Dirty Harry Reid Is The Real Obstructionist!

The official fiction from miscreant Dirty Harry Reid and Spite House is that the GOP was obstructing Barry Soetoro's judicial nominees so pathetic Democrats were left with no other choice but to exercise the nuclear option. Dirty Harry specifically pointed his crooked finger at Mitch McConnell, hypocritically citing scripture to intimate that McConnell broke his promise to work with the demonic and intractable Democrats.

This despite statements from Senators Barry Soetoro, Dirty Harry Reid, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton that exercising the nuclear option was a bad idea!

But that is only half of the story. About a month earlier than Dirty Harry's historic, two faced vote to limit filibusters, frustrated with Barry's and Spite House's statements that Benghazi was a phony scandal, reports of indifference from a disengaged commander in chief who went to bed because he had a busy day of fund raising the next day in Las Vegas and disregarded pleas for help from Americans under siege, Senator Lindsey Graham vowed to block all further judicial nominees until Barry and Spite House told the truth about who was responsible for Benghazi!

Seems pretty clear to me that Dirty Harry decided he would protect Barry's lying ways by taking the teeth out of Senator Graham's vow to get Barry and his merry band of liars to tell the truth!

I would like to think that the press would actually do its job and pursue this line of thinking, but sadly, investigative journalists seem few and far between.

Therefore, I think it is time Congress appointed an independent, special counselor to investigate the lying ways of Barry, Harry and other administration officials so we can finally know the truth!

The Truth about the ObamaCare Grandfather Clause

According to a Department of Justice brief filed in the court case Priests for Life, et al. v. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, et al. the purpose of the grandfather clause in ObamaCare is:

• In fact, the effect of grandfathering is not really a permanent “exemption,” but rather, over the long term, a transition in the marketplace with respect to several provisions of the ACA, including the preventive services coverage provision.
• Even under the grandfathering provision, it is projected that more group health plans will transition to the requirements under the regulations as time goes on. Defendants have estimated that a majority of group health plans will have lost their grandfather status by the end 2013.

Barry Soetoro never intended to allow people to keep their insurance plans, he always intended that everyone transition from their current plan to ObamaCare! Barry lied each and every time he emphatically uttered those lines about keeping our healthcare plans and doctors. Period!

All the media has to do is report the story. Report the facts that are smacking them in the face if they only pay attention!

All the people have to do is pay attention to the facts slapping their faces each and every day.

It is time slap Barry in face a bit for the lies. It is time to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the high crimes and misdemeanors of Barry Soetoro!

Who Is Responsible for ObamaCare

ObamaCare, a short history.

• On November 7, 2009 the House passed the Affordable Health Care for America Act
• The Senate started work on H.R. 3590 which was completely different from the House bill, it would be passed and become the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare
• December 24, 2009 the Senate passes ObamaCare along party lines, not one GOP member voted or supported the offensive bill
• June 2009, during the President’s Weekly address Barry Soetoro said: “If you like the plan you have, you can keep it. If you like the doctor you have, you can keep your doctor, too. The only change you’ll see are falling costs as our reforms take hold."
• Barry made the same promise many times thereafter
• Democrats did everything they could to prevent Republicans from modifying the law in any manner what so ever
• Because the House and Senate bills were different and because all revenue bills must be initiated in the House Rep Nancy Pelosi disingenuously amends a completely separate bill passed by the House prior to the Senate’s version of ObamaCare called the “Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009” and offers it for amendment
• The house passed the amended version of the previous billed which now matched the Senate version of ObamaCare on March 21, 2010 along strict party lines, not one Republican voted in favor of the misguided law
• Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, a lifelong Democrat, appointed by Barry Soetoro as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), oversaw every aspect, development and promulgation of the regulations implementing ObamaCare
• HHS invented ObamaCare waivers for political friends who were happy with their current healthcare insurance policies and did not want to be covered by ObamaCare
• HHS issued over 1,500 waivers to Democratic cronies and unions
• HHS even issued a waiver for Congress who was expressly directed under the law to participate in ObamaCare exchanges
• According to lifelong Democrat and elitist doctor Ezekiel Emanuel, the ObamaCare “grandfather clause” primary purpose was to transition people from private policies to ObamaCare Exchange policies
• In June 2009 HHS published its prediction’s that as many as 70% of all private policies that would be canceled due to ObamaCare policy requirements and the grandfather clause
• in 2010, again solidly along party lines, Democrats rebuffed Republican attempts to modify the "grandfather clause" to reduce the number of policies that would be cancelled
• October 1, 2013, despite knowing that the ObamaCare website was hugely inadequate, extremely fragile and woefully unsecure, Barack Obama gleefully announced the opening of Healthcare.gov, the ObamaCare exchange enrollment website
• October 1 through 16, 2013, the GOP, lead in large part by Senators Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Mike Lee shutdown the federal government when they objected to passing the 2014 continuing resolution and blindly increasing the debt ceiling
• During the shutdown the House GOP passed several Continuing Resolutions (CDs) which tried to defunObamaCare, Barack Obama, Barry Soetoro, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Leed all and portions of ObamaCare including revoking the HHS waiver for Congress
• Senator Dirty Harry Reid never let any of the CRs come to a vote in the Senate
• After the shutdown ended Barry admitted that only 6 people were able to enroll on October 1st, far short of the thousands needed to support ObamaCare

It is clear to me that the Democrats completely and totally own ObamaCare. Why are they now blaming Republicans for its manifest failure?

ObamaCare Solution

It should be increasing clear to all paying attention, the website fiasco, the premium increases, the deductible increases, the privacy invasion, the security breaches, the tax increases, the cancellations, and all of the government lies speak to one clear and simple fact: ObamaCare is not the panacea Democrats pretended it was when they enacted the legislation without Republican support and to mediocre, ambivalent and skeptical public support!

The Patient Protection Affordable Care Act started in a cloud of Democratic deception, grotesquely came into focus in contrast to the fraudulent and disingenuous reassurances of Barack Obama and liberal Democrates and now can only be decribed a misguided and disingenuous grab for glory by Democrats that will destroy America. Therefore the only reasonable solution is a full and complete repeal!

The solution for all of America's insurance needs is to remove all state insurance monopolies and establish a free market with some general regulations, but far fewer controls than are now in place, wherein all healthcare insurance providers, including Medicaid and Medicare, may compete across state lines. Let market systems work to the advantage of health care consumers to their natural effect, reasonable prices and reasonable services!

Government regulatory schemes should be in place to protect the unwitting and naïve Americans and to establish policy standards such as coverage for adult children and some reasonable pre-existing condition controls and recommended policy coverages against which all policies can be evaluated and consumed.

As President Clinton has complained over and over again the US pays almost twice what the rest of the world pays for healthcare. With that budget appropriately applied, we should be able to afford insurance for all Americans without the blossoming ObamaCare government bureaucracy and privacy intrusions we are now suffering.

Did Barack Obama Mis-speak or Did He Lie?

One of the fundamental tenants of legal construction is to give words their plain, every day, ordinary meaning. I take note of this because Barry Soetoro, aka Barack Obama is a lawyer and he was an adjunct Constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago. UC must have been pretty hard up to hire an affirmative action beneficiary Harvard schooled lawyer rather than someone who earned it with their intelligence rather than the color of their skin, but I digress.

It is important to take note of this because the plain, every day and ordinary meaning of Barry's statements to the American Medical Association:

• That means no matter how we reform healthcare, we will keep these promises to the American people.
• If you like your doctor, you'll be able to keep your doctor. Period.
• If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan. Period.
• No one will take that away.
• No matter what.

do not need parsing, do not need interpretation and definitely do not need explanation. Each of the statements are simple, straight forward and declaratives, evincing a complete thought. They stand alone and when taken together provide a complete explanation and exclude the possibility of intended or implied caveats. Either Barry meant what he said or he did not.

That Barry meant what he said is important because the statements were specifically uttered to induce people to think positively about ObamaCare. The statements were expressly made to calm people's concerns about what would happen to them once Barry’s vaunted, signature program ObamaCare was enacted and started impacting people's lives. And Barry made the statements in some form over and over again to show what a swell guy he was and why people should vote and re-elect him.

Barry made the statements knowingly and with aforethought intention to motivate people to act in a specific way. And now Barry wants to walk them back. Wants to take them back. Wants to explain them in a more favorable light to his needs, definitely not America’s understanding.

To me, and I suspect most people, the statements are powerful. And if they were used in the context mentioned, which I believe they were, there is only one conclusion supported by these facts.

Known liberal leaning Politifact.org said it is a little late for Barry to be changing what he said and awarded Barry its most critical “Pants on Fire” rating for trying to walk these statements back.

Ardent Barry supporter and socialist leaning Washington Post Fact Checker awarded Barry its highest non-truthful rating of 4 Pinocchios for trying to change what everyone clearly understood.

For me, it is much simpler. Barry lied. Period.

Facts Are Stubborn Things

In support of Congress passing the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare as the panacea to America's healthcare woes President Barack Hussein Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a host of liberal Democrats ridiculed and chastised critics saying “facts are stubborn things” as they spread their own misinformation about the law, including these gems:

• If you like your doctor you will be able to keep your doctor. Period.
• If you like your healthcare plan, you will be able to keep your healthcare plan. Period.
• Premiums will be reduced by $2,500.
• The cost around $900 Billion over 10 years.
• ObamaCare will reduce the debt by $4 Trillion.
• ObamaCare will not cover illegal aliens.
• ObamaCare will not include abortions on-demand
• Conservatives have not offered an alternative.

The Washington Post, arguably one of the most liberal newspapers and ardent Obama supporters, recently reviewed the first to statements and awarded four Pinocchios, the highest possible, effectively saying the statements were outright lies. The remaining statements were never supportable and are simply not true. That they entered and remain in the public's ObamaCare consciousness represents a failure of America's news outlets to investigate and report the truth.

All of which ignores the fundamental healthcare problem identified and championed by President Bill Clinton until he was silenced by Obama, America's exorbitant and growing spending on healthcare! The graph below was reported by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), in 2011, the most recent year in which most of the countries reported data on healthcare spending as a percentage of GDP.

• The U.S. spent 17.7% of its GDP on health care
• None of the other countries reported spending higher than 11.9%
• The US GDP for 2011 was $14.4 Trillion
• Therefore America spent $2.6 Trillion on healthcare that year
• The Congressional Budget Office reports the cost of ObamaCare is $1.8 Trillion over 10 years
• Spread evenly the cost for ObamaCare is $180 Billion a year.
• Therefore, ObamaCare will increase annual spending on healthcare by 7%.
• Which will in turn increase annual spending as a percentage of GDP to 18.9%

These expenditures are all the more amazing when you consider that America’s GDP is far and away greater than most other nations as shown in the graph below of the worlds top 10 GDPs!

America's spending on healthcare is dramatically disproportional to other countries and ObamaCare is not helping!

While the president was misleading America and enslaving future generations with socialistic policies that have never worked and in complete contradiction to Obama's lie that conservatives were not offering a solution the Cato Institute offered the following bright light: Yes, Mr. President: A Free Market Can Fix Health Care.

Obama was right about one thing, facts are stubborn things. America never should have enacted ObamaCare and had Barack Obama and his supporting cast of deceivers not lied about the benefits of ObamaCare so utterly and pervasively America would be far better off than we are now.

Happy Halloween!

America's Troubled Finances

It is amazing to me that people can be so ignorant of America's finances. For the past couple of years John Stossel has been trying to show America's budget to numbers most could relate and appreciate like this one here from John Stossel's Blog, on 22 February 2012:

Anyone who see those figures instantly understands that the situation cannot continue forever. Well, everyone it seems except the dimwit liberals. Somehow they think that one day politicians are going to wake up and realize that they cannot continue to buy votes by giving away other people's money, because they will have taken it all just as liberal pundit Bob Beckel recently admitted to Stossel.

Another, more recent view of America's finances was published by Freedom worksFreedom Works on 19 October 2013:

When will we wake up and stop celebrating liberal's unbridled spending?

Progress = Forget the Past

Ideas about government, its size and scope have changed very little over the years. What does change is our perspective and recollection of what has happened before. Frederic Bastiat's essays from 150 years ago are just as apropos today as they were then. The labels, how they are explained and used and how they are applied to specifics of the era, country and the situation make them sound different, but they are not.

Most of the discussions on government policies and laws are fundamentally about where we want to be on the governmental spectrum. On the far left is absolute governmental control and no or very little personal freedom. This has many faces and control is asserted via religion, nationalism or idealism and includes forms of communism, fascism and totalitarianism. On the far right is anarchy or the complete absence of governmental control and total personal freedom.

The founding fathers established a government right of center emphasizing individual freedoms and liberties, limited government, equal justice and equality of opportunity. The government they designed and implemented was the meant that anyone could grow up to be anything in America.

Liberal progressive meddling has moved us left of center, preferring bigger government, more spending and limitations on our personal freedoms, social justice, equality of outcomes and a limited or narrow disparity between the poorest and the wealthiest citizens.

Cost of ObamaCare

Far too many people, mostly liberals, are believing the deceptions President Obama and his supporting cast of prevaricators have been putting forth about the benefits of ObamaCare. The evidence is clear and convincing that ObamaCare is not beneficial and in fact it is harming America. And because the media is down playing ObamaCare negatives the true believer liberals can ignore the truth! And the truth is as follows.

• UPS has announced it would no longer cover spouses who can obtain coverage through their own employers New York Times, 8/21/2013
• Twenty percent of nearly 600 large employers in a survey completed this year charged a spouse surcharge in 2013. An additional thirteen plan to do it next year Huffington Post, 9/11/2013
• Trader Joe's tells employees that they will no longer offer healthcare for employees working less than 30 hours per week. Offers those employees $500 to help find coverage. In California, where Trader Joe is incorporated, the monthly premium for a 27 year-old is $215 Huffington Post, 9/11/2013
• 351 employers reduced workers hours below the 30 hour per week threshold so that they would not be liable to include them in their health care coverage pool Investor Business Daily, 10/18/2013
• One of the major cost drivers of ObamaCare is the HHS mandated coverage which has caused prices to rise in all but five states Heritage.org, 10/16/2013
• ObamaCare hates competition and has replaced many low income state alternatives as is the case of a young lady in Michigan whose local $75 a monthly premium jumped to $319 a month plus a $6,000 deductible Campus Reform, 10/9/2013
• The Cleveland Clinic sited by the President as a model for healthcare has announced $300 million cuts, including layoffs and early retirement buyouts and the closing of a 144-bed skilled nursing facility cited ObamaCare as the reason U.S. News and World Report, 9/18/2013
• The 4th Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures says the government cannot arbitrarily enter your home, meanwhile ObamaCare includes Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program FreedomOutpost.com, 10/2/2013 reviews the language and finds very disturbing language suggesting that smoking parents may be subjected to home visits that they cannot refuse
• All of your personal data can be used for law enforcement and audit activities under ObamaCare Weekly Standard, 10/8/2013
• Now that we are learning what in ObamaCare instead of liking what we are finding as Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Democrats are becoming increasingly concerned that ObamaCare's cost cutting board will harm people on Medicare as Gov. Sarah Palin warned when she called them Death Panels The Hill, 8/8/2013
• President ignores the law and unconstitutionally delays the employer mandate for a year Forbes, 8/5/2013 exacerbating the social divide he has been fomenting
• Contrary to the President's promise that if people like their plan they can keep their plan, 300,000 Floridians, 160,000 Californians and probably millions more across the country will lose their existing healthcare insurance plans because they do not meet the ObamaCare minimum requirements NBC News, 10/18/2013

Within the first couple of years of its passage, unions and companies aware enough to do so, scrambled for waivers. The last report I found from HotAir.com, 7/16/2011 says the number of waivers issued was approaching the 1,500 mark. If ObamaCare was going to be so good, how come so many said no they don't want any part in it?

Now that the exchanges are open, the President and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius say they don't know how many have signed up. NPR quoted the president was targeting 500,000 sign-up by October 31. According to Kantar US Insights who was finally able to review ObamaCare data only about 36,000 people were able to successfully enroll in the first 5 days The Hill, 10/16/2013! At that rate, far fewer will enroll than the president predicted. And that is worrisome since ObamaCare needs widespread acceptance and enrollment from the young and healthy to cover the cost of the older and infirmed.

And the actual costs? The table below tells an expensive story.

Is it any wonder why enrollment is so sad?

Concealed Permit Holder Defends Himself

An Arkansas man was shot and killed when he attempted to rob a pharmacist as he was opening up his Dumas drug store early Friday morning.

Tavell Lawson, 31, entered the Meador Pharmacy behind its owner, Bill Canada, demanding money, with mask on and gun drawn.

According to KATV.com:

• He [Canada] tried to get away and told Lawson to stop, but Lawson continued to follow him, according to police.
• Canada said that’s when he then pulled out a gun, shot and killed Lawson. Lawson was pronounced dead at the scene.

Canada has a concealed permit and was not charged.

Via BizPac Review

Colorado Lunacy Jesus Not Permitted in Cemetery!

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

        First Amendment, United States Constitution.

The founding fathers were smart men. They understood the importance of morality. They knew that too much morality in the form of a state mandated religion might lead to the religion mattering more than the republic they were starting. And they knew that the opposite, a totally non-secular view could well lead to an a moral society, or, at least, one that did not value morals so they included a prohibition against government interfering with each citizens individual right to the free exercise of their religion.

Some misguided and ignorant Ovid, Colorado politicians and bureaucrats recently ignored the part about prohibiting the free exercise of religion when they decided to refuse to engrave "Jesus" on a preacher's wife's grave marker.

Really? Really can they be that stupid?

Apparently, sadly, the answer is yes ...

Rep. Gowdy questions NPS Director on Barricading Monuments

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) is a take no prisoners kind of guy that is needed to combat the Chicago thuggery politics being practiced by the Prevaricator-In-Chief Obama. Look at the way he eviserates the miserable suffering bastard head of the National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis.

Kudos to Rep Gowdy, I wish we had more like him!

GOP Shutdown Surrender

So utterly disappointed in the GOP after the ignoble surrender. Senators McCain, McConnell and Rep. Peter King need to change their party affiliations to coward! No, that is an insult to cowards everywhere and way nicer than they deserve.

Totally agree with Gov. Palin who said the media is going to blame the GOP, if she understands, how come they cannot?