Category Archives: Obamalot

ObamaCare was designed to fail

That’s the only logical conclusion available when you consider that the creators of this federal boondoggle included a rule book so vast and so complicated that not even the software for the program’s 36 insurance exchange web sites works. Nor is it likely to anytime soon.

“These regulations are often called ‘business rules,'” computer programmer and PJMedia blogger Richard Fernandez writes, “and they have to be implemented in software. The Obamacare ruleset is now reportedly eight times the length of the Bible and still growing. This has had unavoidable results…

“If it’s designed to provide cheap and quality health care then maybe we’re S.O.L. since some things seem doomed from their conception to fail due to some fundamental violation of the rules of physics or mathematics. As a health care system it appears perverse. But as something else … why…”

It certainly seems to have been designed to fail and the only reason for that would be to allow the Democrats to do what they’ve wanted to do since Ted-the-Red was their sachem: Dispense with health insurance entirely and nationalize everything. Doctors, hospitals, drug companies, the works. Want an operation? Call the 800 number and wait, and wait, and wait…

UPDATE:  At the very least, the exchanges software was botched by the usual politically-connected cronies, according to this InfoWorld piece, provided by Mr. Goon. I still contend that could have been intended all along as a feature, and is not really a bug.

MORE: Thus far (Oct. 19) the administration is either lying about what has happened or is refusing to talk about it. And his lapdog media also is silent. How amusing. Mr. Transparency. Mr. Bring-Us-Together. What a phony.

How to corrupt government

Even more than it is already. Which will only hasten its (and our) demise.

Just issue 11.5 million words of regulations for ObamaCare, presumably the contents of the aforementioned ten thousand five hundred and thirty-five pages of regulations.

With such unwieldy complexity and probable room for exceptions, let the groaning of the peasants amid the greasing of the bureaucratic palms begin.

A sad Barrycade story

PFC Cody Patterson, a young Army Ranger and a friend of Darkwater’s son, was one of four U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan recently, and Darkwater’s son escorted his remains home.

But Cody’s family must now scrounge for the expenses to get him buried, thanks to Obutthead and his slim-down, shut-down kabuki. The Republican House passed a bill to restore the federal money the White House cut off for such things, but the bill seems to be stalled by the petulant in the Democrat Senate.

Read the whole sad story at the links, complete with Darkwater’s photo of young Cody, a captain of his high school football team. The Oregonian newspaper’s see-no-evil version of the hassle is here.

Barrycades delivered to White House

This is seriously funny. Obutthead’s minions barricaded D.C. veterans memorials against visitors, strictly as a provocation in their slim-down, shut-down, what-have-you argument with the RINOs over ObamaCare’s part in the rising federal debt.

So, on Sunday, some apparent veterans (a few wearing the historic Gadsden flags adopted by the Tea Party movement, see upper right sidebar of this blog) removed the “barrycades” and carried them to the White House. With signs saying “Return To Sender.”

Of course the D.C. cops were out in force. And CNN mocked the protestors, but whoever cared what the Communist News Network had to say.

And there was more trespassing at another “barrycaded” park in Florida. Peacefully, of course.

Heh.

The Dems will now have to bring out their rag-tag Occupy troublemakers, who specialize in urinating and defecating in public. They’re so Progressive, you know.

Unless, of course, they’re too busy working part-time to pay their ObamaCare health insurance bills. Except I don’t think they’re the kind who actually work.

Via Instapundit and Breitbart News

UPDATE:  Obutthead’s private org OFA (Organizing for Action) plans a “counter protest” on Tuesday. At least they won’t have to worry about missing work.

Cowardly RINO’s cave

Turns out the Left didn’t have to arrest him after all. House Speaker John Boehner has no guts and is now ready to cave in on Democrat demands. He calls it a compromise, based on a few fig-leaf changes to ObamaCare.

It’s really an establishment Republican sell-out: the curse of the career pols.

As the Tea Party’s Jennifer Burke puts it: The Left is saying “‘RINO’s, we know that you have no spine. We know that you don’t stand on principle. We know that you enjoy your cushy little life here in DC with all of the perks and are complacent just to be in second place.”

No wonder Obutthead refused to negotiate. He didn’t have to.

UPDATE:  No fig leaves for Obutthead. He does not “compromise,” either. Full, humiliating, collapse is his aim. He’ll probably get it, too.

Join the Tea Party

One version of it, anyhow, The Tea Party dot Net whose ordinary tax-exempt status still is pending from the corrupt Democrat IRS. The kind Leftist groups such as People for the American Way already have, not to mention the Jihadi-lovin’ CAIR.

I have a couple of San Antonio friends who consider themselves Tea Partiers, though, for the most part, Tea Partiers are not card-carrying members of any of the thousands of such named groups. That would be a significant disadvantage for a third-party political movement except the Tea Party groups concentrate on reforming both major parties from within.

The Tea Party dot Net, claims more than 3 million members at the moment. I’m one of them, because I agree with the movement’s small-government aim, as do, among others,Texas Republican (and ObamaCare-fighting) Sen. Ted Cruz. It’s the best way to seek change since I’m too old to march and too busy to call or write letters to pols, even if I thought that would help, which I don’t.

The other best way is to vote to throw out incumbents, every chance you get, including Ted when his term is up. No more career pols like idiot Biden and slack-brained McCain.

UPDATE:  Especially because it now looks like Boehner is getting ready to sell out. As the TPN’s Jennifer Burke puts it: The Left is “saying, ‘RINO’s, we know that you have no spine. We know that you don’t stand on principle. We know that you enjoy your cushy little life here in DC with all of the perks and are complacent just to be in second place. Do as we say or else.”

Or else meaning take bigger hits in the polls than Obutthead is. (As if the polls were trustworthy to begin with.) Because when you’re like slack-brained McCain, the career pol who doesn’t work and doesn’t want to, the perks rule.

The Left loses its, uh, mind

One of the establishment Left’s favorite house organs, The Atlantic Magazine, is calling for the arrest of Republican John Boehner, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

So poor wittle baby Obumbles won’t have to negotiate with the “Extreme Right” as the liberals always call their political opponents. Good luck with that.

Although with a corrupt president who has most of the news media (including the perpetually federally-funded NPR), the IRS and the FBI behind him, you never know. Talk about a constitutional crisis. It would make the wittle baby’s federal shut-down theater look like Romper Room. Come to think of it…

Via Instapundit.

Meanwhile, El Paso’s ABC affiliate station’s reporters can’t find a single local resident who has successfully signed up for ObamaCare. At least they’re looking, eh?