[CONTENT.TIME] A good President needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights. But humility doesn't come naturally to those who decide they are qualified to run the free world. So the sign that the Obama presidency had reached a turning point came not when his poll numbers sank or his allies shuddered or the commentariat went hunting for the right degree of debacle to compare to the rollout of Obamacare.
It happened when he started apologizing. In triplicate. For not knowing what was going on in his own Administration. For failing to prevent his signature achievement from detonating in prime time. For not telling the whole truth when he promised people that Obamacare would not touch them without permission: "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
Obama's supporters can decry a "feeding frenzy," but this is a critical moment for a President whose agenda for a second term amounted to little more than being not as lame as the other guy. The HealthCare.gov website may or may not get fixed on deadline, the senior staff may be booted and rebooted, but it is already too late to avoid a pageant of media scrutiny, Republican merriment, a rebuke even from Bill Clinton and a host of existential questions: Can this policy be saved? What is left of Obama's second term if it is consumed by fixing an unpopular policy from the first? How could a White House appear so confident and incompetent at the same time?
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Please, no dancing in the End Zone. This imposter could still create a great deal of mischief before he is gone.
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There's no cure for ObamaCare other than to scuttle it and start over.
Fixed it for ya.
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There is no need to start Ocare over. All we need do is let the market work things out with a few tweaks to allow interstate insurance sales, tort reform to control the monster that is malpractice and the ability of people to keep their insurance despite job changes.
The gov't needs only to enforce contracts and get the hell out of the way.
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The interesting thing to me is the nuclear option. I read that as the Dems knowing they are going to be out of power for awhile and are hoping to pack the courts beforehand.
It is also a gamble that the Republicans will be too nice to use such power against them when the time comes and that the media can make any Republican use seem partisan and unique rather than it being turn about.
"There's no way to make the federal law work without this transition to ACA-compliant plans," board member Susan Kennedy said. "Delaying the transition isn't going to help anyone; it just delays the problems. I actually think that it's going to make a bad situation worse if we complicate it further."
[FREEBEACON] The term "Obamacare" has largely disappeared from the mouths of Democrats as the president's health care reform law has gone from a rallying cry to a political grenade.
President B.O. once said he embraced the phrase on the 2012 campaign trail, telling supporters, "I do care." As recently as Nov. 8, Obama predicted to a laughing crowd in New Orleans that his political opponents would stop using the term once the law became popular.
"I know health care is controversial, so there's only going to be so much support we get on that on a bipartisan basis -- until it's working really well, and then they're going to stop calling it Obamacare," he said. "They're going to call it something else."
However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... it has seemed to change names with the Democrats instead as the law's popularity has slumped to new lows in the wake of Obama's broken promises, rising premiums, insurance cancellations and a disastrous rollout. Obama's approval rating has also plummeted as a result.
During an apologetic presser Nov. 14, Obama referred to his law as the Affordable Care Act 12 times but did not say "Obamacare" once. House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... , who has referred to the law as Obamacare in the past, told Meet the Press host David Gregory that she "always" referred to it as the Affordable Care Act during an interview Sunday, and other Democrats are backing off the term as well.
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Well, it'll never be called Hillary-Care. Like its (dead) predecessor, that it.
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You can put lipstick on a pig, but he's still a pig.
- Can't remember who said that :-)
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Can't remember who said that :-) Besoeker this will jog your memory
Pigs have long featured in proverbial expressions: a "pig's ear," a "pig in a poke," as well as the Biblical expressions "pearls before swine" and "ring of gold in a swine's snout." Indeed, whereas the phrase "lipstick on a pig" seems to have been coined in the 20th century, the concept of the phrase may not be particularly recent. The similar expression, "You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear" seems to have been in use by the middle of the 16th century or earlier. Thomas Fuller, the British physician, noted the use of the phrase "A hog in armour is still but a hog" in 1732, here, as the Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1796) later noted "hog in armour" alludes to "an awkward or mean looking man or woman, finely dressed." The Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon (18341892) recorded the variation "A hog in a silk waistcoat is still a hog" in his book of proverbs The Salt-Cellars (published 1887).
The "lipstick" variant of the phrase is more modern (the word "lipstick" itself was only coined in 1880). The rhetorical effect of linking pigs with lipstick was explored in 1926 by Charles F. Lummis, in the Los Angeles Times, when he wrote "Most of us know as much of history as a pig does of lipsticks." However, the first recorded uses of "putting lipstick on a pig" are later. In an article in the Quad-City Herald (Brewster, Washington) from Jan. 31 1980, it was observed that "You can clean up a pig, put a ribbon on it's [sic] tail, spray it with perfume, but it is still a pig." The phrase was also reported in 1985 when The Washington Post quoted a San Francisco radio host from KNBR-AM remarking "That would be like putting lipstick on a pig" in reference to plans to refurbish Candlestick Park (rather than constructing a new stadium for the San Francisco Giants).
Besoeker, give us a kiss....
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For any program to work, be it overhauling a bicycle or overhauling a national health care plan that is 1/5th of the nations economy, it all has to start with a solid plan. Obama and all of his "Community Activists" have never planned, organized, staffed, or directed a program of any size through completion. All they ever do is intimidate a city into implementing their ideas, leaving it all for someone else to figure out. What I believe we are seeing is the classic failures of an activist at a global level.
The issue now becomes of fixing the issue at hand. We cant go back, they have poisoned the well so to speak. We have to now figure out how to rebuild 1/5th of our economic structure and not totally destroy this nation in the process.
This is not an obumble sized failure, its bigger than his normal screw ups and will take the very best we have to save the health care in America.
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Dems know they may be screwed in the next election. They just nuked Senate filibusters so they can pack as many liberal judges in the Judicial Branch, the branch they have always had trouble with, before they head out the door.
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Now to get id of the mail-in elections, and go back to "be there on election day" as the standard, with anything else treated as an exception that needs to be applied for, except perhaps limited location early voting no more than 2 weeks prior..
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Add ID, rerregistration and ten years of forced labor in Alaska tpo anyone cheating with his own vote like trying to vote twice. Thirty years in case it is votes of other people he is trying to tamper with.
And make "get out the vote" initiatives illegal. It is an open door for fraud and anyway people who need someone knowcks at their door in order to go to vote aren't interested enough by the faet of thge country to cast sensible ballots. Let them sip beers and watch sports.
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With out paper ballots it is hard to be a faithful Democrat, recently....
Democrats have apparently been uniquely blessed by Providence in being able to find just that right amount of extra uncounted ballots to upend a close race in their direction amazing isnt it? And interestingly enough, they always find them in the most innocent and miraculous of places, like union boss car trunks and Democrat operative closets.
We remember what helped Al Franken become a U.S. Senator from Minnesota.... Why it was paper ballots found where ?
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Forgot it. In France try just try to add ballots who have been out of the chain of custody. You are going to be laughed out of court quicker faster than you can run. That is if the judge doesn't cgharge you with contempt of court.
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I get mail-in ballots for people who haven't lived at the house for years, despite marking them with, "Return to sender, no longer at this residence."
Only to receive another ballot two years later.
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[POST-GAZETTE] A federal judge today granted a preliminary injunction to organizations associated with the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh and the Diocese of Erie against Affordable Care Act requirements that their insurers cover contraception and similar services.
The decision is almost certain to be appealed to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but it marks an important early win for the church groups in their case against federal officials and agencies.
The Affordable Care Act requires that most employers provide coverage for their employees starting Jan. 1 that includes contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs. Churches are exempt, but church-related nonprofit organizations like Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pittsburgh are not.
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At least someone is refusing the, as the Supreme Court called it, Obamacare tax. Societies are taxed into poverty in the name of "Great" Socialist Government Works.
Individualism creats wealth and prosperity. Faith can be a strong cornerstone of individualism. Now the leftists will truly be pissed at the Christian faith. Watch for escalation of retribution.
[POSTANDCOURIER] A day after S.C. Sen. Tim Scott avoided a question on whether he was backing fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham ... the endangered South Carolina RINO... , Gov. Nikki Haley ...first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley is the youngest current governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... chimed in.
Answering a question in Arizona where she is attending a National Governor's Association event, she said she was not getting involved in the race but praised what Graham has done for the state.
"I have made it very clear I am not going to be involved in any South Carolina races," she said.
"But I want to say this, on any issue that I have had to deal with Lindsey on, whether it was the NLRB issue, whether it was voter ID, whether it's been on the fight that we've had with Obamacare or whether it's been fighting for our businesses in South Carolina, Lindsey has dropped everything to help with those fights. And so for that I'm very grateful for him."
Scott on CNN this week avoided the Graham endorsement question by saying he was focusing on his own race next year.
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there is an unspoken "... but, I will not shed a tear if the Tea Party puts another Jim Demint up and they replace his john-mccain asskissing hide."
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