ELIZABETH WARREN’S EPIC MELTDOWN OVER THE ‘REPEAL’ OF OBAMACARE…

Melting down into a puddle of toxic goo quicker than did the 'Wicked Witch of the West'  after Dorothy doused her with a bucket water, Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren let her feelings be known about the ‘supposed’ repeal of Obamacare that was officially begun in the House yesterday.  And in offering up no evidence whatsoever to support her idiotic claims, Warren said the Republicans’ Obamacare replacement bill that passed the House on Thursday will cause millions of Americans to die.  It was via a rather bizarre series of tweets on Thursday, following passage of the bill, that she warned, “Families will go bankrupt. People will die!”  Meanwhile, it was the non-partisan Manhattan Institute that did a little fact-checking about the claims that repealing Obamacare will kill Americans, a favorite accusation made by many Democrats, and found it unsupported by any evidence.

It was Oren Cass, a senior fellow at the institute who wrote, “The best statistical estimate for the number of lives saved each year by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is zero.”  And, he added, “Certainly, there are individuals who have benefited from various of its provisions. But attempts to claim broader effects on public health or thousands of lives saved rely upon extrapolation from past studies that focus on the value of private health insurance. The ACA, however, has expanded coverage through Medicaid, a public program that, according to several studies, has failed to improve health outcomes for recipients. In fact, public health trends since the implementation of the ACA have worsened, with 80,000 more deaths in 2015 than had mortality continued declining during 2014–15 at the rate achieved during 2000–2013.”  So there you have it.  Proof that what we get from folks like Warren, is just smoke and mirrors. 

And so now I eagerly await to see how those purveyors of what has now become commonly referred to as “fake news”, such as those supposed ‘journalists’ at the Communist News Network (CNN), will go about the ‘reporting’ of Warren's unsubstantiated, as well as blatantly dishonest, statement.  Reports which, I am quite sure, will be premised with qualifiers like "falsely", "wrongly", and "without any evidence."  You know, just like they always do when they’re talking about President Trump.  Like that’s gonna happen.  Sadly, folks in our state-controlled media long ago lost any interest whatsoever in being viewed as a source of accurate and unbiased information.  These days they are proud to consider themselves as being part of the Democrat Party’s propaganda squad. Especially whenever an opportunity, real or imagined, to bash President Trump may present itself.  Or even if one doesn’t.   

So Ms. Warren, how many people are dead because of Obamacare and for no other reason than because they were forced to sign up and then could afford to meet neither the rising premiums nor the high deductibles, deciding to forego treatment?  And remember folks, Hitlery was supposed to win and it was then that after a couple of years having her in the White House, Obamacare would have then morphed into the single payer healthcare system that Democrats have long been seeking.  Or as it is called in Canada, Britain, Australia, and everywhere else it’s been implemented, Socialized medicine.  Obamacare was a train wreck right out of the gate.  Remember how we were told if we liked our doctor, we could keep our doctor and how if we liked our insurance, we could keep our insurance?  It was all bullshit, and the folks telling us this, including our then president, KNEW it was bullshit!

And isn’t it interesting how it’s the exact same number of Americans, 24 million, that the CBO once claimed would be covered by Obamacare, that liberals are now using as the number of those who will lose their insurance even though the report didn't mention anything about 24 million?   As is usually the case might they simply be parroting Nancy “We must pass it before we’re able to see what’s in it” Pelosi?  And why is it that on the same day it would be Time Magazine saying that only 14 million would lose coverage?  Is it because 24 million sounds so much more dramatic than 14 million?  Does the CBO report use the word "could" or "would" in their report?  Did the same CBO score Obamacare accurately in 2010?  Unlikely.  Is it true that only half as many people signed up for Obamacare for 2017 than the CBO projected?  And when was the last time the CBO score anything accurately?

Yes, maybe there will be people who may die because they don't have Obamacare.  He folks, news flash!  There were millions of people who lost their insurance under Obamacare.  And, sadly, many of them died.  And many more, who will never be born, were not given the chance to live.  The CBO, the Democrats, and the ‘Man in the Moon’ can throw out any number they like and there are people who will gobble it up as ‘FACT’.  The real truth, here, is that no one can predict the future and what it will bring, but one thing is for sure.  Obamacare was a disaster that did nothing but try to collect more taxes from the ones who could least afford it and picked the insurance companies that the Democrats wanted to see succeed. They failed at that too.  The "non-partisan" CBO?  The same CBO that has been wrong on just about everything else over at least the last 8 years?

Obamacare was supposed to help anywhere from 20 million to 60 million Americans, depending on who was rolling out the numbers.  Except that, because there was an "opt out" plan in it by paying the tax, the numbers never materialized.  And somewhere along the line 20 to 30 million Americans lost their coverage because they had “sub-par” policies.  They could only get new policies by paying higher premiums, taking higher deductibles and submitting to the “one size fits all” policies, with coverage they would never need or use.  The dirty little secret is that liberals, including old Pocahontas, don't care if people die.  Government programs like health care are merely a means to an end for the left.  Power and wealth is all they want.  They support the murder of hundreds of thousands of babies annually, but want you to believe they care about everyone else.

After decades of liberal policies being shoved down the throats of the people, nothing is as they claimed it would be.  Democrats still pretend they are the champion of poor people, while doing everything they can to create more of them.  Imagine how many people would die if the government was in complete control of our healthcare, especially the elderly.  My mom will be 86 years old this year and she tells me all the time how she thinks that the government doesn’t want all the old people around.  And with all her complaining on the subject, Warren, along with most of her liberal colleagues, have absolutely no knowledge or understanding of Obamacare and couldn’t care less about the impact it has come to have on millions of people. They didn't even bother to read the bill before they shoved it down the throats of unsuspecting Americans. They've never been on Obamacare.

Obamacare is yet another government program designed in such a way as to actually discourage its use through excessive premiums and exorbitant deductibles.  And in what has become typical government fashion it sounds really good to say that you now have more people with insurance, but what good is having insurance when you can’t afford to use it.  Unless, of course, you’re some scum-sucking parasite, aka a Democrat voter, who ends up getting their shit for ‘free’!  This is maddening, and I seriously doubt that the legislation referred to as a “repeal” of Obamacare that was passed in the House this past Thursday will accomplish very much, if anything at all, in getting us back to allowing the American people access to quality healthcare for a ‘reasonable’ price.  And by ‘reasonable’ I mean less than what it now costs under Obamacare because of premiums and deductibles.  

YET ANOTHER CLAIM IS HEARD ABOUT HOW WELL OBAMACARE IS WORKING…

Yup, this whole Obamacare fiasco is working out just great!   Now with that said, were any of you, like me, more than just a little startled by the news that insurance companies are planning health insurance rate hikes of 10 percent or more in 37 states?  Or by the fact that, according to the White House, this is actually considered as being one of the signs that Obamacare can said to be working?

White House Spokesmoron Josh Earnest explained to reporters that, thanks to Obamacare requirements, insurance companies are forced to report publicly any proposed rate hikes exceeding 10 percent for the coming period.  State insurance regulators, he very confidently declared, would then conduct a review of the rate increases.  So what is this boob’s point, exactly?

Apparently the fact that these rate increases are now public was the source for Earnest’s rather peculiar brand of optimism because he seemed quite confident that, ultimately, these proposed rate increases would not stand.  According to this genius, “The result typically has been that after that state review is conducted, that insurance companies would slash their rates.”  I guess we’ll see.

When asked if rate increases were contrary to Barry’s promise to reduce health care costs through Obamacare, Spokesmoron Earnest chose to spew the same drivel that we have heard ever since this thing was shoved through Congress essentially in the dark of night.  That being, of course, the law’s supposed ability to slow down spiking health care premiums, which as we all know was a fallacy. 

Earnest said, “Our goal of this has been to slow the growth in health care costs, and that has been our mantra.”  And he went on to say, “And we have seen, as our economists can demonstrate to you, that since the health care law went into effect — since the Affordable Care Act went into effect health care costs in this country have grown at the slowest rate in recorded history, the slowest rate in 50 years.”

There is nothing that these clowns will not say in their continuing effort to claim that this ever-worsening debacle is somehow actually working.  But the truth of the matter is that it is not.  All that has been accomplished here is the destruction of what once the finest healthcare system anywhere on the planet.  Because despite all of the claims, cost haven’t slowed, they’ve accelerated, and rather dramatically.    

Look, nothing that was said regarding what would be accomplished by this nightmare has been accomplished.  We still have millions of folks without insurance and those that are able to obtain insurance are now paying far more, through higher premiums, higher deductibles, or both, than they were before the Democrats ‘passed’ this monstrosity.  The sole purpose behind this abomination was not to lower costs, but to expand the government’s ability to better control “We the People?”  

NOW WHY DIDN’T ‘I’ THINK OF THAT???

Former Health and Human Services Secretary, the brilliant Kathleen Sebelius, has come up with what she sees as being the perfect solution for what seems to be the continuing problems plaguing Obamacare. Her very simply solution? According to this imbecilic reject from government, all of the problems would disappear if we were to simply come up with a new name. Apparently she has already recommended to the White House that to change the image of Obamacare, simply give it a new name. Now why the Hell didn’t I think of that. But such an idiotic suggestion begs the question, just how stupid does this bitch think we are?

It was at the "Lessons from Leaders" event thrown by the political news website, Politico, that Sebelius said, "Obamacare, no question, has a very bad brand that has been driven intentionally by a lot of misinformation and a lot of paid advertising." She went on to say, "I think we may need to call it something, in the future, different, but it is working. Not only are people getting coverage, [but also] the largest drop in uninsured rates in this country, the lowest healthcare cost growth in this country ever recorded." Adding, "So it’s actually doing what it’s supposed to do and creating a competitive market for people who had no choice."

If you can believe it, Sebelius told the audience that the problems facing Obamacare have much more do with its commonly used name than they have anything to do with the actual product. Now as you may recall, the actual name of Barry "Almighty’s" signature healthcare reform legislation is the Affordable Care Act. But as many of us have been forced to find out the hard way, it is far from being "affordable." And since this abomination was first shoved through Congress and laid on Barry desk, it has been assigned the nomenclature of Obamacare, because it was, and continues to be, Barry’s pet project.

Now as is usually the case with Barry, our ‘Dear Beloved Leader’, he is never to be blamed for anything perceived as having gone wrong. Therefore it was the hapless Sebelius who was eventually forced to resign, primarily because a sacrificial scapegoat was needed to provide cover for Barry because of the rather badly botched roll out of Obamacare. So she was thrown under the bus a mere seven months after the bungled rollout of HealthCare.gov, which was billed as being the federal marketplace for millions of American seeking healthcare insurance. And yet she faithfully remains an advocate for this disaster of a law.

OPINION OF OBAMACARE SINKS EVEN LOWER…

As the second open enrollment period for Obamacare officially kicks off, it’s at the same time that we have a new survey which would seem to indicate that the number of Americans who actually approve of the healthcare law has now hit upon that which is an all new low. Now whether or not that has anything to do with our ongoing ‘Gruber-gate’, and the accusations of voters being pretty stupid, that has yet to be determined.

This recent Gallup survey reveals that only 37 percent of respondents now support Barry’s signature domestic policy, which Republicans, set to control both houses of Congress, are hoping to repeal or, to at least, replace. And that figure is one percent less than in January when just 38 percent said they approved of the law at a time when the country was still reeling from the multitude of glitches on the federal Obamacare website, HealhCare.gov.

It’s in the new poll that a majority of Americans, or 56 percent, said they disapproved of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, which is one percent higher than the previous number in that category. And I suppose it should come as no surprise that Gallup said that the results were split along party lines, with Democrats supporting Obamacare at a much higher percentage than Republicans, 74 percent to just 8 percent.

Also according to Gallup, the approval number for independents, who have never really got behind Obamacare, fell 6 points in a month to 33 percent. Although the research showed that a majority of nonwhites still approved of the law, the number fell by 6 points to 56 percent – the first time nonwhite approval did not exceed 60 percent. Furthermore, only 29 percent of whites now approve of the law.

Gallups, Justin McCarthy said, "Americans have never been overly positive toward the ACA, at best showing a roughly equal division between approval and disapproval early on in the law's implementation." He went on to say, "The percentage of Americans who approve of the law represents a new numerical low, which could indicate a loss of faith in the law amid the aftermath of the 2014 midterms." Gee, ya think?

And apparently he felt it necessary to add, "Although the ACA, also called Obamacare, was not as dominant an issue in this year's congressional elections as it was in 2010, the issue was part of Republicans' campaign efforts to oppose the president's agenda overall. In doing that, many of the party's candidates were successful." While there may be some truth to what he says, there was, in more than a few races, a definite focus on Obamacare.

Now you would think that the information put forth by this latest survey might serve to provide to our newly elected Republican congressional majority with some level of motivation and to also serve as encouraging them to grow at least a little backbone. Backbone sufficient enough to encourage them to at least attempt to remove, once and for all, this costly burden placed on the backs of the American people by the Democrats. We’ll just have to wait and see.

GRUBER…A PAWN OF THE GOP???

 

 

It should come as no surprise to anyone that the sleazy little group over at the White House is vehemently denouncing comments made by key Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber regarding how it was that a complete lack of transparency combined with the overwhelming stupidity of voters proved instrumental in the passage of Obamacare. Instead this group of thugs seem to be busily pointing their collective finger at the Republicans because, apparently, we’re supposed to believe that this boob Gruber is nothing but a pawn of those seeking the repeal of this disaster.

And it was White House Spokesmoron Josh Earnest, himself, who said during a press briefing in Burma, "The fact of the matter is, the process associated with the writing and passing and implementing of the Affordable Care Act has been extraordinarily transparent." And when asked about Gruber’s claim that Obamacare wouldn’t have passed if the administration was more transparent and voters more intelligent, this imbecile actually responded by saying, "I disagree vigorously with that assessment." Well of course he does, what else should we expact?

And then this moron proceeded to take things a step further when he made the idiotic claim that, "It is Republicans who have been less than forthright and transparent about what their proposed changes to the Affordable Care Act would do in terms of the choices that are available to middle class families." Earnest said the president "is proud of the transparent process that was undertaken to pass that bill into law." Knowing Barry "Almighty" as we all do, I’m quite sure that he is very proud of the process that was utilized in the passage of this debacle.

The response from the White House came as a third video of Gruber criticizing the intelligence of American voters surfaced. Gruber said in remarks from 2012, "We just tax the insurance companies, they pass on higher prices that offsets the tax break we get, it ends up being the same thing. It’s a very clever, you know, basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter." And yet, to hear Earnest talk, you’d think that Gruber was under the employ of the Republicans in their effort to repeal Barry’s signature accomplishment.

Gruber has been causing headaches for the White House as conservatives have had a field day that began comments the MIT professor made in 2013. Gruber said at the time, according to one of the video that has recently come to light, "Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter, or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass." Those of us who were paying attention back during the scam that was the passage of this thing, remember seeing very little actual transparency.

And it was in yet another video clip of a separate event, while talking about tax credits in the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, that he said, "American voters are too stupid to understand the difference." And of course Gruber apologized for the comments earlier this week during an appearance, saying on MSNBC’s "Ronan Farrow Daily": "I was speaking off the cuff, and I was basically speaking inappropriately, and I regret having made those comments." What I’m sure that this asshole regrets, is getting caught on tape saying what he said.

And as Trey Gowdy so eloquently put it during a recent appearance on Fox News, when it comes to the comments made repeatedly by Gruber, it becomes increasingly difficult to separate the irony from the arrogance. He said, "I can’t get past the irony to even get to the arrogance," he said, remarking that the "most transparent administration" had to use deception to get its legislation passed. Gowdy slammed Gruber for insulting the intelligence of the very same people who managed to put Barry "Almighty" into office not once, but twice.

And he said of Obamacare, "We were sold a false bill of goods … and they’re laughing all the way to the bank." Gowdy had a warning for Americans: keep this in mind the next time anyone tries to sell you a comprehensive piece of legislation. "Comprehensive is Latin for ‘there’s lots of bad stuff in here,’" he said. And Gowdy had a message for his fellow citizens: fool me once, shame on you, ever fool me again, shame on us. And we would be wise to take his warning to heart, because while we may have control of Congress, we still stuck with Barry for 2 years.

THERE’S JUST NEVER ANY GOOD NEWS ABOUT OBAMACARE…

Does anyone ever remember hearing even one piece of honest-to-goodness good news that can, in any way, be tied to Obamacare? This thing has been nothing but a unmitigated disaster from its very inception. And now, apparently, Barry’s administration, just today, has now dramatically cut expectations for 2015 Obamacare enrollment, saying that between 9 million and 9.9 million people will enroll in private health plans, compared with a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecast of 13 million.

From the creation of this thing to the disastrous rollout to its continued implementation, this thing has only proceeded to get worse. And now, in a reports published by ‘Team Barry’, released just before the start of 2015 open enrollment on Saturday, we see that the official count of 2014 enrollment has been reduced to 7.1 million people as of Oct. 15, from 7.3 million in August. The change resulted in part from 112,000 people losing coverage because of unresolved application issues involving their citizenship or immigration status.

The CBO, which has been a leading enrollment forecaster for Obamacare up to now, predicted that the private insurance marketplaces set up by the Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare," would reach 25 million paying customers by 2017. But I think that we can now safely assume, and with some degree of certainty, that that isn’t likely to happen. There has never been much truth to any of the numbers that we have continually heard being thrown around when it comes to what this train wreck was supposed to do.

But Monday's first-of-its-kind prediction by ‘Team Barry’ assumes that the marketplaces could take two years longer to fully mature, partly as a result of a slower than anticipated shift to Obamacare coverage by people who now obtain benefits from employers or through private plans sold outside the marketplaces. Officials also said that 120,000 U.S. households will also come to face higher coverage costs, including the potential loss of federal subsidies, because of unresolved 2014 application issues involving income levels.

This debacle provides the very best example yet of just how it is that the government should never be entrusted with the handling of something as important to every single American as how it is that they procure their healthcare. There are very few things that the government is capable of doing and doing well. It used to be able to be said that the military was the one thing that the government could do very well. But under the ‘leadership’ of Barry, even that has become a not much more than just a second rate operation.

And ya know, let’s not forget what was that true motivation behind the Democrats working so hard to breath life into this government created disaster in the first place. Because try as they might to convince us that their intentions were so honorable, in point of fact they were anything but. So we shouldn’t allow ourselves be fooled. There was but one motivating factor for the creation of this boondoggle, and it had nothing to do with concern for the uninsured. It was, and remains, all about how better to control the American people.

SOME OBAMACARE TRIVIA…

So, riddle me this: How many senators who voted ‘For’ Obamacare, now no longer find themselves in the U.S. Senate?

Back on Dec. 24, 2009, when the Democrat-controlled Senate sanctioned Barry’s seizure of our healthcare system, it did so with what was then a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority. At the time they were all quite proud of themselves, while at the same time being completely unaware of what it was that they had unleashed. And what that was, as many of you may remember, was a massive backlash that propelled Republicans to control of the House the very next year.

But the House members were not the only one made to contend with the consequences of what had been a purely political act, committed over the very loud objection by a majority of the American people who were, for the most part, satisfied with the quality of their healthcare. Because over on the Senate side, going into Tuesday’s elections, 25 senators who voted for Obamacare were already out or not going be part of the new Senate being sworn in in January.

To be sure, it wouldn’t be fair to attribute all of the turnover in the Senate to Obamacare. Many senators voted for Obamacare and lost re-election battles in which they were hit hard for their support for the law, and other Democrats were forced to retire because they had no hope of getting re-elected after having added their support to the law. But in some cases, such as John Kerry-Heinz leaving his seat to become secretary of state, or Robert Byrd, who finally died, Obamacare had nothing to do with it.

Additionally, some outgoing pro-Obamacare votes were replaced by new Democrat senators who obviously supported the healthcare takeover. That having been said, as of this writing, 15 Senators who voted for Obamacare either failed to win reelection or declined to run for reelection and had their seats turned over to Republicans. That number is likely to grow once the results are in from the Senate runoff in Louisiana, which Mary Landrieu is expected to lose.

The following is a breakdown of senators who have voted for Obamacare who will not be part of the next Senate.

Lost and replaced by a Republican:
Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska -- lost to Dan Sullivan, R
Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark. -- lost to Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.
Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo. -- lost to Rep. Cory Gardner, R- Colo.
Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C. -- lost to Thom Tillis, R
Russ Feingold, D-Wis.
Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark.
Arlen Specter, D-Penn

Left the Senate and was replaced by a Republican:
Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V.
Max Baucus, D-Mont.
Tim Johnson, D-S.D.
Tom Harkin, D-Iowa
Ben Nelson, D-Neb.
Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.
Evan Bayh, D-Ind.
Roland Burris, D-Ill.

Left the Senate and was replaced by a Democrat:
Jim Webb, D-Va.
Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.
Herb Kohl, D-Wis.
Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii
Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M.
Chris Dodd, D-Conn.
Paul Kirk, D-Mass. (appointed to replace Ted Kennedy -- seat later held by Republican Scott Brown)
John Kerry-Heinz, D-Mass.
Ted Kauffman, D-Del.
Kent Conrad, D-N.D.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.

Died in office:
Robert (KKK) Byrd, D-W.V
Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii
Frank Lautenberg, D- N.J

Vulnerable pro-Obamacare Democrats still at risk in 2014:
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La.

Even though I do think the Democrats can be said to have paid a pretty substantial political price for their having shoved Obamacare through Congress, essentially in the dark of night, they still got what they wanted and we’re still stuck with it. And what the Republicans must be made to understand is that they will likely be made to face the very same fate if, over the course of the next two years, they don’t do EVERYTHING within their newfound power to repeal it.

MOST AMERICANS REMAIN NONE TOO KEEN ON OBAMACARE…

Well, if the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll of 1000 registered voters is anywhere near accurate, it would seem that we still have a rather sizeable majority of those Americans who remain less than thrilled with the socalled Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. It’s according to this poll that those who favor Obamacare are significantly outnumbered by those who think it's simply a very bad idea. And with that being the case it continues to irritate me to no end that we have heard less and less from the Republicans in the way of their having a desire to repeal it as we grow nearer to the midterm elections

The September poll has 34 percent in favor versus 48 percent opposed to the 2010 law, with most respondents saying they feel strongly about their sentiments. Eighty-two percent of Republicans oppose the law versus only 37 percent of Democrats who are against it. Independents oppose the law by a 51 to 26 percent margin, again according to this poll. And people say recent news coverage about Obamacare, good or bad, hasn't swayed their view of the law. Not even the news that the Department of Health and Human Services recently revealed that a hacker had broken into the HealthCare.gov site earlier in the summer.

But apparently, at least according to the Journal, the public's negative view of Barry's signature healthcare plan has held pretty steady through the last two election cycles, with 46 percent against in 2010 and 44 percent opposed in 2012. The only good news for Barry is that among Latino voters there is now a majority who actually like the law. Well of course! Our rapidly growing parasite class in this country is in favor of anything, and everything, that they themselves don’t have to pay for. The more that they can get and at someone else’s expense the happier they are! Hence the reason the vote for Democrats.

And something that, quite frankly, I just don’t understand is the fact that, by a 39 to 31 percent margin, voters are somehow able to say that Democrats are best at addressing healthcare, though this lead is noticeably lower compared to the pre-Obamacare years, at least according to the Journal. But then what exactly am I to take away from that? Are there really that many Americans who are actually in favor of having the government dictate to them how it is that they will be able to obtain their healthcare? Because that’s certainly what the Democrats are in favor of! That’s simply insane!

A Kaiser Family Foundation poll released Tuesday offers basically identical survey results. That poll, though, showed that voters across the political spectrum thought the economy was a more important issue than healthcare, which tied with foreign policy for second place. Now keep in mind here this particular ‘Foundation’, like most others, while it claims to be a "non-partisan source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public, tends to lean pretty far to the left. So whatever information it provides should always be questioned.

As someone who was made to lose the insurance that he liked and was quite happy with, despite being told by our Liar-in-Chief that I’d be able to keep it, I am one of those who is very much ready for Obamacare to be completely gotten rid of. Thanks to Barry, after the recent surgery and hospital stay by a family member, instead of having everything paid for, I’ve now been left with a rather sizeable bill which will only be applied to my now rather substantial deductible. So as you may be able to guess I’m among those who continue to oppose this government acquisition of our healthcare system in this country.

‘ANOTHER’ BADLY BOTCHED OBAMACARE EXCHANGE…

MARTY O'MALLEY

Under normal circumstances I’d say that this probably wouldn’t be the best of news to be heard by a governor, especially one who fancies himself a potential 2016 candidate and presidential hopeful. And by normal circumstances what I mean is that the governor in question would happen to be a Republican. But not to worry, in this particular instance we’re taking about a Democrat, Marty O’Malley to be specific, and the state involved here is none other than the People’s Republic of Maryland. So in this case, it’s no big deal.

The situation to which I refer is one where we now have a Maryland Congressman who says that subpoenas are now being issued in a federal investigation into Maryland’s rather screwed up Obamacare exchange. He said that he believes there was fraud in the system that cost taxpayers millions but hasn’t worked right from the start. Now anyone who has been paying attention has, I’m sure, heard about what a nightmare this thing was from day one. It’s part of trend that we have seen in many of these state exchanges.

Congressman Andy Harris has said there appears to be evidence of fraud. Oddly enough he’s Maryland’s lone Republican in Congress and has continued to be a very vocal opponent of Obamacare. But this investigation, if it’s happening, is being conducted by what is supposed to be a non-political government agency. Maryland’s health exchange, the connection to Obamacare here, never has worked as easily as promised. Much like the exchanges in both Washington State and Oregon, it crashed and was filled with technical problems.

The exchange is now supposedly being revamped but Harris says there’s a growing federal investigation into the millions of taxpayer dollars that have already been wasted on the website. He says the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General is issuing subpoenas for fraud. He said, "There were invoices literally for hundreds of dollars an hour in charges with no reason for the invoices, no specific work done and these were approved by the executive director."

A representative of the Inspector’s Office supposedly said in a recent interview that he couldn’t confirm that any investigation was taking place. The office is non-political, independent, and looks into waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars. Some unnamed official also said, "Every year, we investigate, prosecute and conduct hundreds of companies who misuse our seal taxpayer dollars. As a result of our work, we recover billions." Well, I’m not sure how much of that I’m willing to buy, but it would be nice if it were true.

In published reports, a spokesman for the Maryland Health Exchange denied Harris’ claim that subpoenas had been issued. Earlier, the governor and lieutenant governor both welcomed an investigation. It’s unclear who is being targeted in any possible investigation, whether the subpoenas are for government workers or contractors. The health exchange and fixes to it are expected to cost taxpayers more than $260 million. When you add up all of the money that has been spent on these exchanges it absolutely mindboggling.

Mr. Harris said, "It’s in a new phase now, a phase which could ultimately result in criminal charges." Actually, it’s everyone who played a hand in the passing of this thing, from Barry on down, that should now be facing criminal charges of one form or another. They sought out to destroy the best health system in the world, and for what? So the government would then be able to dictate to all but the very rich, how it is that they would be able to seek out healthcare. Once again this was all about nothing more than control.

OBAMACARE…THE NIGHTMARE CONTINUES…

Further proof now comes our way which makes it all the more clear just how much of a complete sham was the entire premise used by the Democrats regarding the claim that there was some critical ‘need’ for establishing something like Obamacare. Because even though the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, required that all Americans obtain health insurance by the beginning of this year or else pay a penalty, a new Gallup survey reveals that over 13% of Americans are still not uninsured.

According to Gallup’s recent survey on the matter, it was found that in Texas 24% of the people still do not have health insurance. In its telephone survey conducted Jan. 2-June 30, 2014, Gallup asked: "Do you have health insurance?" While the percentage of people who are uninsured has apparently declined on a national level, having gone from from 17.3% in 2013 to 13.4% in the second quarter of 2014, according to Gallup there are still many Americans who answered "no," they do not have coverage.

According to Gallup, it was also Texas that had the highest percentage of uninsured at 24. And that was down only slightly from 27% since the individual mandate first went into effect on Jan. 1. In Mississippi, there were 20.6% who said they were uninsured, while it was in Georgia that number was 20.2% who said they had no health insurance. Other states in which there was a high percentage of people who told Gallup they did not have health insurance included:

Florida, 18.9%
Louisiana, 18.4%
Montana, 17.9%
Kansas, 17.6%
Oklahoma, 17.5%
Arizona, 17.2%
South Carolina, 16.8%
North Carolina, 16.7%
Idaho, 16.6%
California, 16.3%
Alaska, 16.2%
Nevada, 16.0%

In Illinois, Barry "Almighty’s" home state, 12.3% of the people do not have health insurance. Under Obamacare, nearly all Americans were required, as of Jan. 1, 2014, to have either kept their existing health insurance, obtained new coverage, received an exemption, or paid a fine every month they did not carry coverage. For those who purchased new coverage, the law says it must have started no later than May 1, 2014. And yet, we still have people who are without healthcare coverage.

Let’s be clear here about something. Getting everyone healthcare coverage and reducing the cost of healthcare in general was not the motivating factor for Democrats to first dream this thing up so they could then pass it essentially in the dark of night using every bit of political trickery in order to do so. The sole motivation behind the creating of this nightmare in the first place was for the Democrats to come up with some way that would provide to them a better means of control for more of the population.

This is another one of those things that confuses me about why a majority of Americans still view the Democrats more favorably than they do Republicans. I mean it’s not the Republicans who are trying to control every aspect of our lives, our utility bills are not now three times higher than they once were because of some Republican war on fossil fuels and more people aren’t now out of work because of some Republican drive to get more people hooked on the government. ALL those issues can be traced right back to the Democrats.

UH-O…

Well, it would seem that we may have hit yet another bump along the way regarding the government’s desire to seize, outright, control of how we are able to obtain our healthcare. And at the same time it appears that the entire Obamacare fiasco, just became even more of a mess. That’s because, just today, we had a federal court strike down those health insurance subsidies for people in the 36 states that did not set up their own Obamacare exchanges. Uh-O!

And it was in pretty short order that we heard from several of those who oppose the law. One of those was Ted Cruz who said the ruling "is a repudiation of Obamacare and all the lawlessness that has come with it." Cruz tweeted his comments shortly after a three-judge panel in Washington, D.C. issued its ruling. While the ruling is a "significant victory for the American people & rule of law...we must not rest," Cruz added. And on that he is correct.

The case, filed in May 2013, challenged the legality of the Obamacare subsidies for people enrolled in exchanges set up by the federal government. In its ruling, the federal appeals court panel found that "a federal Exchange is not an 'Exchange established by the State,' and section 36B (of the IRS code) does not authorize the IRS to provide tax credits for insurance purchased on federal Exchanges." Gee, that sounds pretty cut and dried, even to me.

As noted by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), which coordinated the lawsuit: "The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, authorizes subsidies for qualifying individuals in states that created their own healthcare exchanges. But in the spring of 2012, without authorization from Congress, again, the IRS expanded those subsidies to states that refused to set up their own exchanges, instead letting the federal government do it for them."

CEI said, when it announced the lawsuit, "Under the Act, businesses in these nonparticipating states should be free of the employer mandate, and the scope of the individual mandate should be reduced as well. But because of the IRS rule, both mandates will be greatly enlarged in scope, depriving states of the power to protect their residents." That sounds like yet another example of overreach by an administration that seems a bit more out of control with each passing day.

CEI quoted Michael Carvin as saying, "The IRS rule we are challenging is at war with the Act’s plain language and completely rewrites the deal that Congress made with the states on running these insurance exchanges." Mr. Carvin represents the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. Look, we all know how this law was first cobbled together and then passed, by Democrats, in the dark of night. And this ruling serves to once again point out that just how badly flawed the law really is.

What Tuesday's 2-1 ruling does is that it invalidates the IRS regulation that allowed subsidies in all 50 states. If the ruling is upheld, the decision could mean premium increases for more than half of the 8 million Americans in 36 states who purchased taxpayer-subsidized insurance under the law. Now as we have witnessed a lot lately, the IRS seems to believe it can operate above the law and able to do pretty much whatever it wishes. This court said no.

"Agencies are bound by the laws enacted by Congress," Sam Kazman, general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), said when the lawsuit was filed. "Obamacare is already an incredibly massive program. For the IRS to expand it even more, without congressional authorization and in a manner aimed at undercutting state choice, is flagrantly illegal." But in this era of Barry, this is how we now expect our government to operate.

Of course it goes without saying that Barry & Co. can most certainly be expected to ask for a ruling from the full appeals court, and the case may likely end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. These folks are not about to give up quietly on that which they have so desperately been seeking for themselves and for so long. Make no mistake, what this is truly all about is nothing more than control. And that would be control of the American people by their government.

And that’s really the most tragic thing here. Because the best healthcare system in the world has now been destroyed and for no other reason than because the Democrats wanted to turn into a reality their decades old wet dream of controlling how it is that the American people are able to obtain their healthcare. Because when you control how a person is able to obtain their healthcare, you then have an ability to actually ‘control’ a great deal more than that. And therein lies the prize.

OBAMACARE…STILL OPPOSED BY A MAJORITY…

Despite the fact that we’ve had Barry’s many minions, both in government and in the state-controlled media, calling Obamacare's enrollment numbers an overwhelming success, and despite a multi-million dollar, taxpayer funded, ad campaign, a never-ending stream of outrageous lies having been told, or the fact that, supposedly, there have been more than 8 million sign-ups reported through the April 15 deadline, it seems that we still have a majority of the American people who oppose this thing called Obamacare. Because a recent poll seems to show that it’s still less than half of all Americans that actually support it.

This most recent poll to which I refer comes to us from Gallup and it points out that 43 percent of the American people actually claim to support Obamacare, which is the same number that approved of it back in April. And it’s also in this latest poll, that we still have 51 percent of Americans who disapprove of it. The final number of enrollees, which both critics and insurance companies have called into question, and with good reason knowing as we do the tendency of this administration to ‘fudge’ the numbers, was a strong finish for a sign-up process that began with the botched rollout of the Obamacare website last October.

Public approval of this law, which as we all remember the Democrats shoved through Congress, practically in the dark of night and by using every shady political tactic imaginable, in 2010, bottomed out at 38 percent in January as the healthcare.gov website still failed to work as advertised. The new poll numbers show that 37 percent of Americans feel the law will make the healthcare system in the U.S. better, while forty-four percent say it will only serve to make things worse. And in speaking as one of those who has been personally impacted by this disastrous creation of the Democrats’, it’s safe to say that I’m one of those who’s no fan of it.

And as to be expected there is a rather large discrepancy in Americans' approval of the law based on their race as well as their politics. The Gallup poll points that 79 percent of Democrats claim to support the law while just 8 percent of Republicans support it. And 76 percent of blacks approve of the law, while 35 percent of whites do. Hispanics carry a 57 percent approval rating of the law. But I have to wonder, do blacks support it out of some blind devotion to their black president, or do they genuinely think that it will make healthcare better? After all, there is no other group in this country for who race plays such an important role.

So while I may have a very specific, and much more personal, reason than some for being opposed to this bastardized piece of shit, there is no shortage of other reasons why a majority of Americans continue in their opposition to it. And maybe, just maybe, the reason behind how it is that so many people still oppose this outright seizure of our healthcare system by the government, is the fact that Barry & Co. continues to espouse what are eight pervasive "myths" about Obamacare, aka the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Mr. John R. Graham, senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, outlined those myths in a new report released Thursday.

Mr. Graham, said, "The myths peddled by the Administration to sell ObamaCare are not harmless fairy tales. They have resulted in a program that is harming people’s access to health care." He went on to say, "Favorable media coverage of the 8 million people who have enrolled in health insurance via exchanges has allowed the administration and its allies to revive discredited claims about Obamacare’s benefits." But "the numbers touted by the administration disguise the fact that many of these people lost previous coverage in the period prior to open enrollment, and people are no longer free to acquire the health insurance they want," he said.

Myth No. 1: If you like your health plan, you can keep it. The health insurance policies of six million Americans have already been cancelled, and most of the policies purchased in the individual market by another 19 million people do not comply with ACA requirements, Graham pointed out. He also quotes a government memorandum suggesting that nearly all employers with employee health care plans that are currently "grandfathered" in will lose that protection by making even small changes to their coverage. Eventually, nearly all businesses will be forced into more expensive, government-regulated plans, he predicts.

Myth No. 2: If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Many health care plans sold on federal and state exchanges have a limited number of in-network physicians to choose from, Graham says, pointing out that 70 percent of doctors in California are not in their state exchange's network. And with millions of newly insured people seeking care from a dwindling number of physicians, "there is no realistic way to meet this demand."

Myth No. 3: There is an "employer mandate" to offer affordable coverage. Employers who don’t offer health benefits can be fined $2,000 for each employee, which is considerably lower than the cost of providing health insurance. So many employees will stop offering coverage, Graham predicts. The ACA allows self-insured employers to require workers to pay up to 9.5 percent of their annual wages in premiums, he adds, but an employee making $50,000 a year would have to pay $15,000 for family coverage, and employees who declined the coverage would not be eligible for federal subsidies on the exchanges. "Few workers would willingly spend nearly one-third of their take-home pay on health insurance," Graham says.

Myth No. 4: Health reform will lower the cost of health insurance by $2,500 a year for the average family. Graham points out that "because of Obamacare’s mandates and regulations, coverage will be more expensive for everyone outside a small portion of older, low-income adults who can obtain highly subsidized coverage in the exchanges."

Myth No. 5: There is an "individual mandate" that ensures everyone has health coverage. The ACA’s "individual mandate" requires that most legal residents of the U.S. buy a qualifying health insurance policy or pay a fine. However, "the individual mandate was effectively deferred until at least 2016 when the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services allowed people to decide for themselves if they qualify for a ‘hardship exemption’," Graham writes, "to reduce the liability of fining people before the November 2016 election." Since there is a congressional election every two years, he adds, "the individual mandate is highly unlikely ever to be imposed."

Myth No. 6: Individuals cannot be denied individual coverage due to pre-existing conditions. "This was only true if they applied for Obamacare coverage before March 31, 2014," Graham writes. "If they missed that deadline, they cannot get coverage at all until November 15, 2014, unless they experience a life-qualifying event, such as getting married or having a child. In the individual market, prior to Obamacare, people could apply whenever they wanted to."

Myth No. 7: Health insurers no longer can cancel a policy after an insured individual gets sick. "Before Obamacare, a health insurer could only rescind a policy if the insured had misrepresented her health status on her application," Graham says. "On the contrary, Obamacare has caused many cancellations." And despite the fact that "nearly three-fourths of states agreed to allow insurers to reinstate canceled health plans…it appears that most insurers were not able to do so."

Myth No. 8: Medicare has been strengthened. "In general, the Medicare spending cuts exceed the new benefits by a factor of more than 10 to 1," Graham points out. "As a result, one of every two people expected to participate in Medicare Advantage over the next 10 years (7.5 million of 14 million) will lose their coverage entirely." To make matters worse, "Medicare’s chief actuary believes the planned cuts in fees may cause some doctors to retire and force some hospitals out of business" just as demand for health care increases. "The real costs of Obamacare will continue to burden Americans, despite the apparent success of the first open enrollment," Graham concluded.

So there you have it. If you’re still looking for a reason to stand against this massive abuse of power by the Barry & Co., simply pick one. And let’s be real here, there is nothing about this supposed act of ‘reform’ that has absolutely anything do with any of the numerous claims that were made, and continue to be made about it. What this is all about is control, pure and simple. And what we will all be forced into dealing with, if unable to convince those on our side to get rid of it, is a healthcare system that is on the same level as the system that our veterans are currently being forced to contend with. Because that is how socialized medicine works.

OBAMACARE: NOTHING BUT ONE BIG LIE AFTER ANOTHER…AND YET…

Now I could swear that one of the many promises we were made about just how great this Obamacare thing was going to be, besides, of course, the one made, and repeated about 30 times, about how we’d be able to keep our doctor if we liked him, or her, was the one made about how it was going to reduce healthcare costs. Well we all know the first promise was nothing more than a bunch of bullshit and now, as it turns out, we find out that the second one is as well.

Because according to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, consumers enrolled in Obamacare can expect to see an increase, and in some cases a pretty sizable one, in their monthly insurance premiums after the next election. And as it turns out those increases will "easily" outpace inflation, with every insurer in at least one state opting for rate increases. Now who other than your basic brain-dead Democrat, is really going to be surprised by such news?

According to official filings by insurance companies in Virginia for 2015, average rate increases range from 3.3 percent to as high as 16.6 percent for those enrolled in the online exchange, depending on the type of plan a consumer holds. And let’s not forget that Virginia’s new governor is a big Obamacare supporter. And I just can’t help but feel that all the while Barry was telling us about how this plan would save us all some money, he knew that it wouldn’t.

And something else that should not come as a surprise is the fact that these rate increases are directly related to the new costs insurers face under Obamacare due to the higher expense of insuring less healthy, previously uninsured enrollees, and also because of the new fees insurers are facing under the new healthcare law. At least that’s what one company told the Journal. So you have to ask yourself, how could this come as a surprise to Barry? It couldn’t!

Virginia is the first state to publicly release rate proposals for 2015, with other states expected to follow as early as this week, according to the Journal. In most parts of the country, figures will not be available until late summer. Predictions of rate increases have varied widely, but the projections for Virginia fall far short of what we were all told we could expect. Speculation nevertheless continues about the rise of future premiums under the new healthcare law.

Administration officials, including outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, have long said they expect rates to increase but believed provisions in the legislation designed to compensate insurers with higher medical claims would hold down rate increases. Virginia is one of the 36 states participating in the federal online insurance exchange through HealthCare.gov, with it being estimated that 216,000 Virginians were enrolled by 31 Mar.

And just to pass on a little personal experience of my own as it relates to this Obamacare fiasco. I was recently forced to change from an insurance plan that would have covered completely some recent testing that I had to have, to an insurance plan from which I received a bill for $600 for the very same testing. And all because of Obamacare. So this boondoggle definitely ain’t saving me any money! Each new day brings another new lie about Obamacre. What a deal!

Apparently, news about escalating premiums hasn’t seemed to do much to alter what many Democrats are saying about they’re being able to campaign on Obamacare this year. Personally, I don’t understand how anyone who has been forced into changing their insurance, or losing their doctor, could ever bring themselves to even consider voting for a Democrat. But if most Americans are content to receive second rate healthcare, then the Democrats will win.

OBAMACARE…THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING…

Well, with the recent release of yet another new report pointing out the perils of Obamacare comes word of yet another bonus created by the law. A bonus in the form of another new tax that will end up costing the United States hundreds of thousands of jobs over the next decade. Which I suppose doesn’t come as a big surprise to anyone, since the main objective of our present administration has been to work toward the wiping out of as many fulltime jobs as possible in the continuing effort to force as many people as they can into having to depend on the government.

This new report was published by the National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation, which is a nonprofit association of business owners. And it was discovered found that something called the Health Insurance Tax (HIT) in the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, will cause a rise in the cost of employer-sponsored insurance to such an extent that the private sector will be forced to cut employment between 152,000 and 286,000 jobs by 2023. Now the key part of that statement is that little part about the ‘private sector’ being forced to cut jobs.

According to this report 57 percent of these job losses will come directly from small businesses, or firms with under 500 employees, which of course, as we all recognize, are traditionally the primary engines of innovation and job creation. It’s these small businesses that keep the economy moving forward and expanding. The result will also amount to a reduction of U.S. real output, or sales, of between $20 Billion and $33 Billion over that period. How does such a thing come to be thought of as being a good idea by anybody, especially those who claim to be all about job creation?

Amanda Austin, NFIB director of federal public policy, released a statement that said in part, "The HIT represents a new tax on small business that raises insurance costs for an already struggling Main Street and is contrary to the goals of healthcare reform." It went on to say, "Singling out job creators for tax increases makes no sense for our economy, is short-sighted, and wrong for our nation's growth. NFIB will continue to highlight the very real and negative effects the HIT will have on small businesses and everyday Americans as we work to pass bipartisan legislation to repeal the HIT."

The conclusions were based on a dynamic, multi-region forecasting model built to analyze the impact of policy "shocks" on the economy. The model predicted that some states will be disproportionally affected by the projected job losses. California is expected to be hit the hardest with a projected loss of 23,000 jobs by 2023 and a loss of $4 billion in sales for small businesses. Texas could lose 14,500 jobs over the same period due to the tax and $2.5 billion in small business sales, while Florida will likely suffer a loss of 9,700 jobs and $1.2 billion in small business sales.

But it will be just the opposite for the federal government which expects to collect a windfall of $8 Billion from the tax in 2014, rising to $14.3 Billion by 2018. While the tax was aimed at hitting insurers' profits, the more likely outcome is for the cost of the tax to be passed along to those purchasing the plans, most of which are employers. Meanwhile, the American Action Forum, a Washington-based free-market think tank, estimates that the Health Insurance Tax will increase consumer premiums by an average of $101 in 2014, and by an average of $143 in 2015 and 2016.

The bottom line here is when we all troop off to the polls this fall we must have as one of our primary objectives the creating of the best opportunity possible for the complete repeal of this highly destructive, ill-conceived legislative nightmare that was shoved through Congress using every procedural trick in the book. This attempt at ‘reform’ was never intended to do anything other than to garner for the federal government the complete control of how the American people are able to obtain healthcare for themselves. It was something that had been a wet dream of the Democrat Party going all the way back to FDR. AND IT SUCKS!!!

OBAMACARE REMAINS LESS POPULAR THAN EVER…

As proud as the Democrats appear to be of their single-handed accomplishment, and boasting that, yes, they will most definitely be able to very proudly run on it come this November, I’m sure who it is that they are working so hard to convince. Because despite all of their spin they don’t seem to be having much luck in convincing all that many people that this creation of theirs is the boon that they all said it would be. At least if a new poll that rates public opposition to Obamacare now at an all-time high can be trusted.

Because it’s according to the numbers taken from a recent USA Today/Pew survey that 55 percent of the American people still say that they disapprove of this boondoggle. And that is the highest total since this debacle referred to as Obamacare was shoved through Congress and onto Barry who signed it into law back in 2010. Also according to this poll we now seem to have 41 percent who can bring themselves to say that they actually support it. Those must be the Obama-phone crowd.

And we also learned from this poll that 49 percent of those surveyed seem to be of the opinion that the major provisions of Obamacare are most likely "here to stay," while 43 percent think they will be erased from the law. Also it was 67 percent of those people who support the law think its major provisions are "here to stay." Personally, I’d like to see the whole thing scrapped, because I think most of us can agree that creating Obamacare had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with attempting to control the cost of healthcare.

With Barry & Co. making the claim that more than 8 million Americans signed up for healthcare through the law from October to the middle of April, a Gallup-Healthways report showed that the ‘estimated’ percentage of Americans without healthcare, 13.4 percent, is supposedly the lowest since that statistic first began being tracked back in 2008. But with public support for Obamacare pretty much teetering on the edge there remains little doubt that healthcare will be a key issue in the midterm elections.

Now if we can believe Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, which I don’t for a second, he said, "Obviously, Republicans don't like Obamacare, which is not surprising since not a single Republican voted for it." He then went on to say, "But much more importantly, independent voters — the swing voters, those that go back and forth and decide every election — also don't like Obamacare." He added, "For them, it's going to be a big, if not the decisive, issue in how they cast their vote this fall." He’s probably right.

Now the way I see it, the Republicans, should they take control of the Senate and keep control of the House, will have a very short window of opportunity, two short years, to demonstrate that they are serious about making substantive changes not only to Obamacare, but to a whole host of issues. If they choose not to, deciding to simply coast while providing nothing but lip service, then their time in power will be very short lived, coming to end in both houses in 2016. This will be their time to either shit, or to get off the pot.

OBAMA, CREATOR OF THE ORIGINAL “STINKBURGER”…

In having been nothing more than a community agitator, and as president having such things like a blatantly bogus economic ‘stimulus’ bill and Obamacare, as well as any number of other policies that have failed miserably, firmly under his belt, I’d say this turd of a president that we’ve saddled ourselves with knows more than a thing or two about "stinkburgers’. So it was then that when Barry compared the new Republican budget plan unveiled by Rep. Paul Ryan earlier this week to a "stinkburger" and a "meanwich", during a speech Wednesday afternoon in Michigan, he knew much about of which he spoke.

Referencing his own trip earlier in the day to what I guess was some local deli there in Ann Arbor, Barry, performing at his presidential best, offered up some suggestions for the name of the GOP budget plan. Barry said, "If they tried to sell this sandwich at Zingerman's they'd have to call it the Stinkburger or the Meanwich." Barry's trip to Michigan provided to him a chance to promote another "stinkburger" of his, which is his plan to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10. Barry once again seemed to be in campaign mode, as he repeatedly attacked Republicans during his speech at the University of Michigan.

A spokesman for the House Budget Committee said he didn't want to offer a response. Let’s face it, when the guy who is your president insists upon acting like some idiotic punk fresh out of high school, how are you, as an adult, supposed to respond. I mean seriously. You have the guy who’s our president, out on what appears to be a never ending campaign trail, spewing all kinds of idiotic bullshit to a bunch of brainwashed college students. Students with college loans who, I would hope, would expect to earn more than 10 bucks an hour, if they are lucky enough to find a job in what has now become Barry’s economy.

Barry’s campaign-style trip came at a time when both Republicans and Democrats have been attempting to draw contrasts with each other's economic approaches in an election year. Ryan said his budget would cut $5.1 trillion in government spending over the next 10 years and he claims his plan would balance the U.S. books over that same period. Now whether you favor or oppose Ryan’s budget, there is simply no excuse for Barry’s juvenile behavior. But having said that, this type of spoiled-brat mentality from Barry is really nothing new. We’ve seen it many times over the course of the last 5 plus years.

Barry "Almighty" said House Republicans' new budget proposal and coming attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act "should be familiar because it was their economic plan in the 2012 campaign. It was their economic plan in 2010." He added, in making a reference to that old Bill Murray film, "It's like that movie 'Groundhog Day.'" Adding, "Except it's not funny." Actually what’s "not funny" is the fact that I, like millions of other Americans, have been made to lose our insurance in favor of being forced to accept something that’s far more costly. Now that’s what I call a real "stinkburger." Actually, it’s more of a shit sandwich.

Coincidentally, or not, Barry’s trip to Michigan came one day after the White House claimed that 7.1 million people had enrolled in insurance plans under Obamacare, aka the Affordable Care Act. He said the numbers were enough to fill up the "Big House" — the university's football stadium, 65 times. Of course what he failed to mention his own "stinkburger", which is the fact that over 11 million people have now LOST their health insurance. And I think that for anyone with a brain it should be pretty obvious that the claim of gotten 7.1 million people to sign up is nothing more than another example of Barry & Co. propaganda.

After watching this administration for the last five years, just how stupid does one need to be to believe anything any of these people, including Barry, say? But be that as it may, it continues to be trumpeted and very loudly so by most of the stooges in our state-controlled media complex! Just for the sake of argument let’s assume that they’re telling us the, however unlikely, as I mentioned before what about the millions of folks whose insurance coverage was terminated, because of Obamacare. Anyone think they care that 7.1 million people have supposedly signed up for Barry’s "stinkburger?" I’m thinking they don’t. It’s all a lie anyway.

Yet oddly enough, with this little announcement of Barry’s, some Democrats now seem confident in that they have now at least slowed the bleeding. "It’s changing. If you’ve been around awhile, and I’ve been around awhile, you can sense it," said ‘Little Dick’ Durbin, who’s also the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate. "You’re not going to turn away seven or 10 million people from insurance coverage — doesn’t work anymore." I’m not quite getting the logic here. I just don’t see why, exactly, those who no longer have insurance should somehow feel better because of Barry’s claim to have people signed up to Obamacare.

THE OBAMACARE SPIN MACHINE GOES INTO OVERDRIVE…

Yes my friends, there was much celebrating going on over at the White House because, even though the final healthcare.gov enrollment numbers are, supposedly, not yet known, Barry & Co. felt optimistic enough to claim success in implementing Obamacare, aka the Affordable Care Act. "We're achieving something today that has our critics gnashing their teeth," White House spokesmoron Jay Carney somewhat boldly proclaimed to reporters on Monday. But I would argue that that claim is more likely an example of their wishful thinking that it is an actual statement of fact.

Because, other than the word of scumbags like Carney, what do we really have to go on that would indicate that they have been anywhere near as successful as they claim. But that didn’t stop Carney from saying, "More than 6 million people have signed up." He then went on to say, "No one expected us to come back from the brink or to surpass the revised CBO projection that 6 million consumers would sign up in year one, but we have. And I think that merits noting in your reports." But seriously folks, I think the days of us being able to believe anything that anyone from this administration says, are long gone.

Carney also said, "And it will be very hard for Republicans and other critics to make the argument that a better world would be a world in which all those millions of Americans didn't have health insurance, didn't have protections against being denied coverage because they have a pre-existing condition, didn't have the ability to keep their kids, their adult children, on their insurance policies till age 26, didn't have the discounts that seniors get through the Affordable Care Act and all the preventive care measures through the Affordable Care Act." This is all nothing more than Carney’s attempt to put lipstick on a pig.

Carney said, "That's a tough argument, I would think, to make, except when you're preaching to a choir that's opposed to ACA regardless of what you say about the benefits." Carney said it would be better for Republicans to acknowledge that the law is here to stay, and again claimed that the Republicans have failed to produce an alternative plan that doesn't take away the benefits people already are getting. That’s nothing but one more lie on what has become a very long list of many that we hear from Democrats whenever the topic of discussion is Obamacare. And many more will likely be told over the next few months.

And while the White House announced that Obamacare had hit its March 31 objective, and four days ahead of schedule, sadly, it’s doubtful that we can believe much of anything of what we’re now being told. Barry & Co. tout the fact that more than 6 million Americans have now signed up for coverage through new insurance markets. The initial goal of 7 million enrollees was revised downward by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in February, a move that was embraced by the White House. But still, we have absolutely no idea how many people have really signed up for this thing.

Because the truth, as is usually the case whenever dealing with this, what was supposed to be the most transparent administration in our history, is pretty far removed from what we’re now expected to believe. And here’s where the ambiguity begins:

1. The administration has yet to announce how many "enrollees" have paid their first month’s premium. Some independent estimates say that as many as 10 percent to 20 percent have not paid, which would bring the real enrollment number down to between 5 million and 6 million people.

2. Of the 3.3 million people that the White House said had "signed up" through January, less than 500,000 were uninsured people who actually gained new healthcare coverage, according to McKinsey, a leading management consulting firm.

3. The White House counts Medicaid enrollees in its numbers. Through December, between 1 and 2 million ObamaCare enrollees actually signed up for Medicaid vs. health insurance.

4. Moreover, when states report Medicaid enrollment data to the federal government, they don’t break down the number between the "gained Medicaid because of Obamacare" population and the "would have gotten Medicaid anyway" group.

So while Barry & Co. are now busy patting themselves on the back for being able to hit what was nothing more than a revised goal, many questions still remain as to the bottom-line, actual number of people who have actually gained healthcare coverage exclusively because of ObamaCare. And I’m quite sure that as we move ever closer to the midterm elections, with many ‘experts’ claiming that Obamacare fallout is likely to have a significant impact on the result, we will likely continue to hear, from Democrats, all manner of exaggerated claims being made in an effort to keep electoral damage to a minimum.

DEMOCRATS CONTINUE IN THEIR ATTEMPTS TO PUT LIPSTICK ON THE OBAMACARE PIG…

There’s now someone else who, besides Kathleen Sebelius, appears to be demonstrating the fact that he’s smokin’, snortin’ or shootin’ up some pretty potent shit. And so, it now becomes all the more clear that Democrats are now so desperate as to be willing to tell any lie that pops into their head in their attempt to show that Obamacare is anything but the unmitigated disaster that we know it to be. This time around it’s none other than that rather slimy character, David Plouffe. On this the eve of the sign-up deadline for Obamacare, no one who is currently an active member of Barry & Co. seemed to be interested in appearing on any of the Sunday talk shows to urge Americans to enroll. Instead, the discussion was left to past members.

It was the afore mentioned Mr. Plouffe who, in appearing on ABC’s "This Week" with George ‘Stephy’ Stephanopoulos, actually described Obamacare, aka the Affordable Care Act, as being a "seminal achievement" the "politics" of which will improve over time. He then proceeded to say, and with a straight face no less, "The law's working." And then added, "You're going to have -- by the way, if you count people who are going directly to private insurance companies, Medicaid, children's health care, we're talking well more than 10 million people have health care, tens of millions more have security...This law is working." Which left me wondering just who it was that this guy was actually trying to convince.

This imbecilic dolt went on to claim, "And I think the Republican playbook of just 'repeal Obamacare, repeal Obamacare, repeal Obamacare' gets tougher as more and more people get health care. I think smart Republicans understand that." But the Republican playbook, as this ass puts it, has not been one based solely on the notion of repeal, repeal, repeal. There have been a number of alternate plans that have been put forward and that would serve the American people far better than does this blatant seizure of our healthcare system by our government. And they are plans that would actually reduce costs while not resulting in people being forced, arbitrarily, to lose their current plans, and therefore the doctors, that they like.

And it was Bill Kristol of "The Weekly Standard," whom I seldom agree with, who said, "No actual Democratic senator running for reelection sounds like David Plouffe." Kristol went on to say, "They are not saying this law is working. They're saying, 'Oh my God, we can fix it. Here's some new proposals.' Senator Mark Warner, Mark Begich is out there, unveiled a whole bunch of proposals to, quote, 'fix Obamacare' this week." Speaking as one of those who has already been forced to give up the insurance that I, and my family, had for over12 years and that allowed us all to be able to see the physicians that we liked, the only ‘fix’ for Obamacare is to simply get rid of it entirely, and as soon as we can.

But the Republican-led House will not vote to fix Obamacare, Stephy told his assembled little "Roundtable." To which Kristol responded, "I don't think the Democrat Senate will do it." Adding, "I don't think the Obama administration supports those proposals. They've resisted every attempt to do minor fixes and delays in Obamacare except for the ones they unilaterally decide on." Kristol added that it would be better for Republicans to run on "replace and repeal" rather than "repeal and replace." Kristol also said the polling goes up for Republicans when they talk about keeping Obamacare's tax credits and coverage for pre-existing conditions." There are a few things that could be kept, but for the most part, Obamacare needs to be scrapped.

According to ABC's political analyst Matthew Dowd, the 2014 election won't be about Obamacare at all. He said, "I think in the end, the 2014 election, if you look at the fundamentals of the election, it's not going to be about Obamacare. There's flaws in it, there's successes in it. I think everybody can debate that...But 2014 is about the direction of the country, the economy, and how people feel in their lives. It's not going to be about Obamacare." FLAWS? Dowd actually thinks that the only issue with Obamacare is the correcting of a few flaws? But look, even if you subscribe to this idiot’s logic, it seems rather obvious that our country is headed nowhere but down and the economy sucks.

So it is then that the Democrats, as well as their many media minions, continue to live in what can only be described as being some rather bizarre state of denial. When it comes to such things as the direction of the country, whether seen as being right or wrong, the pathetic state of our economy, and the escalating costs for your average American of simply being able to get by every day, many people don’t view Obamacare as being something that merely possesses a few flaws. And if the Republicans do gain control of the Senate, while keeping control of the House, they will have but a brief 24 months to demonstrate that they possess the willingness to do whatever it is that needs to be done to alter the course we’re now on.

And let there be no doubt that the American people will, most assuredly, be watching. And if not much more happens than what we saw take place after the 2010 elections, the party might as well forget about 2016. Because Obamacare, or no Obamacare, the Republican Party will be finished. And something that does not bode well for anything substantial taking place, is the fact that all three members of our House ‘leadership’ team plan on attending an anti-Tea Party gathering here in Florida next weekend. So I’m afraid that even if the Republicans are successful this November, all that we’re likely to be doing is to delay the inevitable. That point in time when the party simply ceases to remain viable.

MAJORITY OF AMERICANS STILL NOT THRILLED WITH OBAMACARE…

Well it would seem that ‘Dingy Harry’s’ accusations that people are liars who are, essentially, too stupid to know how to use a computer, haven’t exactly improved how most folks now view what is a seizure by Democrats of how they are able to obtain their healthcare. Because a brand new poll seems to point out that those who say they support Obamacare equates to just 26 percent of the population. However, and something that makes very little sense to me, the poll also points out that at the same time only 13 percent want to have the law completely repealed. I guess you could put me firmly within that 13 percent.

The Associated Press-Gfk survey was completed before the White House announced this week that it had supposedly signed up 6 million people for private health plans through the state and federal exchanges under Obamacare. The poll showed that 7 in 10 American believe the law will stay on the books with some changes. The AP noted that support for the law has dropped 13 points since 2010, when 39 percent favored the law. Opposition also has dipped 7 percentage points from 2010, when it stood at 43 percent. The number of people on the fence, the AP reported, has tripled from 10 percent to 30 percent.

The limited support for the law is similar to what the poll found in January and December when it stood at 27 percent. Republicans hope that the public opposition to the law will help them defend their House majority and pick up the six net seats they need to flip control of the Senate in November. This despite the fact that such Democrat notables as Nancy Pelosi and DNC chair Debbie Wizzerman Schultz  Debbie Wizzerman Schultz have said, repeatedly, that Obamacare remains something that Democrats can, and will, very proudly run on and that ‘Dingy Harry’ has recently claimed has now "dropped way down in significance." So I guess we’ll see.