I would like to post a light hearted entry, making light of the ongoing wackiness going on in D.C., but I cannot. It has all reached the point where it is not even a little funny. No, not funny at all. This administration has lied and lied and lied. It has now gone beyond the lies. We are now talking about sexism, deception and somewhere within this ugly web, there may have been a law or two trampled.
It started with this joke called Obamacare. EVERYBODY with an ounce of business experience knew from the start that this program could not possibly work. With the snap of his finger, Obama produced over 2000 pages, which he called healthcare reform. Without a moment of debate and without anybody reading the bill, it was pushed through without one conservative vote. When asked for an explanation of the details of this bill, Nancy Pelosi said, you can read it after it passes. How arrogant these people are, to think they can rebuild the entire healthcare system in the blink of an eye.
Of course, it did not take a psychic to guess what would happen with such a bill. It only took someone with business experience; enter any conservative candidate. They all predicted this plan, as Obama described it, could not possibly work. There was no way we could introduce a program which would provide healthcare for everyone, without it costing those with insurance, more money and without diluting the quality of service. Mitt Romney said during the campaign that people will lose coverage and those with coverage will pay much more. Obama replied in debates and on the stump, laughing at Romney and saying that Romney was lying to the American people. Fast forward to October 2013 when we are hearing about hundreds of thousands of people losing their coverage and being offered a much watered down and much more expensive replacement.
Today, Obama is saying the only people getting cancelled are those with inferior plans. This man is lying and he is lying in a way that is almost criminal. The fact is, Obamacare permits people to obtain insurance with pre-existing conditions. The fact is, failing to purchase insurance results in a 1% penalty. The fact is, for a person earning $50,000 per year, he can choose to pay the $500 penalty and not carry insurance. If he is told six months from now that he has cancer, he can purchase a policy after meeting some very simple qualifiers.
For this reason, those who are expected to support the program; the young and healthy; can choose not to purchase insurance, while those who are sick enter the program and thereby, deplete the resources of the system. In other words, like everything else in government, much more going out than coming in; further destroying our economy. All of this on top of a website which will cost 10 times the budgeted amount and possibly more before it actually starts to work.
With all of this going on, we have a President and an administration that refuses to accept responsibility. In fact, this president has not accepted responsibility for any of the many examples of incompetence he has exhibited, the greatest of which is his inability to lead. Current estimates are that millions of people have had their insurance coverage cancelled with replacement policies costing up to 10 times the amount of their previous policy. We have watched our country become the laughing stock around the world because of our failure to "take charge" or stand our ground. We have been embarrassed by the revelation of our widespread espionage among our enemies and our friends. All our president can say is that he did not know.
Then we see in every case from the IRS scandal to the Benghazi scandal and now, the Obamacare scandal, that women were in charge of these departments. In each case, the woman threw herself under the wheels of the bus for the president. When was the last time a conservative president almost exclusively used women as his scapegoat? Condoleezza Rice for example, was held in high esteem during her service as Secretary of State. In Obama's administration, women are considered door mats.
At what point do we stop talking and start pushing? At what point do conservatives join Ted Cruz and adopt a policy of brutal honesty? At what point do we stop accepting excuses and start demanding action?. At what point do we admit that this is about more than the lies?
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