President Obama Distracts His Way to Victory

President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without blinking. And he is gifted with some of the most incompetent conservative opposition in the history of the country.

How else to explain the fact that after years of President Obama holding up one hand to wave a wand to grab attention while using the second hand to stuff a rabbit into his hat, Republicans are still staring slack-jawed at the wand?

The wand, in this case, is social policy. Buffeted by the winds of his administration's incompetence and an unexpected level of media blowback over the rollout of Obamacare, President Obama has fallen back on the oldest trick in the book: talking about gays and lesbians.

This week's episode of "Distract a Republican" began with the Senate launching the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a boondoggle designed to please gay rights advocates and trial lawyers. The bill would supposedly stop discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in the workplace. In reality, the bill creates a vaguely defined protected class that would take precedence over religious Americans.

The bill's language suggests that an "individual's actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity" must never be the basis for a job dismissal. But this phrase means nothing. "Actual or perceived" is Orwellian language, a legal catchall. And what does "gender identity" mean according to the terms of the law? "The gender-related identity, appearance, or mannerisms ... of an individual, with or without regard to the individual's designated sex at birth." So if you run a Hooters and one day Mandy shows up deciding she's Bill, you're out of luck.

And if you run an elementary school and Mr. Adams shows up as Ms. Eve one day, firing is out of the question.

Via: CNS News

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Syria push distracts from Obamacare --- and Dems don't mind

THAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA FOR THIS WHITE HOUSE DOG AND PONY SHOW!!!

White House plans for a health care messaging blitz ahead of Obamacare’s rollout have been overshadowed by the president’s call to strike Syria, distracting the administration from its plan to focus attention on a litany of domestic issues.

Obamacare was supposed to get its time in the limelight over these next few weeks, ahead of October’s open enrollment launch for the healthcare law’s insurance exchanges.

The White House is initiating an all-hands-on-deck approach to selling the polarizing overhaul, with President Obama, Cabinet members and high-level surrogates expected to talk up the benefits of the Affordable Care Act in coming weeks.

But a high-profile speech on Wednesday from former President Bill Clinton, who Obama once dubbed his “Secretary of Explaining Stuff,” to tout the healthcare law’s reform largely went unnoticed as lawmakers held contentious hearings on possible military action against Syria.

Some Democrats, however, downplayed the lack of attention on the health law.

“Politically speaking, it’s not the worst thing,” a veteran Democratic strategist, given anonymity to speak candidly about Obamacare, said. “Recently, the focus on health care has done more harm than good. I’m highly skeptical that a new PR blitz, even from the likes of President Clinton, will do much."

Many Democrats are concerned over polls which show the public does not understand many key aspects of the law and fear that a troubled rollout could hurt them in 2014.

The administration recently delayed until 2015 both the requirement for most employers to provide health insurance plans for their workers and the cap on out-of-pocket costs on medical care. Both postponements were seen as major gifts to Republicans who have vowed to make the health law a central issue in the 2014 midterm elections and push for efforts to repeal the law.

Via: Washington Examiner

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