Reflections From a Murky Pond

The ironically – or Orwellian – name Affordable Care Act (ACA) aka Obama is and was from its inception a failure- a fail of care and a failure on the part of Democrats to care about the consequences of their actions. Hellfire and their damnation! It was a failure on their part to even read the omnibus bill before forcing it into law and upon the American people.

It Just Needs A Few Minor Tune-Ups

This failure resulted in a new “healthcare system” that was broken, that needed more than minor fixes to work even so well as what America had before – despite all of Obama’s tap-dancing and the Congressional Democrats’ dissembling. ObamaCare needed to be sent to the proverbial scrapyard and, in theory, replaced with something that could actually work in America.

Over the course of the intervening seven painful years, it seemed that Congressional Republicans understood this.

There! Better Than New

Sadly for we, the People, seeming isn’t being. What the GOP seems to think are fixes for ObamaCare are, in my opinion, merely a hodgepodge of removals of various components and restrictions within the ACA with – once again – a failure to care about the consequences of their actions. No, instead of the promised “Repeal and Replace,” the American Health Care Act (AHCA) aka RyanCare is little more than a shade tree patch job of ObamaCare and a bad one at that.

Tags: ACA | America | Congress | Cowardice | Failure | GOP | Health | Healthcare | Insurance | ObamaCare | Paul Ryan | Politics | Stupidity

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Got It! Now What?

With incoming President Trump, the House having maintained it GOP majority 247:194, and the Senate being 52:48 weighted towards the Republicans the long chase to repeal the dysfunctional morass that is ObamaCare is over. We won and our Republican Representatives and Senators have taken the first steps towards repealing the ACA. But now what? In the last year Congress has moved beyond a blind call to repeal it to a somewhat more pragmatic drive to repeal and replace the ACA aka ObamaCare with something more in keeping with American culture and ideals, more sustainable moving forward, and less more in touch with the realities on the ground. But what will that look like and have any members of Congress actually put the work in to figure it out?

In some ways and in a very real sense victory is the greatest threat to success and any and all attempts to repeal and replace ObamaCare, especially when simultaneously dealing with the Lamestream Enemedia, are exemplars of this. Now that there is no real reason not to do so, Congress and, to a lesser extent, President Trump are going to actually have to do what they swore to do…and do it in a way that we, the People can support or, at least tolerate…and do it under the scrutiny and in the face of “journalists” who will do anything and say anything to spin such actions in the most negative light possible.

Frankly, I don’t envy them in the slightest. I do, however, hope but am not certain of their having been confident enough in the rebirth, renewal, and restoration of America that they actual believed they’d be in this position and that their calls for repealing – and now replacing – ObamaCare were somewhat more than a mindless chant to gain votes.

Tags: ACA | America | Caution | Congress | GOP | Health | Health Insurance | Healthcare | Medicine | Politics | Republicans | Trump | Victory

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 15th, 2017 at 6:41 am and is filed under 2016 Election, Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Swamp Things Seek Protection

One of the key points or, at least, taglines of President-Elect Trump’s campaign was draining the swamp that is our nation’s bloated, often corrupted, and self-serving at the People’s expense federal government. So what was the first order of business after leadership elections and other logistic and procedural matters for the incoming 115th Congress? It was to attempt to bring the currently semi-independent Office of Congressional Ethics under the direct oversight and control of the House of Representative!

How very EPA-like of them. Nothing quite like attempting to have your swamp declared a federally protected wetland. 😆

Of course, they quickly reversed course – possibly actually realizing the sea change that President Trump represents. He wasted no time and spared little thought to their feelings when he heard of it.

With all that Congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as unfair as it … may be, their number one act and priority. Focus on tax reform, healthcare and so many other things of far greater importance!

— President-Elect Donald Trump

Not that I’m complaining, but it’s bizarre to me how much power President-Elect Trump wields. I will say though that this was a great use of that power and shows that Trump isn’t likely to be a “Republican” POTUS.

Tags: 2016 Elections | America | Congress | Corruption | Ethics Comittee | GOP | Politics | Stupidity | Trump | US House of Representatives

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 15th, 2017 at 5:29 am and is filed under 2016 Election, Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

On of Hillary’s more recent attempts at a campaign slogan and apparently a book is “We’re Stronger Together.” It begs the question, however, of stronger against what or whom.

We’re Stronger Together

Actually, it’s not much of a question. In a reprise of Obama’s variations on a them of “We Can’t Let Them Win,” the enemy is the American people, especially: Whites, men, Christians, and heterosexuals. Most especially, it’s the GOP and anyone who might vote for members of the Republican Party. We are, after all, what Hillary, her supporters, and those they pander to and enable consider deplorables.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, September 25th, 2016 at 7:16 am and is filed under 2016 Election. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

It’s seems hard to believe that when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State that she could determine which of her emails were classified. Frankly, most of us probably thought and still think that she just said, “What difference does it make.”

However, it could just be that Hillary has issues with threat assessment and identifying terrorists…

Why Hillary Can’t Tell If Her Emails Were Classified

If the bitch can’t properly identify a terrorist or other threats to the nation, it’d be quite hard for her to identify which emails contained material that was classified.

In Hillary’s defense, however, as a presidential candidate her issues with identifying terrorists is a huge step up from the Obama Regime, it’s sycophants and cronies, and the Liberals, Progressives, and their ghetto sharecroppers who make up the Regime’s faithful. Each and every one of them would have instantly pointed to the picture on the right as being the terrorist, identifying the one on the left as a poor, oppressed freedom fighter who needs and is entitled to their material aid and comfort.

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