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Cool as a cucumber, or buried like a turnip?

In response to ObamaCrash Incompetence Blamed On Obama White House’s ‘No Drama Culture’ : Granted, this is a media sycophant trying to grapple with her shattered Lightworker illusions, not the Administration itself making this claim… but it’s interesting to recall

Did Obama head off a Democrat stampede?

In response to Obama Takes Refuge in an Old Political Comfort Zone to Feed Off the Friendly Vibes: I heard estimates that up to 50 Democrats in the House might have been willing to bolt and vote for the Upton

Another ObamaCare talking point is dead and gone

In response to Laszewski on Kelly File: ‘This just makes everything so much worse’: Bob Laszewski must have one of the cleanest backgrounds in America, because he’s going to be investigated by every federal agency by the time he’s done

The greatest political reversal in memory

In response to So, When Does Ted Cruz Get His Apology?: Was it really only a few weeks ago that Republicans were supposed to be in disarray over the shutdown, tearing themselves to shreds in gladiatorial combat – half-naked Tea

Obama threatens to veto the measure he just called for

Earlier today, I expressed some doubts that Republicans would be able to pull off the political bank shot of introducing a “keep your plan” bill that would have unpleasant consequences for the already ObamaCare-ravaged insurance industry, and would get their

The one thing Obama wasn't lying about today

In response to Obama: There Were ‘A Whole Bunch Of Folks Up In Congress’ Who Made The Same Promise: Pretty much the only honest statement Barack Obama has made about his “signature achievement” is that a whole bunch of Democrats

Democrats want GOP fingerprints on ObamaCare

In response to The GOP Needs To Unite Behind Full Repeal – There Is No ‘Fixing’ ObamaCare : No question that Democrats are desperate to get Republican fingerprints on ObamaCare.  In fact, I notice they’ve gotten curiously quiet with their

'Keep your plan' bills are the beginning of repeal

In response to Conservatives Were Wildly Optimistic About California’s Obamacare Exchange: Those million dead insurance plans in California were probably a big factor in Senator Dianne Feinstein’s decision to hit the ObamaCare lifeboats.  She didn’t wait long after she got

More demeaning ObamaCare advertising

If you thought the infamous “brosurance” ad for ObamaCare was pathetic and insulting, you ain’t seen nothing yet.  I see John Nolte’s got images of the latest targeted advertising posted.  It’s mind-boggling.  The stunned reaction I’ve seen on social media

Nobody knew anything about ObamaCare

In response to Top Official Not told Of Healthcare.gov Security Concerns Before Launch: OK, so let me get this straight: the project leader for ObamaCare signed off on its security, but now claims he never saw smoking-hot red-alert security memos

ObamaCare navigators help applicants commit fraud

Inevitably, the undercover cameras of Project Veritas made their way into an ObamaCare “navigator” operation, and inevitably they found what they were looking for: helpful staffers cheerfully willing to advise people to lie on their applications, concealing income and lifestyle

Obama lives from one news cycle to the next

In response to The White House Lied About the Cause of Healthcare.gov’s Failure: Another thing that’s been bugging me about the pitiful capabilities of HealthCareDotGov is that it’s so out of whack with Obama’s big, boisterous claims that fifty million

Amazon to the rescue

In response to Amazon to Make Sunday Deliveries Using the Postal Service: That actually sounds like a pretty good idea.  If Amazon and other online retailers can make positive use of these resources – a flagging system whose infrastructure has

Debbie Downer and the undying narrative

Some merriment has been directed at DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz claiming that ObamaCare is a big net positive which Democrats will aggressively run on in 2014.  There’s always the chance they’ll be able to make a successful pitch to the heavily-subsidized

Big Government will never face the bunco squad

I’ve been saying since the outset of the ObamaCrash that if Barack Obama were a private-sector CEO – a comparison he loves to make, when he thinks it flatters him – he’d be under arrest, facing fraud charges that would

Movie review: 'Thor: The Dark World'

The latest Marvel movie is good clean forgettable fun, with some great design work and visual effects, a dash of the humor that has been bubbling through all these films lately, a convoluted set-up disguising a fairly simple premise, and

Get ready for the Healthcare.gov goal posts to move

It’s not looking too good for the big November 30 ObamaCare relaunch.  There are still assurances that the deadline will be met, but with only a few weeks to go, they’re starting to sound rather… strained. Yesterday there was news

HealthCareDotGov insecuritiy

In response to Security Analysis: State Health Exchanges May Not Be Secure: I’ve seen reports that at least one Denial-of-Service program targeting ObamaCare has turned up on hacker sites, although no evidence that anyone has tried using it yet.  There

Anti-competitive profit caps of ObamaCare

The other day, I was musing with some online correspondents that Democrats are working overtime to shift blame for higher premiums and cancelled policies onto insurance companies, but ObamaCare’s vast array of regulations don’t impose rock-solid price caps, or prevent

The ObamaCare cash register analogy

In response to Obama: ObamaCrash Like Having a ‘Really Good Product in a Store And The Cash Registers Don’t Work’: Yes, it’s just like having a great product for sale in a store where the cash register don’t work.  And

ObamaCare is also a corporate payoff with tax dollars

Here’s another thing for anti-business left-wing crusaders to keep in mind about ObamaCare: 1. It’s a law requiring people to buy a product from private corporations.  The private corporations in question are generally supportive of that idea. 2. It does