Will Dems Pay for Passing Obamacare in 2014?

Disaster for Dems

ObamaCare & the 2014 vote

• By BETSY MCCAUGHEY
• Last Updated: 12:09 AM, March 25, 2013
• Posted: 10:42 PM, March 24, 2013

Betsy McCaughey

Democrats hope to retake the House of Representatives in next year’s elections. They won’t — and they’ll have themselves to blame, because 2014 is when ObamaCare kicks in.

With a vengeance.

The authors of the Obama health law postponed the pain until after the 2012 election. Some popular provisions went into effect immediately, such as allowing children to stay on their parent’s plan until age 26. And the White House granted 1,472 waivers to various companies and unions, exempting them from insurance reforms so they wouldn’t drop coverage for employees and members before the presidential contest.

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Kiss of death: ObamaCare’s disastrous impact means Nancy Pelosi, here being greeted by the president last year, won’t be speaker again soon.

Yet a majority of voters on Election Day still opposed the health law (though, obviously, it wasn’t the deciding issue in the presidential race). And opinion will only sour more as the law takes full force starting in January.

People in their 20s and 30s will be clobbered — their health-insurance premiums will double (or more), insurers report. Nineteen percent of the president’s 2012 voters came from this age group. The biggest problem: The Obama law forces insurers to charge young, healthy people more to cover the cost of insuring the middle-aged and those with pre-existing conditions.

Middle-aged folks will benefit somewhat from overcharging the young, but the law’s mandatory benefits package and its billions in new taxes on insurers will drive up costs enough that overall premiums for a family of five will start at $20,000 (before subsidies, if any). Oh — and that doesn’t count the penalty for each smoker, roughly $3,000 a head.

(Subsidies may help some people cover sky-high premiums, though not the smoking penalty — but the letter of the law makes those subsidies unavailable in many states. The federal courts will eventually decide the issue.)

Many workers in industries such as retail, hospitality and home care will lose on-the-job health coverage, forecasts the ADP Research Institute — and many will also be demoted to part-time status because of ObamaCare.

Why? The president’s health law mandates that all employers with 50 or more full-time workers provide its “essential benefit package” if they offer insurance — and that package costs about twice what these industries now offer. Many employers will drop coverage, and pay the (smaller) fine; others will try to avoid that 50-employee limit by using more people part-time.

Even the government’s actuaries admit fewer people will get coverage at work after the employer mandate goes into effect than if the law had not passed.

You will find the rest of the article at this link.

I am praying Betsy McCaughey is right, as it appears the current congress cannot bring itself to even throw a speed bump in front of Obama’s health care plan from Hell. Okay, it really is not Obama’s plan, as it was written many moons ago and has been sitting in a rusty file cabinet ever since, but he will be forever associated with it.

There is just one teeny, tiny problem, though, as filling out an Obamacare application will include an opportunity to register to vote.

That could end up being a double edged sword given the low-information electorate we now have in this country.

And do not even get me started on the potential for voter fraud.

-Dave

Clinton out. Hanoi Kerry in at State

EXCUSE ME WHILE I UP CHUCK!!

The Senate on Tuesday easily confirmed Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. The vote was 94-3.

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Texas Republican Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz voted against the nomination.

For more information… http://www.politico.com

Bonehead Reelected Speaker of the House

Wimp

Only nine republicans defected.

It is now abundantly clear to me that if this country has any chance at all at survival (and I am seeing less and less to be optimistic about with each passing day), the Republican Party, as currently structured, is not going to be the reason.

I am almost at the point of despair.

May God help us.

-Dave

Long Distance Demon-Rat Voter Intimidation Underway in Florida

Remember these goons?

No, it does not rise to the level of physical intimidation, but it is clearly designed to suppress republican votes.

Of course, most republicans are not stupid enough to fall for it, and I find it not a little amusing that those perpetrating this obvious fraud think they are.

Via dailycaller.com:

Fla. Republicans receiving fake ineligibility letters aimed at suppressing their vote

Caroline May

Political Reporter

The Florida Department of State’s Division of Elections is investigating a number of fraudulent letters sent to voters in the state questioning their citizenship and voter eligibility, in a possible attempt to keep them home on Election Day.

“The Florida Department of State unequivocally opposes all attempts at voter fraud or intimidation and will pursue every avenue to ensure free, fair and open elections for all eligible voters,” Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner said in a statement. “Voter fraud and intimidation can deny voters their voice in government and will not be tolerated.”

The statement alerted the public of the fraudulent letters, which claim to be from Florida election officials and imply that the recipient might be ineligible to vote.

Charles Callaghan, a Republican from Ponte Vedra, received one of the fraudulent letters Saturday.

“Basically, when I read the letter, I got the impression that I was not going to be able to vote, because my citizenship was being questioned,” Callaghan told The Daily Caller. “I wasn’t quite sure why it would be, because I was born in the United States, and I’ve always been a United States citizen, and nothing has changed in my life … that would cause my citizenship to be called into question.”

Callaghan noticed that his letter lacked a return address and included faulty contact information and a Seattle, Washington postmark.

You will find the rest of the article here.

The POS and his corrupt sidekick Whale-Squeeze

Clearly the people behind this puny effort are not exactly the brightest bulbs in the chandelier, as they were stoopid enough to send one of their bogus letters to one Mr. Lenny Curry, who just happens to be the chairman of the Florida Republican Party.

The real howler is that the FBI is “investigating.”

LOL – Yeah, we will see just how far that gets.

Pardon me for refraining from holding my breath.

-Dave

(h/t: boortz.com)

Can an 8th Grader be Smarter than an MSNBC Hack?

They can if they are this 8th grader:

This delightful young girl has an extremely bright future ahead of her – if the American people throw the POS out on his bum next month.

-Dave

(h/t: boortz.com)

Congress Set to Spend Still More Money in 2013

Drunken Sailors

The federal government is telling us our accumulated national debt is  somewhere around $16 Trillion.  Sorry, but I am just not buying it – not even for a second. Of course, estimates of our real accumulated national debt are all over the map, and just trying to research this unpleasant and complex topic can leave your head positively spinning as you pull out of the driveway and head straight for your local liquor retailer – credit card at the ready.

Personally, I have settled on a figure of about $134 Trillion. I do not have any hard data to back that number up – perhaps it is coming from my gut, I do not know, but it is a number a little north of the mean of the estimates I have seen – the highest of which was an eye-popping $222 Trillion. The truth, after all, is often times somewhere in the middle. Besides, I doubt there there is anyone out there that knows exactly what our accumulated debt actually is.

Of course, the actual amount we are in hoc for is not nearly as important as how we came to this sorry point in our short 236 year history as a nation. Since WWII, America has been on a spending binge with no end in sight, and it gets worse as each year passes.

I may disagree with the numbers, but I am confident the rate of our hideous national debt increase illustrated in the above graph is dead-on.

(Note also that WWII saw the introduction of payroll withholding to help speed up funding for building the war machine that ultimately defeated Japan and helped to crush Corporal Hitler. Only problem is, congress failed to do away with it after the war. What a surprise).

This out-of-control growth in federal spending cannot go on for much longer, as at some point (and I believe it is coming sooner rather than later), America’s financial and economic house of cards is going to come crashing down literally overnight.

Yeah, I know many are saying that we are putting our children and their children in the poorhouse and thus relegating them to a much lower standard of living.

That is, of course, correct, but we are also screwing ourselves in the here and now.

Via heritage.org:

FY 2013 Appropriations Tracker Update: Continuing Resolution Spends Even More

Emily Goff September 28, 2012 at 11:42 am

Members of Congress left plenty of unfinished business as they hustled out of town last weekend, but they did manage to boost spending through another half-baked legislative measure.

The fiscal year (FY) 2013 Continuing Resolution (CR), H.J. Res.117, now on the way to the President’s desk, funds the federal government for six months at an annualized rate of $1.047 trillion—an $8 billion increase. Thus another dose of spend-as-you-go from a Congress that has all but given up on serious budgeting.

The Heritage Foundation’s FY 2013 Appropriations Tracker has been updated to reflect the annualized spending amounts in the CR and compares the agreement to House and Senate versions of the 12 regular appropriations bills as well as an FY 2013 base level and the amounts spent in the pre-stimulus year of 2008.

Usually a CR spends at the same level as would result from continuing the previous year’s policies—in this case, $1.039 trillion. This CR’s additional spending, however, pushes the rate of spending to that consistent with the total spending level of $1.047 trillion provided in the Budget Control Act of 2011.

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You will find the rest of the article at this link.

I do not have much to add here, other than “our side” is clearly not in our corner.

The House of Representatives is the only government entity that is constitutionally authorized to introduce spending bills of any kind, but for whatever reason, they do not have it in their DNA to just say no – and they have had nearly two years to do so.

I am sorry, but John Boehner & Co. are all out of excuses, and we as a nation are pretty much out of time.

-Dave

(h/t: boortz.com)

Yes, Virginia, We Ain’t America Anymore

Via washingtonexaminer.com:

Virginia vintners taste the police state

August 12, 2012 | 8:00 pm

While the Obama administration is busy eviscerating private property rights at the federal level, Republican-controlled Fauquier County, Va., has decided to follow suit in its own way. Fauquier’s Board of Supervisors recently passed a winery ordinance that tramples private property rights and some fundamental civil liberties.

The county, which is located about an hour west of Washington, calls itself an agricultural community. Its scenic, sprawling farmlands have become home to a growing number of wineries. Vintners have discovered that Fauquier’s climate and rich soil are ideal for growing grapes.

Most of the wineries are mom and pop operations. Some, though, have been more creative in marketing, employing more people, and generating revenue. The county thinks such success must be punished.

At the center of all this is the county zoning administrator, a bureaucratic czar named Kimberley Johnson, whose bullying and heavy-handed enforcement tactics have resulted in calls for her dismissal by county farmers and residents. Johnson was recently the subject of a citizen-farmer “pitchfork protest” in a matter in which she fined one farmer for conducting a pumpkin carving and a birthday party for eight little girls without the proper permit.

You can read the rest of the article here.

We are seeing more and more stories like this popping up all over America, and as far as I know, not one of the tyrannical bureaucrats, nor their politician enablers, has been held to account for their trampling upon the Constitution.

That must change, and soon.

At least there are some out there who are resisting the creeping tyranny.

But protests alone are not enough, nor is merely throwing these tyrants out of office – it is going to take criminal prosecution and incaration of government officials, elected or otherwise, to get the message across that we in America are not going to tolerate government run amok.

Or are we?

-Dave

(h/t: boortz.com)

They Still Do Not Get It

According to Drudge, this is the list of moderators for the upcoming presidential debates:

DEBATE MODERATORS ANNOUNCED:
PBS Jim Lehrer, first Pres debate, Oct 3 Denver…
CNN Candy Crowley, town hall, Oct 16, Hempstead NY…
CBS Bob Schieffer, third Pres debate, Oct. 22, Boca Raton…
ABC Martha Raddatz, VP debate, Oct 11, Danville KY…

I am not sure who the idiot moron in the GOP hierarchy is that continues to agree to allow debates to be moderated by Obamabot MSM types, but they need to be run off – and fast.

It appears the republican establishment is perfectly willing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory yet again.

-Dave

The Long National Nightmare Will Soon Be Over

You see that flash of light in the corner of your eye? That’s your career dissipation light. It just went into high gear.

-Quote from the movie Backdraft

While a victory against Obama is not yet a foregone conclusion, the prospects are getting better every day, and while Mitt Romney is not my first choice to run against him, he is the man that will face off against Obama.

The most important thing now is supporting Romney and bouncing Obama out of the White House and ending this long national nightmare.

If we are serious about taking this country back from Obama and his marxist  stooges then we must support Romney  for President. Obama has to be defeated, if he gets four more years our country is doomed, our economy, our military, our healthcare, and our very freedoms…GONE!

I would never have thought that one man and his minions could do so much damage in such a short time, and Romney is going to have one hell of a mess to clean up and the liberals will be fighting him every step of the way. But unlike Obama, I know he will not make things worse by just throwing money at it and letting the unions and special interests pocket the money just so they can inject influence in electing more liberals.

Have no doubt about it, I detest Barack Obama and he is in a three way tie for the most vile and corrupt politician along with Pelosi and Reid and when I see him leave the White House for the final time Jan 20, 2013, it will a be time to celebrate, but it will also be the start of a long healing process for our country.

The Republic has been battered and bruised by it’s flirtation with socialism at the hands of a narcissistic ego-maniac and his army of idiots and yes-men. Yes, our Republic will survive and it will flourish once again and hopefully on Nov 6, 2012 we can nail the coffin shut on socialism in this country and bury it once and for all.

God help us if we ever let this happen again, our country will not survive another Barack Obama, will not survive another attack by the enemies on the left and we better damn well better be ready to fight back at the first hint of a marxist SOB trying to get his foot in the door at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We were caught flat footed in 2008, next time we better be on our toes. While we are on the subject of feet, we better be ready to hold the Republicans feet to the fire, it doesn’t matter who they are, if they get power drunk and start the out-of-control spending again we need to let them know we will vote their asses out and replace them with strong Conservatives, no if’s and’s or but’s.

Hit the Road B’rack

  (Hit the road B’rack and don’t you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.)
(Hit the road B’rack and don’t you come back no more.)
What you say?
(Hit the road B’rack and don’t you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.)
(Hit the road B’rack and don’t you come back no more.)

Woah voters, oh voters, don’t treat me so mean,
You’re the maddest lot of voters that I’ve ever seen.
I guess if you say so
I have to pack ma things and go. (That’s right)

(Hit the road B’rack and don’t you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.)
(Hit the road B’rack and don’t you come back no more.)
What you say?
(Hit the road B’rack and don’t you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.)
(Hit the road B’rack and don’t you come back no more.)

well man, listen man, don’t ya treat me this-a way
Cause I’ll be back on my feet some day.
(Don’t care if you do ’cause it’s understood)
(you ain’t got no money you just ain’t no good.)
Well, I guess if you say so
I’d have to pack my things and go. (That’s right)

(Hit the road B’rack and don’t you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.)
(Hit the road B’rack and don’t you come back no more.)
What you say?
(Hit the road B’rack and don’t you come back no more, no more, no more, no more.)
(Hit the road B’rack and don’t you come back no more.)

well!!
(don’t you come back no more.)
Uhh what did you say?
(don’t you come back no more.)
i did not understand it
(don’t you come back no more.)
i came to talk it over
(don’t you come back no more.)
i thaught we had a better understanding
(don’t you come back no more.)
oh baby dont be so chicken
(don’t you come back no more.)
you dont want to see me cry x2
(don’t you come back no more.)
oh baby it isnt fair
ooh yeahh

Tom in NC

The Tyranny of the Watermelons

As a general rule, I usually refrain from posting things here at FotM I find on The Drudge Report, as most all political and news junkies hit that site before the chair in front of their computer is even warm.

As such, I tend to stay off the proverbial beaten trail, as it were, and look for things that may not always make the front pages of the nation’s newspapers, perhaps not even make the “A” section, but that do have a profound impact on our freedoms and liberties.

I do not worry all that much about reaching the Entertainment Tonight/People Magazine crowd, nor the American Idol zombies, nor those who get their “news” from the alphabet networks, as they are too illiterate to even visit sites such as this. And even if they are functionally literate and somehow manage to stumble in here, they do not possess the linear logic to comprehend what they are reading, and often that is when their inner troll surfaces.

What follows is one of the occasional exceptions, as it somewhat mirrors a previous post concerning the increasingly tyrannical behavior of the federal, unelected bureaucrats who have acquired a great deal of power over us, yet apparently answer to no one.

Via humanevents.com (illustrations are mine):

Summertime Blues
by Audrey Hudson
04/23/2012

Planning a vacation this summer to Miami’s Biscayne Bay for a little fishing?

Think again, because the National Park Service wants to set aside a large swath of the pristine area as a marine reserve zone, so you might have to leave the fishing poles at home. And the boat.

Perhaps horseback riding is more your speed and the family plans to ride through California’s Sequoia or Kings Canyon National Parks? Sorry, but all of the permits were pulled for those activities this summer.

Or maybe you just want to lounge on the soft sands of North Carolina’s Outer Banks and read a novel, fly a kite with the kids, toss a Frisbee to the dog, and watch dad catch some fish?

No, no, no and no.

Beachcombers along specific stretches of those legendary shores are seeing signs telling them to leave their kites and pets at home, and to watch where they step.

“Leave no footprints behind. Walk in water where footprints wash away,” read the signs posted in February by federal officials.

Beaches that once welcomed fisherman to drive up to the water’s edge are also off-limits to the vehicles, and so is fishing.

These vacation destinations are all national parks that once encouraged such recreational uses and enjoyment but their new “no trespassing” attitudes have angered the local communities, and some in Congress as well.

In March, Rep. Walter Jones (R–N.C.) challenged the restrictions imposed by the beach signs, which were the result of battles with environmentalists to protect certain species.

The park service that operates the Cape Hatteras National Seashore pledged to replace them, and the new signs will read: “Walk near water’s edge. Stay below high tide line.”

Still not allowed: kites, pets, vehicles, or fishing. Sunbathing is permissible if you don’t mind getting hit by the waves every few minutes.

 Beach access

“The federal government needs to remember that Cape Hatteras was established to be a recreational area for the American people,” Jones said. “But taxpayers can’t recreate without access to the beach. The goal of management ought to be a balanced approach between visitor access and species protection.”

Roping off national parks to the public and limiting opportunities for recreation, which in some cases were at the request of environmental groups, is a growing trend that lawmakers say they will examine during an oversight hearing of a House Resources subcommittee on April 27.

Florida’s Biscayne National Park is one of the largest urban recreational fishing and boating parks in the United States, but federal park employees say the coral reef is declining; so, boating and fishing must be restricted in certain areas.

Florida Republican Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mario Diaz-Balart and David Rivera are challenging the proposed rule, which would close off 20 percent of the park to boating and fishing.

“The park service appears to have decided that it knows best, and that allows it to ignore the public in the pursuit of its own notions of sound conservation,” a group of Florida marine and fishing organizations said earlier this month in a letter to the editor of Soundings Trade Only Today.

You will find the rest of the article at this link.

It is refreshing, for a change, to see that at least some republicans are questioning this insanity.

The only question is, will there be enough to matter?

-Dave 

(h/t: drudge.com)