Stupid Pelosi Partisan Pet Tricks

The left's senile figure head in the House of Representatives has been making a lot of truly ridiculous statements lately, such as:

• "It's almost a false argument to say we have a spending problem."
• "You cannot cut your way to deficit reduction."
• "Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program."
• "We should only deport illegal aliens if the do something illegal."
• "Employers cutting hours is a good thing, it gives that person time to pursue their dreams and passions."
• "Think of an economy where poeple could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance."
• "Hamas is a humanitarian organization."
• "Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs."
• "I don't think [Obama's] ever done anything for political reasons."
• "Everybody will have lower rates, better quality, and better access."
• "ObamaCare is lowering costs and the deficit."
• "I don't remember saying that everybody in the country would have a lower premium."
• "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."
• "Sincerity is the most important thing in acting. Once yo can fake that you've got it made."
• "I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels."
• "Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on."

It is well past time for Pelosi and other senile Democrats and Republicans, think McCain, to retire.

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?

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!

The Anointed One Speaks of his Prize Legislation

The Prevaricator-in-Chief put on a stunning performance last night, once again obfuscating every bit of truth. Sure Obama-care will be everything to everyone ... so why wait 4 years to put it in place? Because, to paraphrase Rep Wilson, President Obama lied! He started out lying and kept right on lying all the way through. Well, he was right in that the bill doesn't say there will not be death panels, but it doesn't say there won't be either. Yeah Obama-care needs to be paid for before it’s enacted, but what if it costs over run the Obamanation’s incredibly optimistic cost estimates just like the Congressional Budget Office says they will? Does the bill also contain protections and prohibitions that would render it void and discarded? NAY NAY. For every half truth the Obamanation uttered there was an equal and most likely outcome that he denounced as a scare tactic; but, that sure doesn’t alleviate the inconsistencies and misery that exudes from this liberal progressive fantasy like stink on poo.

You know, I could embrace for Obama-care IF it included ironclad prohibitions or bill expirations for every evil that any thinking person knows will happen. Sadly Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the intellectually challenged Dimwitocrats won't include ironclad guarantees because they know the truth, that the criticisms against the bill are true or will come about because the bill just doesn’t make sense!

The Obamanation is so enamored of what he perceives will be and surely is his rightful place in history, he just can’t let this go. Yes he did make one hell of a pitch for Obama-care; but I just don’t believe what this liar is selling.

I know it would be pointless for me to attempt to educate the Obamanation, but still, if I had a moment to speak with him I would suggest that he embrace the free market reforms advocated by the Cato Institute. And I would stress that while they may not be as alluring as his fantasy, they make sense and cost nothing to implement! And from that standpoint alone they deserve a chance, unlike Obama-care which should be shuttered away and hopefully soon forgotten!