Filed under: Democrat Corruption | Tags: Barack Obama, King v Burwell, Obamacare
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For the second time during his presidency, Barack Obama has ventured to instruct the Supreme Court on what he conceives to be their duty. As John Steele Gordon writes in a piece titled “Obama Instructs the Court” at Contentions:
Presidents nearly always come with fully-functional egos. After all, climbing the greasy pole of American politics requires rich reserves of self-confidence. And self-confidence is equally necessary to being an effective president. No one wants a Captain Queeg in the White House. But Barack Obama combines his egocentricity with an almost boundless intellectual arrogance. It is one of the primary reasons his presidency has been so devoid of successes and so filled with failures and disasters. Only Woodrow Wilson comes anywhere close to being in the same league. And look what happened to him.
Noemie Emery points out in the Washington Examiner that men like Obama and Wilson cannot learn from their mistakes because they cannot admit or even conceive that they can make mistakes.
The conventional view of what has gone wrong — that Obama lacked experience, and that first-term senators should be viewed with suspicion — is undercut by the fact that he has had six years of experience, and failed to learn from it. At home and abroad, Obama makes mistakes over and over, with the same result, and takes nothing from them. He disses his friends, placates aggressors and seems surprised that aggressors advance and whole regions catch fire.
His arrogance prevents him from even listening to anyone who disagrees with him.
Yesterday, at a news conference in Germany, Obama criticized the Supreme Court for a decision that it has not yet made. Essentially, he is instructing a co-equal branch of government on its duty.
The New York Times says simply that Obama is making his case for Health Law, With his usual charm he condemns opponents of his signature health care law as “cynical” partisans seeking to deprive Americans of a benefit that has become an integral part of the country’s social safety net. “This is now part of the fabric of how we care for one another — this is health care in America ” he said in a speech to the Catholic Health Association, who wrote a brief asking the high court to uphold it.”It seems so cynical to want to take health care away from millions of people.”
Their lives are better, Mr. Obama said, “Americans support this new reality.” This “new reality” has caused many people to lose the health care they liked. Families are threatened with double digit increases, and huge deductibles before their new insurance pays for anything. The Affordable Care Act does not give people health care, it gives them insurance, and not very good insurance at that. Costs are skyrocketing. Patients cannot find doctors and are going to the emergency room instead.The Court is expected to rule before the end of the month on King v. Burwell.
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“Americans support this new reality.”
Not hardly. The PPACA has never (and that would be “never”) enjoyed the support of a majority of people in this country, and the more people are exposed to its workings, the less they like it. Oh, there are those who support the IDEA (“this is a step in the right direction” they say), but contact with the REALITY of Obamacare has some thinking that the execution was flawed (“I have to pay WHAT?”).
What Obama and the left are intent on glossing over is the simple fact that health CARE (which the PPACA has little/nothing to do with) has always been available to everyone. Hospitals and doctors have always handled people who have needed health care regardless of ability to pay. What the PPACA is about is INSURANCE and CONTROL. It was never about lowering the costs (if the Supreme Court decides against the government in Burwell, that’s where that lie gets exposed; the subsidies weren’t about making it affordable, it was about control).
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Comment by Lon Mead June 11, 2015 @ 2:31 amExactly!
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Comment by The Elephant's Child June 11, 2015 @ 11:36 am