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Thus Spake Obama - The incompetence of our neo-monarchy (Mark Steyn)
National Review Online ^ | NOVEMBER 15, 2013 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 11/15/2013 2:57:08 PM PST by neverdem

It is a condition of my admission to this great land that I am not allowed to foment the overthrow of the United States government. Oh, I signed it airily enough, but you’d be surprised, as the years go by, how often the urge to foment starts to rise in one’s gullet. Fortunately, at least as far as constitutional government goes, the president of the United States is doing a grand job of overthrowing it all by himself.

On Thursday, he passed a new law at a press conference. George III never did that. But, having ordered America’s insurance companies to comply with Obamacare, the president announced that he is now ordering them not to comply with Obamacare. The legislative branch (as it’s still quaintly known) passed a law purporting to grandfather your existing health plan. The regulatory bureaucracy then interpreted the law so as to un-grandfather your health plan. So His Most Excellent Majesty has commanded that your health plan be de-un-grandfathered. That seems likely to work. The insurance industry had three years to prepare for the introduction of Obamacare. Now the King has given them six weeks to de-introduce Obamacare.

“I wonder if he has the legal authority to do this,” mused former Vermont governor Howard Dean. But he’s obviously some kind of right-wing wacko. Later that day, anxious to help him out, Congress offered to “pass” a “law” allowing people to keep their health plans. The same president who had unilaterally commanded that people be allowed to keep their health plans indignantly threatened to veto any such law to that effect: It only counts if he does it — geddit? As his court eunuchs at the Associated Press obligingly put it: “Obama Will Allow Old Plans.” It’s Barry’s world; we just live in it...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kingbarry; marksteyn; monarchy; obama; obamacare; steyn
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To: Mama Shawna

Just did the same as you!


41 posted on 11/16/2013 5:00:05 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Verginius Rufus

LOL!


42 posted on 11/16/2013 5:16:51 PM PST by 88keys ("raise the song of harvest home"...(old hymn)...)
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To: JLS
Thanks for *ping*...

This is Steyn at his best...and he sounds a bit ticked, like everyone else...love it!

We really do need to start "blaming the one(s) who hired them" ("them" being the deadbeats that head up the cabinets/agencies who write the rules and regulations and set the policies that define and enforce the President's "vision" for us "folks" out here in America)...

The President is the hirer-in-chief, and the Senators confirming the appointments are also to blame. Hold them accountable! They say they are...let's see!

43 posted on 11/16/2013 5:31:12 PM PST by 88keys ("raise the song of harvest home..."...)
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To: neverdem
Ooooo-kay. So, if I follow correctly, the smartest president ever is not smart enough to ensure that his website works; he’s not smart enough to inquire of others as to whether his website works; he’s not smart enough to check that his website works before he goes out and tells people what a great website experience they’re in for. But he is smart enough to know that he’s not stupid enough to go around bragging about how well it works if he’d already been informed that it doesn’t work. So he’s smart enough to know that if he’d known what he didn’t know he’d know enough not to let it be known that he knew nothing. The country’s in the very best of hands.

Read the whole thing one of Steyn's best.

44 posted on 11/17/2013 6:46:31 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: neverdem

Steyn is a genius. God help us!


45 posted on 11/18/2013 4:34:14 AM PST by trillabodilla (Jesus Saves)
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To: neverdem

Always brilliant, but, this is beyond that.


46 posted on 11/18/2013 4:50:14 AM PST by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: neverdem; Liz
“I wonder if he has the legal authority to do this,” mused former Vermont governor Howard Dean. But he’s obviously some kind of right-wing wacko. Later that day, anxious to help him out, Congress offered to “pass” a “law” allowing people to keep their health plans. The same president who had unilaterally commanded that people be allowed to keep their health plans indignantly threatened to veto any such law to that effect: It only counts if he does it — geddit? As his court eunuchs at the Associated Press ...

As usual, Steyn rules...

47 posted on 11/18/2013 7:59:50 PM PST by GOPJ (Obama - "too arrogant to question his own bad judgement" ... Greenfield)
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To: grimalkin; GOPJ

Hmmmmm......Well if he’s that smart——maybe we could lure him and her to a “Fundraiser (they love those)——then we change the locks on the WH doors so that they can’t get back in. ROTFLOL.


48 posted on 11/19/2013 5:53:09 AM PST by Liz
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To: neverdem
The most telling line, the one that encapsulates the gulf between the boundless fantasies of the faculty-lounge utopian and the messiness of reality, was this: “What we’re also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy.” Gee, thanks for sharing, genius. Maybe you should have thought of that before you governmentalized one-sixth of the economy.

We are soooooooo screwed.

49 posted on 11/19/2013 7:39:09 AM PST by GOPJ (Was Obama giving nucluear information and equipment to Iran - through Benghazi?)
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