If anyone asks why Obamacare needs to be repealed, suggest an inability by Obama’s team to develop implementation plans AFTER 3 YEARS could hold the clue…
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How do we Loathe thee…Americans should ‘phone in’ the ways…
Obama recently admitted O’care’s employer-mandate will hurt job growth.
So, he has unilaterally (and unlawfully) stated that mandate will not be enforced.
Setting aside the obvious question (if it’s a job-killer now, won’t it be later as well?), we see yet another ‘fly’ in Obama’s healthcare law ‘soup’ – the individual mandate.
You see, if employers won’t have to honor their mandate, they don’t have to provide the necessary information about employees, or the health coverage being provided…
…but that information is needed for O’care to subsidize costs for lower-income workers.
If employers don’t have to provide the info, lower-income workers take the full hit.
No information = no subsidies.
Which means Barack ‘for the little guy’ Obama is really…as an earlier blog noted…
…Barack ‘for the Big Guy’ Obama!
So, to recap this ‘landmark legislation’ nightmare…
Big Unions, city & state governments, and Big Business all supported the law (until it was passed), then, promptly sought – and RECEIVED – waivers from its provisions…
Congressional Democrat bosses and their aides plan to retire or move to the private sector, to avoid being forced to follow provisions of the law THEY created & passed!
Democrats had to drop the CLASS act within the law, as undoable…driving up costs…
…then had to delay the small business SHOP act in the law…driving up costs…
…and, now, refuse to enforce the Employer Mandate…(yep) driving up costs.
Democrats promised Obamacare would create jobs, but now admit its a job-killer.
Democrats promised ‘you can keep your plan’…record numbers are losing their plan.
Democrats promised Obamacare ‘would drive costs down’… costs have exploded.
What of Obama flunky HHS Sebelius’s promise of a plan for federal-run exchanges?
MIA…(Translation: Missing-In-Action, for those in the ‘low-information’ crowd.)
And the Federal subsidies that were to offset higher costs to low-income workers?
Oops…no longer available…now that Obama refuses to enforce the employer mandate.
The only part of the plan left standing? The ‘individual mandate’.
That’s right – America’s workers. YOU are The Last Man Standing…
…in the Obamacare-mandated IRS ‘waiting to collect’ line.
(And they’re now hiring 16,000 IRS auditor/cashiers to take your money.)
How long are you willing to stand there? Let your Senator & Congressman know.
Or, have a good time standing in that line…
Time to hold Democrats responsible for Bull Connor…Jim Crow laws…& the KKK…?
Really? It’s okay to hold people accountable for decades-past events…?
If disavowals don’t count, that’s bad news for Democrats!
Return with us now, to those thrilling days of yesteryear…
(Oops, got caught up in REAL Lone Ranger nostalgia for a second there!)
So, let’s go back in time, and visit some serious Democrat racists, shall we…
- Bull Connor, his thugs, and George Wallace were all Alabama Democrats.
- The KKK was an enforcement wing of the Democrat Party in the South.
- Jim Crow laws were established by Democrats to suppress black Americans.
So, why not apply the current ‘Paula Deen standard’ to today’s Democrats…?
After all, that former Food Network hostess is now paying for decades-old mistakes… seems she uttered some unkind, insensitive words – 20 or 30 years ago…
She disavowed her past actions…if that doesn’t count, why should any Democrat’s disavowal (of Jim Crow laws, Bull Connor brutality…or the murderous KKK) count?
Ergo, by current standards, Democrats Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are racists.
The Democrat Party is responsible for all racist anti-black actions in the past, so Food Network, Home Depot, and Walmart should refuse service to all Democrats now.
Based on today’s standard that disavowals are now meaningless…
(Real bad news for Al Sharpton – judging by his wardrobe – a Wal-Mart regular…)
We’re not just talking unkind utterances here…those guys viciously oppressed blacks.
Companies pulling support of Deen…for past words…must (at least) do the same to the party that spawned George Wallace, Bull Connor, Jim Crow laws, and KKK brutality.
Otherwise, Wal-Mart et al would be seriously discriminating against Paula Deen, right?
(And even The One, Barack ‘the Unifier’ Obama, demands businesses be…wait for it…
…FAIR.)
So, will Deen’s ‘disavowal deniers’ apply equal standards?
Will the media call for…fairness…?
Just asking…
Impeachment talk – crosshairs are on the wrong target
Forget about impeaching Obama.
If there were an honest, objective American media, no president could withstand the scrutiny and outrage such a force would bring against lawless executive over-reach.
Impeach the MEDIA.
Their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor…July 4, 1776
56 men, of position and privilege, risked all to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Lawyers, judges, merchants, landowners, farmers, doctors, ministers, and politicians.
Despite enormous hardship, every one of them held to their words: “And for the support of this Declaration with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”
You may love or hate Rush Limbaugh, but his father’s speech on what that group of 56 men committed their lives to on July 4 1776 cuts across ideology, and bears repeating.
“…our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”
That was no idle boast. Lawyers, judges, doctors, all held true, many paid a price…
It bears repeating: “…not one defected or went back on his pledged word…”
“Each had more to lose by Revolution than he had to gain by it.”
Who among us would commit our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor for the belief in God-created unalienable rights of man? “To reestablish the reign of Peace and Law?”
Every man’s freedom…a birthright. THAT was American Exceptionalism…defined.
Can we find a similar caliber of men and women on election day November, 2014?
“I’ve done nothing wrong, and will testify, if you give me…immunity…?”
File another one under “you can’t make this stuff up”…
According to reports, IRS official Lois Lerner has agreed to testify before Congress on how she ‘did nothing wrong’…if she’ll get immunity…for having done nothing wrong.
If this were Facebook, we would have to coin a new acronym: LWTU…
…Laughing, While Throwing Up.
And, oh, by the way, about that Constitutional ‘equal protection’ thing…
Not enforcing Obamacare’s employer mandate but enforcing the individual mandate violates ‘equal protection’ concepts of the Constitution (Amendment 14, Section 1).
Our earlier post condemns Obama’s decision to deliberately violate that civil right.
And, lest we forget, Section 5 of the 14th Amendment states “The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by legislation, the provisions of this article.”
Not the Violator-in-Chief.
And, oh look, Obama took an oath swearing to uphold the U.S. Constitution!
Any bets as to how quickly (Democrat) Senate Majority Leader Reid picks up the phone to coordinate with (Republican) House Speaker Boehner on corrective measures?
Anyone…?
For Obama, ‘oath’ means never saying no to Big Business…
Your Bluster-in-Chief had a busy day this week.
With one decision, not enforcing the Obamacare ‘Employer Mandate’, he redefined Big Business as the ‘little guy’, chose another law to ignore, and trampled the Constitution.
The employer mandate says businesses with over 50 employees must provide health insurance to employees, or pay a fine. Now Obama says he won’t enforce that. But…
…there is an ‘individual mandate’ clause, which states clearly that you must acquire health coverage, or be penalized with a fine if you don’t obey the law.
Got that? Obama’s giving your Big Business employer a pass, by deliberately not enforcing the law…but you don’t get a pass, and you get stuck with the cost.
Message to John Q Public…GE and Apple = ‘little guy’. You? Obama doesn’t care.
To him, the law is just a ‘sometime’ thing. (I.E., when Big Business says ‘jump’.)
And then there’s that little teeny tiny thing called the Constitution, which, under the 14th Amendment, says we’re all entitled to ‘equal protection of the laws’.
Isn’t there some guy in the White House who claims he taught Constitutional law…?
The news media has to be getting tired covering for this guy…
But then again…there’s no amendment claiming equal protection of ‘non-enforced’ law.
(Think CNN or NBC will pick up on that?)
The Democrats’ only strategy? Using GOP strengths…against GOP.
From foot-soldier to battlefield commander, a common truth prevails.
In war, use the enemy’s strengths against him.
Politics is war.
What you see unfolding in realtime is the Democrat version of this simple philosophy.
While they only care about getting elected, they know Republicans care about issues.
Republicans pride themselves on ‘winning in the arena of ideas’, solving big problems of America…oblivious to the fact that Democrats are joyfully feeding the GOP ‘issues’…
…while, united, they attend to their only real objective – getting elected.
Like distracted camp guard-dogs fighting over raw meat fed them by invading enemies, Republicans argue amongst themselves on ‘immigration reform’, ‘Pro-Life’, ‘gun control’ etc., seemingly unaware that Democrats serve up these raw meat issues as a ruse.
Message to Republicans…wise up…before your ‘camp’ goes up in flames in 2014.
Whether it be local, city, state, or national government, Liberals have no success story, and the evidence is plain. Since their sociological efforts began, nothing has worked.
Stop feeding on Democrat ‘raw meat’ distractions – focus on this…
Liberal policies DON’T WORK.
PERIOD.
Sex Education? STD’s, abortions, teen pregnancy, wedlock births…skyrocketed.
Gun Control? Please…Talk to Chicago.
Healthcare Reform? Costs are exploding…before the Obamacare bomb goes off!
Sociological Prison Reforms? Violence and crime have mushroomed.
Immigration Reform? What…reform what’s already not enforced…really…?
Education Reform? High school dropout rates and illiteracy are out of control.
Love-&-Kisses Foreign Policy? Middle East states are killing Americans with impunity.
Tax Policy? Higher taxes lowers revenue, kills businesses, increases joblessness.
Only failures. So, WHY spend time dithering and quibbling on singular issues?
Stop letting the Democrats’ use your strengths against you. Stop squabbling.
Every day…in just 1 way…challenge the Left with a single UNITED message:
LIBERAL.POLICIES.DON’T.WORK.
**Reminder** You can’t solve America’s problems…if you don’t have a majority.
Variations of a theme…Win united – or fail…divided.
The GOP desperately needs a ‘William Wallace’…
If anyone needs an example of why Republicans fail, look no further.
An article written about a leadership implosion within a conservative ‘grassroots organization’ provides all you need to know about what’s wrong with the GOP.
Writ large, we’re told of a garrulous Texas ex-Congressman and a cancer-survivor free-marketeer who had dedicated his life to small-government principles, joining forces.
But soon, it all boils down to power and money, multi-million dollar book deals and TV guest appearances, back-stabbing, manipulation…you’d think it was about Democrats.
Many are tired of self-dealing aristocrat elitists in our midst. When we see the ideals of something noble and right given a backseat to pursuit of power & money…by the very people we think fight for us…it takes the heart out of many who would join the fight.
In Braveheart, the Scottish people amassed an army to fight against the tyranny of an English king, but lose their resolve when it appears their leadership ‘nobles’ will use the moment to get for themselves more land and favor…from the very tyrant they ‘oppose’.
William Wallace appears, and rallies the faltering masses, with freedom’s ringing cry.
You’d think, with the billions of dollars many in the GOP possess…
…somewhere in the Republican ranks, they could find just one Wallace.
Sadly, it looks like – at every turn – we’re stuck with Scottish nobles.