Steve brought us the plight of 3 month pregnant Jennifer Harris to us.  Seemingly, she had the TANSTAAFL moment when she got the bill from her brand new OppressiveCare policy (emphasis mine):

Now [Jennifer] Harris, a self-employed lawyer, must shop for replacement insurance. The cheapest plan she has found will cost her $238 a month. She and her husband don’t qualify for federal premium subsidies because they earn too much money, about $80,000 a year combined.

“It doesn’t seem right to make the middle class pay so much more in order to give health insurance to everybody else,” said Harris, who is three months pregnant. “This increase is simply not affordable.”

Jennifer Harris at least has the ability to pay the 262% increase in premiums that the Democrat’s forward looking vision for health care has delivered unto us. Well, I assume she does. She lives in California. $80K/year doesn’t buy as much in the PRC as other parts of the country.

She has come smack right up to that ill-named notion of “Free Money” up close and personal – nothing concerning money is “free”.  Too bad that doesn’t happen more often – that the decisions and votes made by greedy Politicians aren’t brought home more often so that “producers and earners” can watch their hard earned money waft out their doors and windows.  That sense of “someone else will pay” is going to hurt a whole lot more people people just because Obama and Progressives DO wish to hurt others by redistributing their hard earned Private Property.  Folks like Jennifer Harris (and Bernadette Loesch of Laconia) are going to quickly learn that Progressives (like Willy Sutton before them) are now reaching to where the real money is – the middle class (Sutton merely picked on banks; at least he was honest about his thieving ways). 

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When Common Core arrived many states and districts just accepted it and signed on, only to discover just how bad it really is.  Teachers, parents, and administrators got caught in a bind as they tried to make sense of what has turned out to be an impossible curriculum to teach or test.

We had a great discussion about this with Ann Marie Banfield a few weeks back (Audio here and here) during which she mentioned NYC in particular- If they had stocks in the town square more than a few school board presidents, superintendents, and others would be in them having their faces used to make salads with rotting vegetables.

People are livid.

Which brings me to this; an open letter from an association of New York State Principals, to all parents in New York State, with regard to new testing. that looks more like an effort to keep themselves out of those stocks.  Or maybe it is something else.  You decide.

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The Obama Administation knew all along that as many as 50-60% or more of us would lose our plans under ObamaCare.

From Right Wing bastion – NBC

Buried in Obamacare regulations from July 2010 is an estimate that because of normal turnover in the individual insurance market, “40 to 67 percent” of customers will not be able to keep their policy. And because many policies will have been changed since the key date, “the percentage of individual market policies losing grandfather status in a given year exceeds the 40 to 67 percent range.”  

That means the administration knew that more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans, even if they liked them.

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Some interesting news from Adam Cahn at Cahnman’s Musings…

Last night, we were invited to join the Facebook group “Draft David Barton for U.S. Senate.”  Putting it mildly, that piqued our interest.  Cahnman’s Musings has spent a substantial amount of time tracking this rumor today.

According to multiple sources, last week a meeting occurred between Tea Party leaders and a representative for Barton.  Sources report both sides left the meeting encouraged.  Right now, speculation Barton might run is “legitimate.”

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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.

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Someone who went to healthcare.gov and managed to start the application process–to look at options for a family member–abandoned the process, did not submit their application, and explicitly refused to accept the terms–which should have ended things there–has 10 days to appeal the “decision” on an application he never submitted or he will become ineligible for any future coverage.

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Well, I’ve been blogging about this for a while now – the Establishment Republicans are bound and determined to ‘take out” the insurgency known as the TEA Party and  “take back” their Party (and apparently, continue to cozy up and just be the Jr. Partners in running the Welfare State).  From Big Government (emphasis mine):

GOP Establishment Signals Primary Fight Against Tea Party Favorite Mike Lee

On Tuesday, 79-year old Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), now serving his seventh term in the Senate, signaled that he and other members of the Republican establishment are likely to encourage a primary challenge to first term Senator Mike Lee (R-UT).

Lee upset former Senator Robert Bennett (R-UT) in the 2010 Utah Republican primary convention in the Tea Party’s first major primary win over a Republican establishment politician.

Hatch told the Deseret News and KSL NewsRadio that “[i]t’s time now… for Lee and other tea party Republicans to be ‘rehabilitated’ for refusing to pass a budget bill needed to keep the government operating unless money for the act better known as Obamacare was removed.”

I don’t care who are you – close proximity to power over time creates a craving to hold onto that power – nd 42 years (7 X 6) is an awful long time.  Plenty of time to have been corrupted by that power and be transformed from a “young gun Republican” to an old “DCcrat”. 

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