[BREITBART] Former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney described repeated comments by Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... architect Jonathan Gruber insulting the intelligence of the American public as "remarkable hubris," "not good," and "damaging" on Thursday's broadcast of "The Lead" on CNN.
While Carney defended the substance of the law, Carney he was critical of Gruber's comments, saying "it's not good, Jake. It doesn't help when, someone who helped write, not only Obamacare, the president's Affordable Care Act, but also the precursor to it, which was Governor Romney's healthcare reform initiative in Massachusetts, speaks from the Ivory Tower with remarkable hubris about the American voter, and by extension, the American Congress. The fact is, that any healthcare reform that sought to control costs and expand insurance would involve winners and losers, and that's always going to be the case. That's certainly the case, to speak that way, very harmful politically to the president."
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That insufferable little wanker wouldn't know good from bad. They're worried Herr Gruber may be the undoing of the entire scheme. Krauthammer had it right last evening, paraphrasing here; ....."haul him up before congressional committee next year and have him explain, in detail, every aspect of the law's sordid formation. Then work to chip away provision after provision."
[SACRAMENTO.CBSLOCAL] Incumbent Rep. Ami Bera is now leading Doug Ose by 711 votes in Seventh Congressional District race in the latest count.
The Democrat had been trailing since late on Election Day when the results were coming in, trailing by more than 2,000 votes as of last Friday. The race drew closer after Mondayâs count with Ose only leading by 530 votes.
The race has drawn nationwide attention and plenty of money from out-of-state donors to make it one of the most expensive seats up for grabs this election year.
Both sides have been challenging votes in an increasingly heated contest as every vote matters.
Thousands more ballots have yet to be counted between now and the deadline at the beginning of December.
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Thousands more ballots have yet to be counted between now and the deadline at the beginning of December.
Senators convened Wednesday to hear Ebola funding requests from cabinet-level agencies
Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby asked top officials from Homeland Security, HHS and State what Ebola czar Ron Klain 'brings to the table'
A 'singular focus on coordinating,' a Pentagon bigwig gushed
Klain is 'dedicated full-time in the White House,' said the Homeland Security chief
HHS secretary says he has 'added value to our policy coordination'
Klain skipped the hearing but appeared on MSNBC to warn that there will be more Ebola cases in the United States
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Well, you can't just come out and say he is covering the President's ass. (figuratively, of course) Besides, Klein is busy pro-actively leveraging synergies.
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He's exercising his core competencies with a holistic approach geared toward providing deliverables in a timely manner to his direct report per the mission statement.
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More ca-ca from this administration. They seem to be in love with the title czar. Stalin was called a General-Secretary. Dictator, dear leader, or party leader are synonyms as well.
[Washington Post] Post-election analysis falls somewhere between amusing and clueless.
In the amusing camp are Democratic strategists who intone that more Democrats would have won if only more people had voted. The gods surely blush with envy.
And of course, there's the conventional wisdom that Democrats always suffer in midterms because they lack "intensity," meaning they don't care, and that presidents are always unpopular in their sixth year in office.
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The problem is there are provisions in the PPACA that no one understands and no one knows the effects.
it was a shoddy piece of work and a rush to judgment. They rammed it through to avoid letting people study it and understand.
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Can Obama just be impeached? He would be a president of many firsts: first black president elected, first black impeached president, first Manchurian candidate president impeached. One has to consider the legacy.
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He needs to be resisted, not impeached. If he's impeached he becomes a martyr to the lefties. Keeping him in office he becomes Jimmy Carter in blackface.
The election's repudiated him and the Dems have been stood in a spotlight, dismissed as crooks, boodlers, and outright subversives. The nation is shown to have a two-party system: Republicans and Banana Republicans.
Think of another election where the word "corruption" has been used as often as in this one, much less used at all. B.O.'s petulant incompetence has cost his party dearly and from what I've seen they're determined to remain just the way they are.
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Fred, you are the voice of reason. Impeachment is tempting but alas, it would be viewed as a Pub led modern day lynching. He would become a civil rights celeb. It would play into the left's collective hands. It seems as if Obama almost wishes for impeachment. He has talked about it more than the Pubs have.
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Impeachment is the easy way out for the Champ, anyway. Let him sulk around the links for two years, vetoing things Americans want. Then see how the next election turns out.
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#3 He needs to be resisted, not impeached. If he's impeached he becomes a martyr to the lefties. Keeping him in office he becomes Jimmy Carter in blackface.
Exactly right. No martyrdom, no cult of victimization. Let him wallow in his own filth. Epic fail is the object lesson which will long be remembered by voters. It was for Carter, it will be for this imposter as well.
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If you keep impeachment off the table, he'll rule through the bureaucracy like any tyrant. Who's going to effectively stop him as long as he has thugs and bully boys who'll carry out his fiats and whims without any real consequence. Never unilaterally disarm in face of such an individual.
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She bet on Keystone and pissed off her progressive base without impressing the independents. She got a veto threat from Obama to boot which just turned it all into a farce.
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While losing Congress was a grievous blow that will further challenge his capacity to govern, advisers said that he feels liberated. He can now pursue his long-term agenda, they said, without being tethered to the short-term electoral concerns of his party’s leadership in Congress.
Arrogant. Detached. Narcissist. Marxist. I don't have time for more.
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[Washington Post] The Republican Party's ardent campaign against President B.O.'s health-care law gained new momentum Wednesday as politicians reacted angrily to assertions by an architect of the policy that it was crafted in a deliberately deceptive way in order to pass Congress.
On both sides of the Capitol, leading conservatives said they may call economist Jonathan Gruber to testify about his remarks, which were made last year and surfaced this week in a video on social media. In the video, Gruber suggests that the administration's signature health-care legislation passed in part because of the "stupidity of the American voter" and a "lack of transparency" over its funding mechanisms.
"The strategy was to hide the truth from the American people," said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who is slated to chair the Senate Budget Committee next year. "That is a threat to the American republic."
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Get this twerp in from of a house meat eating committee, crucify, then think, and think some more on how to fix. A flat repeal is unlikely and foot shootery in any case.
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Remember, Gruber got his start from... Mitt Romney. That's right, he was instrumental in creating Romneycare. March 2012, NY Times bragging on Gruber:
Mr. Gruber's position as an adviser to the influential Congressional Budget Office also left him perfectly positioned to advise the White House on health reform.
"The most important arbiter of everything was the C.B.O.," said Neera Tanden, who was a senior adviser for health reform at the Department of Health and Human Services. The C.B.O.'s assessment of a bill's efficacy and costs strongly influences political debate, but the office does not publicly reveal how it calculates those numbers. "We knew the numbers he gave us would be close to where the C.B.O. was likely to come out," Ms. Tanden said. She was right.
After Mr. Gruber helped the administration put together the basic principles of the proposal, the White House lent him to Capitol Hill to help Congressional staff members draft the specifics of the legislation.
OK, GOP, take the smart way:
Accept the "Final Four"-million in exchange for a 24-karat gold commitment to usurper-proof borders by the time "His Nibs" leaves office. This accompanied by strong restrictions to government benefits of all stripe for non-citizens. I believe the electorate would go with this.
Of course, Zero is in a "fightin' mood" - this will keep things interesting no matter what.
Remember that the Reagan amnesty was sold to us as the "first and last?" Maybe they can do it right this time. Maybe.
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Hank does realize that Lincoln was a Republican, right?
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Ya that will work, round them up, all 10 million of them, sure. Put up a bug wall, in worked in Russia, don't forget the 2,500 mile wall in Canada, that will be the next rout, then along the coast. Lets just put machine guns along our border and minefields, worked in East Germany. Folks, we need to cut through the bullshit and emotion and deal with this rationally. The immigration problem is bigger than just Mexicans, we also have millions of Asians here, and on and on. Our political elites stir up emotions and then add things like, "We have to fix the border first". In other words, we don't want to take action. We have a very broken immigration policy in this country, we need to fix it. If it was fixed we would not need walls. We cant wall up this country, it wont work, it has never worked. But then I really think no one wants to take a rational look at the issue. Lets just round up all the brown people and put them in camps, ya that will work....
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Actually, I think it worked pretty well in East Germany. Germans didn't like it but maybe they'll remember the next time they think about invading Russia. I happen to like the idea of machine guns too. Really, I do. It's an invasion. We have a right and a duty to stop it.
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We don't need to round anybody up, either. Just don't let them work. Don't educate their kids. Don't let them vote. Don't give them EBT cards or drivers' licenses. If they show up in the ER, treat them of course, then deport them. All of these things could be done if we only had the will.
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49 Pan: "But then I really think no one wants to take a rational look at the issue."
I have not heard a rational policy from either party. Many of the problems come from a lack of administration of existing laws and policies. Coming here is altogether too attractive for the illegals. As Ebbang Uluque6305 said, there are too many incentives/benefits for coming over the borders illegally. Moreover, there is a huge demand for illegal drugs here. I couldn't speak to the flesh trade but I suspect there is probably a market here for that as well. Our IRS is too busy chasing after political enemies of this administration to attend to taxes that go uncollected from illegals who work here illegally. ICE/INS seems to be overloaded as well. There does not seem to be a will in Washington to do much of anything except get elected and re-elected and the parties fight with each other. It doesn't seem that Washington cares much about the will of the American people. Those on the left have created comfy havens for illegals who come here. Sometimes I think about slipping over the border and coming back across the border as an illegal just to collect the benefits.
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Just annex one or two of the major contributors. Take over like Haiti (call it the Clinton Doctrine), oust the ruling class, confiscate their holding and dump in the new Commonwealth's treasury. You'd see a quick drop in illegals when the other countries ruling caste figure they're next if they continue to dump on the US to avoid reform or revolution.
The Bammer's 4.3Milyuhn Illegals [Hispanics only?] to be protected by Darth Vlad's heavy LR bombers flying in over sovereign CONUS = the Mississippi + KEYSTONE PIPELINE "DMZ" from the Artic??? HEZBOLLAH, ETAL FROM MEXICO???
But I digress ...
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > WILL THE "ISLAMIC STATE" CRIPPLE [Obama's = US] PIVOT TO ASIA?
D *** NG IT, does the ISIS/ISIL want GUAM-WESTPAC like China + PLA???
* GLOBALNATION.PH > AQUINO DARES CHINA: ACT.
Aquino claims China's actions in SCS doth notteth matcheth its calls for peaceful diplomatic resolution.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [HuffPo] THE US SHOULD GIVE CHINA BREATHING SPACE TO RISE PEACEFULLY | IVAN ELAND, vee [peaceful] expansion of China's own sphere of influence.
What perturbs me wid this Artic is the Author caling upon the Bammer-led US to review its forward military presence in the Pacific, + possib to reduce same by FALLING BACK TO GUAM O-R HAWAII IN ORDER TO FOSTER CHINA PEACE.
Emphasis on "_OR_".
My impression is that the Author would not mind iff Globalist Obama = USA = post-2015? OWG NAU Amerika formally surrendered or gave up GUAM-WESTAC [CNMI?] to China's sphere = 1/2 of the Pacific.
Hawaii is a de facto US sovereign State; while Guam + CNMI are both territories-only, wid the CNMI also being a Commonwealth + technically legally more entitled to US protection than Guam by it being a Commonwealth + also slightly closer to Japan + NORPAC transit routes than Guam.
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John, I agree with you, both sides are at fault. The very first thing that needs to happen in a comprehensive immigration policy back by enforceable laws. But neither side seems to want this. Instead they have their battle cries, Immigration, abortion, etc...
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Well Nancy, you don't think it has anything to do with being a chronic liar? Or your far left policies? Or your arrogant attitude? Or just because you tick-off just about everyone off except those in San Francisco? Or because you rammed Obamacare down our throats. Or because you lied about not knowing Jonathan Gruber who said Obamacare was passed because of stupid voters? Well, as you might recall, it was a Democrat Congress who were the voters who voted for O-Care--against the wishes of more than a majority of citizens. Now, you and Obama are trying to ram Amnesty via executive decree down our throats against the wishes of the citizens. Neither amnesty for illegals or government-controlled health care has ever been something the majority of the American people have wanted. You are part of the arrogant elitist left who think they know what is best for everyone. I'd say, "Go stuff yourself!"
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It was a softball question designed to allow her to lay out say no way jose and lay out her positions. Instead she bit off the reporters head and went with more war on women nonsense because that played so well in the midterms.
[FOXNEWS] President B.O. is planning to unveil a 10-part plan for overhauling U.S. immigration policy via executive action -- including suspending deportations for millions -- as early as next Friday, a source close to the White House told Fox News.
The president's plans were contained in a draft proposal from a U.S. government agency. The source said the plan could be announced as early as Nov. 21, though the date might slip a few days pending final White House approval.
Obama was briefed at the White House by Homeland Security officials before leaving on his Asia-Pacific trip last week, Fox News has learned.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told news hounds traveling with Obama in Burma Thursday that the president had not made a final decision on any executive actions concerning immigration and would not announce any until he returned to Washington.
The draft plan, though, contains 10 initiatives that span everything from boosting border security to improving pay for immigration officers.
But the most controversial pertain to the millions who could get a deportation reprieve under what is known as "deferred action."
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Pubs must take a deep breath and remain calm. Champ's goal is to implode the country and establish martial law. Obviously, this must be avoided or we'll never be rid of him.
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The latter could allow upwards of 4.5 million illegal immigrant adults with U.S.-born children to stay, according to estimates.
Critics in the Senate say those who receive deferred action, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, receive work authorization in the United States, Social Security numbers and government-issued IDs.
Well, at least they shant be 'deprived' of their 'right' to vote by not having an ID. Faked out the Trunks that time, dincha, Champ?
Which make me wonder, why didn't he add 4.5 million (D) voters before the mid-term elections?
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Kookery is ther no damn end of. Is is coming in thru Tor browsers ear?
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He'll unveil 10, then back off on a few and call them his concessions and demand similar Republican concessions.
It's a win-win for him: either he gets his immigration 'reform' or he gets to tar the Republicans as evil racists, and lock in the Latin vote for generations, just like happened with the black vote nearly 50 years ago when some Republicans opposed the Civil Rights Act (even though opposition was not on racial grounds.)
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Have they shown the 10 points yet? We need to take a deep breath, see what he's doing. The republicans are all spun into a tizzy, Obama is playing them like a fiddle!
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Basically, Obama has given all these illegals a vote in our country's affairs. They have voted for amnesty. Immigrations lawyers and organizations like La Raza, etc. have trumped citizen's votes. None of us (citizens, voters and taxpayers) gets a vote on amnesty--all because Obama dictatorially exercises an Executive Order. This is insane.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[SACRAMENTO.CBSLOCAL] Incumbent Rep. Ami Bera is now leading Doug Ose by 711 votes in Seventh Congressional District race in the latest count.
[Washington Post] Post-election analysis falls somewhere between amusing and clueless.
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