Posted on 08/09/2013 11:00:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
It is painful to witness the expenditure of so much negative energy among people who all say they oppose the law. This law is so bad and so unpopular and its negative consequences so apparent that we would have to be complete incompetents not to be able to make this case to the American people, the majority of whom already agree.
Why not rip a page right out of President Obama's political playbook and go directly to the people? It obviously works for Obama, even though he doesn't have the facts or history on his side; there has never been such a radical disconnect between a president's miserable record and his approval ratings.
He's just doing what he's done all his adult life: agitating and community organizing. He's on a never-ending campaign, because that is all he knows. He knows nothing about governing and, truth be told, doesn't want to bother with it, provided he can order his subordinates to implement his big strokes.
This time, he's campaigning to resurrect and salvage the most atrocious policy albatross ever foisted on the free American people by an arrogant, out-of-touch federal government that has come to believe it has the right to force us to do whatever it believes is good for us, collectively, individuality and liberty be damned.
People register disgust and dismay at Obama's cynically self-degrading appearance on Jay Leno's show, but Obama's laughing all the way to the political bank -- again. He makes a mockery of the serious policies he pretended to discuss there and a greater mockery of the media by offering softball answers to softball questions from an entertainer while continuing to refuse to submit himself to any real exchange with the media in a bona fide news conference.
Can you believe this cabal of fawning mainstream media sycophants still willing to serve as Obama's doormats and his political cover?
But I digress.
Everyone, from Howard Dean to Max Baucus to Marco Rubio to John Boehner, knows this horrific law is a multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicle -- a nuclear ballistic missile with multiple warheads aimed at the American health care system, American liberties and America's fiscal integrity. Everyone knows this law cannot work, except to wreak havoc on everything and everyone it promises to improve.
Do you think that might be enough ammunition for the Republican Party to get its act together and call a cease-fire on one another and launch a united campaign with unprecedented focus and vigor to take out Obamacare's missile payload before it fully hits the U.S. mainland?
Are we children here, afraid of ghosts and goblins -- and our shadows? Are we so intimidated by this charlatan of a president that we lack the courage to stand up to him on an issue on which the public is on our side?
Why are so many on our side willing to throw in the towel and surrender on this law? Every day, Congress changes laws it purportedly made permanent the year before. It changes the tax laws as often as its members brush their teeth.
Or are they instead resigned to the fatalistic notion that our system has become so unworkable -- or that they are so politically impotent and lethargic -- that they prefer to roll over and accept the imposition of this nuclear nightmare and then wait to clean up the fallout after the bombs have dropped? Really?
We have the political equivalent of the Strategic Defense Initiative at our disposal because the American people are behind us, but we're going to stand down for fear that some people might think of us as big bad meanies if we were to finally get off our rear ends and take perfectly constitutional steps to end this menace?
I come from the school that teaches that if you want something done, you do it. Your default position isn't to wring your hands and expend all your creative energy figuring out why you can't get something done -- especially something of such paramount importance to the preservation of our republic.
Come on, my friends in the GOP establishment. Just once, quit using your juice to tell us how impractical and extreme we are and how you are just as conservative as we are but more prudent and pragmatic. It is not pragmatic to sit on your hands and idly watch the republic be assaulted on this level and do nothing but wait until that fictional time in the future when the law will implode on itself.
That's laughably ridiculous. It's not going to happen. Now is the time to shoot this missile down -- as it has entered our atmosphere and before it detonates in our major cities and our countryside.
If we can't draw a line in the sand on an issue this important and convince the American people that an already unpopular bill must be stopped in its tracks -- while we watch as a failed president convinces the American people that his policies aren't responsible for the misery he's causing -- then how can we say we deserve to carry the banner of liberty?
No more excuses. If you don't have the stomach for it, please get out of the way and let those who do press forward; then thank them later.
It is over.
There will never again be equal justice under the law.
RomneyCARE is ObamaCARE is supported
by BOTH the GOP and the DNC.
“while continuing to refuse to submit himself to any real exchange with the media in a bona fide news conference.”
One of the strengths of the Canadian (and other Commonwealth countries) system of government, is that the Prime Minister and other Cabinet members sit in Parliament, and are accountable to Parliament on a daily business. We don’t rely on members of the elite media to ask (or not ask) questions — we have members of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition to do that for us. The elite media still loves their “scrums”, and other ways to insert themselves into the story — but, Parliamentarians have privileged access to the PM.
(Please note: I said “one of the strengths...”. Clearly, our system also has plenty of weaknesses, and the U.S. system has plenty of strengths.)
Actually, Obama is a giant turd that is stinking the country up.
Nice metaphor.. really.. David has captured the essence of it...
but I add; there are suitcase nukes in every small city, hamlet and village from the Hampton’s to Chula Vista..
Big Brother is a Transvestite.. trolling for a political sex change..
from Capitalism to full fledged Socialism..
Oh!, HE was not “born that way”..
Well before this got signed into law with the Vice President congratulating the President with "This is really a big F___ing Deal!" we should have had an even bigger rout of the Demonicrats in 2010 than the historical rout we enjoyed, followed by a seige on the Senate and the Supremes and even the MSM till this obamination was tossed on the ash-heap of history!!!
I personally drove to DC to join the Tea Party protest which was bigger than any previous, regardless of the chicken park police helicopter estimate who couldn't see about a 2nd million of us trying to avoid heat stroke in the shade of each and every tree on that stifling day in may 2010.
Never in our history have so many raced across this country to swell the objection to this man-made malignant curse, only to be deliberately ignored and then be forced to watch the basic nature of our economic and health protection system be set up for abject destruction after having achieved global pre-eminence in the history of mankind!!!
I now have to agree with the Vice Presidents comment in that the American people got that F___ing by both the Demonicrats AND the Repellicans who wouldn't and won't do enough to turn this once great nation away from this admitted Democrat "Train Wreck!" A whole lot of American's are spinning in their graves without a doubt!!!
What a hideous, unforgiveable shame!!!
More like a flying septic tank, with Pelosi riding it like Slim Pickens on the bomb.
One thing that does not get talked about with Obamacare is that it is NOT insurance.
If you cannot pay the amount the government decides that the IRS will take from you, then you will be placed into your states welfare roles. And if you get sick, and require care, the state will pay...
...THEN THE STATE WILL GO AFTER ALL YOUR ASSETS TO COVER THE COSTS. AND YOU OR GRANDMA WILL LOSE YOUR HOUSE OR OTHER BELONGINGS.
There is no good side to Obama care and making sure people were covered more than they are now is not what it does.
OBAMACARE MAKES SURE THAT THE MEDICAL-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX HAS INCOME FROM TAKING HOMES AND ASSETS FROM PEOPLE.
DO NOT FORGET THIS
BRING THIS TO TOWN HALL MEETINGS.
note my post 8 and comment please?
People whose household income is too small to qualify for the subsidy will be put on Medicaid. People whose household income exceeds 400 percent of the FPL will get no subsidy at all.
According to the IRS, which responded to a CNSNews.com inquiry on the issue, a household earning an annual income that is just $1 more than 400 percent of the FPL is ineligible for an Obamacare subsidy, period.
As explained by both the IRS—which wrote the regulation governing the Obamacare subsidy—and the Congressional Research Service, which published a July 31 report on the matter (Health Insurance Premium Credits in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act), the Obamacare insurance-premium subsidy essentially works as a cap on the percentage of annual income an eligible person is required to pay in health-insurance premiums.
It won't hurt Grandma, but rather the heirs of the Medicaid/Welfare recipient from which the states will seek recovery. Yup! There ain't no free lunch Mildred!!!
The burdens of this program and the national debts run up to finance it's imposition on the American people will all fall on the laps our our children and grandchildren.
The whole thing is an immoral nightmare that Americans, if they hadn't been brainwashed by the teachers unions in government schools would recognize!!! May God have mercy on their souls!!!
I concur with this. May God forgive them for they know not what they are allowing the evil spirits in our Demonicrat possesed government to do to their offspring!!!
Because prior government interventions, most notably Medicare, are unsustainable and almost all elected Republicans know it.
Federal involvement, through paying for individual's consumption with OPM, has been very very popular with elected Republicans, and they have no idea how to step off the train that they, along with their Democrat brothers, started moving in 1965.
The only question about the impending destruction of our healthcare system is "who gets the blame".
If the GOP leaves PPACA alone (and they really can't end it), perhaps the Democrats will catch the blame.
That's why.
Doctors should refuse to treat congressmen that support Obamacare.
They probably have their own doctors in the House and in case you missed it, there are Physicians who are congressmen
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