Thursday, November 7, 2013

BloggeRhythms 11/7/2013

While the administration dodges and weaves, trying to change the facts about the ill-conceived, illogical and poorly designed new heath care tax, folks in the real world outside DC are pouring oil on the flames from the legislation’s implosion.
 
Validation of public opinion that the tax is evidence of governmental incompetence was strongly indicated last night at the Country Music Awards, of all places.
 
According to Sasha Bogursky of FoxNews.com: “Viewers who tuned in to watch the 47th Annual Country Music Association Awards, held Wednesday night in Nashville, might have confused the show with a roast of ObamaCare. Country music’s hottest stars had a bone to pick with the faulty Healthcare.gov website.
 
CMA Awards host Brad Paisley jokingly told his co-host Carrie Underwood that his back hurt and he needed to see a doctor. Underwood asked the singer if he had signed up for ObamaCare.
“ObamaCare, what’s that?” Paisley asked Underwood.
 
“Oh, it’s great!” Underwood quipped. “I started signing up last Thursday and I’m almost done!” The “Blown Away” singer proceeded to help her co-host sign up for ObamaCare and “join the six other people” who have reportedly signed up successfully for the healthcare service.”
 
Ms. Bogursky goes on to note that: “The routine had the Nashville audience clapping their hands to the tune of newly crowned entertainer of the year George Strait’s “Amarillo by Morning,” but with the words changed to “ObamaCare by morning/ Why’s this taking so long?/ I’m going to end up with hemorrhoids/If I sit here ’til dawn.”
 
The most important point, to me, is that shows such as this one have millions of viewers, many in the younger age groups targeted to make the program work financially. So, to be made a national laughing stock has to be a significant set-back. And what’s  even worse for the administration, is their insistence on making themselves look far more untrustworthy by continually having stooges like Jay Carney refuse to admit the failure and miserable quality of the job that was done.
 
Carney causes me to wonder how anyone could have such little regard for himself, so often double-talking in circles, protecting his boss rather than presenting truths. And that was never more obvious than yesterday, when he refuted information still posted clearly on the White House website WhiteHouse.gov, which still says, according to FoxNews:
 
"For Americans with insurance coverage who like what they have, they can keep it. Nothing in this act or anywhere in the bill forces anyone to change the insurance they have, period."
 
The language appears in a section of the website labeled "health reform details," and also appears exactly the same way in the Department of Health and Human Services' online description of the law.
 
Even more ridiculous, on Monday the incumbent told top backers of Organizing for Action, his permanent campaign arm, that “What we said was, ‘You could keep it [your plan] if it hasn’t changed since the law was passed,” which is an out and out fabrication. 
 
Then Carney compounded the falsehood with: “If you had a plan and your insurance company didn’t cancel it, you could keep it." 
 
However, according to Fox, the truth is: “The insurance company cancellations were largely due to a rule issued by the Department of Health and Human services which disqualified plans that have changed at all since the law passed from being “grandfathered” in and exempted from the regulations.
 
“When the rule was issued, Secretary Sebelius and others spoke to the press about it, specifically about the fact that… if insurance companies changed their plans or canceled their plans, they would give up the opportunity to grandfather those plans in,” Carney said."
 
So, now you have a choice to decide which Carney lie you prefer. The one from the beginning about keeping your health care plan if you wished, or that he sent the press to Secretary Sibelius to answer questions at other times in other places that were asked directly of him.
 
But, aside from the distortions of truth, what I’ve been concerned about from the beginning is over and above the factor that the heath care tax is purely an aspect of socialism. Because, far worse is that having the government run it is like turning brain surgery over to a roomful of blindfolded chimps. Except that the chimps are likely far smarter than what’s been evidenced so far by those responsible for this total foul-up. Which brings me to further proof of politician's incompetence and stupidity 
 
According to the Boston Globe, “On the night Martin Walsh was elected mayor of Boston, Vice President Joe Biden made sure to call the incoming Democrat to offer his congratulations. 
Trouble is, he phoned the wrong Martin Walsh, 
 
“You son of a gun, Marty!” Biden reportedly said. “You did it!”
 
The Marty Walsh at the focus of the vice president’s glee was a former aide to U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy who is now the president of Gateway Public Solutions, a Boston-based government relations firm.
 
Walsh thanked Biden for his kind words after telling him that he had reached the wrong Marty, the paper said. He offered his help to track down the incoming mayor.”
 
But, the VP isn’t the only dunce in office because, “Also on Tuesday night, the wrong Walsh received phone calls from several Democratic luminaries, including Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.”
 
Then, moving along to the incumbent’s ongoing game plan as to what aspect of freedom he can curb next, since after planning to spend billions on global warming that doesn’t even exist he still wants to pursue gun control and education. But, before he goes on another fool’s errand, perhaps he should read this from washingtontimes.com about NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg’s recent venture in Colorado:  
 
“Colorado voters kicked the mayor to the curb at the ballot box again, rejecting a proposed statewide income-tax hike backed by Mr. Bloomberg just two months after ushering out two Democratic state senators who supported his gun-control agenda. 
 
Mr. Bloomberg sunk $1 million into the $10 million campaign for Amendment 66, a proposed $1 billion tax increase to fund K-12 education. Despite an enormous spending advantage — opponents of the ballot measure only raised about $20,000 — Amendment 66 lost by a whopping 66 percent to 34 percent.”
 
So, I guess the question for the incumbent is when, if ever, will he figure out that just about everything he touches or suggests is unpopular, irrational and almost always, unfeasible. And that the European nations he idolizes are among the most backward in every aspect of human life. So much so that progressive Germany is bigger and better itself than just about all of the socialist failures put together.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
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