Senate Democrats Vote to Extend Obamacare to Illegal Immigrants

 Posted by on 3/25/2013  6 Responses »
Mar 252013
 

Feign surprise. Democrats simply see illegal immigrants as future (or present) Democrat voters. So they’ll do anything to pander to ‘em. Including giving them more free stuff and entitlements than most US citizens qualify for.

From Twitter:

Why don’t we just give them the right to vote, welfare checks, subsidized housing, and free education for their anchor children? Oh…wait…

Via Roll Call:

The Senate’s bipartisan immigration working group split along party lines during a contentious budget vote to prevent illegal immigrants who receive legal status from receiving federal health benefits.

The Senate early Saturday morning defeated the amendment to the budget resolution which would have put the Senate on record as opposing access to health care under Medicaid or the Affordable Care Act for undocumented immigrants who get a green card.

The amendment, which failed 43 to 56, was offered by Senate Budget ranking member Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.

All Democrats — including gang members Dick Durbin of Illinois, Bob Menendez of New Jersey, Charles E. Schumer of New York and Michael Bennet of Colorado — opposed the amendment. They were joined by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. All other Republicans — including immigration negotiators Marco Rubio of Florida, John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona — supported the amendment.

The “gang of eight” has been negotiating a comprehensive immigration overhaul package that they hope to unveil when the Senate returns the week of April 8 from spring recess.

And more Twitter reacts to the news:

As noted above, I believe that this actually is a poison pill be the Democrats to kill amnesty (right now, they’d prefer the muscle and dollars from the unions than the support of Hispanics ..who Democrats know will continue to vote for them no matter how often or how much they shit on them).

Donna Brazile: Poster Girl for Cluelessness

 Posted by on 2/27/2013  4 Responses »
Feb 272013
 

A study in cluelessness:

Donna Brazile is an American author, academic, and political analyst currently serving as Vice Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.

She’s also a moron.

To wit:

Donna Brazile is a moron

Here’s your sign, Donna

Her inability to understand cause and effect is staggering.

(h/t Breitbart.com)

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UPDATE — Looks like Ms. Brazile is meeting with the White House spin doctors about her ignorant tweet yesterday. Which means they are doubling down on the stupid:

And Twitchy, of course, has a field day at the expense of this poster child for the argument against affirmative action hiring/promotion.

Report: 83 percent of doctors have considered quitting over Obamacare Obamatax

 Posted by on 7/10/2012  25 Responses »
Jul 102012
 

Obamacare logI’m not sure if that’s a feature or a bug yet in Obama’s plan to take over and socialize our entire health care system. Which ever it is, its sucks. Hard.

Via the Daily Caller:

Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association.

The DPMA, a non-partisan association of doctors and patients, surveyed a random selection of 699 doctors nationwide. The survey found that the majority have thought about bailing out of their careers over the legislation, which was upheld last month by the Supreme Court.

Even if doctors do not quit their jobs over the ruling, America will face a shortage of at least 90,000 doctors by 2020. The new health care law increases demand for physicians by expanding insurance coverage. This change will exacerbate the current shortage as more Americans live past 65.

The good news: You have FREE Health Care! The bad news: you’re going to have to get in line and wait…oh…about 8 months to see a primary care physician about that horrific cough your baby had for the last week.

All the ‘free’ health care in the world (and nothing’s free, sweet heart…somebody has to pay for your shitty life choices) won’t do you a bit of good if there aren’t any doctors available to treat you.

Gov Rick Perry Tells Obama to Take His Obamatax and Shove It Up His Ass

 Posted by on 7/9/2012  7 Responses »
Jul 092012
 

Thank you, Gov. Rick Perry:

“I stand proudly with the growing chorus of governors who reject the Obamacare power grab,” he said in a statement. “Neither a ‘state’ exchange nor the expansion of Medicaid under this program would result in better ‘patient protection’ or in more ‘affordable care.’ They would only make Texas a mere appendage of the federal government when it comes to health care.”

Perry’s office sent a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Monday morning asserting his opposition, both to accepting more than a hundred million federal dollars over the next several years to put more poor Texas adults onto Medicaid, and to creating an Orbitz-style online insurance marketplace for consumers.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states — even Texas, which has the country’s highest rate of the uninsured — may not be punished for opting out of the Medicaid expansion. On Monday, Perry called it the equivalent of adding more people to a sinking Titanic.

Of course, the Texas Liberal media elites — to include Emily Ramshaw of the Texas Tribune, who wrote the above report — are incredulous that Gov. Perry would dare (how dare he!?!?) refuse Obama’s socialization of our medical system here in Texas.

The Honorable Arlene Wohlgemuth, executive director and director of the Center for Health Care Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation gets it though:

“We applaud Governor Perry’s leadership in rejecting the implementation of ObamaCare in Texas. Access to health care, affordability of health care, and health care outcomes are tremendous concerns for all Texans – and the ObamaCare expansion of Medicaid and so-called insurance exchanges are grave threats to all three.

“Medicaid in particular is a failed system, which has time and again reduced health care choices and generated poor results for ordinary Texans and their families. ObamaCare would force millions more low-income Texans into this poorly performing program that gives access to less than a third of the state’s physicians, and is often worse than no health insurance at all. Those Texans, and those families, deserve better.

“The ObamaCare insurance exchange, like the Medicaid expansion, is another false promise to the people of Texas. Instead of allowing an actual free market for individuals in health insurance, the exchange subordinates it to the demands of state and federal control, inevitably squeezing out the very sector that ought to be encouraged for a long-term solution to American health-insurance coverage.

“If the federal government wants to promote access to health care for low-income Texans, it should block-grant Medicaid to the state, so that we can develop a program that meets Texas’s needs – not D.C.’s aspirations. If the federal government wants to promote access to health insurance for all Texans, it should step back and allow an individual market in health insurance to develop.

“ObamaCare accomplishes neither of these goals. In fact, it hinders them. That’s why we support Governor Perry’s rejection of it today.”

Obama Declares War on SCOTUS in Face of Obamacare Being Found Unconstitutional

 Posted by on 4/3/2012  4 Responses »
Apr 032012
 

Obamacare logIt’s almost as if Obama knows absolutely nothing about Constitutional law. Almost…

It’s almost as if he was never actually a Constitutional Law professor at all. Almost…

How else to explain why Obama seems to know nothing about Marbury v. Madison? How else to explain this assine comment about the history and role of the Supreme Court of the United States:

President Obama, employing his strongest language to date on the Supreme Court review of the federal health care overhaul, cautioned the court Monday against overturning the law — while repeatedly saying he’s “confident” it will be upheld.

The president spoke at length about the case at a joint press conference with the leaders of Mexico and Canada. The president, adopting what he described as the language of conservatives who fret about judicial activism, questioned how an “unelected group of people” could overturn a law approved by Congress.

“I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,” Obama said. …

Passed by a “strong marjority of a democratically elected Congress?” Is he fucking joking?

Obamacare barely squeaked through the House. In the Senate it just barely escaped a filibuster. The vote was so tight in the house — 219 to 212 — that the Democrat leadership went through byzantine maneuvers and deemed the bill passed to get the measure to the president’s desk. No Republicans voted for it when it came up in the House, and the drive to repeal the measure began the day after Mr. Obama signed the measure. And the next chance that Americans got to vote their feelings about Obamacare? 60 Democrats lost their House seats as did 7 of their Donkey Senate colleagues.

A strong majority? I don’t think those words mean what you think they mean, Barrack.

As my blog mentor (even if he doesn’t know it) Ace weighs in:

Meanwhile, the 30th consecutive poll shows the public favoring repealing the law over keeping it by double digits.

In what sense is ObamaCare actually the democratically-determined choice of the public?

So now Obama will go Alinsky on SCOTUS. It’s all he knows, really, so it’s not really all that unexpected.

Mark Levin> writes:

Just when you think President Obama can’t do anything more contemptible, he is now threatening the Supreme Court Justices if they don’t rule in his favor for Obamacare. Using liberal groups and other means, Obama is going to try and smear, attack and also influence the decision. The Democrats only like the democratic process when it works in their favor and when it doesn’t they support authoritarianism rather than constitutionalism.

As Druge alluded to, it looks like Obama knows the fate of his “crown jewel” achievement — more likely than not someone on SCOTUS leaked the results of their non-binding straw poll, which they took on Friday, to Obama. I’d bet dimes to nickles that the leaker was Justice Kagan, too.

Day 2 — A Very, Very Bad Day at SCOTUS for Obamacare and the Individual Mandate

 Posted by on 3/28/2012  5 Responses »
Mar 282012
 
Obama head in his hand

Shit...maybe I should have actually paid attention to some of those Constitutional law classes I allegedly took instead of smoking dope and running around with radicals

Yesterday was a very, very bad day for Obamacare — specifically to the one aspect of it that most people hate the most: the individual mandate and the tax for non-compliance (though, interestingly — but not surprisingly — Democrats don’t call a tax or a mandate…though it is both).

Don’t take my word for how bad of a day it was for Progs, though. Take it from these Obama cheerleaders, many of who are in his complicit Democrat Media Complex (ty, Andrew Breitbart).

Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. should be grateful to the Supreme Court for refusing to allow cameras in the courtroom, because his defense of Obamacare on Tuesday may go down as one of the most spectacular flameouts in the history of the court.

“This was a train wreck for the Obama administration. This law looks like it’s going to be struck down. I’m telling you, all of the predictions including mine that the justices would not have a problem with this law were wrong.”

On the second day of testimony before the Supreme Court, two justices, Chief John Roberts and Justice Kennedy hammered the government’s advocate, Solicitor General Verrilli, and Verillie basically tripped all over himself trying to find a way to explain how or why the government can’t force Americans to buy anything else they want to if they can force us to buy insurance.

Just two or three days ago, I didn’t believe that the SCOTUS would have the balls to do the right thing — uphold our Constitution. Today? I’m feeling as good as Liberals are feeling bad.

Obama to Drastically Cut Healthcare Benefits of Congress and Federal Labor Unions

 Posted by on 2/28/2012  3 Responses »
Feb 282012
 

Oh, wait…did I say Congress? And Federal Labor Unions? Silly me…we all know that would never happen.

I meant that Obama is planning to radically cut the healthcare benefits of active duty and retired Military personnel. Which should’t really surprise anybody, as Obama clearly detests not only the mission of the US Military, but he also clearly has a great deal of disdain for the man and women who so honorably carry out those missions.

Via the Washington Free Beacon:

The Obama administration’s proposed defense budget calls for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers’ benefits untouched. The proposal is causing a major rift within the Pentagon, according to U.S. officials. Several congressional aides suggested the move is designed to increase the enrollment in Obamacare’s state-run insurance exchanges.

The disparity in treatment between civilian and uniformed personnel is causing a backlash within the military that could undermine recruitment and retention.

Of course it’s also no surprise that Congress gets to keep their Cadillac health plans (since they exempted themselves from Obamacare)  — just as it’s no surprise that he wouldn’t dream of cutting the benefits of his good buddies in the Federal labor unions, who paid a hefty price tag (literal) to get Obama elected.

If you haven’t already listened to Marc Levin’s epic apology to the troops for the “jerk who’s the Commander-in-Chief,” make sure you do, as he’s spot-on in his criticism of the worst CiC ever. And I say that as a guy who served under Bill Clinton’s “leadership.”

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