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According to Fox News’ Chris Stirewalt, “President Obama claimed Tuesday that 4 million people have signed up for ObamaCare, part of the president's push to sign up as many people for coverage by the end of March. 

 

What you need to do is continue what you're doing and reach out with your teams in your respective cities, states, towns, counties because right now we only have a few weeks left," he told an organizing summit for Organizing for Action. "March 31st, that's the last call." 

 

After reading that, I did some quick homework on the costs, finding that Daniel Halper, of The Weekly Standard  wrote that “The latest estimate, is that Obamacare will cost $2.6 trillion dollars in its first real decade. The bill does not fully go into effect until 2014, therefore the estimate begins with that year.”

 

And also, Chris Conover, a Forbes contributor reported that, “The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office recently reported that Obamacare will shrink the economy by the equivalent of 2.5 million full-time (FTE) workers—roughly tripling its earlier estimate of job losses.”

 

Looking at the $2.6 trillion dollars to be spent, compounded by the millions of lost jobs, I calculated the 4 million sign-ups as a percentage of the population to find that the monstrous cost of the coverage applies to only .0126% of the population. However, in one way or another, 313,000,000 others who evidently have no interest in the program have had their coverage questioned or disrupted. And if that isn’t the result of unbridled lunacy in governance, I don’t know what is.

 

Nonetheless, the administration and its representatives keep going straight ahead, totally ignoring or completely distorting broken promises made and refusing to accept responsibility for their massive failures.

 

In that regard, here’s another example from the Stirewalt column today:

 

That was then - “Well, I think success looks like at least seven million people having signed up by the end of March 2014.”—Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to NBC News, Sept. 2013. 

 

This is now - “First of all, seven million was not the administration. That was a CBO, Congressional Budget Office, prediction when the bill was first signed. I'm not sure where they even got their numbers.” – Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to Huffington Post Tuesday.

 

But, the health care tax isn’t the only item this morning showing the administration’s dismissive attitude toward laws, regulations or procedures that disturb them, as follows.

 

Fox News reports that “In a scenario reminiscent of the furor over Arizona’s tough illegal immigration law in 2010, the state’s legislature has passed a bill protecting business owners who refuse to provide services for same-sex nuptials.”

 

Then, commenting on the bill, a Drudge article relates that, “Attorney General Eric Holder, though, has a solution if Brewer does opt to sign the law: selective enforcement. Holder told state attorneys general that they should not work to uphold laws they find objectionable.”

 

So, here we have the holder (no pun intended) of the highest position in law in the administration openly admitting that he believes laws should be selectively chosen, with enforcement dependent only on personal belief and individual agreement.

 

And that attitude certainly goes a long way to explaining how the entire administration’s run. Because it’s obvious now that all the unilateral changes made by the incumbent to the implementation of his health care tax fit right in with a philosophy that believes that laws, up to and including the Constitution, simply don’t apply to them at all.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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