Surprise: Vulnerable Dems Work To Distance Themselves From “Affordable” Care Act

By William Teach November 14, 2013 – 7:01 am

The same legislation all of them who were in office in 2010 voted for

(The Hill) Vulnerable Democrats are scrambling to find ways to stand apart from the White House on ObamaCare as the rollout of the high-profile law continues to struggle — and threatens their reelections.

A number of red state Democrats in the House and Senate are rushing to embrace legislation to amend ObamaCare, seeking to improve parts of the law that have led to public outrage, and insulate themselves from attacks as they head into election year in 2014.

Ones like Landrieu, Hagan, Begich, Pryor, Barrow, and McIntyre are just a few of the ones freaking out now that the law is going tits up. Of course, it’s going tits up in exactly the manner it was supposed to. This is what Democrats voted for, particularly in terms of giving HHS, and by extension the White House, enormous power and latitude to craft the rules for O-care.

“A lot of members are very concerned,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), who has talked to several nervous members from swing districts.

If the White House doesn’t quickly offer an alternate solution, Connolly warned more Democrats would back Rep. Fred Upton’s (R-Mich.) legislation, which would grandfather in all plans that would be canceled by the law’s requirements.

If these Democrats had voted in favor of doing The Right Thing for the American People, and refused to support this horrible legislation, they wouldn’t be in this situation.

Even amid the ObamaCare website calamity, Landrieu said the healthcare law is “worth fighting for.” She added, “It’s important we don’t lose sight of how important this bill is for the American people.”

This highlights one of the issues in politics, with Democrats backing the Party platform to the hilt, rather than doing what is best for the People. This law isn’t the way. And they really shouldn’t expect any help from Team Obama

“We weren’t making grandiose claims. He doesn’t have to run again, I don’t know why he needs to make such grandiose claims. Some of this stuff is just gratuitous rhetoric,” he said.

That’s right, Dems, don’t expect any help for 2014. Obama has his “legacy” to worry about, and he obviously doesn’t care how the ACA negatively affects citizens. The law was based on a lie, and Dems have lied about it ever since. Republicans stated exactly what would happen even before it was passed in the dead of night using bribes, extortion, and parliamentary tricks. And it will only get worse.

BTW, just to be clear, the numbers show a measly 106,000 signed up through the Exchanges, only 27,000 of which were from the federal exchange. Of course, these number do not specify how many actually paid for the plan. They include people who have may have a plan in their shopping cart and gone no further. We do not know how many are young healthies and how many have pre-existing conditions. Even worse, 396,000 people have been approved for Medicaid, so, we’re essentially moving people into true government run health care.

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Whoops: Ezra Klein Lets The Cat Out Of The Bag About Keeping Your Plan

By William Teach November 13, 2013 – 6:07 pm

In the context of explaining just why O-care is in much worse trouble than thought, and the Mary Landrieu “keep your plan” legislation, he writes

4. The bill Landrieu is offering could really harm the law. It would mean millions of people who would’ve left the individual insurance market and gone to the exchanges will stay right where they are. Assuming those people skew younger, healthier, and richer — and they do — Obamacare’s premiums will rise. Meanwhile, many people who could’ve gotten better insurance on the exchanges will stay in bad plans that will leave them bankrupt when they get sick.

Essentially, what he’s telling us is that it was always necessary to the “Affordable” Care Act for people, especially young healthies, to lose their health plans and be forced into the Exchange. Otherwise, a huge chunk of this boondoggle, if not the whole thing, collapses.

BTW, House and Senate Dems plan on introducing an “historic” pro-abortion bill which would stop States from passing restrictions.on abortion. Besides the fact that it violates that pesky 10th Amendment, this is Distraction Legislation, an attempt to change the subject from the disaster of O-care.

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Obama’s Green Economy Kills An Estimated 600,000 Bats In 2012

By William Teach November 13, 2013 – 3:26 pm

Funny how “green” energy sources which are supposed to “save the biosphere” keep killing so much life, wouldn’t you say?

(Breitbart (and before any Warmist complains about this being Breitbart, it is actually a UPI story) Wind turbines killed at least 600,000 — and possibly as many as 900,000 — bats in the United States in 2012, researchers say.

Writing in the journal BioScience, the researchers said they used sophisticated statistical techniques to infer the probable number of bat deaths at wind energy facilities from the number of dead bats found at 21 locations.

Bats, which play an important role in the ecosystem as insect-eaters, are killed at wind turbines not only by collisions with moving turbine blades but also by the trauma resulting from sudden changes in air pressure that occur near a fast-moving blade, the study said.

Study author Mark Hayes of the University of Colorado notes that 600,000 is a conservative estimate — the true number could be 50 percent higher than that — and some areas of the country might experience much higher bat fatality rates at wind energy facilities than others.

Why do Warmists, including Obama, hate bats? Why do they hate wildlife?

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 13, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil cat and bottle of hairspray, a double whammy that causes heavy snow to fall cause it gets warm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Black and Right, who notes that Dems who repeated Obamacare big lie are in trouble.

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Obamacare Ads Go Slutty

By William Teach November 13, 2013 – 9:31 am

Obviously, I’m going to be accused of “slut shaming”. Maybe I should have used the word “skank”, having stolen this from Black and Right

(Yahoo News) From the folks who brought you the “brosurance” campaign that promotes the affordable care act comes a new line of ads aimed at reminding young women the new law will subsidize their birth control.

The online ads were created by two nonprofit groups, the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative and Progress Now, to encourage young people to enroll in the exchanges.

Seriously, it has come to this

Well, at least this isn’t funded by the government. Directly. Progress Now is a typical far left Progressive organization, with big funding from George Soros and other lefties (link opens up document. It’s safe. I opened it myself), along with lots of links to other progressive groups. CCHI is similarly far left.

There are more ads at the Yahoo News link. Which break down women into the category of sluts who need Someone Else to pay for their contraception.

BTW, the ad campaign is called “hoeinsurance”, to go along with “broinsurance”. CCHI removed those references from their website. All the adds are available here.

More: I was about to crosspost this at Right Wing News, then notice that there is a link to Michelle Malkin’s column regarding bro’s and hoe’s.

  • The Lonely Conservative: Hey Girls, Let Obamacare Bring Out Your Inner Hussie!
  • DaTechGuy: Because nothing says “empowering women” more than a Government program aiding them in getting hookups with strange men.
  • The Hayride notes that lots of the ads are rather “boozy”.
  • The First Street Journal links, and notices the failure of leadership and ducking of responsibility by Obama for his signature legislation.
  • Sister Toldjah notices the ad in context of national birth control day. If only all Liberals would always use birth control at all times during their child bearing years. Better yet, they should all get those free sterilizations offered by O-care. “Bros and hoes” both, just to make sure.

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50,000 Poles Protest Against UN “Climate Change” Conference

By William Teach November 13, 2013 – 8:17 am

I know, I know, you’re not hearing much about COP19 in Warsaw, Poland. Neither the American or international press are giving it much coverage. But lots of Polish people were happy to demonstrate against the Big Government notions of the United Nations

(CFACT) As more than 50,000 enthusiastic Poles gathered in downtown Warsaw on Monday to celebrate National Independence Day, with millions more watching on live television, CFACT president David Rothbard was invited to the stage to deliver an impassioned address celebrating freedom and warning against the dangerous and oppressive climate agenda of the UN.

Before what was one of the largest audiences to ever hear a speech denouncing UN global warming policies, Rothbard said he was honored to stand with the Poles in a “new battle for freedom against those who would use environmental and climate alarmism to steal away our liberties and give international bureaucrats control over our energy sources, our daily lives, our prosperity, and our national sovereignty.”

The address was carried live on national television and covered by a large number of international media outlets. It took place just as the UN was kicking off its COP19 climate conference a few kilometers away.

Rothbard noted that at last year’s COP meeting, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres said that what the UN was undertaking is “a complete economic transformation of the world.”

A big part of COP19 is supposed to be a push against the use of coal for energy. Poland uses quite a bit of coal, particularly since they have brutal winters. The Polish people also know “socialism” and authoritarian government when they see it, and that’s what “climate change” is really about, bigger and bigger Big Government with more and more control over the lives of individuals, families, and the private sector.

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Ahead Of Pitiful Enrollment Numbers, White House Cranks Up The Spin Machine

By William Teach November 13, 2013 – 7:59 am

One thing we can always depend on from Team O and Democrats is that they never let reality get in the way of spin, and their Obamacare spin has typically made Baghdad Bob smile. Seriously, this Healthcare Tara thing is creepy. And now they’re turning it up a bit more

(Politico) One thing we know: The first Obamacare sign-up numbers will be disappointing.

Another thing we know: The White House isn’t waiting to put its spin on things. Administration officials have been lowering expectations since before sign-up began Oct. 1, urging reporters not to make a big fuss over the initial enrollment numbers.

But after the website debacle, the bad press of people losing their health plans and President Barack Obama’s defense and then walk-back of his “if you like your plan, you can keep it” slogan, the White House has a tougher job on its hands. There’s essentially no avoiding a bad news cycle, but there are ways to mitigate the damage.

The first bit of spin we’ll be hearing is that only 123 people signed up for Romneycare during its first month of being live. Of course, the pool of people looking to sign up, ie, uninsured, was much, much smaller. Nor were there lots and lots of people losing their health insurance. Romneycare didn’t include provisions that caused the loss of insurance, unlike Obamacare. Let’s also not forget that Team O were pushing for 500k in the first month. Furthermore, they initially stated that healthcare.gov was experiencing trouble do to heavy web traffic. Dems and Team O will also note that enrollments would be higher if only that website worked.

The third is typical misdirection

3. If only Republicans would cooperate

It sure is hard to roll out a national entitlement program when half the country’s politicians are actively trying to stop it.

Yes, they will attempt to Blame Republicans for failing to help out.

They’ll also note that Bush did it too, or something, with his Medicare Part D legislation. You know, because that’s totally the same.

Finally, they’ll push their “it’ll get better meme”

This is the running theme for the White House. The website is being fixed. People thrown out of health insurance plans will get better and cheaper ones. A host of new consumer-friendly rules are good for women and the chronically ill.

If only people knew the benefits of Obamacare, Obama told an Organizing for Action summit last week, the law would be more popular.

Except, this has been law for over three years, and people are not liking it better. The cancellations are rolling out week by week, and wait till the time comes when businesses are getting cancelled. Technically, my plan is being cancelled, though I won’t get a notification since I work for a big company. We get a choice of 3 plans for the enrollment period. But we do not know what the costs are yet. We haven’t even gotten to the point of discussing the loss of doctors, the limitation of doctors and medical facilities, and the long, long wait lines. Then the denial of service. The exploding costs. And many more problems.

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Bummer: NC’s Kay Hagan Learning There Are Consequences For Votes

By William Teach November 12, 2013 – 8:29 pm

Namely, her vote for and support of the “Affordable” Care Act…well, until she realized that it was hurting her. And the pain keeps a comin’!

(Politico) Incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) is near the top of national Republicans’ target list for 2014 — and a new poll shows her lead over her potential GOP challengers has all but evaporated.

Against state House Speaker Thom Tillis, Hagan leads by only 2 points, 44 percent to 42 percent, according to the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling. She leads the Rev. Mark Harris by 2 points as well, 43 percent to 41 percent, and nurse Heather Grant by 3 points, 43 percent to 40 percent.

Hagan trails physician Greg Brannon, the Rand Paul-endorsed candidate in the race, by 1 point: He leads 44 percent to 43 percent.

And think, the GOP representative to run for that seat hasn’t even been picked yet. And whoever that will be hasn’t had a chance to grill Hagan on Obamacare. Oh, and the pain of people seeing their health insurance plans cancelled hasn’t even hit in North Carolina yet.

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Surprise: Ethonal Creates Environmental Problems

By William Teach November 12, 2013 – 2:41 pm

Can I color you shocked? Actually, I’m shocked that the Associated Press allowed this story to be published, and that WRAL here in Raleigh picked it up (but quickly buried it in the archives)

The secret, dirty cost of Obama’s green power push

The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America’s push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into the water supply.

Even the cemetery that disappeared like an apparition into a cornfield.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

With the Iowa political caucuses on the horizon in 2007, presidential candidate Barack Obama made homegrown corn a centerpiece of his plan to slow global warming. When President George W. Bush signed a law that year requiring oil companies to add billions of gallons of ethanol to their gasoline each year, Bush predicted it would make the country “stronger, cleaner and more secure.”

But the ethanol era has proven far more damaging to the environment than politicians promised and much worse than the government admits today.

True, it is not entirely fair to blame all of this on Obama, as the headline proposes. Bush pushed it, as did Clinton, Bush 41, along with a host of politicians in both parties. Much of the article aims at Obama, who is a big supporter of this boondoggle. Hey, he’s president now. But, the blame should not rest on his shoulders only

As farmers rushed to find new places to plant corn, they wiped out millions of acres of conservation land, destroyed habitat and contaminated water supplies, an Associated Press investigation found.

Five million acres of land set aside for conservation — more than Yellowstone, Everglades and Yosemite National Parks combined — have been converted on Obama’s watch.

Wetlands have been destroyed, along with prairies and woodland areas, all in an attempt to plant corn to use as fuel, which even the NY Times noted a few years ago was a Bad Idea. Creating ethanol uses huge amounts of water, contributing to drought and the loss of aquifers, ponds, etc. You end up with even more pesticides and fertilizers leaching into surrounding areas and down stream. You can end up with giant amounts of nitrates in the soil and water, causing health problems. And using corn drives up the price of corn, which drives up the price of other foods. Same with soy.

And it does great damage to the real environment, not that silly “climate change” crap.

 

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 12, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil dog that causes seas to rise and the earth to scorch, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Betsy’s Page, which notes that the nightmare continues.

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