay for those who don’t isn’t a bug to them, it’s a feature. They just don’t want to get blamed for it.
  • ObamaCare is splitting an American political party, but it’s not Republicans.
  • Remember how the shutdown was going to destroy Republican chances for all time? Yeah, not so much.
  • Ted Cruz on Fox News:

    Obama’s promise that if you liked your health care, you could keep it “was willfully, knowingly false.”

  • Abbott Comes Out For Stronger Privacy Laws, Open Carry, Property Rights to Your Own DNA

    Tuesday, November 12th, 2013

    Texas Attorney General and 2014 Gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott unveiled a number of “We the People” policy initiatives last night at the Northeast Tarrant Tea Party geared toward strengthening the rights of individuals against the power of the state. I was on a teleconference with Abbott Sunday in which he previewed the policies to bloggers with the caveat we’d wait until after the speech to talk about them.

    The in-depth document is here.

    Taken individually, some may seem like welcome, small-ball approaches to protecting individuals from various avenues of government overreach. Taken together, they constitute an interesting, possibly far-reaching template for guaranteeing individual rights, and give Abbott a serious claim to being not only a small government conservative, but one favoring individual rights over the convenience of big business as well.

    The brief overview of Abbott’s proposals:

    1. Recognize a property right in one’s own DNA.
    2. Make state agencies, before selling database information, acquire the consent of any individual whose data is to be released.
    3. Prohibit data resale and anonymous purchasing by third parties.
    4. Prohibit the use of cross-referencing techniques to identify individuals whose data is used as a larger set of information in an online database.
    5. Require disclosure by all legislators, statewide elected officials, and gubernatorial appointees of any contract, subcontract, or paid relationship with a public entity, including the state and political subdivisions, held by those individuals or their spouses. Violation of this requirement would be a Class A Misdemeanor.
    6. Prohibit legislators from voting on legislation from which they may financially benefit by closing loopholes in the Texas Government Code, and providing options for both criminal and civil suit to ensure the enforcement of these provisions.
    7. Prohibit the use of tax dollars for the purpose of engaging a registered lobbyist to lobby on the behalf of a school district or the board or association thereof.
    8. Prohibit legislators and statewide elected officials who are licensed by the State Bar of Texas from earning referral fees or receiving any benefit from legal referral. Violation of this requirement would be a Class A Misdemeanor.
    9. Amend the Texas Election Code to require quarterly reporting of campaign financial data by legislators, statewide elected officials, and political action committees.
    10. Within the last 30 days before an election, impose a requirement that no funds received from a single person or entity above $5,000 may be expended by a campaign or political action committee until those funds have been reported to the Texas Ethics Commission and posted on the campaign or political action committee website.
    11. Allow voters in counties and municipalities the option to repeal red light camera ordinances and operations by voter-initiated referendum.
    12. Allow CHL holders to openly carry handguns.
    13. Allow CHL holders to carry weapons on campus at institutions of higher education, subject to appropriate limits, at the option of the boards of regents of public institutions of higher education, and the internal decision-making of private institutions of higher education.
    14. Texas should prohibit the state government from enacting a “healthcare exchange” under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

    15. Pass a state law providing that state resources shall not be expended and state personnel shall not be employed in enforcing or implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

    No Republican is going to object to the anti-ObamaCare plank.

    I predict that the red light camera plank will be profoundly popular across party lines.

    The Open Carry plank is a bold Second Amendment statement on Abbott’s part, considering he’s not facing any serious primary opposition. It might also lure Wendy Davis into pumping up the volume on her opposition to gun control, which will no doubt endear her to no Texas outside he far left-wing base.

    Abbott’s plank on property rights to your own DNA is the plank with the last immediate effect and possibly the most profound long-term consequences.

    This is just a few preliminary impressions. I want to give the document another going-over and contemplate the implications.

    LinkSwarm for November 8, 2013

    Friday, November 8th, 2013

    Time for another LinkSwarm, still top-heavy with ObamaCare failure news:

  • Have insurance through your employer? Don’t worry, ObamaCare will screw you as well.
  • “Can the Obama-loving media really bring itself to report that their Beloved is simply lying about every single aspect of his signature program?” Beyond a few iconoclasts like Sheryl Atkinson or Chris Wallace, I think we all know the answer to that one.
  • ObamaCare was bad enough to start out, but the Obama White House intentionally made it worse.
  • Short and no doubt woefully incomplete list of businesses that have already cut back hours and hiring due to ObamaCare.
  • ObamaCare demonstrates “timeless demonstration of the failure of central planning, government regulations, and the entitlement state. It is a failure so total, so comprehensive, and so multifaceted that it will be studied by schoolchildren 50 years from now when their teachers explain to them why the giant welfare and regulatory state built up in the second half of the 20th century collapsed in the first half of the 21st.”
  • Krauthammer on ObamaCare’s continued unpopularity: “And unless they stop the avalanche here, the Democrats are going to get buried in this.”
  • And now the ObamaCare website is dishing out gibberish?
  • A quarter million Coloradans have their health insurance ObamaCared.
  • I’m shocked, SHOCKED to find Chicago’s Democratic machine abusing bonds to paper over deficits.
  • Having Dana Milbank say that Obaama lives in a reality bubble is like the guy who just mugged you saying “Man, this is really a high crime neighborhood! You should watch out!”
  • Philadelphia man adds two more to the dead goblin count.
  • If you’re the son of the most famous Fascist* in British history, maybe it’s best not to participate in Nazi-themed S&M sex orgies.
  • Voters in Amarillo and Houston rejected spending money for sports complexes.
  • Another hammer drops on Prenda Law.
  • Things to make you furious: Cops killing puppies.
  • And speaking of dogs, I missed this from a week ago: Giant George, RIP.
  • Heh.

  • *Real Fascist, not just in the liberal name-calling sense.

    ObamaCare LinkSwarm for November 6, 2013

    Wednesday, November 6th, 2013

    I hadn’t been planning on doing another ObamaCare roundup one day after the previous one, but the tsunami of ObamaCare bad news just keeps flowing in, carrying the flotsam and jetsam of Obama’s many lies atop it.

  • ObamaCare numbers: Thousands enrolled, millions cancelled.
  • After two weeks of failure, Democrats are starting to sing a different tune on ObamaCare. (Via Instapundit.)
  • And ObvamaCare is hurting Democrats far more than the shutdown is hurting Republicans. Plus: Millennials are finally starting to wise up to how thoroughly they’ve been screwed.
  • The Obama Administration is intentionally playing games with the legal definition of “federal health care program” in order to prevent ObamaCare from being covered by laws that prevent bribes and kickbacks.
  • Obama’s attack machine hauls out the knives for a stage 4 cancer patient.
  • Another case of ObamaCare sticker shock: 315% premium increase, to $1,198.45 a month.
  • It’s federal mandate vs. state regulations for California ObamaCare cancellations.
  • Barack Obama is a lying little weasel:

  • “Millions are losing their health insurance policies directly because of the Affordable Care Act, and I am one of them.”