Posted on 04/21/2014 11:53:19 AM PDT by Starman417
Barack Obama held a press conference the other day during which he took a "victory lap" and taunted Republicans in his typical juvenile fashion:
At a press conference yesterday President Obama asserted that when it comes to ObamaCare, the Republican Party "is going through the stages of grief--anger and denial and all that stuff--and we're not at acceptance yet."
His endless hubris echoes his "I won" utterance in 2009.
Then James Taranto notes this:
A Politico reporter asked the president: "Do you think it's time for Democrats to start campaigning loudly and positively on the benefits of ObamaCare?" Watch him contradict himself in response: "We need to move on to something else. That's what the American people are interested in. I think that Democrats should forcefully defend [ObamaCare]. . . . I don't think we should apologize for it, and I don't think we should be defensive about it."He says "we need to move on," and two sentences later calls for a forceful defense, before saying that "I don't think we should be defensive about it," which reminds us of Martin Short as Nathan Thurm: "I'm not being defensive! You're the one who's being defensive! Why is it always the other person who's being defensive? Have you ever asked yourself that? Why don't you ask yourself that?"
Unfortunately, Barack Obama is a liar and just can't stop lying:
Although Mr. Obama touted the 35 percent of federal exchange enrollees he said were younger than 35, the administration acknowledged in a fact sheet that just 28 percent are 18 to 34 — the key demographic insurers need to sign up in order to cover the costs of older Americans with health conditions who no longer can be denied coverage. Economists said the number needed to prevent premium spikes is close to 40 percent.
As we have observed here, 60% of Americans think Obama is a liar.
And Obamacare isn't becoming popular.
The president's triumphal tone suggests that this is self-evidently good news and reason to celebrate the success of his health care law. He says that candidates from his party should be proud of the law and defend it. But that's not likely to happen, and the reasons are deeper than disputes about how many people actually signed up through a health care exchange.The first is that many people are finding out that the insurance they bought through an exchange doesn't really ensure they'll get medical care. There have been repeated stories of people finding out that even though they have insurance, they can't find a doctor who will accept it. The Wall Street Journal, for example, reports that residents of New Hampshire's capital city "have to drive to other cities to get covered hospital care." Buying a product that doesn't work is a sure way to create an angry customer.
Additionally, the health care law has created even more angry customers who have found out that they have to change doctors. For some, that's just a minor inconvenience. For others, it's a huge problem.
And, of course, the law is making health insurance more expensive. The head of Aetna, Mark Bertolini, and other industry executives have said they expect to see significant price hikes from the law. That impacts tens of millions of Americans -- including many who were happy with their insurance before Obama's law was passed.
What all of this means is that the president's claim of 8 million enrollees is not something to be dismissed or ignored. But the claim's incomplete and a bit like saying a baseball score is eight. Eight runs in a major league baseball game is a good thing, but you can't really evaluate it unless you know how many runs the other team scored.
And, for the president's health care law, the negatives are still piling up a lot faster than the positives.
And that's just the beginning. Remember how Obama claimed that his law was already bending the healthcare cost curve down?
Liars are going to lie. It wasn't Obamacare that bent the cost curve down. It was the lousy Obama economy.
And now? Health care costs are expected to rise.
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That'll end, too, before too much longer, if we don't get him, his cronies, and their enablers out of power really quickly. This train has just about reached the end of the tracks.
I have a radical idea: mandate that schools must teach kids from their first day how life really works, the principles on which this nation was founded, how lazy people don't get to eat, how it is their own responsibility to care for themselves in adulthood, and the truth about marxism and those who support collectivist and statist ideologies.
Take over your school board and other local and county posts! Most of these posts are filled with shitbag Agenda 21 disciples because they run largely unopposed or have the balls to play dirty with their opponents. Hold your local, county, and state governments accountable for everything they do. Burn them like Alinsky-ites would if they screw up and never let them forget for whom they work. We need to stop being nice to our enemies; make no mistake, this is how the left sees you. Remember, they'd kill off as many of you as necessary to get their way if allowed to do so.
Well, it's not like Obama didn't lead them to believe this. “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor”. ‘This will save the average person about $2500/year’. etc. etc.
even if Obama has veto power, I think strong anti-democrat showing is going to convince more than a couple of democrats to join in and override it
Your right, Obama did mislead, no doubt. But I still have no sympathy for people who believed him, it wasn’t like it was his first lie to America, did Benghazi alone not tip the voters off?
“Shut Up”, he explained.
I agree. Another factor though is that the MSM never called him on his lies.
Bush won twice but the left never stopped talking about Iraq.
The one thing you can say about Obama - he’s exceptionally talented when it comes to being a first rate sniveling puke.
Dr. John Emerson — “I won. African Americans, whether slave or free, cannot be American citizens and therefore have no standing to sue in federal court. It’s time for Democrats to start campaigning loudly and positively on the benefits of slavery.”
At some point in the future, when this liberal national healthcare nightmare is finally over, “medical malpractice” will come to be known as “obamacare.”
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