Thursday, October 31, 2013
Obamacare Navigator Hasn't Signed Up Anyone Because It's Too Expensive
"Thus far everybody has taken a look at the rates and they've walked out the door."
The Weekly Standard, "Al Jazeera finds an Obamacare navigator in Colorado who hasn't signed up anybody for the new program because it's too expensive:"
The Weekly Standard, "Al Jazeera finds an Obamacare navigator in Colorado who hasn't signed up anybody for the new program because it's too expensive:"
"Besides facing a "credibility death spiral" on the issue of ObamaCare, as political director John Dickerson recently put it, Sharyl Attkisson pointed out on Tuesday's CBS Evening News that the very structure of the so-called reform could encounter a separate "death spiral" due to the "enrollment fiasco" surrounding HealthCare.gov." More.
Obamacare Didn’t Cancel Your Plans. He blames it on insurance companies and threatens them if they speak out
Be very afraid of this man.
Obama and Sebelius: Obamacare Didn’t Cancel Your Plans "But President Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius are now denying this.
"Yesterday, they both came out publicly to tell America that it’s not Obamacare that’s causing you to receive a cancellation notice—it’s your insurance company."Obama called insurance plans that are getting canceled “substandard” and said people could actually keep those plans if insurers still offered them (which they can’t under the President’s health care law). He said those plans are getting canceled only if “insurers decided to downgrade or cancel these substandard plans” (which they must under the law)."
Well, I guess. My wife and I are in our seventies and have just discovered after all these years that our Blue Cross/ Blue Shield plan covers neither birth control nor prenatal care.
Obama re-demonizes insurance industry I'm glad to never have been a coworker with Obama in the private sector, aren't you? Can you imagine how he would be in the boss's office, blaming you for everything that went wrong?
During my working years, we referred to people like that as "weasels" and "backstabbers". The Tunnel Dweller
"We reported on this before. Health insurance execs afraid to talk on record about Obamacare computer problems.
"CNN reports today, White House Pressuring Insurance Companies To Not Criticize ObamaCare:" Emphasis added.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Thank these Republicans for Obamacare
"We don’t have Obamacare because the public was clamoring for it. We have it because Republicans lost elections." Full Article.
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"When your new health insurance premiums arrive in the mail, and you can’t find a doctor in your plan who speaks English, tell me the fight between Republicans and Democrats is not that important."
The World's Most Powerful People 2013 (UPDATED)
Forbes
"Who’s more powerful: the autocratic leader of a former superpower or the handcuffed commander in chief of the most dominant country in the world? This year the votes for the World’s Most Powerful went to Russian President Vladimir Putin. He climbs one spot ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama, who held the title in 2012."....
UPDATE: Is Putin Really More Powerful Than Obama? "The second and far bigger point is that Barack Obama is weak internationally by choice. At home he’s amassing immense, unprecedented powers over the economy."...
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"Internationally, however, Obama is the weakest President of the post-World War II years." (Emphasis added, TD)
UPDATE: Is Putin Really More Powerful Than Obama? "The second and far bigger point is that Barack Obama is weak internationally by choice. At home he’s amassing immense, unprecedented powers over the economy."...
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"Internationally, however, Obama is the weakest President of the post-World War II years." (Emphasis added, TD)
The President Who Has Done the Most Damage
"The only question is whether it can ever be undone.
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Dennis Prager ...."But I have never written or broadcast that our country was being seriously damaged by a president. So it is with great sadness that I write that President Barack Obama has done and continues to do major damage to America. The only question is whether this can ever be undone."....
"....Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.
"He did, however, promise before the 2008 election that “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” That is the one promise he has kept."
Dennis Prager ...."But I have never written or broadcast that our country was being seriously damaged by a president. So it is with great sadness that I write that President Barack Obama has done and continues to do major damage to America. The only question is whether this can ever be undone."....
"....Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.
"He did, however, promise before the 2008 election that “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” That is the one promise he has kept."
The bystander president
NY Times: Where the Buck Stops, Some See a Bystander "President Obama finds himself under fire on two disparate fronts these days, both for the botched rollout of his signature health care program and for the secret spying on allied heads of state. In both instances, his explanation roughly boils down to this: I didn’t know."
Controversies show how Obama’s inattention to detail may hurt his presidential legacy From Hot Air: "Let’s start with the latter example from Scott Wilson, whose posits that talking big and having no interest in doing the necessary work forms a coherent management philosophy:"....
Reposted from an earlier TW: Victor Davis Hanson: Is Obama Still President? "His cadences soar on, through scandal after fiasco after disaster."
What didn’t the president know, and why didn’t he know it? "Once you lose a reputation for competence, it is hard to get back. And much of the media are now depicting Obama as less than a hands-on leader.
"Take this slap in the face:
“ 'For a smart man, President Obama professes to know very little about a great number of things going on in his administration.' ” Dana Milbank of the WaPo.
"Take this slap in the face:
“ 'For a smart man, President Obama professes to know very little about a great number of things going on in his administration.' ” Dana Milbank of the WaPo.
Obama just got used to saying things that were never challenged "President, and before, candidate Obama had the benefit of saying things that the media never challenged. It's true that they were challenged by the GOP but that is partisan. What we did not have was an aggressive, but respectful media."
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
A Deficit of Stories
National Review Online
"How did it happen? How did we wake up one day to find ourselves cast as the bad
guys for trying to save future generations from a lifetime of indebtedness? Why
are we punished for pointing out that if we keep spending more money than we
take in, we won’t continue to be a great country? Why do Americans view the
Republican party more negatively than they view Democrats, when it’s Democrats
who gave us Detroit? And Democrats who might soon turn America into
Detroit?"
MR: "Holding the government hostage attempting to blackmail Congress is a valid reason for people to dislike any party."
Tunnel Dweller: "But it was the Obama administration that spent great amounts of our money to build spite fences around monuments. Whether Republicans were right or wrong to lead the shutdown, that cannot be denied."
Obama's Military Coup Purges 197 Officers In Five Years
Investors.com "What the president calls "my military" is being cleansed of any officer suspected of disloyalty to or disagreement with the administration on matters of policy or force structure, leaving the compliant and fearful.
...."Yet what has happened to our officer corps since President Obama took office is viewed in many quarters as unprecedented, baffling and even harmful to our national security posture." Watch him say it
Is Obama Still President?
"His cadences soar on, through scandal after fiasco after disaster."
Victor Davis Hanson "We are currently learning whether the United States really needs a president. Barack Obama has become a mere figurehead, who gives speeches few listen to any more, issues threats that scare fewer, and makes promises that almost no one believes he will keep. Yet America continues on, despite the fact that the foreign and domestic policies of Barack Obama are unraveling, in a manner unusual even for star-crossed presidential second terms.
"Abroad, American policy in the Middle East is leaderless and in shambles after the Arab Spring — we’ve had the Syrian fiasco and bloodbath, leading from behind in Libya all the way to Benghazi, and the non-coup, non-junta in Egypt."....
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"Second, the other half of Americans gladly accept that Obama is an iconic rather than a serious president. Given his emblematic status as the nation’s first African-American president and his efforts to craft a vast coalition of those with supposed grievances against the majority, he will always have a strong base of supporters."....
"Abroad, American policy in the Middle East is leaderless and in shambles after the Arab Spring — we’ve had the Syrian fiasco and bloodbath, leading from behind in Libya all the way to Benghazi, and the non-coup, non-junta in Egypt."....
"Second, the other half of Americans gladly accept that Obama is an iconic rather than a serious president. Given his emblematic status as the nation’s first African-American president and his efforts to craft a vast coalition of those with supposed grievances against the majority, he will always have a strong base of supporters."....
The Environmental Enemies of Energy
Alan Caruba "....there is another threat to our future as environmental groups like the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth continue their assault on the provision of electrical energy, the lifeblood of the nation’s economy and our ability to function at home and on the job.""Coal, oil and natural gas are labeled “dirty” for propaganda purposes, but what the Sierra Club and others do not tell you and will never tell you is that they account for most of the electricity generated in America, along with nuclear and hydropower. Wind and solar power provide approximately 3% of the electricity and require government subsidies and mandates to exist. Their required use drives up the cost of electricity to consumers."
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