Repeal ObamaCare: It's Now or Never

When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed Congress in 2010, it was enacted with not one single Republican vote. The Democrats -- all on their own -- rammed ObamaCare into law.

The day before taking over one-sixth of the American economy, one of the Democrats' leading lights, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) then-Speaker of the House, famously advised the American public, "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."

Obviously, the Republicans knew enough about the drug-like properties of what would hereafter be referred to as ObamaCare to "just say no" when it was put up to a vote. Since its passage more than three years ago, the "fog of controversy" continues and after seeing what's in it, most Americans are dismayed, as the realities of implementing ObamaCare displace the hallucinations that spawned its passage.

A few poll results from the week of July 22, 2013:

• Rasmussen: 61 percent of Americans think the U.S. health care system will get worse in the coming years.
• NBC News/Wall Street Journal: 47 percent think ObamaCare is a bad idea; only 34 percent think it is a good idea (and this is from a sample that had 19 percent Republicans and 30 percent Democrats!).
• Fox News: 53 percent want to repeal ObamaCare, 40 percent want to keep it (47 percent think the law will cost them more money next year, and only 11 percent think it will save them money).
• Washington Post/ABC News: 49 percent oppose ObamaCare, 42 percent support it.

Most Americans are skeptical about this massive overhaul of the nation's health care system, pushed through on a partisan basis in the dead of night and then only through false statements, broken promises, back-stabbing (remember the deal with Bart Stupak to uphold the Hyde Amendment and not fund abortions), and outright buying of votes, (e.g., just Google Sen. Ben Nelson's "Cornhusker Kickback" or Sen. Mary Landrieu's "Louisiana Purchase"). 

Via: American Thinker

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Issa on Obama Treasury Official’s Testimony: ‘Pretty Close to a Useless Witness’

(CNSNew.com) – Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) told an Obama-appointed Treasury official that she was “pretty close to a useless witness” during a hearing into the IRS regulation issued last year that expands tax credits beyond those provided for in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) to individuals in states that do not set up health insurance exchanges.

“You were pretty close to a useless witness who came, saying, ‘I don’t know,’” Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said to Emily McMahon, deputy assistant secretary for tax policy at Treasury.

“And if history is of any indication, the things you said you’d take back for the record, you won’t come back with any answers,” he said at the hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Energy, Health Policy and Entitlements on Wednesday.

The IRS regulation, recorded in the federal register on May 23, 2012, expands the tax credit established in the law for eligible enrollees in state insurance exchanges to include those insured through federally established and operated exchanges.

Twenty-seven states have declined to set up insurance exchanges, which will result in “default” to federal exchanges, according the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Via: CNS News

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REPORT: OBAMA GETS TESTY, SNAPS AT DEMS DURING HILL MEETING

President Barack Obama got testy and reportedly snapped at two Democrats during a Wednesday meeting on Capitol Hill. 

Rep. Sean Maloney (D-NY) asked Obama about a loan guarantee application from a company in his district that has been "stuck in the final approval stages." According to CNN, "one Democratic source in the room said Maloney began his question by recognizing it was an issue that may be better discussed on the staff level, rather than with the president."

In a "rude and dismissive" manner, Obama reportedly answered, "You're right. You should have talked to staff about this." Obama then reportedly "said in a testy way to Maloney that at least now he can go back and tell his constituents he stood up to the president for them."

CNN reported that sources said Obama was "unnecessarily unkind when responding to Maloney's question." 

Obama also reportedly lashed out at Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) when he suggested Larry Summers would be a bad choice to head the Federal Reserve. The President reportedly blasted liberal outlets like the Huffington Post for saying Summers was not liberal enough to head the Fed. 

Regarding Obama's exchange with Maloney, White House press secretary Jay Carney said he believed Obama was not testy. 

"The president was very appreciative of the question," Carney said.

Carney continued:

The question got into specifics about a program and I think the president not only said that his staff would follow up on it, he guaranteed that the president's staff would follow up on it. And he was very glad to see the interest in these kinds of programs that was expressed by the congressman.

In response, Maloney said, "I asked the President for a commitment to prioritize a local jobs project, and I got it. I appreciate the President's responsiveness." Maloney was reportedly not offended. 

Via: Breitbart

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Fugitive Snowden slips out of Moscow airport for secret location

Fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden slipped quietly out of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Thursday after securing temporary asylum in Russia, ending more than a month in limbo in the transit area.

A Russian lawyer who has been assisting Snowden said the American, who is wanted in the United States for leaking details of secret government surveillance programs, had gone to a safe location which would remain secret.

After 39 days avoiding hordes of reporters desperate for a glimpse of him, Snowden managed to give them the slip again, leaving the airport in a taxi without being spotted.

Snowden's case has caused new strains in relations between Russia and the United States, which wants him extradited to face espionage charges. But a Kremlin official said ties would not suffer from what he called a "relatively insignificant" case.

Via: Reuters

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Democrats Won’t Let Small Businesses Escape Obamacare Mandate-(Video)

Congressman Alan Grayson recently stated that he will be introducing a co-sponsored legislation to  keep small businesses from opting to hire part time employees instead of full-time employees, in order to avoid having to comply with the now delayed Obamacare employer mandate. 

House Republicans railed against President Obama’s Obamacare full-implementation flinch, calling it unfair, and suggested that the President should delay the entire law’s implementation. 

Jorge Bonilla, Grayson’s potential 2014 Republican congressional opponent,  sent over this response to Grayson’s “wage control” piece of legislation-  Instead of burdening employers and small businesses, we should seek ways in which to facilitate growth. 

We know how the Obama administration intends to counter job losses and hourly wage reductions brought on by Obamacare. We are seeing the beginning of a campaign for wage control, which will be even more of a burden to job creation, and is just as doomed to fail as Obamacare.”-Jorge Bonilla 

Via: Shark Tank

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Schools keep distance from Obamacare enrollment

When children return to school a few weeks from now, don’t expect to find Obamacare forms stuffed inside their backpacks.

Supporters of the health law see back-to-school season as a natural time for Obamacare outreach, a chance to find young families who could benefit from new health coverage options. But weeks before the school bells start ringing in parts of the country, there’s no concerted effort to reach parents at the schoolhouse door. It’s yet another sign of how the undying controversy could overshadow attempts to get people enrolled.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan told POLITICO this summer that his department has no plans to actively advocate for the health law, only providing help when asked. “No one has asked us,” he added.

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More recently a Department of Education spokesman said federal officials are sending out brochures from the Department of Health and Human Services. They are also working with “state and local partners” on written and online materials, and one aspect they want to stress is that Obamacare’s preventive health benefits would be particularly important to children and families.

But schools at this point aren’t a nationwide focal point of outreach and enrollment. The National PTA isn’t gearing up either. “National PTA does not have any plans to assist in the dissemination of information about the Affordable Care Act,” said spokeswoman Abiah Weaver.

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And the big sign-up campaign from Enroll America, an organization of Obamacare allies and health law stakeholders, hasn’t focused on schools, at least not as of now.

States or school districts can act on their own; Los Angeles, for instance, is training some high school juniors and seniors how to be Obamacare messengers to their families and communities. But the lack of a national strategy is just one more sign of how hard it is for the administration and its allies to focus on health benefits, not health politics, as Obamacare enrollment nears. And the Republicans have made it clear that they don’t want the schools to go anywhere near the controversial health law.

Via: Politico

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Congress, Experts Question Legality of Obamacare Exchange Subsidies

IRS, Democrats defend administration’s decision to extend subsidies to all exchanges

The Obama administration cannot legally offer federal subsidies to help people buy insurance on federally run health insurance exchanges, legal experts and Congressional Republicans argued Wednesday, potentially threatening the central feature of Obamacare.

Obamacare mandates that each state have a health insurance exchange where people can buy insurance, and the federal government is providing subsidies to help qualifying people buy health insurance on these exchanges.

The law says that the government can provide subsidies for insurance sold on an “Exchange established by the state.” Thirty-four states have refused to set up their own exchanges, leaving the federal government set them instead.

The Obama administration has interpreted the law to allow them to offer subsidies to people buying insurance on exchanges run by the federal government as well as the state governments.

Both legal experts and Republicans on the health care subcommittee of the House Oversight Committee contended that the administration’s implementation of the subsidy provision is beyond the scope of the law and Congress’s intent.

“At issue today is an example of the administration rewriting the law to meet political objectives,” said subcommittee chairman James Lankford (R., Okla.).

Congress originally limited the subsidy only to state-created exchanges to induce the states to set up their own exchanges, argued Jonathan Adler, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University.

Via: WFB

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Malkin Shreds ‘Shakedown Artist’ Sharpton On Hannity: ‘Demagogue’ With ‘Blood On His Hands,’ Hates Whites, Jews

Michelle Malkin joined Sean Hannity on Wednesday night to help him continue piling on MSNBC host Hannity wanted to know when Sharpton’s activism ever benefitted anyone or solved any problems. Al Sharpton for going after people like Hannity in the conservative media over race. Malkin tore Sharpton apart, telling Hannity right off the bat that the MSNBC host has “blood on his hands” and went on a tirade against the “evil” “demagogue” with a history of making offensive remarks.

Malkin told Hannity Sharpton has a long history of “racial divisiveness and hate,” and called him a “shakedown artist who hates cops, who hates whites, [and] who hates Jews.” Hannity declared that if Sharpton wants to keep having this fight with him, he’s going to continue reminding people of the “history of vitriol” Sharpton has spewed.

Hannity ran a montage of his most vitriolic moments, which Malkin described as “chilling.” She also found it striking how so many people, including Republicans, have “kissed the ring of this race charlatan.” She sniped, “He thinks he can lose weight, put pancake makeup on, and all of a sudden he’s respectable.”

Watch the video below, via Fox News:

Via: Mediaite

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The Three Amigos of Racial Discord

Sharpton, Holder, Obama

On Monday, MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton and other “civil rights” leaders met with President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. They were purportedly discussing voting rights, but, in reality, they were discussing how to perpetuate voter fraud.

None of these so called leaders are in favor of voter identification laws, which require individuals to present a picture ID at voting polls. Somehow, mandating voter identification is supposed to be racist and akin to a poll tax that will “disenfranchise” minority voters. Such views are plainly ridiculous as many states have programs to provide free voter identification cards to their citizens. For example, Texas has implemented a plan to distribute free picture ID’s to any interested voter, but that has drawn the ire of Sharpton, Holder and Obama.

The Three Amigos are upset that Texas will require anyone seeking a free voter ID to present verification of their U.S. citizenship and identity. Of course, anyone interested in voter integrity and fair elections would agree that non-citizens should not be allowed to vote. Sadly, Sharpton, Holder and Obama disagree and are not interested in combating fraudulent voting. They want more illegal aliens to vote, which translates into more votes for the Democratic Party.

Via: Canada Free Press

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