"I’m looking for loopholes.” W.C. Fields when asked why he was reading the Bible on his deathbed.
November 13, 2013
By: Linda Case Gibbons
As Tonto said to the Lone Ranger when they were surrounded by Indians, "what do you mean we, white man?”
Alas, the president has left us to fend for ourselves, friends.In the past month, more than 4 million Americans have lost their policies, courtesy of Obamacare. And this is only the beginning.
After sticking his nose and his law into our lives -- going where he and government should never have gone -- the president has made a calculated mess of these "anticipated consequences” and we are taking it in the neck.
It’s hard to bounce back when someone does something like this to you. And if they apologize, it just makes it worse when you know they’re not really sorry, because now they have also lied to you.
This week Obama apologized and lied to Americans who "lost” their policies.
This week he insulted our intelligence and he did it not once, but twice.
We knew he wasn’t sorry. We knew he was really thinking about the 2014 mid-term elections. He has big plans and they include packing the Senate with Democrats so he will never have to say "please” to anyone again.
Heck, he might even declare himself king!
The first apology was to Obama-sensitive NBC’s Chuck Todd.
He was sorry, he said, for "the position they (that’s us) are finding themselves in.” To translate for you, what he’s saying is that it’s our fault that his signature legislation is a failure.
Obama’s slippery "apology” was hard to watch and harder to listen to because we could hear the subtext.
It said he thinks we’re stupid. That he thinks he can keep lying to us as he takes our country down the road to wrack and ruin.
And he’s doing a good job with that.
His second apology was to tell us Democrats are scared. That wasn’t what he said, but that’s what he meant.
He and Democrats like Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) are scared that the bill they cheerfully shoved down America’s throats is now threatening to sink them. They never bargained for that.
Landrieu is scrambling to glom onto a bill to postpone policy cancellations…for a year…As you might have guessed, Mary’s up for election next year, and after the year is up, after she’s elected, you’ll find yourself back to where you are right now. You think Mary will care?
But back to Obama.
This week he changed the law. He told us if we wanted to keep the policies that were cancelled, we could try to do that.
He wasn’t going to. We’d have to figure it out. So what do we do? Should we call someone? Should we negotiate with the state insurance boards? I don’t know. He didn’t say.
He also didn’t say that insurance companies are not required to continue to offer these policies which he is unofficially "allowing” in contradiction of "The Law of the Land.”
He didn’t say that state insurance commissioners aren’t required to approve those 2013 plans.
And he didn’t say that these plans would be "illegal” under the law! But as you know, you need not worry. Obamacare is "The Law of the Land” only when Obama wants it to be.
As with all bad apologies, he back-handed the whole deal by insinuating we could keep our policies, but he thought they were lousy.
They’re not.
What you have to understand is that his apologies never had anything to do with real people and their healthcare. It was never even important that the website worked. He knows we’re all going to be forced to buy into Obamacare whether we like it or not. And he knows none of the details were ever important.
So don’t get sidetracked.
Some who were sidetracked were excited by a 2010 video of Obama which resurfaced this week. The video was an exchange between then House Minority Whip Eric Cantor and Obama during a February 2010 health care summit with Republicans.
In it Obama unashamedly admitted that eight to nine million Americans "might have to change their healthcare coverage,” citing a Congressional Budget Office report.
That exploded as big news. He knew all along, they said!
Of course he did. But that wasn’t the big news. That was further on in the video.
It came shortly after Obama skirted Cantor’s question about Americans losing their coverage. Instead of answering the question, Obama opted to lecture Cantor instead about how Americans need laws… to keep our food safe, for instance. Sure, he said, food could be cheaper if we didn’t care about protecting the consumers.
Then he said in that way that he has,
"We make decisions to protect consumers in every aspect of their lives, because what we don’t want is a situation in which suddenly people think they’re getting one thing and they’re getting something else; they’re harmed by a product.”
Really? Sounds like Obamacare.
Now the Federal Trade Commission handles this kind of stuff all the time, you know. That’s what they do. It has to do with protecting consumers by telling them the truth, granting them the right to know what they are buying.
It’s one of Obama’s agencies.
In fact the FTC has a mission statement. It defines its goal this way:
"To prevent business practices that are anticompetitive or deceptive or unfair to consumers; to enhance informed consumer choice and public understanding of the competitive process; and to accomplish this without unduly burdening legitimate business activity.”
It is a statement of all the things Obamacare isn’t and everything it does wrong. It sounds like Obamacare is against the law. Hey! Shouldn’t someone sue somebody?
Oh, heck, I’m probably just being silly! Maybe consumer law doesn’t apply if it’s inconvenient.
Sure, all your questions about Obamacare may be good ones, but you have to realize it’s never been about you, silly goose. As the reporting goes, it is the president who is in a bad position. In a fit of pique the president himself said the web site glitch was aimed at him. He is the victim, as always.
So stop whining and feeling sorry for yourself. And do yourself a favor. Trust me, this is not a good time to ask Obama or Kathleen or the people who designed and run the web site any questions.
Congress already tried that this week, with Obamacare’s IT team. They got nada.
And Obama explains it this way: He and Sebelius don’t "write code.”
Apparently neither does his IT team.
So while Obama was busy "not writing code,” and fretting that people are out to get him. While he was reading newspapers to keep up with what’s happening in his administration, you have to wonder. Isn’t this guy a lawyer? Isn’t he supposed to know how these "law things” work?
Guess not, although he sure does know how to circumvent our Constitution.
Well, we may be down and out, worried sick about being sick, but we’re not stupid. We know what Obama’s plan is. It is to implement his father’s dream: To destroy the "evil,” America, its power, its influence and its economy. Then after he breaks our spirits and empties our pocketbooks, he’ll put Americans into houses just like his brother George’s back in Kenya.
That’s his goal and Obamacare is a big part of it.
From what I can see, so far he’s doing a good job.
Hold the line, America.