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So, Obamacare hates babies?

From Fox News comes the news that rationing that many conservatives have feared and warned about won’t come via a direct Obama decree, or rationing coming by longer wait times for delivered healthcare services, but by seeing those service simply disappear because Obamacare has a dim view of actually paying for the cost of delivering the service of delivering those babies:

Pregnant women in one southwestern Pennsylvania town will soon need to look elsewhere to deliver their babies, after a local hospital announced it will end the practice in March — blaming ObamaCare in part for the decision.

The Windber Medical Center will stop delivering babies after March 31 because its obstetricians are either leaving or refocusing their practices, and because hospital officials believe they can’t afford it based on projected reimbursements under looming federal health care reforms.

Huzzah!  Obama IS going to save some money for not being responsible for the care it said it would be!  Nothing says Universal Healthcare For All like “go somewhere else and get it”.  After all, if the care is not delivered, Obama won’t have to pay for it – brilliant!

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So, putting armed personel in schools was a wacko idea?

So, NRA Executive VP Wayne LaPierre was crucified for his suggestion for adding more armed folks in schools (even as 1/3 of American schools already had such)?  Gee, what a different a month makes; at today’s Presidential Presser (you know, the one with kids as Progressive stage props?): 18. Provide incentives for schools to hire … Read more

I was going to do this – but the Everlasting Phelps did a pretty good job…

The Everlasting Phelps is a new blog to me and had a bit of a commentary on Obama’s Executive Orders – all 23 of them.  I have some concerns about some of the Exec Orders  (as in, is there any authorization in real law to substantiate the claim to do this, or is this  simply yet another example of “Obama being Obama” (or more bluntly put “The Rule of Man via Monarchical Decrees / The Law of the Strong Man”)).  Anyways, Everlasting Phelps has a quick reposte that matched my first reactions as well:

  • Tell the government to follow the law.
  • Tell the regulators to stop the stupid and useless regulations.
  • Pay the states back for the unfunded mandates that the Feds keeps making.
  • Tell the Attorney General to do his job.
  • Start another unfunded mandate. (See #3.)
  • Tell FDLs how to do something no one is ever going to bother to do.
  • Do the same thing the NRA already does, only half as well at twice the cost.
  • Do what Underwriters Laboratories already does, only half as well at twice the cost.
  • Tell the Feds to do their jobs.
  • Tell the DOJ to do its job.
  • Tell myself to do my job.
  • Spend more money.
  • Tell everyone to do their goddamned jobs.
  • Tell the doctors to figure out why it isn’t the feds’ fault that they aren’t doing their jobs.
  • Figure out a way to push “smart guns” that don’t exist and wouldn’t be useful as guns if they did.
  • Tell everyone that Obamacare doesn’t actually mean what it says.
  • Tell everyone that, seriously, Obamacare doesn’t actually mean that. We had to pass it to find out what was in it, after all.
  • Tell everyone that I’ve been a partisan hack for the last month every time I said the NRA was crazy to want to post more cops in schools.
  • Do the same thing that every police agency in the country has already done, only half as well and at ten times the cost.
  • Tell doctors what they already know.
  • Tell people what the parts of Obamacare that don’t say anything say.
  • Tell HHS to do their job.
  • Hand the rest of the job of telling everyone to do their jobs off to someone else so it is no longer my job.

Here’s the list but with the Exec. Orders with them:

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Obama – always the victim

A primary tool of any Community Organizer is to create a set of people to believe they are victims.  Victims of a circumstance, victims by “authority”, victims by ginning up a fabricated storyline (see: Reverands Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson as examples).  Well, isn’t it rather obnoxious to see the most powerful man in the … Read more

More Scared Shurtleff: “Guns for me but not for thee!’

In response to one of my Scared Shurtleff posts, a reader sent me an email.  In it, he writes “Recently Rep. Stephen Shurtleff, D, Merrick District 11, introduced  HB 113’.  He goes on to say “I find no comfort from Rep. Stephen Shurtleff’s self-centered approach to gun control, because he is exempt from his own … Read more

Citizens! Obey your federal overlords!

Professor Glenn Reynolds calls it correctly: “Gun control is a way of rubbing Middle America’s face in the fact that it doesn’t run things. That’s the actual appeal” Mark Levin does as well calling Obama’s executive orders “un-American,” “fascistic’…  

Storm Troopers

H/T The Looking Spoon

Bwaahaha!

The George and Barack show!    

Irony?

If you gave Exxon Mobil an army, the ability to print their own currency, the power of taxation, the ability to set national energy policy, and executive authority to enforce it, what do you think might happen? If Democrats are to be believed they would do with oil and gas what Barack Obama and the … Read more

Lunatics? To NOT spend more than what the US can repay?

$16 Trillion for our national debt.  A whole ton of money, which I’m not entirely sure that IF (and that is a mighty BIG IF) our CongressCritters and President were truly serious about our financial affairs, we could pay back in any kind of reasonable time frame.  But actions to date have proven that Obama is continuing his policy of Determined Weakness, other Progressives are hoping for a Cloward-Pivens moment, and Establishment Republicans continue to be “Appropriators” (that is, people who figure out how to spend other peoples’s monies).  The only folks that seem to be extremely serious (and scared out of their gourds) are TEA Party type ConcressCritters who realize that a 2% change in interest rates on our debt could Greece look like a lawn party.

So, who is the lunatic here?  I’ll side with Rick Santelli (emphasis mine):

The analyst said that the only obstacle he sees to the continued expansion of the U.S. economy were “lunatic Republicans” who may bring about an “insane technical default” when they attempt to negotiate spending cuts as part of a deal to increase the debt ceiling limit.

 “That’s the worry here,” Evans concurred. “Will we have a self-inflicted wound – a gunshot to the head?”

Right, so forget HOW much is on the national credit card and the “lunatics” that say we need to say stop – we HAVE to keep spending !!!!  These folks are all about paying what we have spent, and I’m ok with that.  What is missing in their equation is the adult part of this – and here, Rick Santelli again lends himself to the “adult in the room” scenario that is absolutely missing here:

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Progressive Theology: “The State is my Shephard, I shall not want”

(H/T: Instapundit) I have never been able to understand why Progressives go apoplectic every time any one says “we need to cut the size and scope of Big Government” – no one wants anyone to diss their religion (and it certainly seems that Progressives, being amongst the most unchurched in the nation, would cling to … Read more

For a meager mess of porridge; so what DOES the Republican Party stand for now?

From RedState Twitter Feed:

RSBooBooKitty: Blank Check Barry and his Blue Journalism Gang just knocked over the Hapless Hill Savings Bank of Other People’s Money. #RSRH

Such a Happy New Year start – Senate Republicans caved into Obama’s Progressive Punish the Successful campaign.  $620 Billion more in taxes.  Only $15 Billion in reduced spending.  A ratio of $41 in new taxes to $1 in spending cuts.  Welcome to Obama’s definition of “balanced” deficits.   Obama poured coals on their head during his press conference, utterly belittling them and what they stand for:  “Keep in mind that just last month Republicans in Congress said they would never agree to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans.”…“Obviously the agreement that’s currently being discussed would raise those rates and raise them permanently.”

#GROVEL.  Trading a mainstay of Republicanism, a pillar of Republican philosophy – lower taxes, limited government.  They voted for neither.  Again.  Again, they didn’t even read the 157 page bill.

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