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Obamacare Is Obama Unmasked
Townhall.com ^ | November 5, 2013 | David Limbaugh

Posted on 11/05/2013 3:44:26 AM PST by Kaslin

Everyone is focusing on Obamacare because it is such an obvious disaster, but in fact, it is but a microcosm of Barack Obama's entire presidency. Obamacare is Obama unmasked.

Aren't some of you tired of making lame excuses for him that only serve to make things worse? He has made a mess of nearly everything his policies have touched, and he's mostly avoided the blame; but he owns Obamacare, and he has nowhere to hide.

When someone with the influence Obama enjoyed upon first taking office sets out to fundamentally transform the nation -- and he has the unqualified support of the entire liberal media apparatus, the Democratic Party in lock step, millions of people purchased with government money and/or indoctrinated in liberal universities, and the cudgels of racial shaming and white guilt -- the possibilities are endless.

Constitutionalists have observed for years that America has been on a downward spiral as its ruling class has discarded its founding principles -- the very ideas that led to this nation's uniqueness, power, prosperity and benevolence. We've known that we could not forever piggyback, with impunity, on America's system of limited government and its free market economy. Eventually, statist encroachments on both would destroy our prosperity, liberty and power.

But we were thinking in terms of decades into the future, not a matter of a few years. Who would have ever thought the United States would embark on such an accelerated path of national suicide?

At the beginning, people could argue that Obama would usher in a period of prosperity and bipartisanship and that things would get better in America. But after five years of unconscionably reckless federal spending, a wholesale assault on our domestic energy industries, endless abuses of executive authority and other lawless incursions on the Constitution, unprecedented divisiveness and polarization across economic, racial and gender lines, America's declining power and prestige in the world, an explosion of the welfare state, and the worst economic recovery in 60 years, how can anyone who cares about this nation's future and the well-being of our children and grandchildren keep supporting this man's policies?

Even those of you who seem to have an endless capacity for buying into the administration's childish scapegoating of the Bush administration or the current GOP opposition for every Obama policy failure surely are beginning to have doubts as you watch the inglorious unfolding of Obamacare.

At first, you may have been hanging on to the fantasy that this was just a technical problem with the website -- perhaps marginally understandable given the immense scope of the "transition" into government-run health care. But unless you have been asleep the past few weeks, you understand that the problems with the website were so colossal that only an incompetent and arrogant administration could have presided over them.

But you also know that as horrendous as the website problems are, they pale in comparison with the substantive problems with Obamacare and Obama's abject lies to pass the bill in the first place and his continuing pattern of deceit concerning this boondoggle.

You may choose, like New York Times editors, to become part of the lie and euphemize Obama's Obamacare lies as "misstatements." But that's an insult to anyone in possession of the left side of his brain. Actually, it's an insult to right-siders, too, because you'd have to be bereft of intuitive powers not to sense the enormity of the presidential deception.

It is inconceivable that Obama merely misspoke when he promised that Americans could keep their private plans and doctors if they liked them and when he said the premiums for an average family of four would decrease by $2,500. Those were cold, calculated lies designed to defraud the American people and their representatives into supporting Obama's "signature" legislative dream, which was never about increasing access, reducing costs, increasing quality and preserving choices. Rather, Obamacare has always been nothing less than the linchpin in Obama's bigger dream to fundamentally change America into a nation he could like instead of resent -- a socialist utopia rather than the land of the free, of the brave and of equal opportunity.

Those on the left who stubbornly insist on continuing to support Obama and his destruction of America need to re-evaluate him. Is your appetite for denial unbounded?

Those on the right who insist on continuing to pull their punches instead of calling it like it is will also eventually have America's blood on their hands.

We all had better wake up. There's only so much bitterness and covetousness a nation's leaders can arouse in its people before they reduce it to permanent mediocrity.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: 0bamacare; 0bamacaretrainwreck; barack0bama; disasters; obama; obamacare
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1 posted on 11/05/2013 3:44:27 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

And yet, he would be re-elected again when the media fired up a new “war on women” campaign if there was another election.....I am sooooo sick.


2 posted on 11/05/2013 3:47:25 AM PST by BRL
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To: Kaslin
"...permanent mediocrity."

Now David Limbaugh is pulling his punches. Obama is driving for the total remaking/destruction of the country before his second term is up.

3 posted on 11/05/2013 3:55:55 AM PST by Truth29
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To: BRL
"I am sooooo sick."

ME TOO. OR DITTOS.

4 posted on 11/05/2013 3:58:57 AM PST by DeaconRed (ZERO: The Flim Flam Boy. HE IS NOT A MAN.)
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To: Truth29
"Obama is driving for the total remaking/destruction of the country before his second term is up."

Unfortunately you are correct.
His plan is working just as planned.
We need many more like Cruz & Palin. . . .

5 posted on 11/05/2013 4:02:06 AM PST by DeaconRed (ZERO: The Flim Flam Boy. HE IS NOT A MAN.)
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To: Kaslin

Last night I watched FOX (which has become a rare occurrence)

the obama apologists dredged up FOX news and talk shows to even debate this adminstrations truthfulness were sneering or baying fools

One even had the chutzpah to bring up Bush “lying” about Iraq as a comparison

North Korea does not have a tighter lock on its regime apologists than does obama for his


6 posted on 11/05/2013 4:19:09 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Kaslin

Obamacare is a Hate Crime.


7 posted on 11/05/2013 4:33:14 AM PST by abclily
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To: abclily

> Obamacare is a Hate Crime.

Against whites. There finshed it for you...: )


8 posted on 11/05/2013 4:35:37 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: BRL
“Constitutionalists have observed for years that America has been on a downward spiral as its ruling class has discarded its founding principles”
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As Pogo said many years ago, “the problem is us.
WE are ones that keep electing and reelecting Senator Kay Rupt. And her brother, Representative Cay Rupt.

9 posted on 11/05/2013 4:50:42 AM PST by Tupelo ( Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. An old Republican Tradition.)
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To: Kaslin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhthHg1s3Ds


10 posted on 11/05/2013 4:54:32 AM PST by PLD
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To: Truth29
"...permanent mediocrity." Now David Limbaugh is pulling his punches. Obama is driving for the total remaking/destruction of the country before his second term is up.

Agree!!

For whatever reason the phrase "you can't handle the truth" keeps coming to mind. He completely lost his own argument with other conservatives.

11 posted on 11/05/2013 5:11:17 AM PST by precisionshootist
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To: Kaslin

Traditional leftists promise better conditions after the revolution, and when things get horribly worse, they blame their enemies, and glorify the struggle.


12 posted on 11/05/2013 5:23:42 AM PST by Daveinyork (IER)
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To: Daveinyork

That arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is an excellent example


13 posted on 11/05/2013 5:40:41 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Truth29

Good point. Mediocrity is not the issue at all. The dismanteling of a once great nation is the issue.

And while Republicans have, for the most part, been against Obamacare they nevertheless have stood passively by while Obama has taken his wrecking ball to the country. To that extent they are complicit in this destruction.


14 posted on 11/05/2013 6:01:35 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Daveinyork

Nailed it. Good post.


15 posted on 11/05/2013 6:02:19 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Starboard

Ayn Rand pointed that out in her essay “The New Left, the Anti-Industrial Revolution.”


16 posted on 11/05/2013 6:14:22 AM PST by Daveinyork (IER)
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To: Daveinyork

Its a profound observation. Such things are always worth posting as they serve to educate all of us. :)

Thanks.


17 posted on 11/05/2013 6:40:02 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Starboard

Some may object to the source.


19 posted on 11/05/2013 7:01:18 AM PST by Daveinyork (IER)
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20 posted on 11/05/2013 7:55:18 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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