During the past few days, I’ve seen several items in the news where the incumbent, when asked about his failing health care tax, simply changes the subject, addressing something else on his agenda.
That’s when it occurred to me that it’s as if he has a list of tasks, and as each is accomplished to his satisfaction, he moves on to the next one without comment or looking back.
So, I guess, it goes something like this.
Okay, I helped the environmentalists block the Keystone pipeline, and now a gallon of gas costs two or three more times than it should due to imports. I did a pretty good job with that one. Time to move on.
In the Benghazi case, I had my dimwit U.N. mouthpiece say that there was no evidence of terrorism whatsoever. Hilary and I walked away clean from that one, Time to move on.
According to plan, I now have half the nation on some kind of government welfare program, with no hope of ever finding, or even desiring jobs any time soon. Having accomplished almost total disillusion in the American Dream. Time to move on.
Combining overregulation with health care tax requirements has reduced the average work-week for millions from 40 to 30 hours. Reducing incomes will, sooner or later, shrink the nation’s GDP further. That means the entire economy will likely decline, making us look more like Europe, especially Spain and Greece in time. My job well done here. Time to move on.
Then there’s the situations in the Middle East with raging battles everywhere you look. That’s why it was a stroke of genius to abandon them all, including Israel, and turning the problems over to Russia, Iran and the U.N. so I can keep playing golf unencumbered. Time to move on.
But, of all things accomplished to date, my health care tax was the most ingenius plot of all. In one fell swoop, more citizens were harmed than by any other action since World War II. The unions hate it, the church is upset, workers all over the nation are losing coverage in droves. Employees are finding their cost increasing dramatically. Insurers can’t figure out their responsibilities. Doctors are rapidly leaving the profession. And the uninsured ones who it was intended for can’t sign up because the technology doesn’t work and likely won’t. But, in the web-site’s case, that’s what happens when you do business with family and friends. However, regarding this entire fiasco, my work’s done here. Time to move on.
And here’s the remaining list of things that can still be ruined beyond repair if I apply myself to them. Gun control legislation, expanded preschool education, an immigration overhaul, a higher minimum wage and initiatives to address climate change.
Gun control’s a subject no one cares enough about to even discuss except for fanatics and politicians. Expanded preschool education never gets mentioned by anyone at all. Immigration overhaul will probably never be accomplished properly and climate hasn’t changed an iota in the past fifteen years. So, even though there really isn’t much of substance to address at all, if I really put my mind to it, I can probably make a mockery of every one of them in the time I have left in office.
And now, back to the news.
According to Chris Stirewalt’s column on Fox News.com, “Even as President Obama was assuring voters in the 2012 election that “you will keep your health insurance” under ObamaCare, the White House knew that between 40 percent and 67 percent of individual policy holders were going to lose their coverage under the law now moving toward final implementation. An NBC News investigation revealed that Obama officials were already forecasting 7 million people would lose their insurance under the president’s plan, even as Obama was reassuring voters nervous about their coverage under his law. As Megyn Kelly reported on “The Kelly File,” an IRS regulation pushed by the Department of Health and Human Services in 2010 outlined the massive disruptions.”
Next, “White House leaks this week have portrayed President Obama as having been kept in the dark about spying on key American allies, particularly German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Today, current and former intelligence officials are making that deniability sound a lot less plausible. From the LAT: “The White House and State Department signed off on surveillance targeting phone conversations of friendly foreign leaders … certainly the National Security Council and senior people across the intelligence community knew exactly what was going on, and to suggest otherwise is ridiculous.’”
And finally, “From David Shepardson of the Detroit News Washington Bureau: “The U.S. Treasury has booked a $9.7 billion loss on its $49.5 billion bailout of General Motors Co. on the sale of nearly all of its shares it received as part of its $49.5 billion bailout.
In a quarterly report to Congress Tuesday, the Special Inspector General overseeing the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailout fund disclosed that the Treasury had realized a significant loss on its sale of most of its 60.8 percent stake in GM. Through Sept. 30, Treasury sold 811 million shares of the 912 million shares it received in the automaker as part of its 2009 bankruptcy restructuring.”
So, the legacy building continues with new items every day illustrating a degree of incompetence, or purposeful destruction, never before seen in the nation. And, as I keep mentioning, the happiest individual on earth has to be Jimmy Carter, who now is being made to look like an administrative genius compared to the total washout in the White House now.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
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