Oh yes, those “I’m a Healthcare Voter!” days of 2007 and 2008 – Unionistas from the SEIU union (pretty much, not much more than a socialist front, IMHO) joined forces with AARP in trying to persuade voters that Universal Healthcare was needed or the country would end up in ruin.  AKA, Obamacare.  They invaded almost every event on the Right – this “Healthcare Voter” was at a McCain rally in Franklin, NH – and yes, she wanted us all to take care of her.  The SEIU put its all into preparing the battlefield space and getting Democrats voted into DC office.  They succeeded beyond belief – the Dems ran the table and captured the US House, Senate, and the Presidency.  And in that two years, Obamacare was spawned out of every Socialist’s idea of what Government could now to [for] everyone – and at the same time, take revenge on the ‘Evil people”.  “Unicorns and fairy dust is now real and for everyone!” was the cry

Well, given all of the self-induced problems we’ve seen lately, it seems that what is apparently “in ruin” is going to be the rollout of Obamacare in 5 days as it seems everyday for the last couple of weeks, “features” of the online Exchanges. The fantasy of Unicorns and fairy dust has proven to be just that – and now the IT folks are on their knees praying pretty hard – feature after feature keep getting put off to the point that small biz owners will have to FAX in their requirements – and maybe hear back in a month (and that might be an even bigger fantasy). And now, it has swung around and bit the SEIU in the butt (emphasis mine, reformatted):

 Members of the Columbus, Ohio-based Service Employees International Union Local 1 have gone on strike over recent job cuts by a janitorial company called Professional Maintenance.  The reason for the cuts?  The employer says it is because of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. This is ironic since SEIU is a major supporter of the law.

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Patient advocates say the exclusion of one of Missouri’s top hospital systems from policies offered by the region’s biggest insurer under the Affordable Care Act could hinder treatment for some patients and force others to switch doctors.

The network for the Anthem BlueCross BlueShield plans, which will be sold through Missouri’s “Obamacare” marketplace, does not include BJC HealthCare and its 13 hospitals — among them Barnes-Jewish Hospital, the area’s premier academic medical center, and St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

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Arbitrary regulations established in the Democrat Parties signature health-care overhaul (more like a brutal mugging) has just clipped big Bird’s wings.

Employees at Sesame Place, the Pennsylvania theme park base on the children’s television show, will be getting their hours reduced because the cost burdens forced on the owner and their insurer, by the Democrats health care mandate, make keeping current hours and coverage impossible.

Ernie, Burt, Big  Bird, and everyone else, or at least the people who dress up as these characters, will not just be earning less, they will be dumped into the state insurance exchange, whenever it is that the thing will actually be up and running.

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On Tuesday a new anti-self defense law will take effect in Maryland.  The law bans 45 types of firearms–current owners can keep the ones they already own (for now), and limits magazines to 10 rounds.  Most of the weapons are (I beleive) rifles, AR’s, you know, whatever looks scary to a Democrat.  But a number of groups have filed for an injunction as part of a suit to overturn the law.

Democrat Governor Martin O’Malley–the guy speaking at this years NH Democrats Marxist Clambake–(someone the NH Dems had speak at their state convention last year), thinks it will make his state safer.

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Er, not so much.  I wasn’t going to write this (at least, first off) but when I heard Mitch McConnell, the top wimp in the US Senate, say this:

“It all adds up to just one thing – a law in trouble. A law that needs to be repealed.  That’s the goal of every Republican in the caucus”.

No longer “stopped” – merely “repealed”.  Safe words, weaselly words – a word that says to the LIVs (Low Information Voters) “we gonna keep on working on this!” but really means “we have no intention of risking ourselves and our careers over Obamacare”.  Sorry dude, you did just that.  You Republican chuckleheads have campaigned on stopping this socialized “camel nose under the tent” Obamacare law since it passed.  “Stop” means “stop by any means” – including at any and every possible point to keep that law from being more fully implemented – which defunding it would do.

But Republicans in the Senate couldn’t and wouldn’t live up to that promise, could you?  Do you really think that swapping one word out, “stop”, for another, “repeal” that we (the base) would get hoodwinked by this switch in tactic similar in nature to Obama’s continual blame game: “don’t blame me!  don’t blame us!”.

Here are the 19 names, the “Freedom Guard” (that wished to keep that promise) that voted against cloture:

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Iran – that’s the country that violated our sovereign territory, invaded our embassy, and held our hostages while Jimmy Carter was President.  Iran – the country that has been refining uranium in sufficient quality and quantity to build the bomb that could carry out their oft screamed promise to wipe Israel off the map.  The country that supplied Al Qaeda (Iraq) and the Taliban (Afghanistan) with weapons that were used to kill our soldiers – including the shaped charged explosives just a little bit of time ago.  And just got caught hacking our Navy’s computers.

Obama believes that he, Lurch Kerry, and TOTUS can just wave their arms, say the “soft power” words, and Iran will snap into Obama’s line.

No negotiations – no preconceived needs – in order to have these TRUE theocrats to speak to the President of the United States on equal terms – AS equals.  In the past, with strong Presidents with a strong US with a strong reputation, this would never have EVER happened.  Well, with Obama’s policy of Determined Weakness, it does seem that Obama has brought America’s reputation to, pretty much, equal with Iran’s.

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As an airplane is about to crash, a female passenger jumps up frantically and announces, “If I’m going to die, I want to die feeling like a woman.”

She removes all her clothing and asks, “Is there someone on this plane who is man enough to make me feel like a woman?”

A man stands up, removes his shirt and says,

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Michael Barone has a piece in the Washington Examiner whose thrust is to address the UN panels historic downgrading of past apocalyptic rhetoric regarding mans so-called impact on global climate.  We’ve apparently been given a 17 year waiver from the universe, something the ‘war’mists call a pause, a pause that conservatives note better explains the brief spell of warming amidst a much longer period of cooling.

Prior to Mann-made global warming, with the hockey stick seen-round-the-world, a tool ideally suited for the cold weather that preceded it and the cooling that followed it, we were doomed by an impending ice-age.  It warms for a few years, Al Gore writes a book, and it hasn’t warmed since.

All well documented but that wasn’t Barones’ point. In the  Examiner article he describes faith-based Mann made global warming as a religion, and in terms that make it clear that this is exactly what it is.

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A few years back then State Senator Jeanne Shaheen set the ball rolling toward declining care options in New Hampshire by acting as a shill for Blue Cross Blue Shield.  She wrote and husbanded (sexist!) SB 711 through the legislature until it became law.  The end result was fewer choices and higher premiums.

While health insurance coverage was little affected by Shaheen’s reforms, consumer choice was badly damaged. By 1997, the number of commercial health insurers serving New Hampshire dwindled to five from a previous high of 12. Those remaining in the market reduced their insurance offerings to cover only high-deductible, catastrophic-type health insurance plans.

Shaheen as a US Senator was the vote, as far as we’re concerned–and since she did actually cast a vote, that made ObamaCare (see also ShaheenCare) law; a law that has reduced the already Shaheenified number of available providers in the state to accommodate Shaheen Care2.0….to just one.

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The (Un)Affordable (Diminished)Care Act(like it does any of the things promised) includes mountains of evil not the least of which is this which should put a stake in the heart of any Democrat narrative about supporting American Families.

If they (a 60 year old couple with no kids) have identical earnings totaling $65,000, which will usually net down to $50,000 or below after all income and payroll taxes, their Obamacare exchange Silver Plan premium next year with the same earnings will be $16,382, or about one-third of what used to be their take-home pay. (And they call it the “Affordable Care Act”?)

What can this couple do? Well, they could decide to earn a few thousand dollars less, which will negate the five-figure premium hit. Encouraging ordinarily willing workers to put in less effort isn’t good in any economy, but especially not this one. But if either spouse’s earnings are unpredictable or hard to precisely track, they could still “mess up” and get socked with a premium they can’t afford.

The “easiest” solution would be to avoid the “wedding tax” entirely by getting divorced while still living together.

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