Nobody likes a whiney Weiner
Posted on 03/25/2011 5:54:32 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
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."
More local control over taxpayers' destiny, eh? Give that man a "Hands Off My Health Care" sign, a Gadsden flag and a tea party membership card ASAP!
I kid, of course. The ultimate agenda of many waiver-seekers is to create a wormhole path to even more radical restructuring of the health system. Weiner has brazenly called for a single-payer "public option" to replace Obamacare should it be repealed. Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon has also crusaded for more Kabuki "flexibility" in the law through a bipartisan state waiver proposal.
But as The Heritage Foundation noted, the plan "simply changes a date on an existing 'state innovation' provision of Obamacare from 2017 to 2014 -- still well after the federal Obamacare infrastructure has been cemented in place." And it is essentially "a back-door vehicle for progressive states to enact the 'public option' and speed up the establishment of a single-payer system for health care." White House health care advisers Nancy-Ann DeParle and Stephanie Cutter further reinforced in a conference call to liberal advocates that the bill would help states implement single-payer health care plans, such as those tested in Connecticut and Vermont.
Weiner argues that the waiver process dispels "this notion that the government is shoving the bill down people's throats." But only the politically connected, deep-pocketed, lawyered-up and Beltway-savvy can apply. And the White House refuses to shed more light on its decision-making process. Obama's selective favor waivers simply underscore the notion that unaccountable regulatory bureaucrats are presiding over government by the cronies, for the cronies and of the cronies.
Real control over our destinies means flexibility and choice for all. Repeal is the ultimate democratic waiver.
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Michelle Malkin is the author of "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies" (Regnery 2010).
Typical liberal hypocrite.
RATs are, IMO, power-hungry, lying hypocrites.
ObamaCare’s biggest supporters want no part of it. Weird. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist...
Anthony Weiner: Waiver might work for New York
By Kate Nocera | 3/23/11 4:37 PM EDT
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51840.html
Hangin’ might work for the entire Democratic Party. Thanks Iam1ru1-2.
I think Anthony Weiner is just the guy we all love to hate. He was the little snitch weasel in school who sucked up to the teacher. Everytime I see the little dork thats what I think of.
“He was the little snitch weasel in school who sucked up to the teacher.”
Who is now a well paid traitor and seditionist.
Nobody likes a whiney Weiner
******ObamaCare’s biggest supporters want no part of it. Weird. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist...****
Thats how their system works. The “connected” in the former Soviet Union didn’t patronize the same hospitals, stores or residental recources as the average Joe (Ivan?)
***SAME PLAYBOOK***
Just hysterical. Bobs are funny guys.
They're neck and neck.
I hear ya. LOL!
I just ain't right.
Well, there is always his wife, Huma.
With Obama’s competence being increasingly called into doubt, and his chances of even being nominated in 2012 questioned, he had better do something about Democrat loose canons like Shumer and those hot dogs like Weinie. What if the Bolsheviks of old demand “waivers” from Lenin before giving him their support? Obama should ask himself, “What would Stalin do?”
No, idiot, don’t invade Finland. But with the Democratic Primary less eighteen months away, is there still time to organize a purge?
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