As of mid-March, 12.2 million (3.6% of our population) were enrolled in Obamacare.

How is it possible supposedly intelligent Republican congressional types let themselves be seen as such incompetent, spineless wimps by failing to work out a plan for the 4%?

When you consider the average monthly health insurance premium is $400, that means Republicans have burnt their image to the ground for less than a year’s Medicare fraud.

(Do the math: $4800/annually x 12.2mn = $58.6bn. Medicare annual fraud = $60bn.)

To make matters worse, the GOP moral high-ground that they can’t use reconciliation is built on a fraudulent Democrat legislative process that birthed O’care in the first place.

Remember, it became law only because Senate Democrats took an unrelated military housing bill passed by the House, gutted it, then inserted the Obamacare language.

Then, when Ted Kennedy died after passing that bill and sending it to the House, they lost their 60-vote majority…if the House changed its language, the bill was doomed.

The Democrat House passed the Senate bill, then a separate ‘repair’ bill and sent it to the Senate. With a 59-seat majority, they used reconciliation to pass the ‘repair’ bill.

Obama signed both the repair bill blended with the O’care bill, and the rest is history.

So the original Senate bill may not have been passed by ‘reconciliation’, but the final law is a result of reconciliation…and skullduggery…and thus can be subject to it now.

To believe or state otherwise is disingenuous, and gives credibility to an original deceit.

And now, in a final act of idiocy, three GOP Senators refuse to even support repeal of this travesty without a replacement plan…as if a repeal negates coverage immediately.

One can only marvel how idiots like these Republicans made it through a campaign, or that they’re endowed with essential hubris that makes them think they’re re-electable.

But then, we may shrug and say ‘hey, better an idiot…than a spend-crazy Democrat.’

The real tragedy is all the creativity (however deceitful) is on their side…

…and the obtuse is on our side.

An unwillingness to do what many in the House and Senate promised pre-election…that is, to repeal Obamacare…shows us a GOP Congress can really only do one thing…

…stop Democrats from taking control and making more bad law.

It appears from this time forward there’s only one reason left to vote Republican…

…they suck LESS than Democrats.

How hard can it be to repeal Obamacare?

A GOP Congress passed a repeal in 2016, but of course Obama repealed the attempt. But now that they’re in charge with a Republican president, they can’t get it done?

Seriously? Just dust off and re-submit one of the old attempts, idiots!

What, worried about people losing their healthcare? Why? Just take those IRS agents hired to enforce O’care mandates, and use ’em to shut down waste, abuse and fraud.

Medicare waste-abuse-fraud in 2015 totaled over $60 billion; Medicaid was even worse in 2016, where an expected 12% of total spending would be wasted – $140 billion.

If, and it’s a big if, there really would be 22 million Americans without healthcare when a repeal of Obamacare was by some miracle passed, $200 billion recovered pays the tab.

That would be enough for EVERY one of the uninsured to have subsidized plans, with a big amount left over to give very generous incentive bonuses for effective IRS trackers.

(And if you want more, turn those trackers loose on an unpaid tax-cheat problem, which amounts to a staggering $400+ billion per year…think some of that would help out?)

Finally, let free-market principles work their magic at reducing costs and out-of-pocket payments/deductibles…get out of the way, let the most effective economic engine work.

It ain’t rocket science people.

And, hey, if they still can’t get it done, force your Congressman and staff to use the only healthcare up to recently that IS government controlled – the VA healthcare system.

Maybe then they’ll see why a government healthcare system is not a good idea.

But hey…a leadership that allows 15% ($600bn) of our total annual budget to be lost to Medicaid/Medicare and IRS waste-abuse-fraud-dodging isn’t ‘leading’…it’s abusing.

A corporate CEO would be summarily fired for such negligence.

We re-elect ’em.

If Congress and staff were forced to use the VA health system, it would improve.

Just sayin’.

Merriam-Webster defines socialism as

“…any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.”

A recent video shows college students don’t have a clue what it is, but they like it. We’re sure they’re unaware there’s not one example of a successful pure socialist nation…

…not one example…in the history of this government concept. 

There are social Democracies, but none come close to our free-market America.

And a simple example of why Socialism won’t work successfully is demonstrated by the purely socialist concept of food-service workers forced to share tips in a ‘pool’.

When everyone gets an equal share regardless of how hard or little they work, guess who gets disincentivized? That’s right – the hard worker gets screwed…every time.

Human nature is a capricious thing. For every driven hard-worker, there’s a slacker who doesn’t mind laying back and reaping undeserved rewards gained by their co-workers.

So, the concept of Socialism can never survive first contact with human nature…that’s why there are no historical examples of a pure Socialist nation that has ever succeeded.

(Looked at another way, if all products are government-produced, then no competitive environment can exist to drive quality of product, and you can guess the outcome.)

The only champions of a Socialist government style are those who will be in charge, those who think they’ll be in charge…and those who don’t think at all.

Sadly, it seems American college students weren’t taught history, because Jamestown would have been a very clear and classic example of why socialism doesn’t work.

Here’s an idea – next time you meet a champion of Socialism, ask them to show you the money they’re carrying, and when they count it all out, insist they give half to you…

…’cuz it’s not fair they have more than you…

…and should be happy to equally share the wealth.

(After all…that’s the Socialist way.)

The same polling that under-sampled Republicans by 15 points also over-sampled the Independents, and if we know Fake-News, went Democrat-leaning heavy there too.

As noted previously, there’s more than one way to skin the poll-skewing cat, and Sham-stream media knows minority and certain region Independents lean heavily Democrat.

(So, poll minority-weighted or Philly-centric Independents…they’ll favor the Democrats.)

Adjusted, that 36% approval rating gets to 48-50% with a proper GOP sampling…

…and if a Democrat-leaning skew of the Independents is adjusted, it goes over 55%.

But, of course, Sham media doesn’t want that story to get out.

CNN contributor Carl Bernstein calls what’s happening in America’s political media climate a ‘cold civil war’, but, of course, defends mightily ‘unnamed source’ reporting.

Add to that, ‘lack-of-proof-or-evidence’ and inaccurate reporting, and you get the drift.

Sorry Carl, there’s nothing ‘civil’ about what’s going on with Fake News.

What’s fascinating to watch is their persistent attempts to undermine President Trump, which simply INCREASES the resistance to Fake News, of Trump supporters.

It’s said that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing repeatedly, while expecting different results, and it certainly appears the Sham-Stream media is intent on proving it.

The more they try bringing him down with Fake News, the stronger his supporters get.

Fascinating is hardly the word.

When fake-media wants to groom the stage or otherwise drive issues, you always know by simply analyzing the demographic/ideological makeup of the people being polled.

For instance, to support their efforts to delegitimize a deeply resented Pres. Trump in every poll they take, Democrats are over-sampled…or Republicans under-sampled.

And, even where there may appear to be balance, let’s not forget regional and ethnic imbalances representing the ‘Independent’ makeup can be largely affected also.

‘Independents’ from Los Angeles or Philadelphia will heavily lean Democrat, as do the minorities – use a ‘representative’ sample of black ‘Indies’ for instance, and voila!

The good news? When using skewed polling techniques, it doesn’t have public reality in mind. Push-polling’s backfired on the Left in Nov., and various special elections since.

But judging by the latest ABC-Washington Post poll, stupid is as stupid does.

They’ve polled  by under-representing Republicans 15 points – is it any surprise then, when we learn that their poll shows the President’s approval numbers dropping?

They’re obtuse – they don’t see Trump’s supporters aren’t swayed by their deceit.

When Fake-News media begets Fake-Polling…who believes the Fake Results?

Only the Left.

Did you know the USA has done more without ever signing on to the Paris Climate Accord, than the rest of the nations of the world purportedly supporting it?

Fake-News would have you believe differently, but facts are hard to ignore.

The IBD article linked above (with an inexplicable title) outlines the facts, which sham-stream media forces, and their Democrat lapdogs are happily pretending oblivion.

First, (just for contrarian kicks) let’s analyze WHY there was dirt on Hillary…

It does, after all, beg the question:

Why the focus on the receiver of opposition research, but not on a flawed candidate who made themselves the target by being the MOST CORRUPT Democrat…ever?

Just seems convenient Democrats and their sham-media masters are indifferent to the real story – damaging information about their candidate was…the candidate’s fault.

And, isn’t it ironic untrustworthy, meddling Russians dishing unhelpful dirt on Democrats are now the SAME dastardly Russians seen by media as – trustworthy and helpful…

…when meddling and dishing (as yet, unproven) dirt on Republicans?

What still remains unanswered is why Russians would assist a Republican get elected when the GOP’s energy policies threaten that stranglehold Russia has over Europe…

…but we’re sure the Fake-News media will be able to concoct something…eventually.

After all, a sham-media that can change ‘The Russians Are Meddling, The Russians Are Meddling’ overnight to ‘The Russians Are Helping, The Russians Are Helping’…

…can do just about…ANYTHING.