Reflections From a Murky Pond

As Americans have been forced to hear time and time again, the raison d’être for Obama’s one and only “achievement” as POTUS, ObamaCare was to provide health insurance to the uninsured and supposedly uninsurable. It was billed by Obama, the Liberals in Congress, and a complicit MSM as a strongly needed and desired reconstruction of the entire American health insurance industry.

The problem is that Obama, Liberals in Congress, the MSM, and the mis-educated Leftists throughout America were utterly, completely, and woefully wrong when push came to shove and ObamaCare was translated from fantastic theory to gritty reality.

The majority of the uninsured never wanted ObamaCare and, after dealing with the irresponsible failure that was its roll-out, even fewer of the uninsured say that they plan to use it.

• Only 22% of uninsured people in America have already or intend to purchase health insurance via the ObamaCare exchanges. This is a 50% drop from earlier polls in which a meager 44% said that they would do so.
• Only 30% of uninsured people in America are even familiar with the ObamaCare exchanges.

The poll’s results must be troubling for the Obama Regime and the Liberals, stating bluntly that uninsured Americans aren’t responding positively to the key part of Obamacare that’s critical to its success. This means that the upheaval of America’s health insurance and medical industries was not only unneeded but will only grow worse as the already high premiums of ObamaCare-approved insurance plans skyrocket even higher due to only the most needy and desperate, i.e., the most expensive to insure, being willing to use them.

Ill-thought and unwanted; that is what ObamaCare is and what it will remembered as by history.

Anything and everything involving Hollywood “needs” a reboot. Without rebooting existing franchises there’d be few new movies because there’s apparently a dearth of creativity and/or cognitive ability on the Left Coast. The one quasi-exception to this is Disney’s animated movies. Since most are based on folk tales and fairy tales they have a more legitimate reason for relying upon rebooting existing properties.

Fortunately for Disney, Eric Proctor has provided the perfect inspiration for rebooting some of the Disney Princesses.

Ridicule is not only an effective weapon, it is often the only weapon that can be used against dangerous, inane foolishness.

Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

— Saul Alinsky
Rule 5 – Rules For Radicals, 1971

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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them.

— Thomas Jefferson
July 30, 1816

Some surprising citizens of America understand this and are not afraid to make use ridicule in the attempt effect change and restore hope for the rebirth of America and the cessation of certain forms of destructive stupidity.

During the opening segment of the 2013 Country Music Awards (CMA), hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley did a hilarious skit and song about the abysmal but expected failure that has been the ObamaCare quasi-launch.

As you might guess, American viewers were laughing out loud at this lampooning of Obama’s signature and singular “achievement.” Contriwise, Liberals and their minority tenants – the few of the latter that actually watch the CMA show – were outraged.

The outrage is unsurprising. After all, this was a pair of country music performers – a quintessentially White and American musical genre – performing for an audience that is overwhelmingly equally White and American, is going to be declared as racists, knuckle-draggers, and with other epithets for lampooning any of Obama’s many failures.

Of course, the Liberals’ and minorities’ outraged response is just more evidence that ridicule is both effective and the best and only non-lethal weapon against Obama, his destructive foolishness, and his followers. 😉

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BONUS: If you’re like Brad Paisley and myself until quite recently and don’t know what twerking is, this is twerking:

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I’ve got to say that, while I don’t care for music in the least, I do like the moves these women are doing. Much like traditional – not Cabaret! – belly dancing, it’s a very pleasant mixture of eroticism and extreme precision and muscle control.

Supposedly ObamaCare was going to bring health insurance to the unwashed masses and go a long way towards fixing the economic issues linked to the high costs of medical care that Americans subject themselves to. It was, according to Obama and the Liberals who forced through Congress, going to insure the uninsured and lower most everyone’s health insurance premiums while allowing everyone who liked the current coverage to keep it.

So far reality has cruelly exposed all of this as lies.

In fact, so far and with ObamaCare still in its infancy, it really looks like every single bit of the GOP’s “fear mongering” has turned out to cold, cruel, hard facts, facts that will likely grow more dire as other parts of the misbegotten ObamaCare chimera are brought online.

The New 30%

By far the worst outcome and the biggest lie was that Americans could keep their health insurance. It is estimated that 93 million Americans – approximately 30% of the nation’s population – will lose their current coverage due to ObamaCare and either be forced onto the much more expensive and less useful health insurance exchanges or half to pay significantly more for their new, ObamaCare-approved employer-subsidized plans (Which are now considered federally taxable income).

Obama’s various mouthpieces might try to claim that the only people being negatively effected are those Americans already buying health insurance on their own – even that’s still almost 16 million people! – but that’s just another lie told in support of their earlier, bigger lie.

The government of United States of America seems to love creating and applying acronyms. What few people realize is that “Government” itself is an acronym.

Gang
Of
Very
Evil
Robbers
Nefariously
Mismanaging
Extracted
Never-ending
Taxes

Bill Clinton once infamously said, “You can’t say you love your country and hate your government.” Not only do I and every other American patriot disagree with Slick Willie’s little pearl of Statist “wisdom,” but I will go so far as to say that, if one truly does love America one must hate the government as it now stands…and, no matter how the truth is obfuscated by acronyms and jargon, that fact is clear and easy to see.

Of course, one must always remember that a criminal is nothing more or less than an individual with destructive and antisocial propensities who cannot raise sufficient capital to mount a successful political campaign. 😉