Watch As Tucker Carlson Scorches Zeke Emanuel Over Doomed Obamacare

With help from Republican lawmakers, president-elect Trump will follow through on his campaign promise to get rid of Obamacare  His campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told "Fox News Sunday" the president-elect was considering convening a special session of Congress on the day he's sworn in to repeal Obamacare.

John Barrasso, an orthopedic surgeon for 24 years and the fourth-ranking member of the Senate GOP leadership, promised a smooth transition for the millions of Americans who receive health insurance through the laughably titled Affordable Care Act.  Barrasso reassured everyone they won’t be left out in the cold without coverage.

The weaselly brother of Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel owes America an apology for the rolling disaster of skyrocketing premiums, insurers pulling out of exchanges and rising costs of health care. 

Of course, when the interviewers point out these facts “Zeke” always gets huffy and demands being allowed to filibuster.  He has said, “If we get rid of the exchanges, it’s going to be very hard to see how you get universal coverage.”

That’s the whole point.  Americans don’t want single payer health insurance like Great Britain or Canada and Trump promised to repeal and replace it.



And then there's this:

Holy cow. @MariaBartiromo just REAMED Jonathan Gruber over Obamacare's failures. This is BRUTAL. https://t.co/DNfT1x8pBO

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) November 15, 2016

Staggering Choices

If Nancy Doesn't Want To Take Her Medication Orally, I'm Sure We Can Arrange That She Can Have It Some Other Way

Four years ago the Affordable Care Act was signed into law.  During a press conference on Thursday which a measly 15 journalists attended, Nancy Pelosi vocefirously stood at the rostrum correcting a reporter who asked, “In the current environment in a swing district, is Obamacare a winner or a loser politically?”

Pelosi replied, “I believe that it’s a winner,” and then went into a dissertation on why it should be called by its proper name.

“It’s called the Affordable Care Act.  It’s called the Affordable Care Act. I know you didn’t intend any compliment or derogatory—it’s called the Affordable Care Act, and the Affordable Care Act, when people know what it is and see what it means to them, and that’s the case that we have to make,” she rambled.

“And I tell him the same thing I told you,” Pelosi said laughing. “Affordable. Affordable. There’s a reason—affordable. Affordable. Affordable. Affordable. Affordable. The reason they changed the name of it is because they wanted to get away, the opponents, from the word affordable. And that’s why I’m patient with some of these comments, whatever it is; it’s infinitely more affordable than the path that we’re on without it.”

You keep using that word Nancy.   I don’t think it means what you think it means.

The reporter was quick to point out that The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer himself had embraced the term in 2012.

The only reason I can surmise that she sounded like a broken record is that she either shit her pantsuit or it was time for her meds.

UPDATE:  Thanks a bazillion to Don Surber for linking to this post.

Son Of A Glitch

The Op-Ed section of The Wall Street Journal tells us today that, “the exchanges fiasco is revealing the larger truth that ObamaCare's claim to technocratic expertise was always a political con. It won over the New Yorker and made ObamaCare designer Peter Orszag a celebrity. But it was all a veneer for ObamaCare's real goal, which is to centralize political control over health care."

The White House pitched President Obama's Rose Garden event on Monday as a new transparency, but the event amounted to an infomercial, complete with a 1-800 number. Operators are standing by and "the product is good," the President said. He even encouraged Americans to bypass the website and apply for benefits over the phone or by mail.

It is delicious irony that the regime decided to launch the ObamaCare website in October.  Halloween brings with it the summoning of frightening mythical creatures in the gloom of night.  Had the website been launched in November it would simply have been referred to as a turkey.

Welcome to Sleepy Hollow.  People are spending endless hours trying to create an account.  Each time they are met with failure.  They’ve called the hotline and been met with failure.  

Enter the Headless Horseman—Barack Hussein Obama.  Indeed a creepy fellow.  Little can be more frightening than the specter of a headless man who rides aimlessly through the night in search of his own head.

The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza offers this rejoinder for ObamaCare, “The ACA is the most important liberal project in decades. If it fails, it is a complete disaster for liberalism.”

The regime is guilty of putting the cart before the horse and now is pleading with Verizon to fix the hotline problem and a bevy of the “best and brightest” have been summoned to fix the computer software which is ten years old and filled with faulty codes.

The overwhelming obstacles that plague ObamaCare are beyond the pay grade of the techies.

Welcome to Sleepy Hollow.

See also:

The Buck Stops With Sebelius & Obama - New York Times
Web Site Glitches Feed Doubts About Bigger Issues - USA Today
Secrecy & Damage Control Won't Restore Confidence - Washington Post

Obamacare: It’s the Law, Just Not Yet

Via The Washington Post

By delaying a requirement that all large employers provide health insurance, the regime hopes to avoid the trainwreck of companies vowing to cut jobs or workers’ hours to avoid the costly mandate.

The failure to launch adds fuel to the myriad of critics of the signature legislation of The Insufferable Airhorn.

“You trade off one set of painful stories for another set of painful stories,” Bob Kocher, a former Obama health policy advisor, said. “I would think that, if I’m an administration official today, it’s a way more troublesome news story for people to say that we’re not ready to launch.”

Obamacare was leading to scores of workers losing workweek hours—or losing their jobs altogether.

Delaying the employer mandate until 2015 essentially puts an end to those actions for one year. While the Treasury Department cited concerns about the “complexity of the requirements” as the reason for the delay, observers saw a political motivation as well.

So it’s the law.  Just not yet.

Maybe now, in hindsight, reading the bill before passing it would have been the smart thing to do.  Meh.

You know who really feels stupid right now? All those people who bribed the WH for Obamacare waivers. Suckers!

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 2, 2013

Supreme Worry: The Fate Of ObamaCare

Writing at The Hill, Juan Williams, the squishy shill for President “Tee-Em-Up” believes, “Every political strategist working the fall elections sees a game changer coming by the end of the month. That’s when the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of President Obama’s signature legislative accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act.”

“The Democrats have a nuclear option in this political game if the high court throws out the healthcare law as unconstitutional.”

“That blowup-the-system button, not pushed since FDR’s attempt to stack the court with Democrats during the New Deal, is for Obama to use the bully pulpit of the White House, and the national stage of a presidential campaign, to launch a bitter attack on the current court as a corrupt tool of the Republican right wing.”

“It is a move that could energize Democrats and independents even as Republicans celebrate a major legal victory. Some Democrats, sensing a political windfall, can’t wait to start the offensive.”

By contrast Avik Roy, a contributor at Forbes, provides some insight.

“In her ACS remarks, Ginsburg suggested that she might be on the dissenting side of the case. ‘I have spoken on more than one occasion about the utility of dissenting opinions, noting in particular that they can reach audiences outside the court and can propel legislative or executive change,’ said Ginsburg, in the context of a 2007 pay discrimination case.” 

“Most tellingly, she touched upon the key question that I believe the Court is still working through: what to do with the law if the individual mandate is indeed found to be unconstitutional.”“My sources (which I freely admit to be third-hand) suggest that Kennedy will side with the conservatives and strike down the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that nearly every American must buy health insurance. The key question is: how much of the rest of the law should be struck down along with it?” 

“Ginsburg wittily put it this way: ‘If the individual mandate, requiring the purchase of insurance or the payment of a penalty, if that is unconstitutional, must the entire act fall? Or, may the mandate be chopped, like a head of broccoli, from the rest of the act?’” 

“My understanding—again, from third-hand sources—is that this question of severability is the subject of intense debate among the justices, even now. It’s entirely unclear whether the Court will strike down the mandate and two related provisions—what I’ve called the “strike three” scenario; or take down the entirety of Title I, where the law’s restructuring of the private insurance market resides; or overturn the whole law. Indeed, it is probable that the Court has not yet decided how it will rule on this question.”

In any event, those in the know believe the decision will be handed down on June 25.

In other news, New York Magazine reveals, “The Obama campaign announced today that it has picked John Kerry to serve as Mitt Romney's stand-in during President Obama's debate preparation. Kerry was chosen as Obama's sparring partner partly because he knows Romney's life and career so well; partly because he, as the Washington Post writes, ‘has long been considered one of the Democratic Party’s most skilled debaters’; and partly because the robot dad from the Duracell battery commercials had other commitments."

White House Silent On Second Anniversary Of ObamaCare Scam

March 23, 2012 marked the second anniversary of ObamaCare, but there were no celebrations at the White House marking President Obama’s signature accomplishment.

Instead, the White House is hawking a potty-mouth T-shirt for 30 bucks that refers to Joe Biden’s vulgar whisper in the president’s ear, and caught on tape, calling the Affordable Care Act a “big f—king deal.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gave a sarcastic poke in the eye saying, “I saw the president down at the White House.  I’m a little surprised, but there wasn’t a birthday cake to celebrate the second anniversary of ObamaCare."

That’s not a new necklace the president is wearing.  It’s a political albatross around his neck.  This regime awaits the high stakes hearings on the constitutionality of the law by the Supreme Court beginning March 26.

The next day, March 27th, will be devoted to arguments involving the administration's claim that not buying insurance somehow constitutes interstate commerce that may be regulated by Congress. 

The 28th will be devoted to the commandeering and severability issues.  The Democrats, you will recall, failed to include a severability clause in Obamacare. This, in theory, means that the Court must invalidate the entire law if it strikes down the mandate. If the justices follow the example of U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, PPACA is toast. Unfortunately, the precedents aren't as clear on this issue as one might wish. The justices have demonstrated a willingness to ignore the absence of severability language when it suits them.

Charles Krauthammer’s Op-Ed in The Washington Post sums up ObamaCare nicely:  “Rarely has one law so exemplified the worst of the Leviathan state—grotesque cost, questionable constitutionality and arbitrary bureaucratic coerciveness. Little wonder the president barely mentioned it in his latest State of the Union address. He wants to be reelected. He’d rather talk about other things.”

“But there’s no escaping it now. Oral arguments begin Monday at 10 a.m.”

Oh, and just for shits and giggles, the #ILikeObamaCare hashtag launched by President Whiny’s re-election campaign was hijacked by conservatives.  The Daily Caller dutifully notes, “The Twitter hashtag was the most popular in the world Friday afternoon, but not for reasons the Obama campaign wanted.” 

Yeah.  I bet.