Obamacare Architect Exposes Progressive Totalitarianism

Bruce S. Thornton    ... "Or to put it in other terms, this set of progressive beliefs––which we have seen acted on for the last six years by the president and practically every government agency––is totalitarian at its core. Not the brutal despotism of Italian fascism or Soviet communism or German Nazism, but Tocqueville’s “soft despotism,” the kinder, gentler Leviathan which undermines self-reliance and self-government by taking responsibility for the people’s comfort and happiness, and financing its largess by the redistribution of property. But no matter how comfortable in the short-term, such a condition is nothing other than servitude. And as Tocqueville warns, “No one will ever believe that a liberal, wise, and energetic government can spring from the suffrages of a subservient people.' ”

Obamacare Comics

 

Obamacare in Cartoons: New Graphic Novel Explains Health Care Reform

"MIT economist Jonathan Gruber has released his much-anticipated graphic novel describing the inner workings of Obamacare, just in time for the Supreme Court’s hearing on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act of 2010. Most of us do not have the time or the ability to slog through the 900+ pages of the actual Affordable Care Act, so this comic novel is just the thing to help make all of this information more comprehensible."

November 1864, 150 years ago. Sherman marches to the sea, and Lincoln is re-elected

Abraham Lincoln re-elected president

Historical Events for November 1864    Excerpts:
15th - Union Major General Sherman leaves Atlanta on the "March to the Sea"

29th - Battle of Spring Hill, TN (Thomason's Station)

29th - Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado militia kills about 150 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians including Cheyenne chief One-Eye


Also called the Chivington Massacre    ... "A dozen years later, as a change.org petition was pushing to rename the town of Chivington, once a bustling burg outside of Eads that today is a ghost town, members of the Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration Commission were meeting just a few miles away at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. The Chivington name change concept came up, and the tribal representatives were unanimous in the belief that the name should stay. "It was helpful to hear the tribes talk about that," says Nancy Wadsworth, an associate professor in DU's Department of Political Science who pushed the university's report through."

This was the basis for the fictional massacre by Col Skimmerhorn in the TV series "Centennial".

30th - Battle of Franklin Tennessee: Confederate attack fails, 7,700 casualities

Battle of Franklin commemorated at 2014 Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial Signature Event

Battle website   "Sixth Plate Ambrotype of Confederate Color-Bearer Ensign John J. Cherry, 3rd Mis"
..."The 3rd Miss was part of Loring’s Division, Featherston’s Brigade. Jacobson says that Cherry was shot in the upper right arm and died of his wounds in January 1865."

Illegal immigrants expecting amnesty from President Obama taunt and ridicule the overworked ICE officers

Washington Examiner  "Morale among officers at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, already low, has reached a new bottom as illegal immigrants expecting amnesty from President Obama taunt and ridicule the overworked officers, according to a new report.
“Yes,” said one, “working for this agency is hell right now.” Video at the link.

 

"Jessica M. Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies... has charted the woes of the officers who carry out the president’s orders."

"The president's gradual, calculated dismantling of our immigration system has caused morale to plummet in the agencies of the Department of Homeland Security. Career immigration officials have courageously objected in public, and sometimes resorted to lawsuits to draw attention to the administration's subversion of the law. In denial about their principled objections to his scheme, now the president is hoping to stifle their voices by offering them a pay increase as part of this outrageous plan. His assumption that they are motivated by money shows just how little respect he has for the men and women who have devoted their careers to public service in immigration."

"Vaughan told Secrets that she has been concerned about morale in ICE and raised the issue with Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson." ...

 

RELATED: Obama to GOP: Immigration action 'going to happen' in 2014

"Obama's gonna let me go!"

Victor Davis Hanson: Voting ‘no’ on Obama’s immigration policies

 

..."Candidates who pandered to identity groups and played the ethnic card lost in most cases.

"Voters in liberal Oregon overwhelmingly rejected driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants.

"In reaction, President Obama sulked, threatening to quickly push through an unpopular amnesty by executive order. Obama apparently knows that he enjoys neither public nor congressional support for his planned executive fiat." ...

Hearing Voices

Bokbluster

 

President Obama had this to say about his shellacking last week:

“To everyone who voted, I want you to know that I hear you. To the two-thirds of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, I hear you, too.”

Jared Rizzi of Sirius XM was curious about the nonvoting voices Obama hears. Rizzi asked WH spokesman Josh Earnest if the president is “leader of a coalition that doesn’t vote?”.

 Voices

Based on Obama’s obsession with rule by fiat he does appear driven by voices that don’t vote. He insists he’ll impose immigration reform by executive action if Congress doesn’t give him what he wants right now. Speaker Boehner, a voice for those who do vote, says that would “poison the well”.
Maybe well poisoning is the objective. In 2010 Obama told latinos to punish our enemies and reward our friends. After all, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough tells us Washington would “work better if Obama has his way”.

Gruber's goobers: couldn't have done it without them, he says.

Krauthammer: Gruber Comments Will ‘Set The Mood For Repeal’ Of Obamacare [VIDEO]

Krauthammer column from Thursday's Tunnel Wall: Now we see the arrogance that lay behind Obama’s smooth reassurances.

 

Nancy Pelosi Walks into the #Grubergate Buzzsaw "Pelosi might as well have waved a red flag in front of a target as a starting gun went off. Gruber "wasn't writing" the health care bill? No one said he was, only that he helped walk Democrats through the crafting of the various bills that became the Affordable Care Act."

 

Gruber who? Democrats do their best to erase their many links to Obamacare’s “Mr. Mandate.”

... "Political actors are constantly at war over the past, because they know that it defines the present.

Pelosi and her ilk, though, are not interested in discovering the past, but in controlling it —

and in having the leisure to reshape it whenever convenient.

 

"Who? Said what? Well, that was a long time ago, and, besides, it never happened anyway."

 

Rich Lowry at NRO: Thank you Jonathan Gruber; Obamistas believe they had to lie to pass Obamacare because Americans are stupid.

... "H. L. Mencken famously wrote that no one has “ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.” Or, Gruber might add, ever failed to pass major social legislation by doing the same."...
I totally reject that statement because, er, um.....well...

Rather than congratulating themselves on their cleverness, the law’s architects might better reflect on how, even with crushing majorities in the House and the Senate, they had to lie and obfuscate to get Obamacare passed. That is damning commentary, not on the American public, but on their misbegotten handiwork.

 

From Ethics Alarms: Pelosi: ‘We Did Not Lie About ObamaCare, And Here Are Two More
Lies That Prove It’
"Let me preface the post by saying that the Democratic leadership is disgraceful in its complete
disrespect for the American people, and why individuals like Nancy Pelosi have any support at all
 except from the sinister, the dim, and those with internal head injuries, I cannot fathom."

 

From Lucianne:

    
We Do the Lying Around Here      

White House is as "angry as a smashed cat."
Now that's angry!

President Obama planning 10-point amnesty for millions of migrants within days risking wrath
of Republicans                          

More than simple wrath is in the works.

 

The U.S.–China Climate Change Deal Is Terrible. Fortunately, It Doesn’t Matter   

"When you are on the look out for good news,
any morsel will do."

 

Nancy Pelosi says she doesn’t know who Jonathan Gruber is. She touted his work in 2009

Too delicious. Never destroy film. Ever, ever, ever.

 

Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber: Obama Was In the Room When the Cadillac Tax Was Created
Things coming full circle right back to O.            

The Jon Gruber controversy and what it means for Obamacare, explained
Truth is the most amazing air cleaner in the world.

In depth: The Jon Gruber controversy and what it means for Obamacare, explained

Vox  (Yes, I said VOX) By way of  Lucianne.

 

... "The videos have not been flattering for Gruber. And, perhaps more consequentially, they have breathed new life into the Obamacare opposition effort. Republican legislators are exploring the possibility of hearings about Gruber, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. As Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) put it, "This gives us ammunition to make fundamental changes to the law."

"This all comes at a moment when the Affordable Care Act is once again vulnerable....The Gruber videos are arguably the best ammo critics have right now to paint the law as ambiguous, sloppy, and passed under false pretenses — and they're trying to make the most of that.

"Here's a quick guide to who Jonathan Gruber is, why he's at the center of this controversy, and what it means for the future of Obamacare."  Full article with videos here.

Gruber received $400,000 in federal grants to work on Obamacare

... Why is he back in the spotlight now?

Over the past few months, Obamacare opponents have surfaced multiple video clips that fall into two categories: Gruber lending support to the new Supreme Court case against Obamacare and Gruber saying that the "stupidity of the American voter" helped the law pass.

 

Washington Post: Nancy Pelosi, um,...Misspeaks About Not Knowing Jonathan Gruber

Big Journalism

WaPo

 

  "Although the mainstream media as a whole (with few exceptions) is covering up the damning video of ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber openly discussing all the lies and deceit surrounding passage of President Obama's signature domestic achievement, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi forced the Washington Post's hand on the matter Thursday when she was caught lying about not knowing Gruber. (Emphases in the original)

"I don't know who [Gruber] is," Pelosi told reporters Thursday. "He didn't help write our bill."

"The only problem with that claim is the Post's discovery that in November of 2009, Pelosi gushed over Gruber by name. Here's the video. The transcript is below:" ...

Liberal haters attack Dana Loesch after debate with Ed Schultz: 'Drop dead soon'

Examiner.com

Ed Schultz angrily confronts Dana Loesch on MSNBC, sparking profane hate from liberals.

 

"After a heated debate with MSNBC's Ed Schultz, conservative talk show host Dana Loesch found herself the target of liberal hate mail. A great deal of what Loesch posted on Thursday is far too profane to quote directly, but one hater was quite explicit, telling Loesch to "drop dead soon."

" 'You deserve to have your tongue fed to a dog and concrete poured down your throat until it comes out your bloody (expletive deleted)," the message said. "Drop dead soon, my dog and I would like to get in line" to defecate in her grave, the letter added in far more profane language than we can use here.

"The bloodthirsty hate also found its way to Loesch's Facebook page." ... Via Joe Newby

Dana's show blog

HOAX - 'Belgium Mayor Explains Why he Refused to Ban Pork From School Canteens'

"Circulating message features a strident letter supposedly sent to parents by Marc Duvivier, the mayor of the Belgium municipality of Ath, explaining why he refused to give in to demands from local Muslims to remove pork from school canteen menus."
Sorry, but it just is not true. TD

 

Hoax Slayer  
Message is a Hoax - No such Demands Were Made - No Letter Sent

However, the message is just a nasty hoax.   Mayor Duvivier did not write the letter and it was not sent to local parents by the municipality as claimed.

In fact, the mayor has denied that any requests to remove pork from school canteens were received in the first place.  Mayor Duvivier issued a denial back in 2013 when the hoax first began circulating, noting that the claims were lies. He stated that:

[N]o person of any nationality or ethnic group whatsoever, have made ​​such a request to the municipal services, with Mr. Bruno Boel, Municipal Secretary, or myself.

It is unclear who started the false rumour. Given that the supposed Muslim demands to ban pork from canteens were never made, and the mayor did not write or send the letter, this message has no credibility whatsoever and should not be circulated.

Such false information can foster bigotry and hatred within communities and sharing it will serve no good purpose.

 

Subway announced they are pulling all pork products from their United Kingdom outlets.

Krauthammer; The Gruber Confession

Charles Krauthammer

washingtonpost.com/ Video

 

... " Remember: The whole premise of Obamacare was that it would help the needy, but if you were not in need, if you liked what you had, you would be left alone. Which is why Obama kept repeating — PolitiFact counted 31 times — that “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan.' ”...

... "But of course you couldn’t, as millions discovered when they were kicked off their plans last year. Millions more were further shocked when they discovered major hikes in their premiums and deductibles. It was their wealth that was being redistributed.

 

... "But now we know what lay behind Obama’s smooth reassurances — the arrogance of an academic liberalism, so perfectly embodied in the Gruber Confession, that rules in the name of a citizenry it mocks, disdains and deliberately, contemptuously deceives."   Full article

Ignorant and ignoranter

 

http://www.investors.com/editorial-cartoons/michael-ramirez/726423

Discharge Pending For Combat Pilot Who Tried To Stop Lesbian Officers’ Make-Out Session…

Weasel Zippers

 

"The Army is moving to discharge a decorated combat pilot who intervened to stop two lesbian officers from showing excessive affection on the dance floor at an official ball at Fort Drum, N.Y.

"Lt. Col. Christopher Downey ended up being convicted administratively of assaulting a soldier trying to film the kissing and grabbing. Col. Downey’s lawyer, Richard Thompson, says his client merely pushed down the camera to prevent photos that could end up on social media."
Via Washington Times: