Posted on 03/24/2011 10:11:43 PM PDT by Nachum
New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner toasted the one-year anniversary of Obamacare this week -- and accidentally spilled his champagne glass all over the disastrous, one-size-fits-all mandate. Ostensibly one of the federal health care law's staunchest defenders, Weiner exposed its ultimate folly by pushing for a special cost-saving regulatory exemption for New York City.
If it's good for the city Weiner wants to be mayor of, why not for each and every individual American and American business that wants to be free of Obamacare's shackles?
Weiner joins a bevy of the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's" loudest cheerleaders -- unions, foundations and left-leaning corporations -- in clamoring for more waivers for favors. (The list of federal waiver recipients now tops 1,000, covering more than 2.6 million workers.) And he follows a gaggle of health care takeover-promoting Democrats maneuvering on Capitol Hill for get-out-of-Obamacare loopholes.
At a speech before the George Soros-supported Center for American Progress, as reported by Politico.com, Weiner revealed that he's "in the process now of trying to see if we can take (President Barack Obama) up on" a favor waiver and is "taking a look at all of the money we spend in Medicaid and Medicare and maybe New York City can come up with a better plan." Echoing all the Republican critics of Obamacare who objected to top-down rules that override local variations in health care expenditures, Weiner explained: "I'm just looking internally to whether the city can save money and have more control over its own destiny."
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(sorry for the double post)
The Weiner Waiver Wormhole
Love the title.
What of the notion we heard of a few weeks back where the administration was encouraging liberal state legislatures to seek waivers so they could craft even more draconian one size fits all health laws..? And if this is the case, wouldn’t we suppose they’re getting exacting help from the Fascist policy wonks in the administration..?
Didn’t Weiner vote for this appalling bucket of slop, Obamacare?
And now he wants a waiver.
Either everybody gets a waiver or nobody gets a waiver. Isn’t that what equal protection means?
BTTT
Wiener? He’s the Wurst!
Wiener Waver? I wouldn’t touch that one with a 10 foot pole!
Gotta feel sorry for lonely little Weiner the Whiner. What with him being married to Huma who’s still on board the Huma & Hillary show wreaking war and mayhem around the globe.
That is I believe what is going on in Oregon..
Whiner Weasel Wussy Weiner Wants Waiver.
Wow.
bump
Folks Upstate are certainly getting that message.
Weiner was, near as I can tell, the runner-up to the “Hurry Up and Die” guy on the congressional loony lib list (not counting Al Franken, who’s been conspicuously quiet; probably because he’s every bit as incompitent as he is wacky and too busy trying to pretend he’s a senator to spend time cracking what he calls “jokes”). Didn’t he go after Glenn Beck for lying about the sky falling to pad the profits of Gold Line, or something? How long before he really (and I mean *really*) sticks his foot in it?
Eventually Obamacare’s gonna apply to one guy, somewhere in Colorado, who will live to 90 and drop dead suddenly without visiting a doctor once. All revenue collected but no longer neaded (approx. eleventy-trillion dollars) will be redirected towards a single mile stretch of high speed rail. Which in turn will serve two passengers per hour, most of them hobos looking for a place to sleep.
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