The tomatoes were rotting on the vine. The weeds were taking over. The squirrels were in charge.
The slim-down, shut-down, turn-around theater furloughed the gardeners who maintain Queen Mooch’s vegetable garden in the White House dooryard.
What? You thought the perpetual vacationer did the work out there, where the lapdog media likes to take her picture with gloves-and-trowel? Aren’t you precious.
Via Weasel Zippers.
Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, The Economy
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.
Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Science/Engineering, The Economy
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.
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.
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?
Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, The Economy
Tagged Atlantic Magazine, Ed Driscoll, Instapundit
That’s how many pages there are in the ObamaCare regulations published so far in the Federal Register. California Democrat Henry Waxman apparently has not read them.
He dismissed a question from CNSNews correspondent Penny Starr about whether he had read the regs by calling it “a propaganda question.”
That was a curious turn of phrase. “Propaganda” was one of the criticisms the IRS applied in denying Tea Party get-out-the-vote groups ordinary tax exemptions before the 2012 presidential elections, and in one case until this week. Democrat minds think alike, obviously.
Ten thousand five hundred and thirty five pages of regulations. Doctors who can’t afford to hire lawyers to read and interpret the regs aren’t going to be in business for long. Ready for your “free” medical care? Good luck with that.
UPDATE: During the “shut down,” or “slim down,” we’re discovering why they need so many regs. They have all these “nonessential federal employees” who need something to do.
MORE: Maybe some of them could be put to work on the ObamaCare website—so far, it sucks. And, big surprise, it’s getting worse. Is FEMA running it?
Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, The Economy
Tagged Henry Waxman, ObamaCare regulations, Penny Starr
Microsoft’s Bill Gates now says the control-alt-delete command “was a mistake” when it was designed as a way to log-in to Windows on a PC. Maybe.
I never used it for that. I used it to reboot the damn think when it froze on me and wouldn’t budge any other way. Haven’t had to use it for a while now with my Windows XP Professional OS.
And frankly, after seeing Mr. Big’s apology, I’m a little afraid to try.
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Posted in Science/Engineering, The Economy
Tagged bill gates, control-alt-delete
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