I know many liberals who are totally convinced of things that are not possibly true.  Perhaps the best way to understand the liberal mind is to reflect on the lyrics of the Liberal hymn of faith:  Imagine by John Lennon:

Imagine there is no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky

Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too

Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You, you may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You, you may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one

I hope someday you will join us
And the world will live as one

Imagine is a beautiful song, until you realize that this is pure nonsense.  Imagine doesn’t describe a paradise, it describes a world filled with chaos and anarchy.  In 1790 Fletcher Christian anchored the HMS Bounty on Pitcairn Island with 9 other sailors, 6 Tahitian men and 11 women.  Here was the chance for the paradise longed for by liberals.  Pitcairn Island had been mismarked on the nautical charts.  No one could find it.  There was plenty of food, no country to kill or die for and no religion.  The only option was to live for today, because they had burned up the Bounty and there was no way they were leaving any time soon.

But they didn’t find paradise, they found chaos and murder.  By the time an American Whaler found the Island again in 1808 only one sailor was left.  All the other mutineers and all of the Tahitian men had been killed, mostly by each other. 

If we really lived in world set up according to liberal guidelines it would almost certainly end up closer to Pitcairn’s Island rather than the Garden of Eden. 

Liberals are used to lies.  They prefer a lie that agrees with their world view to an uncomfortable truth.  But there comes a time when a lie is so obvious and so destructive that it simply cannot be ignored.  When that happens it sends shockwaves through the residual elements of the liberal spine.  They are forced to finally ask a very vital question.  “What is really true?”  When liberals start actually seeking the truth, it is always a big shock.  They find themselves transported beyond imagination forced to accept the reality of the real world.    

The entire world now knows that Barack Obama is a bald-faced liar.  When he made those promises that people could keep their health insurance, that they could keep their doctors, he was lying.  It was a level of deception right up there with Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sex with that woman” moment.  But this is much worse.  This is much worse because Bill Clinton was only lying to protect himself from embarrassment.  Barack Obama was lying because it was the only way he could lull the American people into accepting the horror of socialized medicine. This is lying on a whole new level.  In case you wonder if I am overstating this, read the following opinion by Kyle Smith in the New York Post today:

http://nypost.com/2013/11/02/how-obama-crossed-the-line-from-bulls-t-to-dishonesty/

It is long past time at least some liberals move beyond imagination.

TDM

Perhaps I am wrong, but I am sensing real anger building up with regard to this administration.  That is not new.  But this time people are more than angry, this time they are seething with rage.  ObamaCare is impacting everyone in a way that is impossible to ignore.

I won’t go into details on the various problems with ObamaCare, because I have covered that before.  I will simply point out the obvious.  ObamaCare is a complete failure and nothing proposed by either Democrats or Republicans will fix anything.  If the individual mandate is delayed for a few weeks, it will make things worse.  If it is delayed for a year, it will make things worse.  If the individual mandate is repealed, it will make things worse.  If more people receive subsidies, it will make things worse.  If you think the website is bad, just wait until you see the finances.

There are millions of people who have just lost health care coverage they wanted and needed.  If they can manage to get enrolled in ObamaCare, they are instantly confronted with sticker shock and high deductibles.  There are news reports verifying that the Obama administration knew this would happen and they just lied about it.  There are all these videos of President Obama promising this would not happen.

In the meantime, Democrats are still pretending that this is all an illusion.  That the system is actually working and that if we just take two aspirin things will be better in the morning.  But the opposite is true.  It will be worse tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and the day after that.  There is no chance this will be anything short of an unmitigated disaster.

We are in the initial stages of this catastrophy.  Many people are still unaware of how bad it really is.  Others are still in a state of shock and denial.  But that will change and when it does, shock and denial will be replaced with seething anger.  We haven’t seen anything like this in a long time.  At least since 9/11.  Perhaps going back as far as Pearl Harbor.  Only this time the people who attacked us and did all the damage were the people we trusted to protect us.  Can you feel it now.  Can you feel the anger.  You will!

TDM

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, but a video is worth a million.  The following commercial is hysterical.   It is about a guy desperate to get rid of his loser cell phone, but he has to wait until his two year contract is up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejKCO28wfIE

The scene playing out in Washington is similar to this.  Imagine that the guy with the lousy phone is a Democrat in congress who suddenly realizes he is stuck with a really bad phone (ObamaCare).  He is desperate to get rid of it.

Imagine that the other guy is a Republican in congress.  He knows the Democrat is becoming desperate.

We could easily see a scenario where Democrats are almost pleading with Republicans for a delay in the individual mandate.

If there is a delay in the individual mandate, all of the Democratic gains over the government shutdown will disappear.  Even a short delay in the individual mandate will be a death blow for ObamaCare.

The Supreme Court did not uphold ObamaCare; it only upheld the individual mandate as a tax.  If you recall, many experts on both sides of the issue agreed that without the individual mandate, ObamaCare could not survive.  There were right.  The individual mandate is the ONLY enforcement mechanism for ObamaCare.  The government does not have the authority to require people to buy insurance.  The government does not have the authority to require people to sell insurance.  If there is no individual mandate, there is no requirement for anyone to offer ObamaCare or to purchase it. There will be millions of people desperately in search of health insurance with a government totally incapable of providing a solution.  They will not wait for the White House to get its act together.  The insurance industry can and will take care of these people.

So watch the video again.  Now imagine this is about ObamaCare.  Now, go ahead, smile!

TDM

Was the fainting incident at Obama’s recent press conference staged?  At first I dismissed this as just another wild conspiracy theory.  But then I watched the video and now I am not so sure.  I thought back on the times when I have seen other people faint.  It doesn’t look like this and people around them don’t respond like this.  When someone faints, they usually fall down.  They don’t just lean back, smile and keep on standing.  At a minimum, they sit down.  In addition people around them don’t just push them back up straight and then back off.  Just for snickers, here is the article in the Weekly Standard and the video:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/conspiracy-theorist-contends-obama-s-fainting-lady-was-faked_764596.html

Is this possible?  It is hard to believe that a President of the United States would stoop to such a silly stunt.  I mean really?  Does something think this will somehow help solve the ObamaCare problems?  If they did stage this, don’t they realize that the camera catches everything?  It is hard to believe they would do something this stupid, but the more I look at it, from this source and from other sources, the more suspicious this becomes.

Perhaps it will help if you watch a real video of someone fainting.  The following video shows a lot of people fainting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwXma6uaQvA

Notice that none of these videos resemble what happened here.  This woman actually looked better after she leaned back than before.  She smiled and then easily walked off the stage, with no assistance. At minimum this wasn’t much of a faint and President Obama hardly caught her.  The guy in back of her caught her.  All Obama did was stick out his hand and touch her and immediately announce that she is fine.  She smiles and agrees, then exits stage left.  In the meantime her friend, who had been holding her hand just a minute before, just stood there and smiled without a care in the world.    When you combine the obvious, with the things pointed out by the conspiracy theorists, you have to admit she’s got an argument.  Sadly, I think this President is fully capable of just such silliness.  How pathetic.

By the way, this symbol of people helped by ObamaCare isn’t enrolled in the program and actually doesn’t need the coverage.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/22/the-tiny-but-very-important-detail-about-the-woman-who-nearly-fainted-at-the-obamacare-press-conference/

TDM

President Obama, in an act of desperation, held a news conference today where he asked listeners to call 1-800-318-2596.  As one would expect, the system almost immediately crashed and people were told to call back over the weekend.  This is a sure sign that the White House is near panic about the ObamaCare roll out.

Incredibly Obama did not attempt to encourage the people he really needs.  He needs young healthy people between 19 and 35 to enroll and pay premiums.  He didn’t even mention them.  He appealed primarily to who don’t currently have insurance and who have been turned down because of pre-existing conditions.  That may sound good to a politician, but if a majority of people enrolling fall into that category, the plan will quickly go into a financial death spiral.

Based on every report I have seen, most people enrolling are ones who don’t actually have to pay premiums.  ObamaCare’s financial foundation is melting faster than Al Gores prediction about the arctic ice.  The next big fight is going to be an attempt by Obama to throw more money at this in a desperate rescue attempt and Republicans trying to block it.

In the meantime, call now, only don’t call now, because the phone number doesn’t work.

TDM

Democrats think they have scored a major victory over Republicans.  Obama thinks that ObamaCare is here to stay.  But the opposite is true. By launching ObamaCare before it was close to ready, ObamaCare has been exposed to deadly attack.  This attack won’t be by Republicans.  Oh they will attack ObamaCare, but that really doesn’t matter.  The more serious attack will come from a far more serious enemy.  It will come from the insurance industry.

Every disaster creates opportunity.  The ObamaCare disaster creates the opportunity of lifetime for people who dream of huge profits in the insurance industry.  This is already happening.  I own an insurance agency and in the last six months I get almost daily e-mails from insurance providers who believe they have the solution to ObamaCare.  There are wild differences between programs, but all are based on one simple reality.  They are certain that ObamaCare is a massive disaster and that millions of people will be desperate for an alternative.  They are certain that the first person to find a solution will make millions, if not billions.

Some are already investing enormous amounts of money.  Within a very short period of time we are going to start seeing “ObamaCare alternative” advertising on TV, on Radio and in the Newspaper.  All of these ads will start with a stark warning that ObamaCare is a disaster.  They will warn people that ObamaCare is bad medicine and they will offer help.

Some of these programs will be great.  Some will be awful.  Some will be scams.  But all of them will attack ObamaCare.  All of them will offer solutions to the problems created by ObamaCare and all of them are designed to exploit the insurance opportunity of a life time.  This will range from supplementary plans designed to make up for the gaps in ObamaCare to plans that offer full health care.   All will repeat the same theme:  “ObamaCare is a total disaster.  You need to take action.  We can help.”  

No amount of main stream media spin will overcome the effects of this advertising campaign. Arrogant liberal talking heads cannot compete with a determined assault by advertising professionals with unlimited budgets.   These people will not be impressed with main stream media spin.  They are driven by only profits.  History shows us that there is no more lethal force on this planet than a determined entrepreneur who sees an opportunity and figures out how to seize the day.

What is the administration going to do?  Are they going to try and ban such advertising?  Are they going to try and destroy any opposition?  They probably will try that, but I don’t think it is even possible.  It will be like playing the ultimate “Whack a Mole” game. Republicans in the House are totally pissed at this administration and they aren’t going to be anxious to help.

If any of these programs are remotely successful at enrolling a lot of people, the big boys in the insurance industry will abandon ObamaCare.  They reluctantly agreed to this fiasco only because they believed they had no choice.  They will not tolerate watching some new guy come in and take over their industry.  If the big insurance companies abandon ObamaCare and offer their own alternatives the results will be instant and devastating.  The ObamaCare failure will be total.

Liberals thought ObamaCare would result in the socialist goal of a single payer health care system.  Instead, the opposite is likely to happen.  ObamaCare is so bad that millions of people will demand an alternative.  The government is totally incapable of providing a solution, so private industry will step into the gap.  The private industry is ready, willing and able to respond.

This is already happening.  That will soon be obvious to everyone.  I don’t know exactly how this will play out, but I am positive that we are going to see a full-fledge assault on ObamaCare.  What I don’t see is any way this administration is going to be successful in defending against this.

TDM

In 1969 Odgen Phipps owned “Bold Ruler.”  He agreed to breed two mares owned by Penny Chenery, “Hasty Matelda” and “Somethingroyal.”  Instead of collecting the normal stud fee, they agreed to flip a coin.  The winner would get first choice of foals.  Phipps won the toss and he took a weanling foal from “Hasty Matelda.”  Penny Chenery was stuck with the offspring of “Somethingroyal.” The mare gave birth to a chestnut colt in March 1969.  That colt was named “Secretariat.”  Secretariat went on to win the Triple Crown and is considered to be one of the best races horses in history.  They even made a movie about him.

Odgen Pipps thought he scored big time when he won the coin toss.  Instead he got a filly no one remembers, while Penny Chenery hit the jackpot.  Peggy Chenery won big by losing that coin toss.

Democrats are celebrating because RINO Republicans caved and gave Harry Reid and President Obama a great victory.  It looks like the government shutdown will soon be history and the debt ceiling crisis will be kicked down the road for a few more days.   At first glance this looks really bad, because no one expects Republicans to grow a spine between now and January.  This is beyond embarrassing.  When you are beaten and humiliated by someone as inept as Harry Reid and Barack Obama, there is little room for optimism.

So we should all be depressed and discouraged, right?  The disappointment in the spineless Republican establishment is well earned.  But what exactly did Democrats gain and what did Republicans actually lose?

Republicans will get all of the blame for the government shutdown.  Democrats will get all of the credit for keeping the status quo. But the status quo sucks.   Democrats stood strong and tall in the face of adversity and saved the day.  Well, actually, they didn’t save the day, they saved ObamaCare.  They also spared Obama from cutting spending and reducing the deficit.  They weren’t fighting for truth, justice and the American Way; they were fighting for ObamaCare and irresponsible government spending.  Republicans are guilty of trying desperately to stop the madness.

If ObamaCare is a big success Democrats have won.  If the economy thrives, in spite of the tax and spend policies, Democrats have won.  If both those things are true, then Republicans deserved to lose and we are all better off.  But are they true?

What if Republicans were right?  What if ObamaCare is an unmitigated disaster?  What if the computer system is so bad that it will take months and perhaps years to fix?  What if people find out that ObamaCare is horribly expensive?  What if there are horror stories about people who can’t afford health insurance anymore because of the increased cost?  What if people now have to pay a fine, because they can’t afford insurance?  All of these things are already happening.  It is a story so massive and compelling that it cannot and will not be ignored.

In addition, it is naïve to think that we can continue to increase spending and keep on borrowing indefinitely.  At some point we are going to have to put our fiscal house in order.  It is only a matter of time.  Democrats did not fix the problem, they didn’t even acknowledge the problem, they just delayed dealing with the problem.

The main stream media will continue to spin the news and try to avoid covering the massive ObamaCare failure.  But ultimately, they will have no choice.   This kind of disaster becomes too big to ignore.  There are already main stream media reports on ObamaCare that are devastating.  They just haven’t been given much air time because everyone was hyperventilating over the shutdown and the debt ceiling.  Now that this crisis is behind us, that will change.

Now think about this.  Alan Dershowitz was on Piers Morgan.  The goal was to get Dershowitz to argue that Ted Cruz “arguably” could have violated the constitution.  But Dershowitz did a lot more than that.  Piers Morgan asked Dershowitz if he remembered Ted Cruz as a student at Harvard.  I am sure that Morgan regrets asking that:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/10/15/dershowitz-very-strong-argument-what-ted-cruz-doing-deeply-unconstitu

PIERS MORGAN, HOST: See, you taught Ted Cruz at Harvard.

ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Well, I’m not sure how much I taught him, but I sat in the front of the class while he was in the class raising his hand, always his right hand, making very intelligent points, and really winning debates all the time in the class including winning debates with his professors.

MORGAN: One of the best students you’ve had?

DERSHOWITZ: One of the sharpest students I’ve had in terms of analytic skills. I’ve had 10,000 students in my 50 years at Harvard. I write all about that in my book “Taking the Stand,” and I write about my great students. He has to qualify among the brightest of the students

MORGAN: So we have to assume from that, just in the extraordinary piece of insight into him – because he’s come really from nowhere to many people – we have to assume from that this is all part of a strategy. What do you think his strategy is?

DERSHOWITZ: I think he deeply believes what he’s doing. I don’t think of him so much as a tactical or strategic thinker. He’s deeply principled. He thinks he’s doing the right thing. That doesn’t mean it’s the right thing, and he’s very hard to get off that principled argument. I saw that years ago when he was a student. He was not a compromiser. He was not somebody who tried to make friends by accepting what was then the political correctness of the day. If you want to defeat Ted Cruz, you have to appeal to his principles not to his tactics

Now think about this.  We have one man who coasted through law school and went to work as a Community Organizer.  As far as I can tell, Alan Dershowitz doesn’t even remember Barack Obama as a law student.  The other man is one of the most brilliant men to ever attend Harvard.  He went on to argue cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.  He became Solicitor General of Texas, the type of position given to the very best trail attorneys.  He is a highly principled man who will not compromise regarding his core values.

Don’t be too quick to assume that Barack Obama was the winner in this exchange.

Cruz arranged for Obama to be offered a clean resolution that would fund the entire government, including ObamaCare if he would just delay implementation for one year.  Obama was outraged so instead he brought the government to the brink of default to get his way.  Now it is almost impossible for Obama to order a delay in anything.  Obama cannot do the one thing that might save ObamaCare.  If Obama orders any kind of a delay, Ted Cruz will respond with the ultimate “I told you so.”

Check back in November 2014.  Then decide who won and who lost.

TDM

RINO Republicans are desperately trying to negotiate surrender before it become too obvious that they are actually on the verge of victory.  The Republican establishment is furious that all these young whipper snappers foolishly believe in fighting for their core values. They can’t even imagine politicians who actually say what they mean and mean what they say.  In the world of the political establishment, the highest honor is the willingness to compromise.  But it is no virtue to compromise with the Captain when he is steering the Ship of State into the rocks.  The only ethical thing to do is whatever it takes to make him change course.

Unfortunately, the RINO surrender monkeys appear to be, once again, driving the agenda:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/11/House-GOP-Caves-Will-Lift-Debt-AND-Reopen-Government

What is most pathetic is that they are very close to total victory.  ObamaCare is self-destructing even faster than predicted by the most vocal opponents.  Time is on the Republican’s side.  The scope of the ObamaCare disaster is increasingly obvious.  This will get worse every day.  The following article explains this very well:

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/10/10/the-obamacare-website-the-biggest-tech-gaggle-ever/

This article is written strictly from a technology perspective, which makes it all the more credible.  It doesn’t pull any punches:

This is really playing out as a clinic in how not to launch a major website project, failing in every respect across the board, from planning, to the communications, to testing and everything in between. Can you think of anything in history of the web that was worse?

The Obama administration was warned about this, but they were too arrogant to listen:

Robert Laszewski, a health-care consultant with clients in the insurance industry, said insurers were complaining loudly that the site, www.healthcare.gov, was not working smoothly during frequent teleconferences with officials at the Department of Health and Human Services before the exchange’s launch and afterward. “People were pulling out their hair,” he said.

There is no easy fix.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is about as ugly any kind of site deployment gets. They had three and a half years to get this right, do better and more testing. They have failed miserably and they are handling it miserably.

As bad as this is, it is only stage one of a multi-stage meltdown.  Since stage one is a complete failure, it is hard to imagine anything worse.  But stage two is worse.  I received a phone call today from an individual in California.  She had just received an enormous increase in her personal insurance because of ObamaCare.  In addition, she learned that she now had 40% deductible.  She was almost speechless with rage.  I suspect there are a lot more people just like her. People are being confronted with the reality of ObamaCare and they are not happy.

If Republican’s hold on a little longer, it is possible that Democrats will become desperate to avoid the shockwave from the ObamaCare political tsunami.  There is going to be more than a little anger here, with most of it directed toward Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi for convincing people to vote for this disaster.  They will be absolutely furious when they realize they could have dodged or at least delayed this bullet if only Obama and Reid had accepted the Republican proposal for a one year delay. It was literally the last lifeboat off the ObamaCare Titanic.  But instead of jumping at the opportunity, Obama and Reid arrogantly forced Democrats to double down on disaster.   Now Republicans just might be sitting on a chance to repeal the whole nine yards.

The good news is that even if the RINO surrender Monkeys have their way and they stupidly extend funding, it won’t really change anything.  Although these RINOs are trying desperately to out stupid Democrats, that appears to be an impossible task.  There is no way anyone can save ObamaCare from itself.  The most they can do is delay the day of reckoning.  They may kick the can down the road, one more time, but they are rapidly running out of road.

I wonder if these RINOs realize that the real damage will be to their own political futures.  Americans are sick and tired of congress, because there is a lot of stink and steam but zero accomplishment.  There is going to be a massive turnover in congress in 2014, but it won’t be what RINOs and the liberal left expect.  I strongly believe that the Tea Party Republicans will be rewarded for staying the course, but those Republicans who surrendered to Incompetence, Inc. and will be on their way out of office.    Democrats, who own ObamaCare, for better or worse, will be lucky to avoid going down with the ship.

It is simple.  If ObamaCare is as bad as it appears, then nothing can possibly save it. The only way Democrats escape this mess is if ObamaCare is at least partially successful.  There is zero evidence that ObamaCare is a success on any level.

I think we are nearing a Neville Chamberlain moment for both Democrats and the RINO Republicans who have enabled them. On May 7, 104 Leo Amery, a British Conservative MP could not stand it anymore.  He said the following to Chamberlain:  “You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately.  Depart, I say, and let us be done with you.  In the name of God, go!”

Actually Amery was quoting from a speech given by Oliver Cromwell on April 20, 1653 when he realized that a corrupt and arrogant king had been replaced by a corrupt and incompetent parliament.

What is the point of electing Republicans to congress if they surrender at the first sign of conflict?  Perhaps it is time for Ted Cruz to brush up on his Cromwell.  If you are afraid to fight,  “in the name of God, go!”

TDM

Obama began by insulting World War II vets with idiotic decision to block them from their own memorial.  Next he poured salt in the wound by making a personal exemption for illegal aliens to hold a rally at the National Mall.  This is not just wrong, it is incredibly stupid.

Then the Department of Defense refused to pay the burial benefits for military personnel killed in action.  Secretary Hagel tried desperately to blame Republicans, but no one bought that.  The military pay legislation had passed in the House with strong bi-partisan support.  It was specifically designed to fund the military.  The outrage was instant and overwhelming.  Congress voted 425 to 0 to authorize the funds.  Now Obama is pretending he knew nothing about this.  Even the standard Kool-Aid drinkers are having trouble choking that nonsense down.

Now, at the worst possible time, Moody’s delivered a public rebuke to Obama:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19460525&id=etlXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ffUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7186,5229338

The following e-mail, being circulated on Capitol Hill, speaks for itself:

” We believe the government would continue to pay interest and principal on its debt even in the event that the debt limit is not raised, leaving its creditworthiness intact,” the memo says. “The debt limit restricts government expenditures to the amount of its incoming revenues; it does not prohibit the government from servicing its debt. There is no direct connection between the debt limit (actually the exhaustion of the Treasury’s extraordinary measures to raise funds) and a default.

Moody’s is the most respected financial analyst in the world.  It is impossible to overstate the importance of this e-mail.  They came, they saw, they listened to President Obama and responded with a BS warning.

This should have been obvious.  The debt ceiling has nothing to do with defaulting on our debt.  The only reason we would default on our debt is if President Obama made a deliberate decision to default.  The United States has more than enough money to pay our debt, with or without raising the debt ceiling.

Obama is now hinting that he won’t be able to pay social security checks.  He has now moved from stupid to suicidal.  That would backfire faster than his decision to decline paying for the military funerals.  He would immediately be confronted with bi-partisan legislation ordering him to pay social security checks.  Obama has, once again, made a threat he is unwilling and unable to carry out.

If Republicans remain united and strong they will score a major victory.  There are signs of seething anger toward Obama.  When you combine that with the disastrous roll out of ObamaCare this is a political tsunami.  Even CNN recognizes that ObamaCare is a huge failure.  Today Blitzer recommended that Obama agree to a one year delay:

CNN’s Blitzer: Obama Should ‘Accept GOP Advice, Delay Obamacare’ Over Glitchy Websites

“A week into it, still a lot of glitches,” CNN correspondent Brian Todd reported to Blitzer. “People not able to create accounts, just to get information to possibly enroll, much less not being able to enroll in the plan.”

“We’re also hearing now that the administration was warned about these potential problems months in advance,” Todd continued. “We spoke to a health care consultant who has clients who are insurers. He says his insurers, who dealt with the administration in the months ahead of time, had contentious meetings with people at [Health and Human Services] and other health care officials who were in charge of this, warning them, ‘This isn’t working, it’s not going to be smooth, don’t do it.’ He says those warnings were ignored, they went full speed ahead, and said we’ll work these problems out. There’s been a bit of pushback from the White House, we’ll hope to get more later from them.”

“If they had three years to get this ready—if they weren’t fully ready, they should accept the advice that a lot of Republicans are giving them, delay it another year, get it ready, and make sure it works,” Blitzer said. “There are government health care-related websites that work great. Socialsecurity.gov, a whole bunch of others. They know how to do it. But if they didn’t get it ready on time, then maybe fix the problem, make sure people don’t have to worry about it.”

The only thing we have to fear is RINO Republicans riding in on clouds of political correctness to once again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.  Even if one believes that Ted Cruz chose the wrong battle at the wrong time over the wrong issue, the simple fact is that he has Democrats on the run.

While the main stream media is pretending that Republicans are losing their resolve, it is actually Democrats who are showing signs of weakening.  Senator Manchin, Democratic Senator from West Virginia personally called the Fisher Foundation to intervene and pay those funeral benefits because he was outraged by the failure of this administration.  He didn’t call President Obama, he didn’t call Chuck Hagel and he didn’t call Harry Reid.  He called a private foundation because he wanted results, not excuses. Harry Reid endured a humiliating encounter with the Mayor of DC who pointed out, correctly, that the irresponsible actions of this administration were preventing DC from spending its own money.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-mayor-gray-confronts-reid-on-capitol-steps-over-shutdowns-impact-on-city/2013/10/09/02577428-3103-11e3-89ae-16e186e117d8_story

In the meantime, President Obama apologized, for the despicable Republicans who are forcing him to be irresponsible.

So the question to ask is very simple.  Is this as bad as it seems?  If the answer is yes, then President Obama is in deep political trouble.  Perhaps Republicans did blunder into this battle, but so far it is Obama who is blowing it big time.  No President has received such lofty treatment from the main stream media.  They refused to even consider the remote possibility that he was anything other than the “Anointed One.” But the higher you rise the farther you have to fall.  There are strong signals that Obama is on top of withering heights.

TDM.

It all boils down to how one defines “affordable.”  President Obama has been telling us that The Affordable Health Care Act would provide “affordable” to quality healthcare for every American.  Who could argue with that.  Wouldn’t everyone like to see every American have access to “affordable” health care?  But the problem is that “affordable” means different things to different people.  Recent polls consistently show about 40% of people interested in getting ObamaCare think it is free.  To them affordable meant free.  They thought this would be like the Obama Phone.  They would just have to show up and they would get free health care.  Life was good.

Now ObamaCare is here and it most definitely is not free.  Instead it is very expensive and there are high deductibles.  In addition, if you decide you don’t want it, you have to pay a fine.  The more people learn about ObamaCare the less they like it.  Initial enrollment figures are dismal and likely to get worse.

How were so many people stupid enough to think this would work?  The answer is easy.  Liberals have completely taken over our colleges and universities.  A vast majority of people working in the main stream are liberals. Liberals “feel” that ObamaCare is a good idea so they ignored all the warning signs. All criticism of ObamaCare was viewed as sour grapes.   Even now, when ObamaCare is such a complete failure, they are trying to convince themselves that somehow this will work.  They are convinced that Republican opposition is fueled solely by the irrational Tea Party.  They cannot even comprehend the possibility that Republicans are actually opposed to ObamaCare because it is worse than the worst estimate.

Ultimately, the final decision on ObamaCare isn’t up to Democrats, Republicans or even the main stream media.  The real decision will be made by the American People.  If a majority of people think this is a good deal and they enroll, then ObamaCare will be a roaring success.  However, if the current trend continues, the ObamaCare cannot survive.

We are down to the defining moment.  If the Affordable Care Act is affordable, then ObamaCare is here to stay.  If it is not, then it cannot survive.

TDM