Tuesday, April 22, 2014

BloggeRhythms

It looks like we now know what the incumbent whispered when making the “open-microphone” gaffe in March of 2012.
 
Back then, according to the Washington Times, “he promised incoming Russian President Vladimir Putin that the United States will make itself weaker for Russia by agreeing not to improve our anti-missile defenses against any possible ballistic missile attacks.”
 
When the promise was given to then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the incumbent pleaded for more “space” to maneuver, saying he’d have more flexibility after his presidential election was over. Implying he’d then be able to give the Russians what they wanted.
 
And now, today, we see the results of that conversation. The incumbent has indeed lived up to his word, doing nothing while Putin has taken over the resource-rich Crimea and prepares to occupy the Ukraine. So, for the rest of us, our only real hope is that he didn’t give Putin permission to conquer too much of the United States.
 
Along the same lines, although he didn’t mention the current administration, former Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole addressed the dangers of inexperience at the presidential level.
 
Yesterday he opined for the Wichita Eagle that "A number of the younger members, first-termers like Rand Paul, [Marco] Rubio and that extreme-right-wing guy - Ted Cruz? All running for president now. I don't think they've got enough experience yet."
 
But he didn’t just criticize conservatives. “He also slammed the Obamacare website's botched rollout as "a disaster" and questioned if 8 million people actually signed up for private health insurance via the exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act.
 
"They say they got 7 million signed up. Well, I don't believe them, that they have 7 million," Dole said. "It was such a mess, I don't believe what they say anymore."
 
And Senator Dole’s suspicion was confirmed in an article on Fox News on-line in which David Hogberg of National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington said “8 million have enrolled in the federal exchanges, but the CBO said in a recent report only 6 million are newly insured and some say even fewer than that did not have prior insurance. Twenty to 33 percent are actually newly insured and out of 8 million, that would be no more than 2 to 3 million people." 
 
Which means that, when all is said and done, “That is why the CBO showed that at the end of this year, there will still be 42 million uninsured and 31 million without insurance ten years from now.”
 
So, after the turmoil, disruption and stress inflicted on the population, except for undoing the premier medical system in the world, the health care tax has done nothing much at all regarding increasing the numbers of those covered.
 
Therefore, while weakening the nation for Vladimir Putin overseas, the incumbent’s done similar damage right here at home. Which makes one wonder as to who exactly sent him here and why.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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