Posted on 09/22/2016 10:21:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
Right out of the gate, let's pause and savor the fact that the US Senate will be rid of its most miserable member -- a widely-detested serial smear merchant, sleazy character assassin, and creepy obsessive -- in a few short months. Harry Reid's poisonous reign is nearly over, and there's a decent chance Nevada's voters will replace him with a Republican. But for the moment, he's still around, doing his thing. Having taken a victory lap over his admitted slander of Mitt Romney four years ago, here's Dingy Harry insisting that informed Americans are deeply grateful for the turd sandwich of broken promises that is Obamacare:
(1 of 2) Challenge from Sen. Reid: If someone would spend a minute each day flipping through the newspapers about health care, ...— STEW (@StewSays) September 21, 2016
(Sen. Reid, continued; 2 of 2) ...they would understand that Obamacare has changed America for the better.— STEW (@StewSays) September 21, 2016
Reid also declared that Hillary Clinton will win the White House and that Democrats will regain the Senate. As several people on Twitter pointed out, Reid's history of Obamacare-related political predictions is...a wee bit spotty. Seriously, click that link for a quick laugh. In fact, if someone truly spent a minute each day flipping through the newspapers about healthcare, he or she would understand that it has changed America for the worse. Much higher rates, ballooning out-of-pocket costs, more federal debt accrual, decreased options for consumers, more uncompensated care, constricting networks, major insurers pulling the plug, imploding co-ops, collapsing marketplaces, and enduring unpopularity, as more Americans are directly harmed than helped by the $2 trillion law that was marketed with no downsides for anyone.
Reid, like many Democrats, is in deep denial of reality -- a reality that Republicans will once again use as an electoral cudgel. Freshly increased premiums (many jumping by double digits) will be officially announced just before the November election, and GOP candidates are setting the table to exploit that looming bad news at the ballot box. Missouri Republicans are blasting the Democratic Senate nominee in that state, Jason Kander, for his continued support for Obamacare's expansion. The GOP and conservative groups are slamming Indiana Senator-turned-DC lobbyist Evan Bayh, who cast the decisive vote for Obamacare, for promoting bailouts for insurance companies who've lost money on the program. In Arizona, John McCain is targeting his opponent with a tough new ad showcasing her pro-Obamacare vote, which she calls her "proudest" moment. How's that working out for the people of her state?
Ann Kirkpatrick Turned Her Back on Arizona
Earlier in the week, we also brought you a pro-Kelly Ayotte spot running in New Hampshire, which highlighted her left-wing opponent's Obamacare cheerleading. In the wake of several terrorist attacks on the US homeland last weekend, Democrat Maggie Hassan is also bizarrely refusing to say whether she believes other would-be jihadist attackers might exist anywhere in the country. This is not a difficult or trick question, but Hassan is hemming and hawing as if she's being asked about Hillary Clinton's honesty:
WMUR, the state’s largest television station, pressed the Democratic governor on whether she thinks other terrorists may be living in the United States after suspected New York City bomber Ahmad Khan Rahami was apprehended following a shootout with police. “As this situation evolves I think we’ll learn more,” she said. “Given two chances Gov Hassan declined to say definitively whether she thought there were other potential attackers in the U.S.,” WMUR reporter Adam Sexton said. Hassan’s opponent Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R., N.H.) told the station that the FBI’s caseload demonstrates that there are potential terrorists living in America...Ayotte has challenged Hassan, who has never held federal office, to a foreign policy debate sponsored by the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire. Gov. Hassan declined the organization’s invitation after agreeing to three television and two statewide radio debates.
Given her apparent cluelessness, stiff-arming a foreign policy debate is probably a smart move. By the way, another poll shows Ayotte surging back into the lead in this race. Monmouth's respected pollster (earning an A+ rating from FiveThirtyEight) has the Republican incumbent up by two points, outperforming Donald Trump in the state by a wide margin:
New @MonmouthPoll survey in New Hampshire:
Clinton 47
Trump 38
Ayotte 47
Hassan 45
Sununu 49
Van Ostern 43https://t.co/97M0Dl8NFq— Steven Shepard (@POLITICO_Steve) September 21, 2016
Ayotte has now led in three straight polls and has retaken the RCP average lead by 2.5 points. If she can hold on to her seat and Joe Heck can succeed Reid in Nevada, Democratic hopes for a Senate takeover are likely doomed. You'll note that the GOP's gubernatorial nominee is doing even better. Winning that race would be a pick-up for Republicans. I'll leave you with another Obamacare note, which would be amusing if not for its stark illustration of the real financial hardships this failing law is inflicting on average people:
For the first time in her life, 26-year-old freelance designer Susannah Lohr had to shop for health insurance this year. She called up a major insurer in the St. Louis area where she lives, and it offered her a plan with a hefty $6,000 deductible — that’s the amount she would have to cover herself before the insurance kicks in. When she balked, the salesman on the phone suggested that she could buy a “gap plan,” a separate policy for $50 a month to cover her deductible. “After I got off the phone with him, I realized: That’s actually just insurance for my insurance,” she said, laughing. Gap plans, used to cover out-of-pocket expenses like high deductibles, are becoming increasingly popular among consumers and businesses. The rising price of insurance is driving the trend...Now, there’s renewed interest in gap plans. With monthly premiums on health insurance going up, more people are choosing cheaper, high-deductible options. In 2016, more than 90 percent of people buying insurance under the ACA chose plans with an average deductible of $3,000 or higher. Next year, the cost of one of the most popular plans available under the Affordable Care Act could increase by 10 percent on average across the country. That comes on top of a 5 percent jump the year before. When consumers see those prices, Hillenbrand said, “they get sticker shock.”
"Insurance for my insurance." According to Harry Reid, that young woman just needs to flip through a few more newspapers, or something. Hillary's advice isn't any better. The only "solution" Democrats can muster is more failed government, and more failed spending.
Face it, Reid. Informed Americans know you’re a traitor to the Republic.
FUHR. You probably need to be bitchslapped again by your brother or the Vegas mob or whoever smacked your eye out.
Sorry, Harry, but “informed” Americans are ones who have actually had contact with 0bamacare, not ones who sit in cushy DC offices exempt from the whole thing. Informed Americans are the ones trying to calculate whether paying the IRS a fine is cheaper than trying to afford the insurance premiums. Uninformed Americans are ones in $1000 suits explaining to the little people that they’re better off when the latter know perfectly well that they aren’t.
Did I keep my doctor? No, he quit practicing medicine because of Obamacare.
Did I keep my insurance? No, my premiums went from $19K to $30K for less coverage.
Does Obamacare make my medical coverage better? No, I now have to wait several months to get a doctor’s appointment and usually have a battle over whether things are covered.
End it, don’t mend it.
Can’t you see? Don’t you agree? Isn’t it important that?
Tom Hopkins sales seminars on how to sell.
Harry, with lines like that, I can see you in your next career, doing “open mike night” stand-up on the Strip in Las Vegas.
He’s right. Informed Americans understand what the real goal of Obamacare was and recognize that it is definitely on it’s way to success.
So sucessful that Mr. Trump is going to end it once in the White House.
“Let’s face it”, “Clearly” and “Obviously” are often used to buttress weak or disingenuous statements. No one ever says, “Let’s face it, the sky is blue”.
Didn’t his brother-in-law kill the left half of Reid’s brain some years ago during a Thanksgiving brawl?
Oh good ahole harry, then why aren’t you on it? I have to call his office again. the Nevada cyclops needs another ass kicking from Larry.
Damn, Harry.. how blind can you be to reality...?
Oh, wait...
Success? Of course it is a success.Not at providing health care, of course - but the objective was to subvert the existing system. And in that, it is a success.
Let's AS*-U-ME for the argument that Reid is right, that Obamacare is a success.
It remains that the huge constitutional problem with Obamacare that Reid is wrongly ignoring, regardless of his hypocritical oath to protect and defend the Constitution, is the following.
Since the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare purposes, Reid’s corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Senate wrongly helped the likewise corrupt House to establish Obamacare without the required consent of the Constitution’s Article V state supermajority.
In fact, Reid’s Senate also wrongly ignored that previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices had repeatedly clarified that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate intrastate healthcare. This is evidenced by the excerpts below from Supreme Court case opinions.
Regardless what lawless Obama’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices want everybody to think about the constitutionality of the Obamacare insurance mandate for example, note the fourth entry in the list below from Paul v. Virginia. In that case, justices had clarified that regulating insurance is not within the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), regardless if the parties negotiating the insurance policy are domiciled in different states.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]" - Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass." -Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
"4. The issuing of a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce within the meaning of the latter of the two clauses, even though the parties be domiciled in different States, but is a simple contract [emphasis added] of indemnity against loss." - Paul v. Virginia, 1869. (The corrupt feds have no Commerce Clause (1.8.3) power to regulate insurance.)
"Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously [emphases added] beyond the power of Congress." - Linder v. United States, 1925.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]. ...” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So what the corrupt Court’s green light for unconstitutional Obamacare actually did was to show how corrupt all three branches of the unconstitutionally big federal government are, the feds wrongly not securing the required consent of the Constitution’s Article V state supermajority before establishing Obamacare as previously mentioned.
Remember in November !
Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and likewise unconstitutional inteference in state affairs as evidenced by unconstitutional Obamacare.
Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
He needs another beating from is brother, aka “exercise equipment”.
He sure does need to be bitch-slapped again by his brother, and this time more than the last time.
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