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Peace Prize and his crack team of experts have just accomplished such a spectacular, mind-blowingly awesome healthcare launch to his HISTORIC legislation, the Affordable Care Act, that people are cheering in the streets and hugging each other with joy. They are honking their horns and waving blindly to strangers, each filled with an inexpressible desire to just connect, you know...to share this moment...to honor each others' stories...to be a part of...
Wait...what? That's not happening? The deuce, you say! So what IS happening? Jon Stewart has awakened to the hilarious -- and alarming -- reality.
As the saying goes, when you've lost Jon Stewart...
In Obama's case, he's not only lost Jon Stewart, he's now seriously cutting into his 47% hard deck of voters. His approval rating has dropped to 44.5%. Consider, kittens, that this means this president is so god-awful that people who vote for a living don't like him. These are people who NEED government and even they are saying, "The guy stinks."
'Course, they will still vote for him. They might not like him, but he's still the only game in their town.
The "all 4's and 5's in here" bit cracked me up.
ReplyDeleteI feel sorry for that woman whose face is on the healthcare.gov home page. The company that designed this mess could take the references off their site but she's stuck there. The face of failure for a nation. Hopefully she's a devout obamaphile rather than just some unsuspecting model.
Despite the reality that this whole thing is an unmitigated disaster, I'm still convinced that Obama and Crew will pull it out and the mega-ton bomb of a website will "disappear" from the MSM and we will all just "believe" that it is working for someone. Maybe not you...and maybe not anyone you know..but SOMEONE.
DeleteI have no faith whatsoever in the average American. None.
My favorite bumpersticker applies here: MOST PEOPLE ARE BELOW AVERAGE.
Exactly. Do the math.
Yeah, they'll probably shut the site down for retooling and it'll never come back. Then they'll pretend it was never a big thing anyway, if somebody's rude enough to remind them of it. Or they'll get it cobbled together just enough that they can pretend it's working the way it was supposed to.
DeleteToo many riders who aren't going to get off the government gravy train to walk until the boiler blows from the strain.
"My favorite bumpersticker applies here: MOST PEOPLE ARE BELOW AVERAGE."
DeleteOver at Vox Day's site they call that MPAI (Most people are idiots).
Every day now I'm seeing more and more how exactly right he is.
I didn't mean that it would REALLY disappear, just that it would be "forgotten" as a front page story and the lies about how wonderful and awesome and EASY it is to do...about how many awesome people are signing up and getting awesome coverage will be the new story of the day. DAY after DAY.
DeleteBut it might just disappear for reals. Then, under penalty of fines and bad stuff, you will have to shuffle on down to your local Healthcare Office and stand in line to speak with a disinterested and undereducated employee. Have a problem with that? RAAAAACIST! And also, shut up!
And Morris, I love Vox Day. Didn't he used to do alot over and World Net Daily?
DeleteYes he did, Buttercup, but the WND gig ended some time ago (can't remember why but it was amicable). His blog is going stronger than ever. I find it quite hilarious when the anklebiters (as he calls them) come and try to prove he's wrong about something. He doesn't mind being proven wrong, but you better be able to *prove* your points because he is merciless in dealing with the idiots. Despite his rep, I've noticed he's actually quite kind to those genuinely trying to understand a subject.
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ReplyDeleteLet's try that again.
ReplyDeleteDeninger thinks if Ocare isn't delayed or rescinded it'll crater the economy and very soon.
I will watch that later. It's half an hour and I don't have time right now, BUT I think it's way more than just a little "gun" to young people's heads (small fine). That's just what they knew they could get passed. Even in a bill that wasn't read. As things so south in a hurry, they will use tanking epic failure to basically destroy the entire economy, even private property. You don't want your neighbor to DIE...do you? Well...do you??? And once there is no other game in town because the private greedy bad insurers have gone under...letting the government default on all its obligations to fellow citizens is EVIL!!!!!!
DeleteHave you read this??? Fucking scary.
AAAAAND! One has to take into account the massive new government "employees" suddenly created in the healthcare system because of this. The NHS in the UK is the THIRD LARGEST employer in the WORLD after the Chinese Red Army and India's railway system. So even IF people in Britain are pissed off and want better care, it ain't gonna happen. The healthcare workers and paperpushers hit the streets in massive protests if there is even a HINT of curtailing them. You can not rein in massive government.
DeleteCan't. Be. Done.
So it doesn't matter is it is a huge failure. So was Soviet Russia and it STILL has defenders, even after reality took it out.
Reality is the only thing that MIGHT save us now. But it could also destroy us. There's nothing in the stars that says America has to survive as a free nation. We could easily become an historic anomaly.
That thing on the IMF is scary all right! The world powers that be are getting desperate.
DeleteHadn't seen that on the IMF though I have heard rumblings about expanding so-called bail-ins after Cyprus. I've figured for years that there'd be a push to confiscate 401K/IRA/Pension funds when there was another big drop in the stock market. Now they just want to grab cash from anybody with positive net wealth too. "Oh, you have some equity in your house? Pay up sucker!" Somehow I think they expect their net wealth to go way, way up in this scenario. Carpetbaggers.
DeleteNever fear, they've got the A-Team on it now. We shouldn't have expected anything more than second stringers for a mere half billion.
ReplyDelete"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their
ReplyDeleteown conscience." -- C. S. Lewis
I love Love LOVE that quote. C. S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors, and that quote is one of my favorites. Another is:
Delete"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit--immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously--no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinners--no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbour, he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ vere latitat, the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden." --CS Lewis - The Weight of Glory