MSNBC’s Detestable Race Baiter Joy Ann Reid Plays Race Card On Obamacare Opponents: “They Are Resentful of The Post-’64 America”…

She really is just an awful person.

MSNBC guest host Joy Ann Reid argued that part of Republicans’ stubbornness over Obamacare dates back to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and its effects.

In response to The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel arguing that desperate Republican attempts to derail the law can be explained by demographic shifts that marginalize the party, Reid said opposition was also spurred by the GOP’s being“resentful of the sort of post-’64 America, which they feel benefits everybody.”

Via: National Review Online

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[VIDEO] CNN Interviews South Carolina Residents, Can’t Find A Single One Who Was Able To Sign Up For Obamacare…

This is what passes as a smashing success in the Obama administration.

Via: Weasel Zippers.

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Zero Enroll in New LA Plan on Obamacare’s First Day

Louisiana’s top health-insurance provider said that not a single person enrolled in a new health-care plan offered through the Affordable Care Act on its first day.

An executive with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana told the Times-Picayunethat the agency was unable to sell the plan because customers were unable to access the HealthCare.gov website due to its website’s sluggishness. “It was not as intense as we had anticipated,” the company’s vice president of communication said of the company’s sales. He urged supporters and critics, however, to “take a deep breath and relax” and assured them that the website would eventually allow consumers to enroll in a plan.

According to the newspaper, the company spent $60 million in preparation of the October 1 rollout, but the website continued to stall on the day of its rollout. One interested applicant spent five hours trying to get onto the site, but eventually resorted to calling a customer-service representative and was told she would receive plan options via e-mail.

The other Louisiana companies offering plans available through the Affordable Care Act said they are still waiting on numbers from the program’s first day.

Via: National Review Online

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HARRY REID’S OFFICE LEAKS BOEHNER OFFICE EMAILS—AND IT COULD RUIN ANY FAITH YOU HAVE IN WASHINGTON

A series of leaked emails authored by House Speaker John Boehner’s chief of staff Mike Sommers show that the Speaker may have coordinated with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to exempt Congress from Obamacare.

The emails were leaked Tuesday by Reid chief of staff David Krone, who actually has a history of this sort of thing.

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, walks to a House Republican meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Sept. 30, 2013 (AFP/Getty Images)

The leaks, which are a major taboo in Washington, show Boehner (R-Ohio) worked behind the scenes earlier this year to address confusion over a provision in the Affordable Care Act that would force members of Congress and their aides into the exchanges. In fact, if one were to go by the leaks, which were first published by Politico, it appears that the offices of Boehner and Reid regularly coordinated to exempt Congress from the health care law.

But given that Boehner is now apparently against congressional Obamacare exemptions, the emails make him look inconsistent and hypocritical – which may have been the point of their leaking.

Via: The Blaze

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High drama on Capitol Hill as tempers flare, leaders meet with Obama

President Obama held an emergency meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday to try and find a way out of the budget stalemate -- but over on Capitol Hill, tempers were flaring and lawmakers were melting down on the floor of the House. 

Lawmakers spent the evening shouting at each other, as they considered a series of votes on mini-spending bills but got no closer to a deal that could re-open the entire government. In perhaps the most intense exchange, Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., repeatedly accused his GOP colleagues of waging "jihad" on Americans. 

Miller, who was a champion of the federal health care law when it was being drafted, claimed Republicans who are now complaining about the national parks being closed did not show the same concern over health care. He said: "When you were on the jihad against Americans' access to health care, shutting down the parks wasn't a problem. Shutting down NIH wasn't a problem." 

Miller was then ruled "out of order." After he left the floor, Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, said he was "disgusted" by Miller's comments. 

"We should all reject his comments," Simpson said, adding that Miller should be formally censured "but I won't call for it." 

The House was considering a suite of mini-spending bills. On Wednesday evening, the chamber approved one bill to fund the National Park Service, on a 252-173 vote, and another bill to fund the National Institutes of Health, on a 254-171 vote.  

Via: Fox News

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National Park Service to Keep WWII Memorial Open to Veterans

After veterans once again breached barricades at the shuttered Word War II Memorial on Wednesday, the National Park Service announced that it would keep the monument open to veterans as a free speech right.

After similar scenes Tuesday, two groups of veterans from Missouri and the Chicago area descended on the World War II memorial in two phases before noon, this time led by Republican and Democrat legislators.

And one veteran activist said perhaps the two feuding political parties could make peace over the issue of honoring the men and women of World War II.

All memorials on the Mall have been closed closed and most are cordoned off, as a result of the government shutdown. The National Park Service specified that only the World War II Memorial would remain open and only to veterans.

The veterans Tuesday were part of honor flight programs, which fly veterans for free from around the country to Washington to see the World War II Memorial.

Jeff Miller, co-founder of the Honor Flight Network, said: “The Park Service, they have been so compassionate. They have done everything they could, bent over backwards, to make sure veterans were not inconvenienced or disappointed.”

Via: Washington Post

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'Why would we want to do that?': Harry Reid dismisses funding children's cancer research separately from the rest of government

The U.S. Senate's leading Democrat found himself in embarrassingly hot water Wednesday, after dismissing the idea of funding children's cancer research through the government shutdown.

'If you can help one child, why won't you do it?' asked CNN reporter Dana Bash.

'Why, why, why would we want to do that?' countered Reid.

'I have 1100 people at Nellis Air Force Base that are sitting home,' because of government employee furloughs, he told Bash and a roomful of other journalists. 'They have – they have a few problems of their own.'

'This is – to have someone of your intelligence suggest such a thing maybe means you're as irresponsible and reckless.'

The CNN correspondent had challenged Senate Democrats' earlier lament that clinical trials for pediatric cancer therapies were among government services cut off Monday at midnight. The two houses of Congress, run by opposite parties, were unable to agree on the terms of a continuing resolution to fund the government in its new fiscal year.

'You all talked about children with cancer unable to go to clinical trials,' she began. 'The House is presumably going to pass a bill that funds the NIH. Will you, at least, pass that? And if not, aren't you playing the same political games that Republicans are?'

 

House Republicans have pressed forward with a collection of six legislative proposals to independently fund specific portions of the federal government through the length of the shutdown.

The first one, which provided military servicemen and women with paycheck guarantees, passed easily on Monday. After Reid declined to block it in the Senate, President Obama signed it two hours before the shutdown deadline.

But the other five proposals, including one that would continue funding the National Institutes of Health, are still in doubt.

That bill, and another freeing up money to pay members of the National Guard and military reserve units, were added on Wednesday to three that failed to pass a day earlier.Those isolate and fund the national parks, museums and monuments; the Department of Veterans Affairs; and the city government of Washington, D.C.

Via: Daily Mail

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Study: Obamacare exchanges offer consumers fewer options

The launch of the Obamacare exchanges may not bring as much choice and competition for health insurance buyers as advertised.

“Competition and consumer choice are actually making insurance affordable,” President Barack Obama crowed recently. (RELATED: Congresswoman: Obamacare creating health insurance monopolies)

But a study released last Friday by the health-care reporting company HealthPocket tallied up the Department of Health and Human Services’ numbers and found that the number of plans available in states with federally-run exchanges comes up to just a third of the total the private market has been able to establish.

Before Obamacare, Americans in those 36 states could choose from over 4,200 options that best suit their health-care needs.

The young and healthy could stick with catastrophic, bare-bones plans; sicker consumers can opt for low-deductible plans that keep their out-of-pocket costs down; and some of the more efficiency-minded could decide to go insurance-less and pay out-of-pocket for whatever care they need. But Obamacare is changing all that.

The number of options available in Obamacare exchanges will come in 1,400, far less than what was already available.

On average, Obamacare exchanges run by the feds will see an average 41 health insurance plans per state. But the pre-Obamacare market provided 117 health care plans per state on average.

Obamacare policies pushed some health-care companies out of states entirely. Medical Mutual of Ohio left Georgia and South Carolina because Obamacare regulations proved too complex for the business, which will be focusing just on its home state of Ohio. A spokesman announced that former Medical Mutual patients will be shifted to United Healthcare instead.

Via: The Daily Caller

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[CARTOON] The Democratic Temper Tantrum

Via: California Political Review

Removing one of the best incentives for good health

Thinking and responsible people wish to remain healthy for several reasons.  One of the main impetuses for being healthy is the avoidance of medical costs. It is expensive to be sick or in bad health.

Fully understanding and recognizing that some illnesses are tragically unavoidable, these comments refer to those that are avoidable.

Michelle Obama has taken on the imagery of promoting good eating and health habits, yet her husband's signature legislation will reverse many of her efforts tenfold.

Obamacare promises to protect people from high medical costs. And, as mentioned, if these costs and their avoidance are a prominent reason for sustaining one's health, then those efforts will be reduced simply because the pecuniary penalties for bad health habits have been reduced.

The government protects those who cannot, or in this case will not, protect themselves from themselves.

And once again we have counterveiling efforts from those in federal power. Just as Bernanke attempts maximum employment by flooding the country with dollars as the federal government subsidizes unemployment with idle comforts, Michelle promotes responsible health habits as the federal government shelters those who have a high propensity for bad health habits from high costs, and their own stupidity.

Via: American Thinker

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Obama blocks agencies’ funding to stop Obamacare reforms

President Barack Obama is threatening to deny funding to all unfunded federal agencies until GOP legislators abandon their reforms to the Obamacare law that regulates the nation’s health-sector.

The threatening statement, issued Wednesday, clashes with the president’s efforts to portray the budget impasse as the “Republican shutdown” of the federal government.

“The Administration strongly opposes House passage … [of] fiscal year 2014 appropriations for very limited activities,” said the statement, which was issued after GOP leaders said they would pass multiple small-scale bills to fund individual agencies during the budget impasse.

That GOP mini-bill strategy allows them to continue their advocacy for Obamcare reforms, while also highlighting Obama’s strategy of shutting down government.

Obama’s hard line reflects his expectation that media coverage of the budget impasse will blame the GOP for the impasse, boost his poll ratings and help Democrats in their effort to win a House majority in November 2014.

“Consideration of appropriations bills in a piecemeal fashion is not a serious or responsible way to run the United States Government,” said the Oct. 2 statement, which comes only one day after Obama signed a law allowing continued payment of salaries for the the nation’s military.

“Instead of opening up a few Government functions, the House of Representatives should re-open all of the Government,” the statement insisted.

So far, Obama’s plan is working, partially.

Via: Daily Caller

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‘There Are No Glitches’: Ed Schultz Insists Fox Behind Myth of Obamacare Flaws

Now Republicans are on a 'Jihad'

We can add this one to the long list that includes 'Anarchists' and 'Legislative Arsonists'

It's career-lib Democrat George Miller of California today on the House Floor

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Via: The Right Pundit

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‘There Are No Glitches’: Ed Schultz Insists Fox Behind Myth of Obamacare Flaws

“There are no glitches,” MSNBC host Ed Schultzdeclared. Ever, you ask? No, only in the case of the divinely inspired and flawlessly executed health care exchanges that opened on Tuesday as part of the Affordable Care Act. In fact, the widely reported and well-documented failures that the system experienced on opening day were, according to Schultz, a myth propagated by Fox News Channel. 

Schultz began his commentary on Wednesday by imploring that the White House refuse to budge off of their position that they will refuse to seek a negotiated settlement with Republicans in Congress to reopen the federal government.

RELATED: Obamacare Exchanges Frustrate MSNBC Anchor: ‘This Is Where My Patience Would Be Exhausted’

“This is about standing strong,” Schultz insisted. “This is about not backing down. This is about showing a spine.”

“You can just listen to them manufacture glitches,” he continued. After a brief digression, Schultz returned to his central point about the exchanges not experiencing” glitches” of any kind.

“There are no glitches,” he insisted. “If you opened up a restaurant and you couldn’t feed anybody because there were too many people that got in early, and you just couldn’t handle the line, do you think the manager of the restaurant is going to go back and chew out the staff because the response was overwhelming? I think they would probably call that a good night at the office.”

“But, of course, Fox News and the republicans, they call that a glitch,” he concluded.

Via: Mediaite.com

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POLITICO: UNPOPULAR OBAMA CLINGS TO 'HARD-LINE POSITION' IN DEBT CEILING GAMBLE

With President Barack Obama's Gallup approval rating down to just 45% after his mishandling of the Syrian crisis, and with CNN reporting that only 39% of Americans support Obamacare, White House officialstell Politico that "Obama doesn't see any reason to back off his hard-line position" on the looming debt ceiling showdown--a risky strategy that could drag Democrats down with him come the 2014 midterm elections.

On October 17, the federal government will officially hit the nation's $16.7 trillion debt ceiling. While polls show that more voters blame Republicans for the current government shutdown, polls also show that voters overwhelmingly side with Republicans in demanding that any raising of the debt ceiling be coupled with spending cuts. Indeed, a Bloomberg poll found that 61% of voters believe it is "right to require spending cuts when the debt ceiling is raised even if it risks default."

On Wednesday, Speaker John Boehner published an op-ed recounting House Republicans' numerous attempts to avert a government shutdown and stating Obama's refusal to negotiate on a deal to cut spending in exchange for agreeing to raise the debt limit.

"In just a few weeks, Congress must act to raise the debt limit to pay the tab for President Obama and Washington's out-of-control spending," wrote Boehner. "There is no way Congress can or should pass such a bill without spending cuts and reforms to deal with the debt and deficit and help get our economy moving again. But President Obama refuses to even talk about negotiating such a bipartisan agreement."

For months now, Obama and top Democrats have flatly refused to negotiate on the debt ceiling.

Via: Breitbart

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Remarks by the President on the Affordable Care Act and the Government Shutdown

PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Good morning, everybody.  At midnight last night, for the first time in 17 years, Republicans in Congress chse to shut down the federal government.  Let me be more specific:  One faction, of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, shut down major parts of the government -- all because they didn’t like one law. 

This Republican shutdown did not have to happen.  But I want every American to understand why it did happen.  Republicans in the House of Representatives refused to fund the government unless we defunded or dismantled the Affordable Care Act.  They’ve shut down the government over an ideological crusade to deny affordable health insurance to millions of Americans.  In other words, they demanded ransom just for doing their job. 

And many representatives, including an increasing number of Republicans, have made it clear that had they been allowed by Speaker Boehner to take a simple up or down vote on keeping the government open, with no partisan strings attached, enough votes from both parties would have kept the American people’s government open and operating.

We may not know the full impact of this Republican shutdown for some time.  It will depend on how long it lasts.  But we do know a couple of things.  We know that the last time Republicans shut down the government in 1996, it hurt our economy.  And unlike 1996, our economy is still recovering from the worst recession in generations. 

We know that certain services and benefits that America’s seniors and veterans and business owners depend on must be put on hold.  Certain offices, along with every national park and monument, must be closed.  And while last night, I signed legislation to make sure our 1.4 million active-duty military are paid through the shutdown, hundreds of thousands of civilian workers -- many still on the job, many forced to stay home -- aren’t being paid, even if they have families to support and local businesses that rely on them.  And we know that the longer this shutdown continues, the worse the effects will be.  More families will be hurt.  More businesses will be harmed. 

Via: White House.gov

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Government shutdown: Harry Reid spearheads Democratic strategy

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been the most ardent proponent of President Barack Obama taking a hard line with House Republicans in the latest fiscal crisis engulfing Washington.

And so far, Reid is getting his way.

When the president considered sitting down with the four congressional leaders in the White House ahead of the deadline to avert a government shutdown, Reid privately urged Obama to call off the meeting, according to several people familiar with the situation. Reid believed that it would amount to nothing more than a photo-op that would give the false impression that a serious negotiation was occurring, even warning he wouldn’t attend such a session. Obama scrapped it.

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As Washington barrels forward to the first government shutdown in 17 years on Tuesday, the wily Reid has taken the lead role in pushing a hardball Democratic legislative strategy that can be summed up like this: Make the Republicans cave.

“He’s been the rock … and he’s had our whole caucus behind him,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), a close Reid ally who spoke with the majority leader nine times on Saturday afternoon. “Because if we negotiate on a short-term [government funding bill], what are [Republicans] going to do on a long-term bill? What are they going to do on the debt ceiling?”

So far in this fight, the party’s leadership, senior White House officials and the president have been on the same page. They will not let Republicans gut or delay Obamacare — or concede an inch to the GOP despite the ramifications of a shutdown. For now, even Republicans privately concede House Republicans could suffer much of the political backlash for a looming shutdown.

Via: Politico

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