Monthly Archives: November 2013

Entrenched

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This administration’s dishonesty vis-à-vis Obamacare and its ObamaMart is very thoroughly so.  Lie on your taxes, lie on your ObamaMart-claimed income to get Obamacare subsidies, lie on your insurance application (especially about your smoking) to get lower premiums before you get your subsidy, the list goes on.

It’s an 11 minute video, but it’s well worth the time.

Keep in mind, too, that these are Obamacare Navigators, carefully selected by HHS.  The dishonest “advice” of these Navigators is being given in full view of the HHS, plainly, with HHS’ prior knowledge and approval.  And the HHS Secretary is President Barack Obama’s immediate subordinate.

 

h/t Power Line

Lies of my President, Revisited

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Recall President Barack Obama’s original lie, from mid-July 2009:

If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor.  Period.  If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan.  Period.

Then, when the insurance cancelation notices went out, and Obamacare “insurance” plans didn’t include our doctors in their networks, he lied about his lie.  He had this, for instance, through his Press Secretary Jay Carney:

What the president said and what everybody said all along is that there are going to be changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act to create minimum standards of coverage, minimum services that every insurance plan has to provide.  So it’s true that there are existing healthcare plans on the individual market that don’t meet those minimum standards and therefore do not qualify for the Affordable Care Act.

So it’s “If I like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor.  Maybe.  If I like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan.  Maybe.”

Then he lied with his sham apology:

I am sorry that they, you know, are finding themselves in this situation, based on assurances they got from me.

No apology for either of his prior lies, just regret that all those folks took him at his word.

And Obama thought his lies were funny at the time he made them:

So after I signed the bill, I looked around to see if there any—(laughter)—asteroids falling or—(applause)—some cracks opening up in the Earth.  (Laughter.)  It turned out it was a nice day.  (Laughter.)  Birds were chirping.  Folks were strolling down the Mall.  People still have their doctors.

Five million Americans, and counting don’t have their health care plans, either.

After receiving a letter from her insurer that her plan was being discontinued, Deborah Persico…found a comparable plan on the city’s new health insurance exchange. But her monthly premium, now $297, would be $165 higher, and her maximum out-of-pocket costs would double.

That means she could end up paying at least $5,000 more a year than she does now.

She’s not alone.  In California alone,

Hundreds of thousands…who purchase their own health insurance are bracing to pay more for their plans, as the cost of the federal health care overhaul lands harder on middle-class customers.

The Daily Caller estimates that the total number of Americans about whom Obama is sorry for having believed him will run to 129 million.

Fifty-three Democrats and two Independents in the Senate actively supported Obama in these lies until the cancelations started rolling in.  Now some of those are worried, not about the losses of all these Americans, but about their own political necks.  Two hundred Democrats in the House Actively supported Obama in these lies until the cancelations started rolling in.  Now some of those are worried, not about the losses of all these Americans, but about their own political necks.

And now Obama wants—dishonestly, again—to change the Obamacare law (the law of the land, remember) by Executive Order to force insurance companies to reinstate all those cancelled policies and to extend existing ones.  For a whole year.

Remember that during primary and election season this summer and fall.

Another Failure of Gun Control

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Two Gonzaga [University] students are facing possible expulsion from the University after they pulled a weapon in self defense as a six time felon attempted to get into their on campus apartment.

It seems these two students were confronted, on a recent Thursday night, by a six-time felon with an active arrest warrant on him (which, of course, the students couldn’t know at the time) who tried to force his way into their apartment, demanding money (which, of course, the students understood very clearly at the time).  It was only when one of the students brandished a pistol—for which he has a concealed weapons permit—that the thug left (to be arrested later based on the students’ subsequent report to the police).

It’s also interesting to note that the student did not fire his weapon.  There turned out to be no need to fire; the thug left on seeing it, and the restraint demonstrated the judgment of permit holders, generally.

Nevertheless, Gonzaga is holding firm to its policy of no guns at all and to its intent to discipline the students for the crime of successfully defending themselves without University oversight.

Gonzaga released a statement speaking of their long standing weapons policy that has been in effect.  The University says the policy has been in place to reduce threats to the school.

Which it took a gun to reduce….

Update:

Executive Vice President Earl Martin said Monday the university will try to turn the incident into a teachable moment by re-examining its no-weapons policy.

Yeah.  In the meantime, these young men remain on Gonzaga’s probation, and Gonzaga still has their weapons, which the University “confiscated” in the aftermath of this self defense action.  And these young men now have no defenses against the next thug to come by.

When the bad man comes, and seconds count, the police will be only minutes away.  What are these two to do in those intervening minutes, after their seconds are up?

US Loses Voting Rights at UNESCO—and Why Do We Care?

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American influence in culture, science and education around the world took a high-profile blow Friday after the US automatically lost voting rights at UNESCO, after missing a crucial deadline to repay its debt to the world’s cultural agency.

The US hasn’t paid its dues to the Paris-based UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in protest over the decision by world governments to make Palestine a UNESCO member in 2011.  Israel suspended its dues at the same time.

Our contributions to that mendacious gang had amounted to more than 20% of its budget—some $80 million per year.  Now there’s much bleating and bodice ripping by the American Left.  For instance, Phyllis Magrab, US National Commissioner for UNESCO (and so with no axe to grind…), worried

We won’t be able to have the same clout.  In effect, we [won’t] have a full tool box.  We’re missing our hammer.

And Congressman Keith Ellison (D, MN) worried (a concern President Barack Obama might take to heart more broadly than just vis-à-vis UNESCO):

The United States must not voluntarily forfeit its leadership in the world community.

But.  We’ve not had much of a voice, for some years, in an organization that admitted, over our objections, non-existing countries (to borrow Israeli Ambassador to UNESCO, Nimrod Barkan’s phrase) like Palestine to full voting membership—or to any degree of membership at all.

And what’s the value of a hammer if we never use it?  The “tool” just takes up space and weighs us down.

Another Wisconsin Democratic Party Threat

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Once again, the Democrats of Wisconsin are threatening—promising—thuggery, if they can’t get their minority way imposed on honest Wisconsin citizens.

When the Wisconsin Senate passed out of committee a bill that had already passed the Assembly addressing abortion, the committee voted against the Democrat minority.  State Senator Jon Erpenbach (D) promised “all out hell” if the Wisconsin Senate debates presumes to debate the matter on the floor.  Threatening Committee Chair Leah Vukmir (R), Erpenbach warned

You don’t want this headline.  You don’t want this story.  You don’t want this hassle that’s about to happen.

And

All out hell.  Seriously.

What else are you going to do, Ace?  Take your party and run away to Illinois, shutting down your government again, like you did in 2013, the last time you couldn’t get your way?