Fans of the movie Zombieland might understand the post title right away. In the movie the lead protagonist, "Columbus" has a set of rules he always follows which he believes are the only reason he is still alive after the world is turned into Zombieland by a mutant strain of Mad Cow disease that turns almost everyone into crazed, flesh eating zombies.
Rule #1 is cardio. You need to be able to run away from Zombies.
Rule # 31 is Check the back seat. Always look to see if there is a Zombie in the back of the car before you drive away in it.
Rule # 3, beware of bathrooms. Zombies seem to be able to sense when you are at your weakest.
Rule #18 Limber up. Wouldn’t want to come up lame.
And Rule #2? Double Tap. It is not a waste of ammo to put another round into the head of a zombie to make sure they are down for the count.
So who stumbles into my metaphor but Obama Zombie and Health and Inhuman Services Minister Kathleen Sebelius. Note to the left–no, I am not suggesting we double tap her, I am suggesting she and the democrats of the 111th congress–and all your lying or deluded selves included– have double-tapped the Taxpayers. Sebelius has just admitted to a congressional committee that a huge chunk of money they claimed was going to offset the costs of Obamacare is the legislative-accounting equivalent of a double tap.
Five hundred billion dollars ($500,000,000,000.00) was basically double counted, or double tapped, in the Patient Affordable Care Act to make it something it is not, affordable.
Kathleen Sebelius responded to a line of questioning by Republican Rep. John Shimkus of Illinois about whether $500 billion in Medicare cuts were used to sustain the program or pay for the law.
“There is an issue here on the budget because your own actuary has said you can’t double-count,” said Shimkus. “You can’t count — they’re attacking Medicare on the CR when their bill, your law, cut $500 billion from Medicare.”
He continued: “Then you’re also using the same $500 billion to what? Say your funding health care. Your own actuary says you can’t do both. […] What’s the $500 billion in cuts for? Preserving Medicare or funding the health-care law?
Sebelius’ reply? “Both.”
Nothing new here. We always knew the numbers were funny. But the left and the media, having exhausted themselves with the ideological equivalent to the Health-Care Kama Sutra, would have none of it. And it’s been unraveling ever since.
I’m sure you feel much better now that passing the bill has lead to yet another discovery about what’s in the bill–or not in the bill if you don’t double tap the 500 billion. But what’s $500 billion in the dynamic Obama-deficit based economy? It’s a trip down to the US Treasury to speed up the presses.
But they could still make it up to us. Maybe we can all just get a waiver.
