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Much of today’s news is remindful of Humpty-Dumpty.

According to Fox News on-line, “The White House is bringing in a former top official from the Clinton administration to help manage the messy ObamaCare roll-out and other matters as President Obama tries to regain his footing in his second term.” 

John Podesta, White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton, “will join the Obama team as counselor to the president.”

The article reports that “Podesta will take his place at the White House at a critical time for Obama as the president seeks to re-establish his agenda going into a midterm election year. And according to the The New York Times: “Podesta would help on matters related to the health care law, as well as administration organization, executive actions, and issues related to climate change.

So, it seems to me this guy’s walking into a buzz saw. Because the major issues he’s facing are just about irreparable. And unless he’s some kind of magician, which I sincerely doubt, his biggest problem is finding a way to rewrite facts reported daily in the news. And for those who might have forgotten:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
Threescore men and threescore more,
Cannot place Humpty Dumpty as he was before

For example, damaging issues keep arising, such as this one reported today in Chris Stirewalt’s column on Fox, noting that: “Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former senior policy adviser to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services told Megyn Kelly that many prescriptions may not be covered under ObamaCare. “The list of drugs that the plans cover, in many cases, aren’t very long.  And if the drugs aren’t covered you’re on your own, you basically have to pay for it entirely out of pocket, and the money that you spend on those drugs doesn’t count against your out of pocket limit or against your deductible,” Gottlieb said. “This could cost patients who need special drugs a lot of money, literally tens of thousands of dollars a year.” 

 

That was followed by a report stating that, “Since the Obamacare law doesn't specifically carve out an exemption for them, fire departments where 50 or more people work – either as volunteers or officially as employees – are expected to provide health insurance for every one of them.

In towns with more than one volunteer fire department, all the staffers will likely be lumped together for tax purposes, pushing many municipalities above the 50-worker threshold.

That could cost departments of life-savers hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. Those that dump their volunteers into the federal insurance exchanges would still have to pay an annual $2,000 fine for each 'employee' after the first 30.”

And the problem here is, many of those departments, if not the majority. simply can't afford it. Which means perhaps, decreasing department sizes and coverage or closing them altogether.

Then it gets even worse for some who face significant personal and financial exposure because, as Sterling Beard, of The Corner on National Review on-line via the dailymail.co.uk writes: “Multiple state-run health-care exchanges are vulnerable to a type of Wi-Fi attack that can allow hackers to intercept usernames and passwords, KSTP, a Minnesota ABC affiliate, reports.

According to Mark Lanterman, the CEO and chief technology officer of Computer Forensic Services who ran the simulated attack for KSTP, state-run exchanges in Minnesota, Hawaii, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, New York, Maryland, and the District of Columbia are vulnerable to it.”

Consequently, while Mr. Podesta seeks ways to smooth, cover-up or perhaps blame Republicans, and/or “W” Bush for the growing fiasco of the incumbent’s heath care tax, and global warming, which is now being touted as “climate change,” he’s got another few major problems.

According to CBS in Chicago, via Drudge: “Temperatures dipped below zero overnight, the earliest it has been that cold in Chicago in 18 years.

The last time Chicago had subzero temperatures this early in the season was Dec. 9, 1995. Unfortunately for Chicagoans, it won’t be long before the mercury is back below zero.

Though temperatures will get into the low 20s on Tuesday, Chicago could see subzero temperatures again Wednesday night.”

And then the Associated Press, also via Drudge  asks: “Feeling chilly? Here's cold comfort: You could be in East Antarctica which new data says set a record for "soul-crushing" cold.”

Temperatures reached 135.8 degrees Fahrenheit below zero; 93.2 degrees below zero Celsius.

The story continues with: “A new look at NASA satellite data revealed that Earth set a new record for coldest temperature recorded. It happened in August 2010 when it hit -135.8 degrees. Then on July 31 of this year, it came close again: -135.3 degrees.

Furthermore, “Ice scientist Ted Scambos at the National Snow and Ice Data Center said the new record is "50 degrees colder than anything that has ever been seen in Alaska or Siberia or certainly North Dakota."

In conclusion then, I guess when it comes to picking goals and causes, the incumbent’s track record isn’t so good. Because the results show he’s yet to be correct on any of them. In fact, every issue issue he touches takes a disastrous for the worse. 

 

But, I really have to wonder what it was that hapless John Podesta did for the incumbent to hate him enough to bring the poor guy back to the White House and stick him with trying to weasel them out of the worst situation's an administration’s ever done to itself.

That’s it for today folks.

Adios