“I believe it’s a winner.” – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
In my March 25, 2014 posting, Kramer’s musings, I wrote about House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s press conference during which she insisted ObamaCare be referred to as the Affordable Care Act. She went on to predict it will be a winning issue for her party in congressional elections this year.… read more
That was HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ clear, concise answer given with no hesitation in response to Rep. Kevin Brady’s (R-TX) question whether the Affordable Care Act individual mandate and enrollment period would be extended beyond the stated March 31, 2014 deadline.
That was just 15 days ago when she appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee. … read more
Beware the advice of the opposition
“I think the Republicans are wasting their time using that (ObamaCare) as their electoral issue, and they will find that out.” – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
If the Democrats really believed that, do you think they would be telling us? It reminds me of how they tell us if we agree to amnesty, Hispanics will vote Republican.
… and speaking of Nancy Pelosi
Did you hear how she corrected a reporter who asked her a question about ObamaCare? “It’s called the Affordable Care Act,” she said, and then repeated, “It’s the Affordable Care Act.” Then she continued by saying, “That’s a case we have to make. We’re grown ups.” And when the reporter reminded her that even the president calls it ObamaCare, she told him, “I tell them the same thing I told you.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi reminds reporter that it is the Affordable Care Act, not ObamaCare. (Evan Vucci AP photo)
As if that wasn’t clear enough in her mind, she went on as if she were a kindergarten teacher to say, “Affordable. Affordable. There’s a reason. Affordable. Affordable. Affordable. Affordable. Affordable.” All this to make her point that Republicans refuse to use the official name because they know it is more affordable. Nearly everyone knows that for the majority of people, the Affordable Care Act is not more affordable. Premiums are up and deductibles are up. Republicans should continue to use “ObamaCare” to hang this miserable program on its namesake. Continue reading
“All issues are women’s issues. We are half of this great nation,” said Carly Fiorina to enthusiastic applause and a standing ovation at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference.
Carly Fiorina (wired.com. photo)
“I accept and respect that not all women agree with me, “ she said, “what I’m not prepared to accept is that we are waging war on women, just because we know that abortion at five months is inhumane to both mother and child.”
For Democrats to say Republicans are waging a war on women just because they want to restrict access to abortion and birth control is an insult to women, Fiorina added.
This piece isn’t about Fiorina, but it’s interesting to make note of her impressive career, especially the fact that she became the first female officer of AT&T’s male-dominated Network Systems Division at 35 years of age.
While I imagine she is no longer concerned about gender disadvantages in her own future, she is surely aware that those disadvantages still persist for other women, and often speaks of the role of women from the conservative viewpoint. In her view, “it is liberals who believe they know what is good for you.”
Democrats focus on abortion and birth control to distract from the real issues facing women where they have utterly failed – jobs, pay, the economy and, yes, health insurance. Continue reading
Rep. Dave Jolly (FoxNews.com photo)
NEWS THEY THOUGHT YOU DIDN’T NEED – The three so-called main stream television networks – ABC, CBS and NBC – did not carry the results of the election in Florida’s 13th District, where Republican Dave Jolly defeated Democrat Alex Sink. The special election was held to fill the seat long held by Republican Bill Young. The election is said to be a sign of voter discontent over ObamaCare and portends a change in the public’s political mood as the mid-term elections approach.
THERE SHE GOES AGAIN – Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, the Democrat representative of Texas’ 18th District gave us another history lesson. “Maybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority, the Republicans, my chairman and others, for giving us an opportunity to have a deliberative constitutional discussion that reinforces the sanctity of this nation and how well it is that we have lasted some 400 years, operating under a constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not, “she said in a floor speech. She was only 173 years off. Our constitution was adopted on Sept. 17, 1787.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (DailyCaller.com photo)
DURING A BRIEFING on the Mars Pathfinder at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory not only ago, Representative Lee asked if the vehicle would be able to send back photos of where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted the American flag. I’m not sure how they politely told her that took place on the Moon.
IN JULY 2003 Representative Lee criticized the meteorologist community for the exclusion of African-American names for storms and hurricanes. You just can’t make this stuff up. Continue reading
It’s no surprise that the majority of Americans see the president and his administration failing to improve the economy. ObamaCare and mounting regulations on business continue to paint a dismal picture for the country.
In a just released Fox News poll among 1002 registered voters conducted by a bipartisan research organization between March 2-4, fewer than four voters in ten – 38 percent – approve of President Obama’s performance. … read more
By now most have heard the “2013 Lie of the Year” as selected by PolitiFacts: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” President Obama said it some 20 times beginning in 2008, knowing it was a lie.
Now it has been revealed in the release of the first batch of the “Clinton Papers” that advisors to President Clinton were concerned about including a similar line about HillaryCare in the 1994 State-of-the-Union address.
President Clinton and Todd Stern (politico.com photo)
Todd Stern, a former top aide to President Clinton, warned of making such a statement asking, “can we get away with it?” and adding, “I am very worried about getting skewered for over-promising here on something we know we won’t deliver.”
Here’s the excerpt by Stern from the “Clinton Papers”:
“We have a line on p. 10 that says ‘You’ll pick the health plan and the doctor of your choice.’ This sounds great and I know that it’s just what people want to hear. But can we get away with it? Isn’t the whole thrust of our health plan to steer people toward cheaper, HMO-style providers? It’s one thing to say we’ll preserve your option to pick the doctor of your choice (recognizing that this will cost more), it’s quite another to appear to promise the nation that everyone will get to pick the doctor of his or her choice. And that’s exactly what this line does. I am worried about getting skewered for over-promising here on something we know full well we won’t deliver.
President Clinton went on to say, “You’ll pick the health plan and the doctor of your choice” in his address. Continue reading
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Did you see the news clip of the town hall held in Minnesota last week? As three Democrats, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Rep. Tim Walz and Rep. Collin Peterson were responding to constituent questions during an Agriculture Symposium, someone had the courage to ask a pointed non-Ag question.
“I thought the Affordable Care Act would save $2,500 per family,” a local resident asked, “what happened?”
Before Peterson could grab the microphone to pass it to Klobuchar, those in attendance broke out in uproarious laughter as Peterson said, “I voted ‘no’ so I’ll let these guys handle that.”
Walz tried to recover with feeble excuses for the troubles being encountered with ObamaCare, but made the mistake of commenting on health insurance in this country before ObamaCare saying, “Don’t pretend there was some type of safe harbor before this where everything was just peachy keen.” How uniformed.
Nancy Pelosi (YouTube.com)
In a letter to the editor I wrote to The Boerne (TX) Star in 2010, I cited a 2009 Gallup poll in which 87 percent expressed satisfaction with their health care and 81 percent were satisfied with the cost. There was no need for a comprehensive health insurance bill.
But, back to the uproarious laughter of the town hall crowd, because that’s the reason for this posting. When are we going to stop treating everything happening to this country as a laughing matter? Where’s the outrage? Continue reading
It’s the law of the land. It’s here to stay. Get over it.
How many times have we heard or read statements like this by someone in the Obama administration or one of those anchors on MSNBC defending ObamaCare?
Even the president has said so in his own words, yet he continues to rewrite ObamaCare provisions without the approval of Congress. Yesterday he made a political decision to delay the law’s employer mandate until 2016; his 27th modification to the act. The law is whatever he says it is. Continue reading
Douglas Elmendorf (Examiner.com photo)
ObamaCare creates a disincentive for people at the lower end of the economic ladder to work,” said Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas W. Elmendorf during a House hearing this week. “The result of this is it will be harder for people to climb the economic ladder into the middle class,” he added.
Elmendorf had earlier told the House committee members that ObamaCare will cause some 2.3 million people to reduce their work hours while receiving subsidized health insurance. Continue reading