Lib Cartoonist: Sarah Palin was Right (sort of)!
Palin, along with other commenters, remarked that the epic failure of the Government run Healthcare rollout seems intentional and is designed to get us to single-payer, which was the plan all along. Liberal Cartoonist Ted Rall, writing at the Daily KoS of all places, has unkind words for the Obama Administration, and kudos to Palin and company for other reasons – He argues that Obama and Company are all idiots (something we on the right have been saying that for years).
Rall adds his own take on the excuses used to dismiss the disastrous roll out.
If Team Obama had been plotting Canadian-style socialized medicine all along, they wouldn’t have floated all those dumb “heckuva job, Barry”-style excuses that turned healthcare.gov into the president’s Katrina moment:
• Too much volume. But corporate websites routinely handle more than the ACA sites. Besides, the feds knew that, in a nation with tens of millions of uninsured people, tens of millions of people were going to check out the website. The truth, as any idiot could plainly see, was that volume wasn’t the issue. Lousy coding was.
• ACA is “more than a website” — and anyway, why don’t people use the phone? Actually, that’s not true. For most people, the ACA are the websites. That’s how Obamacare was promoted. People were told to go online. So they did. As for those who threw up their hands and tried calling — I was one of them — there was no way to buy a plan by phone.
• Everyone knew there would be glitches. The problem with that Democratic talking point is that while Americans may suffer from short memories, they’re not totally retarded. We still recall September 2013. It’s not like anyone in the White House announced before the launch: “Hey, don’t freak if you can’t access the websites right away. Chillax, wait a month or two. We’re expecting a lot of glitches, and things could be less than cromulent for a while.”
No, Governor Palin, the truth behind the ACA mess is that Obama and his gang of golfing buddies are idiots.
That must make Rall a racist, yes?
NewBusters points out that Rall has tried to skewer the Democrat President in the past but received less than cordial responses when trying to publish those works; they also ponder how the Kossacks will receive the news that Rall has written an article that quotes Palin heavily, for the purpose of slamming the Obama Administration.
As I sit here the phrase “The Government Built That” comes to mind. This is the same Government that runs a postal service that loses $6-12 billion every year, or somethign close to that. Rall makes a smiliar observation, “Look at what happened to the Postal Service: neither beast nor fowl, the uncomfortable marriage of for-profit business and Congressionally mandated payouts has pushed an otherwise viable organization to the brink of collapse.”
We have also remarked here more than once that the likelihood of success for the ACA as written (and unwritten) was so slim that it had to be a head-fake to take us to full-blown single payer. But Rall’s points lead us to a conclusion upon which we can still agree; this was a step to single payer, but the idiots actually expected that it would work for a while to make their point. It had to work, to demonstrate the adept skill at which the Feds could consume the entire health care system by hijacking the insurance market–Look Ma! we can run health care.
‘Run,’ is missing the letter ‘i.’ Ruin would be more accurate.
Ruin it is. Facts and realities were destined to fight the meme and not just the…’Government CAN run roughshod over the insurance market and make it better’ meme, but also the “we’re like, super-modern-high-tech gurus-compared-to-those-right-wing-Neanderthals.” Sorry. Government screws up almost everything. Bigger government just screws it up with a higher price tag and even less accountability. The free market, unshackled by the scrabbling bureaucracy, already creaded a very high-tech system for aquiring health insurance that 85% of people were happy with.
But Democrats did not care. They saw an opportunity to take control and they took it. The Progressive pirates stormed the vessel, forced their way aboard, and demanded control. They cut the sails, split the masts, punched holes in the hull, insisted that adding 30 million or so more bodies on board would be fine, and promised that no one would be tossed overboard; and expected her to sail on a goodly distance before sinking.
But the ship started sinking right away so they tried to patch the holes (with waivers), exempted themselves, began throwing people overboard–which we always knew would happen, all the while letting King Obama watch from his dinghy, spouting platitudes to contradict what we could see with our own eyes, things the folks on the right insisted would happen all along.
So I guess the next question has to be…”is it time to make the moral case for immediately invading Syria again?” It has been a while. I have not heard much about that particular crises going to waste. That might make a great distraction right about now. Or were they hoping to incite another mass shooting? Something. Anything. Bueller?
