Obamacare

Another Obamacare Failure: $1.23 Billion Taxpayer Funds Sunk in Failed Co-Ops

November 9, 2015 by Robert J. Avrech 9 Comments

With so much going on in the world—all of it bad if not catastrophic—we tend to forget that Barack Obama and the Democrat party are responsible for destroying the world’s greatest health care system.

Which is not to say that it was perfect. Nothing is. But one simple improvement would allow citizens to purchase health insurance plans across state lines. This would immediately bring down costs and improve coverage. Competition among insurance companies is a good thing. But that would mean allowing the free market to operate and the Democrat party believes, first and foremost, in top-down, iron-fisted centralized government.

Of course, our ruling elites, just like the ruling elites of Communist societies, are not subject to the inefficiencies, indignities and high cost of ObamaCare. What’s good for us, is not even remotely acceptable to liberal fascists.

ObamaCare for Arabia

July 21, 2015 by Robert J. Avrech 8 Comments

The democrat party would like nothing better than for the media to keep talking about Donald Trump, the Confederate flag, Bruce Caitlyn Jenner, or any other nonsense with which the radical left obsesses in their quest for ideological purity. What they don’t want to talk about is the Obama-Kerry surrender to Iran. Because when they do talk about it, they have to lie extravagantly in order to put lipstick on the pig.

Just as Obama lied about ObamaCare, he and his goose-steppers are lying about their treacherous deal with Iran which insures Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons.

In today’s WSJ Bret Stephens writes about the Iran deal’s collapsing rationale.

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Friday Photos: Trompe L’oeil Nation

March 13, 2015 by Robert J. Avrech 13 Comments

John Haberle, “Leave Your Order Here” oil on canvas, 1895. John Haberle (1856–1933) was a 19th-century American painter in the trompe l'oeil (literally, "fool the eye") style. He is considered one of the three major figures—together with William Harnett and John F. Peto—practicing this form of still life painting in the United States in the last quarter of the 19th century. — John Haberle, “Leave Your Order Here” oil on canvas, 1895. John Haberle (1856–1933) was a 19th-century American artist best known for his trompe l’oeil paintings. He is considered one of the three major figures—together with William Harnett and John F. Peto—practicing this form of still life painting in 19th century America.

The idea is to fool the eye, to convince the viewer that the object exists in three dimensions. But of course, the surface is flat. It is a masterful illusion.

So it is with Barack Obama and the postmodern Democrat party, who wage a ceaseless campaign of political trompe l’oeil. The Constitution, the separation of powers, America’s national borders, the very meaning of citizenship, all are being rendered illusions in order to better serve the totalitarian ideology that is at the heart of the Democrat party.

From the very beginning of his run for the Presidency, Obama spun a spiderweb of illusions, sure in the knowledge that the color of his skin was impenetrable armor against criticism. When Obama’s spiritual mentor Jeremiah Wright was unmasked as an American and Jew-hating bigot, Obama claimed that in 20 years he never — not once — heard any of Wright’s hateful sermons.

Only the willfully gullible would believe Obama’s shameless denial.

The list of Obama’s lies is as long as the mountain of gibberish that is Obamacare. And as Jonathan Gruber smirked, that law was designed to fool a foolish people.

Obama’s greatest work of trompe l’oeil is on behalf of radical Islam. Obama thanked “Muslim Americans for their many achievements and contributions to building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy.”

Even for Obama, this is an incandescent fantasy, a rewriting of American history that is half lies and the other half untrue.

And now that Benjamin Netanyahu has alerted the American people to Obama’s unAmerican appeasement to Tehran, Obama is going to bypass Congress — the voice of the American people — in favor of a dubious U.N. ratification.

On that grim note let’s tale a look at our latest collection of stills that will, hopefully, brighten our mood.

Friday Photos: Leviticus 25:10 Edition

February 13, 2015 by Robert J. Avrech 17 Comments

Rita Hayworth and a very patriotic Lincoln Continental.

Every week brings news that is at once shocking, and yet painfully familiar as Islamist barbarians rampage across the globe inflicting untold tortures and outrages. And yet, at the same time, Obama and the lapdog media insist that Islam is being misunderstood. You see, Islamist monsters are really “extremist zealots.”

Question: Why do millions of Muslims seem to misunderstand Islam?

This simple question is never posed because the very question concedes that a central core of Islam is piously devoted to violent, racist, Jew-hating, Christian-hating, theocratic fascism.

Obama and the Democrats prefer to demonize Benjamin Netanyahu, the democratically elected of the Jewish State.

Obamacare colonized the very flesh of the American people. Now, Obama, and the Democrat-Socialists through the FCC, are about to nationalize the Internet.

Big Brother is here.

But ignore Big Brother. You are getting, ahem, free stuff.

A few photos to help us get through the next few days.

Obama’s Secret Internet Power Grab Mimics Obamacare

February 12, 2015 by Robert J. Avrech 12 Comments

The left is insatiable in their thirst to centralize power through levers of the bureaucratic state.

It’s not enough for Obama and the left to destroy the world’s greatest health care system. Now, they are moving secretly to control, and heavily tax, the Internet.

There is nothing wrong with the Internet that suddenly needs fixing or regulating. There is no Internet crisis that demands government intervention. The left manufactures crisis after crisis in order to advance their radical ideology.

In fact, the Internet is an unqualified success, a boost to freedom and the free market.

Take a look at repressive regimes all across the globe. They use the machinery of government to regulate and control the Internet.

Three of the five FCC Commissioners are Democrat operatives, thus Obama’s internet power grab is almost sure to pass without the American people—much less Congress—ever getting the opportunity to read and debate the 332 pages of regulations the FCC will use to control the Internet.

In fact, the Democrat majority in the FCC refuse to release the 332 pages of Orwellian regulations to public scrutiny.

They will pass it before you get to see what’s in it.

This is how tyranny creeps into the fabric of a Republic.

A Republican member of the FCC, Ajit Pai, is so alarmed by Obama’s power grab via the FCC that he is stepping forward as a whistle blower.

On Wednesday’s “Mark Levin Show” Pai said that proposed Internet regulation “mimics Obamacare” both in process and substance, and was “adopting a solution that won’t work to a problem that doesn’t exist using legal authority we don’t have,” and would lead to “billions of dollars in new taxes”.

It comes down to this:

If you like your Internet, you can keep your Internet.

If you like your provider, you can keep your provider.

Sound familiar?