Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Larwyn's Linx: The Most Shocking Obamacare Revelation

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Nation

The Most Shocking Obamacare Revelation: Walter Russell Mead
DOJ: Obamacare will cost 80 million the coverage they like: Sister Toldjah
Obamacare's Deception: You May Not Know the Half of It: David Limbaugh

Obamacare sign-ups vs. cancellation notices in one simple chart: Doug Powers
Their Credibility Is Shot: Jeffrey Carter, P&F
DC to Obamacare Dissenters: Keep Quiet or Get Fired: Walter Russell Mead

A brown-skinned suburban mom responds to bigot Arne Duncan: Michelle Malkin
The Left's War Against Achievement: Thomas Sowell
Political Roundup: Lies: Market Ticker

More Fraud and Deceit: Obama Replaces Old Lie With New Lie: Nice Deb
Obscure senate candidate goes viral: Obama’s ‘constitutional crisis’: ConIntel
Michelle Obama Fundraises: 'You Can Write a Big Ol' Fat Check': Daniel Halper

Economy

Falsified Employment Numbers: SDA
Unions Lose: Workers Vote Against Jobs as Boeing will Move Operations: AIM
The Obama Wedding Tax: RS

Federal Government Spent $4.4 Billion On State Insurance Exchanges: Ace
Liar-In-Chief Tells Brownshirts: “100 Million” Signed Up for Obamacare: WZ
Obamanomics: America's Cities on the Edge: John W. Schoen, CNBC

Scandal Central

Census Dept. Made Up Employment Data In Run-Up to 2012 Elections: Ace
The October 2012 Pre-Election Jobs Report Was Faked: ZH
"UNCOVERED: new photos of #Benghazi attack.": JW

Climate & Energy

Democrats, EPA crack down on wood-burning at home: RWN
Warmist Robert J. Samuelson: We Can't Predict the Future, But Let’s Get A Carbon Tax In Place!: RWN
NHTSA Investigating Third Tesla Fire in Six Weeks: Fender Bender

Media

Martin Bashir wants someone to defecate in his mouth.: Pocket Full of Liberty
Truth Revolt Pressure Forces Bashir To Apologize: Jeff Dunetz
Nancy on “Meet the Press” - A Tale Told By An Idiot: MOTUS

They Still Blame Bush: R.S. McCain
Oprah Calls for Genocide of Obama Opponents: Moonbattery
Remember That ‘Long-Standing Commitment’ In Lake Charles Mary Had?: HayRide

Jessica Sanford, one of Barack Obama’s Obamacare ‘success stories,’ will have no insurance.: Moe Lane
Obama’s conference call on Obamacare goes about as well as HealthCare.gov rollout: Twitchy
Health Care Holidays: Western Rifles

World

Obama Administration’s Internal War Over Egypt Isn’t Really About Egypt: Bryan Preston
American Jewish Leaders: Obama Lied To Us About Iran: WZ
60 Minutes Corrects Benghazi, Not on Israel: CAMERA

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

How Silicon Valley turned on President Obama: Dana Liebelson, The Week
In the wake of NSA spying, Yahoo promises encryption everywhere: Jared Newman, IT News
Healthcare.gov site advertising SQL injection attacks: Neil Stevens

Cornucopia

Yeah, Rob Ford Might Be Slightly Out of Control Now: Ace
Obama Says Americans Can Keep Their Damn Insurance: Andy Borowitz, New Yorker
DHS Still Hasn't Fired Black Supremacist Who Called for Mass Murder of Whites: Alex Seitz-Wald

Image: Twitchy
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: An Article V Convention of States

QOTD: "What is a staff for? Surely a competent staff would have set up an effective monitoring and reporting system so that accurate and timely information about website problems would reach the White House. Surely at the first signs of trouble, an effective trouble-shooting response from the White House would delve into the issues, develop some action plans, and also inform the President and senior staff about any threat to the scheduled rollout. But apparently none of this happened, and at least from what we see so far in public, the President is OK with that. No heads are rolling. No one is being taken to the White House woodshed. There are reports that the President has vented, but “no drama Obama” is apparently still turning the other cheek. The President is content to keep working with the team he’s got...

...There is nothing that any president needs more than a team of competent people around him who can keep him and his key initiatives on track. President Obama is in his fifth year in office, and he isn’t getting the level of performance from his staff you’d need to be an effective principal of a middle school. At this point, that failure doesn’t just reflect badly on the staff; it reflects on the man who selected them. More and more people in the United States and beyond are asking the obvious and painful question: Why can’t the President of the United States find and keep a minimally competent staff?" --Walter Russell Mead

1 comment:

Barry Popik said...

Remember that the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) has many nicknames, usually with the "L" standing for "Lies." "Bureau of Lies and Statistics" has been most popular.

Frankly, anyone looking at the numbers would have known that something was off in the October 2012 report. Ezra Klein came up with the neologism "jobber" (jobs + birther). I guess Klein and Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart and the rest will be apologizing today, no?