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Masterful Argument from Obama: “Paul Ryan’s Budget Is Mean” April 4, 2014

Masterful Argument from Obama: “Paul Ryan’s Budget Is Mean” Posted By Chris Graham on Apr 4, 2014 Rep. Paul Ryan released the 2015 House Republican budget on Tuesday and President Obama called it mean. If you told someone that one political party released a budget and that someone from the other political party called it mean, this person would know immediately that the latter was a Democrat. “He argued what? That it was mean? That’s easy—he’s the liberal.” The end goal of Ryan’s budget is to cut government spending by $5.1 trillion over the next ten years. But in an age when the national debt increases by an average of about $1 trillion per year, all this budget would do is create a slower increase. It’s better than nothing, I guess. Ryan will not have my vote in the future should he ever decide to run for president—amnesty—but I give him credit for having some huevos. His budget focuses mainly on America’s great albatross, entitlement programs. It’s through the promise of more of these entitlements that most politicians get elected and re-elected. So, although we need bigger cuts than just $5 trillion, good on him. The day after this budget’s release, President Obama was out campaigning in Michigan to garner support for an increase of the minimum wage from the current $7.25 to the arbitrary number of $10.10. He wasn’t just there to talk about the minimum wage, of course, but to slime Republicans. I don’t mind when politicians talk badly about each other. I think it’s fun and it prevents them from doing any damage to the country. Bipartisanship is a truly dangerous thing in politics. As long as everybody disagrees with each other, junk legislation can’t be passed. The problem is that Republicans don’t know how to be partisan. It’s like they don’t have the will to win or the viciousness to play that Democrats do. Attacking your political enemies at a public forum is fine with me, but it must be done right. Obama’s usually pretty skilled at it, and Wednesday was no exception. In his speech in Michigan, Obama offered the tremendously intellectual argument that Ryan’s budget is mean. “If they tried to sell this sandwich [Ryan's budget] at Zingerman’s [an Ann Arbor local deli] they’d have to call it the Stinkburger or the Meanwich,” he said. Masterful. It’s “mean,” this budget, therefore it shouldn’t be passed. It’s fiscally sound, but because it doesn’t make us want to cuddle, it must not be passed. Get rid of it. Obama is an odd character, isn’t he? At times he is the most bitter and abrasive president we’ve ever had the displeasure of being bossed around by, and at other times he just sounds like a five-year-old. “Mean”? Come on, Obama, don’t be such a stereotypical leftist. Read more at http://lastresistance.com/5298/maste...2YOtcFWREaF.99

April 1, 2014

Obama Administration Is Cooking The Books On Enrollment Numbers



Published on Mar 30, 2014
On Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace ran down the information still missing from the Obamacare enrollment numbers, such as how many have paid and how many are young invincibles, and asked Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) what the 6 million enrollee figure recently released by the Obama administration meant given its incomplete nature.

"I don't think it means anything," Barrasso said. "I think they're cooking the books on this."

"People want the answers to this," Barrasso continued. "They also want to know, once all this is said and done, what kind of insurance will people actually have. Will they be able to keep their doctor? What will it actually cost them?"

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“People want the answers to this. They also want to know, once all this is said and done, what kind of insurance will people actually have. Will they be able to keep their doctor? What will it actually cost them?”

On Fox News Sunday morning, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) flat out says what many of us have been suggesting for weeks. That the supposed six million number touted by the White House is meaningless.


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Obama Administration BEGGING People to Sign Up For Obamacare


NBC's Montage of Obamacare Sales Pitches



The Obama administration will do just about anything to get into your pants. Specifically, the wallet part. And the sad reality of modern America is that democrats, liberals, commies, and etc are incapable of feeling ashamed by this.

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Mrs. Obama says "They nag us because they love us"!!!!! Really!!! Well the dead line is March 31,2014 it has come and gone...but wait....It is extended again!! These people are unbelievable!!! Now pay attention here not one of these people loudly pleading with everyone to buy this "Obama healthcare fiasco" is needing to buy it!! Hey Obama you bought it, naw but you sure own it!!!!!

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BREAKING: She's done...



BREAKING: Healthcare.gov Fumbler Kathleen Sebelius Resigns as Secretary of HHS

It's been a long, frustrating ride...

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Numbers Not Adding UP: Obama Claims 7.1 Mil. But Study Shows Only 858K Have Paid

By Clash Daily / 1 April 2014





By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor
PUBLISHED: 10:21 EST, 1 April 2014 | UPDATED: 16:28 EST, 1 April 2014
A triumphant President Barack Obama declared Tuesday his signature medical insurance overhaul a success, saying it has made America’s health care system ‘a lot better’ in a Rose Garden press conference.
But buried in the 7.1 million enrollments he announced in a heavily staged appearance is a more unsettling reality.

Numbers from a RAND Corporation study that has been kept under wraps suggest that barely 858,000 previously uninsured Americans – nowhere near 7.1 million – have paid for new policies and joined the ranks of the insured by Monday night.
Others were already insured, including millions who lost coverage when their existing policies were suddenly cancelled because they didn’t meet Obamacare’s strict minimum requirements.
Still, he claimed that ‘millions of people who have health insurance would not have it’ without his insurance law.’
‘The goal we’ve set for ourselves – that no American should go without the health care they need … is achievable,’ Obama declared.

The president took no questions from reporters, but celebrated the end of a rocky six-month open-enrollment period by taking pot shots at Republicans who have opposed the law from the beginning as a government-run seizure of one-seventh of the U.S. economy.
‘The debate over repealing this law is over,’ he insisted. ‘The Affordable Care Act is here to stay.’
The president also chided conservatives ‘who have based their entire political agenda on repealing it,’ and praised congressional Democrats for their partisan passage of the law without a single GOP vote.
‘We could not have done it without them, and they should be proud of what they’ve done,’ Obama boasted, in a clear nod to November’s contentious elections in which Republicans are expected to make large gains on an anti-Obamacare platform because of the law’s general lack of popularity.
On its way to 7 million, the Obama administration has never answered some key questions about the open enrollment period.
The White House has instead kept to its talking points.
‘What I can tell you is that we expect there to be a good mix of people who were previously uninsured who now have insurance,’ Carney said Monday.
‘Certainly, there’s a significant number who now have qualified for Medicaid in those states that expanded Medicaid who will have insurance who didn’t have it before.’
The midnight deadline for enrollment has become a temporary formality, as the Obama administration has offered extensions to anyone willing to claim they tried in earnest to sign up in time.
Sebelius promised Congress weeks ago that there would be no extension.
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Sebelius resigns after health care rollout fiasco

JULIE PACE, The Associated Press
10 hours ago


Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius listens as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 10, 2014, before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on the HHS Department's fiscal Year 2015 budget. A White House official says Sebelius is resigning from the Obama administration. The move comes just a week after the close of the rocky enrollment period for President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning as the White House seeks to move past the election-year political damage inflicted by the rocky rollout of President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
Sebelius' resignation comes just over a week after sign-ups closed for the first year of insurance coverage under the so-called Obamacare law. The opening weeks of the enrollment period were marred by widespread website woes, though the administration rebounded strongly by enrolling 7.1 million people by the March 31 deadline, exceeding initial expectations. Enrollment has since risen to 7.5 million as people were given extra time to complete applications.
Even with the late surge in sign-ups, the law remains unpopular with many Americans and Republicans have made it a centerpiece of their efforts to retake the Senate in the fall.
Sebelius' resignation could also set the stage for a contentious confirmation hearing to replace her. In a sign that the White House is seeking to avoid a nomination fight, the president was tapping Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, to replace Sebelius. Burwell was unanimously confirmed by the Senate for her current post.
A White House official requested anonymity to confirm Sebelius' resignation and Burwell's nomination ahead of the formal announcement. Obama has not nominated anyone to replace Burwell as budget director.
Obama remained publicly supportive of Sebelius throughout the rough rollout, deflecting Republican calls for her resignation. But she was conspicuously not standing by his side last week when he heralded the sign-up surge during an event in the White House Rose Garden.
The official said the 65-year-old Sebelius approached Obama last month about stepping down, telling him that the sign-up deadline was a good opportunity for a transition and suggesting he would be better served by someone who was less of a political target.
A spokeswoman for Sen. Pat Roberts, a Republican from Sebelius' home state of Kansas, called the resignation "a prudent decision" given what she called the total failure of Obamacare implementation.
Sebelius dropped no hints about her resignation Thursday when she testified at a budget hearing. Instead, she received congratulations from Democratic senators on the sign-up surge.
A popular former governor of Kansas, Sebelius has been one of Obama's longest-serving Cabinet officials and his only HHS secretary. She was instrumental in shepherding the health care law through Congress in 2010 and implementing its initial components, including a popular provision that allows young people to stay on their parents' insurance plans until age 26.
But Sebelius' relationship with the White House frayed during the fall rollout of the insurance exchanges that are at the center of the sweeping overhaul. The president and his top advisers appeared caught off guard by the extent of the website woes, with warnings from those working on the technology never making it to the West Wing.
After technical problems crippled online sign-ups after the Oct. 1 launch, the White House sent management expert and longtime Obama adviser Jeffrey Zients to oversee a rescue operation that turned things around by the end of November. After taking helm of the project, Zients said management issues were partly to blame but did not point the finger at any individuals.
Sebelius took personal responsibility for the chaotic launch of the website and asked the HHS inspector general to conduct an investigation. That report is not expected for months.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a staunch supporter of the health care law, praised Sebelius as a "forceful, effective and essential" secretary.
"Secretary Sebelius was a leader in the long effort to make history for our country with passage of the Affordable Care Act," the California Democrat said in a statement.
In nominating the 48-year-old Burwell, Obama is tapping a Washington veteran with a low-profile and the respect of some Republicans on Capitol Hill. Though she only joined the Obama administration last year, Burwell held several White House and Treasury posts during President Bill Clinton's administration.
Between her stints in the executive branch, Burwell served as president of Wal-Mart's charitable arm and head of the global development program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
If confirmed, Burwell will have to contend with huge challenges related to the continued implementation of the health overhaul, as well as the divisive politics surrounding the law that show no sign of abating.
On the practical side, the administration has to improve customer service for millions of Americans trying to navigate the new system. There's also a concern that premiums may rise for 2015, since many younger, healthier people appear to have sat out open enrollment season.
On the political front, congressional Republicans remain implacably opposed to Obamacare, even as several GOP governors have accepted the law's expansion of safety-net coverage under Medicaid. GOP opposition means Republicans can be expected to continue to deny additional funds for implementation.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell., R-Ky., welcomed Sebelius' resignation but appeared to indicate an openness to a dialogue with Burwell, the new HHS nominee — even as he declared that "Obamacare has to go."
"I hope this is the start of a candid conversation about Obamacare's shortcomings and the need to protect Medicare," McConnell said.
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Associated Press writer Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Erica Werner in Washington, and John Hanna in Topeka, Kan., contributed to this report.
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FILE - In this Monday, March 4, 2013, file photo, Wal-Mart Foundation President Sylvia Mathews Burwell stands on stage in the East Room of the White House in Washington, as President Barack Obama announced he would nominate Burwell to head the Budget Office. In a sign that the White House is seeking to avoid a nomination fight, an official said Obama was tapping Burwell, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, to replace Kathleen Sebelius, who has resigned as Health and Human Services Secretary. Burwell was unanimously confirmed by the Senate for her current post. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)


Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 10, 2014, during the Senate Finance Committee hearing on the HHS Department's fiscal Year 2015 budget. A White House official says Sebelius is resigning from the Obama administration. The move comes just a week after the close of the rocky enrollment period for President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)





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