WATCH Obamacare Champion Lose Her Insurance!

[Evil Yoda]

Nov 14, 2013 9:40:12 GMT -5 @baldeagle said:

Not so Yoda, It was your "schadengasm" that I called sick.

Yes, I know. You made that point awhile back. I responded: it's a fair cop. I'm not perfect; if I'm a little gleeful at her pain it's because the thing she advocated for has and will in the future inflict pain on me. And more importantly, on an economy that already looks like Foreman after Ali got through with him.

[douger]

Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Dakota official: “I don’t know what to advise anyone seeking health insurance”

Good, solid advice from an industry insider. Excellent job, Barry.

As of right now I would advise we do nothing in terms of advise or enrolling in either a Qualified Health Insurance (metallic) plan or a non-grandfathered plan. That would include AffordaBlue PLUS. Frankly we don’t know the full implications of what the president has said. We are certain the ND Department of Insurance will also have something to add to the conversation. So simply put, I don’t know what to advise anyone seeking health insurance as of this minute.

[douger]

Shadengasm!

First, the obligatory caveats. It is no laughing matter that millions of Americans’ lives have been thrown into anxious chaos as they lose their health insurance, their doctors, their money, or all three. Nor is it particularly amusing to think of the incredible waste of time and tax dollars that has gone into Obamacare’s construction. And the still-unfolding violence that this misbegotten legislation will visit on the economy and our liberties is not funny either. This very magazine has been downright funereal about the brazen and unconstitutional seizure of one-sixth of the economy, and rightly so.

...but then again...

Alas, the English language is not well equipped to capture the sensation I’m describing, which is why we must all thank the Germans for giving us the term “schadenfreude” — the joy one feels at the misfortune or failure of others. The primary wellspring of schadenfreude can be attributed to Barack Obama’s hubris — another immigrant word, which means a sinful pride or arrogance that causes someone to believe he has a godlike immunity to the rules of life.

The hubris of our ocean-commanding commander-in-chief surely isn’t news to readers of this website. He’s said that he’s smarter and better than everyone who works for him. His wife informed us that he has “brought us out of the dark and into the light” and that he would fix our broken souls. The man defined sin itself as “being out of alignment with my values.” We may be the ones we’ve been waiting for, but at the same time, everyone has been waiting for him. Or as he put it in 2007, “Every place is Barack Obama country once Barack Obama’s been there.”

In every tale of hubris, the transgressor is eventually slapped across the face with the semi-frozen flounder of reality. The Greeks had a god, Nemesis, whose scythe performed the same function. It was Nemesis who lured Narcissus to the pool where he fell in love with his own reflection. Admittedly, most of Nemesis’s walk-on roles were in the Greek tragedies, but in the modern era, comeuppance-for-the-arrogant is more often found in comedies, and the “rollout” of Healthcare.gov has been downright hilarious. (I put quotation marks around “rollout” because the term implies actual rolling, and this thing has moved as gracefully as a grand piano in a peat bog.) But, as the president says, “it’s more than a website.” Indeed, the whole law is coming apart like a papier-mâché yacht in rough waters. The media feeding frenzy it has triggered from so many journalistic lapdogs has been both so funny and so poignant, it reminds me of nothing more than the climax of the classic film Air Bud, when the lovable basketball-playing golden retriever finally decides to maul the dog-abusing clown.

[Evil Yoda]

I know some people who aren't laughing. The vulnerable Democrats whose careers are heading for the wood chipper, and the survivors who will be relegated to the Minority role. Right down to losing the best offices. They deserve it.

And the millions who aren't laughing because they're scared? Some deserve it - if they voted for Obama - and some don't. But they're just as f'ed either way.

[douger]

To the millions of Americans whose lives have been thrown in turmoil, facing the loss of their insurance coverage and that the replacement plans will cost two or three times more, the president feels your pain.

Or not.

“There is no doubt that our failure to roll out the ACA smoothly has put a burden on Democrats, whether they're running or not, because they stood up and supported this effort through thick and thin,” Obama said Thursday, announcing that insurers could allow customers to stay on cancelled plans for another year.

A man who has been campaigning his entire life just can't stop on a dime, can he? At least he didn't blame George Bush.

[douger]

Thank you President Obama for protecting us from Obamacare!

[redleg]

Nov 14, 2013 1:59:06 GMT -5 Moses said:

Nov 13, 2013 22:14:15 GMT -5 @paradigm said:

I doubt if kevin/jeb/moses has any concept of the origination, beliefs and mission of the John Birch Society, save for what he read on Wikipedia.

Just sayin'...

I doubt you know one iota about commies or socialists either. you guys have been ultra paranoid about them forever, don't forget most people thought McCarthy a joke yet you guys can't let it go.
Commies! Marxists! Reds! Pinkos!

Good lord lose it already

And "most people" were absolutely wrong when it came to McCarthy. As was proven when the USSR fell.

[redleg]

And the real problem is that the low intelligence voter will do exactly what The Puppet intends: blame the insurance companies for not giving them the illegal policies that they had before Puppettax killed them. After all, The Puppet has yet to be President, as far as the LIV is concerned. He knows nothing, has done nothing, and is responsible for nothing.

[Evil Yoda]

Nov 15, 2013 13:00:54 GMT -5 redleg said:

And "most people" were absolutely wrong when it came to McCarthy. As was proven when the USSR fell.

The point wasn't whether he was right or not. The point was always that his methods were deeply, fatally un-American. THAT is why he fell, and why he deserved to fall. The current and previous presidents should have fallen for the same reason.

[drjohnnyfever]

There's a certain amount of poetic justice in wagner losing her insurance plan.

There is absolutely no justice in this woman losing hers:

"Woman With Cancer Dropped from Insurance Due to Obamacare"

www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/woman-cancer-dropped-insurance-due-obamacare_767085.html

[howarewegoingtopay]

Nov 15, 2013 15:50:27 GMT -5 Evil Yoda said:

Nov 15, 2013 13:00:54 GMT -5 redleg said:

And "most people" were absolutely wrong when it came to McCarthy. As was proven when the USSR fell.

The point wasn't whether he was right or not. The point was always that his methods were deeply, fatally un-American. THAT is why he fell, and why he deserved to fall. The current and previous presidents should have fallen for the same reason.

Well not really true, he went after commies in government, and was harassed to death, and there really were commies in government. Of course he might not have had that 203 name list due to him being an over the top politician, but he didn't cross any un-american lines that I know of, do you have an example of his methods being un-american?

[Ravenchamp]

Nov 14, 2013 17:53:43 GMT -5 douger said:

Thank you President Obama for protecting us from Obamacare!

LMAO!!  I like it

[Evil Yoda]

Nov 15, 2013 16:32:10 GMT -5 howarewegoingtopay said:

Well not really true, he went after commies in government, and was harassed to death, and there really were commies in government.

He went after communists a lot of places, and a lot of people (see: the Hollywood Blacklist) didn't work for years. He destroyed the careers of people who'd flirted with the communist party years earlier and abandoned it. He destroyed the careers of people whose only "crime" was that they'd refused to name names when he demanded it. EVERYTHING about his persecutions was un-American; the only sad part of his story was that his witch hunts lasted as long as they did. A black eye on American history. No real American mourned his death.

I will never understand people who seek to rehabilitate this vile man.

[douger]

Have I ever mentioned that Sheila Jackson Lee is a drooling, blithering idiot?

Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat, told National Review Online today that instead of sending out cancellation letters, insurance companies should have told their customers that their coverage was about to get better.

She said she wrote an amendment before the president’s announcement that would require insurance companies to “tell the truth.”

“The cancellation notice was not the truth,” she says. “It should have been: ’We intend to or expect to modify your insurance.’”

She adds that cancellation is what happens “when you don’t pay your premium, or something has happened in the bad old days,” but that’s not what’s happening here.

“A cancellation notice was the inappropriate document to send without notice,” she continues. “All they had to do is that, ‘This is a notice to say that we’re going to improve your insurance, not, in essence, eliminate your insurance.’”

[drjohnnyfever]

Nov 15, 2013 17:26:12 GMT -5 Evil Yoda said:

Nov 15, 2013 16:32:10 GMT -5 howarewegoingtopay said:

Well not really true, he went after commies in government, and was harassed to death, and there really were commies in government.

He went after communists a lot of places, and a lot of people (see: the Hollywood Blacklist) didn't work for years. He destroyed the careers of people who'd flirted with the communist party years earlier and abandoned it. He destroyed the careers of people whose only "crime" was that they'd refused to name names when he demanded it. EVERYTHING about his persecutions was un-American; the only sad part of his story was that his witch hunts lasted as long as they did. A black eye on American history. No real American mourned his death.

I will never understand people who seek to rehabilitate this vile man.

Except john and bobby kennedy...and a few more.

[howarewegoingtopay]

Nov 15, 2013 17:26:12 GMT -5 Evil Yoda said:

Nov 15, 2013 16:32:10 GMT -5 howarewegoingtopay said:

Well not really true, he went after commies in government, and was harassed to death, and there really were commies in government.

He went after communists a lot of places, and a lot of people (see: the Hollywood Blacklist) didn't work for years. He destroyed the careers of people who'd flirted with the communist party years earlier and abandoned it. He destroyed the careers of people whose only "crime" was that they'd refused to name names when he demanded it. EVERYTHING about his persecutions was un-American; the only sad part of his story was that his witch hunts lasted as long as they did. A black eye on American history. No real American mourned his death.

I will never understand people who seek to rehabilitate this vile man.

You should do some homework, the house committee went after the hollywood crowd, McCarthy was in the senate.
The people who firted with the commies all got great jobs from lefties after they lost their previous ones, probably made way more money.
Name someone's career who was ruined by McCarthy. I don't think you can, you are talking about the house committees again.
Sounds like you are buying leftie propaganda to me.

[redleg]

Nov 15, 2013 15:50:27 GMT -5 Evil Yoda said:

Nov 15, 2013 13:00:54 GMT -5 redleg said:

And "most people" were absolutely wrong when it came to McCarthy. As was proven when the USSR fell.

The point wasn't whether he was right or not. The point was always that his methods were deeply, fatally un-American. THAT is why he fell, and why he deserved to fall. The current and previous presidents should have fallen for the same reason.

Only towards the end. In the beginning, his methods were no worse than those of the police looking for a robbery suspect. The problem was that the Communists were using Alynski type tactics, even before Alynski wrote them down.

[redleg]

Nov 15, 2013 17:26:12 GMT -5 Evil Yoda said:

Nov 15, 2013 16:32:10 GMT -5 howarewegoingtopay said:

Well not really true, he went after commies in government, and was harassed to death, and there really were commies in government.

He went after communists a lot of places, and a lot of people (see: the Hollywood Blacklist) didn't work for years. He destroyed the careers of people who'd flirted with the communist party years earlier and abandoned it. He destroyed the careers of people whose only "crime" was that they'd refused to name names when he demanded it. EVERYTHING about his persecutions was un-American; the only sad part of his story was that his witch hunts lasted as long as they did. A black eye on American history. No real American mourned his death.

I will never understand people who seek to rehabilitate this vile man.

You mean like this?
www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2F2013%2F11%2F11%2Ffox-reporter-faces-jail-for-reporting-on-murder-case%2F&ei=CrGGUo3ODuaQ2QXl74GgAQ&usg=AFQjCNHeKEvg3NxIs93JlngVlgEi7HxrSA

Or this

www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2013%2F10%2F25%2Fexclusive-feds-confiscate-investigative-reporters-confidential-files-during-raid%2F&ei=NrGGUv7YDqrY2gXP4YHYAQ&usg=AFQjCNEFpRVEku8vQ1yiCFPH8V-OvrbAQg

Or maybe this

www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjohnrlott.blogspot.com%2F2013%2F06%2Firs-leaks-names-of-conservative-donors.html&ei=BLKGUqq0BMXX2AXploGYDw&usg=AFQjCNE2XuykDLgbP1exhSopMlxPXWjXqQ

[Moses]

Nov 15, 2013 18:38:09 GMT -5 redleg said:

Nov 15, 2013 15:50:27 GMT -5 Evil Yoda said:

The point wasn't whether he was right or not. The point was always that his methods were deeply, fatally un-American. THAT is why he fell, and why he deserved to fall. The current and previous presidents should have fallen for the same reason.

Only towards the end. In the beginning, his methods were no worse than those of the police looking for a robbery suspect. The problem was that the Communists were using Alynski type tactics, even before Alynski wrote them down.

Holy cow

[Moses]

Nov 15, 2013 13:07:39 GMT -5 redleg said:

And the real problem is that the low intelligence voter will do exactly what The Puppet intends: blame the insurance companies for not giving them the illegal policies that they had before Puppettax killed them. After all, The Puppet has yet to be President, as far as the LIV is concerned. He knows nothing, has done nothing, and is responsible for nothing.

I'm a real bad poster and stuff!

[Moses]

Nov 15, 2013 13:00:54 GMT -5 redleg said:

Nov 14, 2013 1:59:06 GMT -5 Moses said:

I doubt you know one iota about commies or socialists either. you guys have been ultra paranoid about them forever, don't forget most people thought McCarthy a joke yet you guys can't let it go.
Commies! Marxists! Reds! Pinkos!

Good lord lose it already

And "most people" were absolutely wrong when it came to McCarthy. As was proven when the USSR fell.

The parenthesis make your quote dead on, dude!
How's Our good friend COMMUNIST CHINA these days? Lol