Posted on 11/02/2013 8:33:26 AM PDT by John Semmens
The problems with the Obamacare website, the waves of policy cancellations, and the ensuing “sticker shock” of higher insurance premiums for conforming Affordable Care Act plans has Democrats facing reelection in 2014 in a state of high anxiety.
“I'm seeing a lot of sympathy for the poor schmucks that can't log onto the website or are getting cancellation notices,” Senator Al Franken (D-Minn) observed. “I don't see anyone showing much concern about how this will affect us next November. I didn't muck up the website. I didn't send out any cancellation notices. But it looks like voters could take out their anger on me. How is that fair?”
Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) was similarly concerned. “We trusted the President and Secretary Sebelius to do this thing right,” Shaheen remembered. “We didn't poke or pry into the process. We didn't even read the bill before we passed it. We had total faith they'd handle it. Now that everything is falling apart the President is saying that no one told him it was a mess. That may be well and good for him, but we're the ones exposed to voter retaliation next year. What's he going to do about that?”
Investment guru and Obama supporter Warren Buffett advised the President to “blow the whole thing up and start over. With a reported 500 million lines of code behind the website there's no way to rescue this monster. The President has already used his discretion to exempt employers and unions from complying with the new regulations. He should just exempt everyone else until a completely new system is developed and tested.”
Whether Buffett's suggestion is feasible is dubious. On the one hand, the exemptions the President has been handing out conflict with the contents of the Affordable Care Act and are clearly illegal. On the other hand, issuing more exemptions will still leave the damage already done by the law unaffected. Since Obama seems determined to impose his vision of health care on largely unwilling consumers, any so-called new system that meets with his approval would inevitably repeat the errors that plague the current fiasco.
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/144470-2013-11-01-semi-news-a-satire-of-recent-news-november-3-2013.htm
It is our DUTY and RESPONSIBILITY to make their fears a REALITY. With a VENGEANCE.
Kinda strange considering that just a couple weeks ago we were being told by every smart-ass in the MSM how Ted Cruz had just doomed the Republicans to a electoral disasters in 2014 and 2016.
I kind of agree. But I’m mad as 4377 at most Republicans in the Congress. What good are they?
Does Franken have a credible challenger?
You voted for this predictable disaster. You're out.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) was similarly concerned. “We trusted the President and Secretary Sebelius to do this thing right,” Shaheen remembered. “We didn't poke or pry into the process. We didn't even read the bill before we passed it. We had total faith they'd handle it. Now that everything is falling apart the President is saying that no one told him it was a mess. That may be well and good for him, but we're the ones exposed to voter retaliation next year. What's he going to do about that?”
That's precisely why you should lose your job. You have no value as a Senator.
Satire.
Impossible to spot when you’re talking about liberals. So many articles I identified as ridiculous satire were real. And vice versa.
It’s telling when even when you know something is satire it still seems so plausible!!
I don’t see what their worry is. Obama has been a absolute disaster for the past several months, and he still has 41% of the population saying that he’s doing a good job. All he needs is one lucky break, like the Syrians giving up their chemical weapons, and he’s flying high again.
The American people are so completely blinded, and committed to socialism, that I don’t think they will unseat their liberal senators and congressmen. I hope I’m wrong, but how in the world can 41% of the population still support him at this point?
Dear Al Freakin,
You scream about wanting “fairness” all the time. Congratulations you are now getting the “fairness” you demand that is good for others.
Either suck it up like a big boy, or resigned from the Senate and put on your diaper back on.
Semi-satire, yes, but you KNOW this is pretty much how they’re talking behind closed doors.
For the first time ever, I read the entire piece without discovering it is satire. Dystopia does that to you.
Wait until obama’s EO instituting GLOBULL WARMING power generation killing rules that he signed on Friday... hit the American people in the pocket. It will knock 20% off of our power generation capability.
The “rebranded” GOOBs will use their upcoming passage of amnesty to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. You can count on it.
Al, don’t worry. The voters in your district are so stupid they probably don’t even know what a total disaster the website and Ocare is. After all, they elected you.
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