Friday - November 15, 2013

I can’t see teh point

I haven’t written about our Chicago Black Jesus God-king ‘Teh Won’ Obongo’s self-defecating embarrassment in front of the teleprompter the other day.  What’s the point? You knew it was going to be utter stupidity, lies, and total wrong-headedness even before he got in front of the microphones. And he didn’t disappoint.

I mean, come on. When even Howlin’ Mad Howie Dean, the former chair of the DNC publicly questions the legality of his plan, the ... ahem ... the jig is up.

“I wonder if he has the legal authority to do this, since this was a congressional bill that set this up,” said Dean of Obama’s proposed fix.

And you just know that that’s code-speak for “what the *#%~ is this commie moron trying to do now??”. Because he isn’t the God-king. And really ... directing the government not to enforce a law ... that’s one of those high crimes and misdemeanors, isn’t it? Ya can’t do that. Ever.

And you - he - can’t rewrite the law on the fly. Actually, he can’t rewrite any law at all. That’s not his power, nor his purview. It’s not even slightly within the enumerated powers of the Executive Branch. That’s a job for the Legislature, period.

“We put a grandfather clause into the law, but it was insufficient,” the president said at the White House as he announced the new loophole he has created.

Under the new loophole, Mr. Obama will leave it up to state health insurance commissioners to decide which sub-standard plans can still be offered by insurance companies, and he has pledged that his administration won’t penalize them for still offering those plans even though they violate the Affordable Care Act. The extension will last only one year.

New loophole? No such banana. The only loophole he created is one made of hemp, just big enough for his own swelled head, when he told the nation that this was his plan. By his instruction, hundreds of insurance companies, tens of thousands of their employees, and millions of people are to break the law. The one that he hammered away at us every single day for the first two years he was in office, to the exclusion of pretty much everything else. The bill that had to be passed before it could be read. The bill that was both racist and nearly treasonous to object to in the slightest. The completely unconstitutional rape of the entire nation and the biggest federal power grab since the Civil War (maybe bigger), that could only be declared by getting the secret dirt on the Chief Justice and holding his nutz to the fire until he rolled over and reinterpreted the thing as something that it was sold as totally not being (a tax not a penalty). So let’s ignore it now? Dude, you are so fired.

Yes, Obama fumbled the ball. Just like he told us. But the ball he really fumbled was his past 5 years as pResident. Toe. Dull. Lew. Zer.

confusion, ridicule at state level
President Obama’s “fix” for the wave of insurance cancellation notices going out as a result of ObamaCare is creating mass confusion for state-level insurance commissioners and companies who are unclear how they would implement the change—if at all—at this late stage.

“For three years, state insurance regulators have been working to adapt to the Affordable Care Act in a way that best meets the needs of consumers in each state,” the National Association of Insurance Commissioners said in a statement. “It is unclear how, as a practical matter, the changes proposed ... by the president can be put into effect.”

No kidding. And I’m sure somehow, even though this is entirely his doing, that Obamacare is entirely his doing, that not one single Republican in the House or the Senate voted for it ... somehow it’s going to turn out to be Bush’s fault. And the GOP’s. What a shitwipe.

But there’s a catch with president’s proposed solution. The president is not proposing that the law be changed to allow all health insurance plans grandfathered into Obamacare’s eligibility requirements.

No, instead the White House is saying that it will use “enforcement discretion” to allow illegal health insurance plans to be able to still be sold. That is, the Obama administration will not enforce the penalty on individuals for not having eligible health insurance plans and they’ll allow the insurance companies to still sell so-called bad plans—plans they technically can’t sell under Obamacare.

“Under the White House’s approach, the Department of Health and Human Services will notify the nation’s state insurance commissioners that they have federal permission to allow consumers who already have such insurance policies to keep them through 2014,” reports the Washington Post.

He’ll also be forcing insurance companies to help advertise for Obamacare by letting customers know that there’s an Obamacare marketplace where they can purchase (or get subsidized) health care coverage.

Obama’s proposal is an extra-legal solution to a big problem for millions of Americans around the country.

“I don’t see within the law how they can do this administratively,” said Speaker John Boehner in a press conference on Capitol Hill. “No one can identify anything the president could do administratively to keep his pledge that would be both legal and effective.”

The proposed White House fix so that Obama can honor his commitment is also likely to create more problems and to further distrust the American people have for this administration, which makes law based on what it chooses to enforce while sidestepping the constitutional process that is in place.

Indeed, there’s another problem. As Texas senator Ted Cruz says, the president cannot fix an unfixable law. “We cannot ‘fix’ Obamacare. The damage has been done, as millions of Americans have already been made to pay higher premiums and lose their jobs, wages, and health care plans,” Cruz said today.

President Clinton famously dismissed Obama’s candidacy for president of the United States by saying, “Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I have ever seen.”

Dude. So. So. Wrong.

And if this is a fairy tale, it’s not the “happily ever after” kind. It’s the Frog and the Scorpion kind, at best. The kind that ends in tears, and in blood.

That’s what happens when you elect a pretender solely because of what he looks like.

Serves us right.

For the rest of us, those few who can actually think: you do see how rewriting or nullifying laws on the fly by executive fiat is pure tyranny, right? The acts of an Emperor, not those of a President? Impeach. Now. Torches, pitchforks. Etc.

I think I like writing about the mouse in our house more than this. Hmmm.

Posted by Drew458     on 11/15/2013 at 03:35 PM   
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