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How We Got To Gov’t Run Healthcare in 90 Seconds

From the NRCC.

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Obama Begs Dems on Healthcare: My Presidency Is On the Line

Isn’t this the same guy who said, “this isn’t about me”, when the word Waterloo came up? Tune of change!

One caucus member told POLITICO that Obama won him over by “essentially [saying] that the fate of his presidency” hinged on this week’s health reform vote in the House. The member, who requested anonymity, likened Obama’s remarks to an earlier meeting with progressives when the president said a victory was necessary to keep him “strong” for the next three years of his term.
Another caucus member, Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.), said, “We went in there already knowing his presidency would be weakened if this thing went down, but the president clearly reinforced the impression the presidency would be damaged by a loss.”
Added Serrano: “He was subtle, but that was the underlying theme of the meeting — the importance of passing this for the health of the presidency.”…
“The White House is raising the stakes so high, they are basically telling [House Democrats] that failure is not an option unless you want to sink the president,” said health industry lobbyist Steve Elmendorf, a onetime adviser to Rep. Dick Gephardt, a former Democratic leader.

Poor ego bruised because America rejected his push for socialism. Heart strings just may push over enough Dems though. In the feeble attempt some of those wavering Dems might listen to my common sense..here it goes…Obama’s presidency is already doomed. All you will do by voting for this is seal your fate along with his.

How absolutely pitiful.

Hat tip: Hot Air

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Whoa! AP Fact Checks Obama On Health Premiums, Says “Liar!”

I wonder if the White House will now start assaulting the Associated Press for daring to stand up and say “liar!”

Buyers, beware: President Barack Obama says his health care overhaul will lower premiums by double digits, but check the fine print.

Premiums are likely to keep going up even if the health care bill passes, experts say. If cost controls work as advertised, annual increases would level off with time. But don’t look for a rollback. Instead, the main reason premiums would be more affordable is that new government tax credits would help cover the cost for millions of people.

Listening to Obama pitch his plan, you might not realize that’s how it works.

Liar! And where will all that money for those tax credits come from? Oh, right, taxes on the rich, meaning, “you get a paycheck? You’re rich.” Rather than money being spread around the economy through people and companies purchasing items, it will go straight to the government coffers. Then the government can say “hey, you want that tax credit? You have to purchase one of our government approved health insurance plans.”

Simple solutions: cross-state purchasing, nationwide pooling, and health savings accounts (which reduce costs by causing people to think twice about running off to the ER because they have the flu, instead of going to their pharmacy. Yes, a bit more complicated than that. HSAs work best as behavior modifiers.) Personally, I have no problem with legislation that tells insurers that they cannot drop people who get sick and have been paying their premiums.

BTW, the AP settles an issue from the other day, vis a vis Obama’s 3,000% gaffe

A White House press spokesman later said the president misspoke; he had meant to say annual premiums would drop by $3,000.

A report for the Business Roundtable, an association of big company CEOs, was the source for the claim that employers could save $3,000 per worker on health care costs, the White House said.

You know how they can save that money? They dump their health insurance offers, pay the fine, and tell their employees to have fun in the Exchange. Companies, per the Senate bill, could save $4k-$10k per year per employee.

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The Left Turning Western Civilization into Alice’s Wonderland

-By Warner Todd Huston

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see”–
Alice of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Clearly the left are Aliceites. They are aficionados of Alice viewing the world through the looking glass. They want a world of nonsense, a world devoid of meaning so that everything can be molded and morphed at will into anything that appeals to temporary desires. It is called situational ethics, which are, of course, no ethics at all.

Today we have two examples of this, one in America and one in England. We’ll focus on England first.

The UK Telegraph is reporting about the new it, the new thing assuming a status of “personhood,” a genderless human. That’s right the Telegraph is purporting that a British citizen is “officially” a genderless human, neither male nor female.

Norrie May-Welby, we are told, was born a man but had a sex change operation in 1990. For a time this “person” lived as a woman. But now she-he-it has decided that, “The concepts of man or woman don’t fit me. The simplest solution is not to have any sex identification.”

And so, the Aliceites in British government decided to comply and make May-Welby an “official” person of “no specific gender.”

Just as the Brits claimed to have the first man to have a baby back in 2008, now the Brits claim to have the first genderless person. But true to their Aliceite tendencies, neither is true and both “would be what it isn’t.”

You see, the “first man to have a baby” was never a man — born a woman, period — and the first “genderless person” was born a man and is still despite the cosmetic veneer carved into his flesh.

My second story is in Washington D.C. where President Obama and his minions in Congress are trying to pass a bill that no one has voted for using the so-called process of “deeming” and the “Slaughter rule.”

Democrats can’t get enough votes for their socialist takeover of America’s healthcare system so, instead of applying the centuries old process of campaigning for a law, writing a law, and then seeing that law voted up or down by our duly elected representatives, the Democrats are peering through the looking glass to find the Aliceite way to pass a bill into law without anyone voting at all.

Just like the left in the west is making murderous Islam a protected class, just as it imagines it can create an economy by stifling business, just as these illogical nits imagine that they can destroy all history and make the world new merely by saying so, they’ve created a world where “nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t.”

As the Wall Street Journal says, “We have entered a political wonderland, where the rules are whatever Democrats say they are.” But the WSJ is only focused on U.S. politics. A wider view would find that we are all Aliceites now.

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