Friday, November 15, 2013

ACTION NEEDED: Articles of Impeachment Filed in House of Representatives Against Eric Holder

Guest post by ConservativeHQ

Representative Pete Olson (TX-22) has now made the impeachment of Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder official by filing H.Res 411, a Resolution impeaching Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.

In a statement announcing that he had officially introduced the Articles of Impeachment, Representative Olson said, “For nearly five years, Attorney General Holder has systematically deceived Congress and destroyed the credibility of the Justice Department in the eyes of the American people. During his tenure, Mr. Holder refused to cooperate with a congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious and the resulting death of a Border Patrol agent, refused to prosecute IRS officials who unlawfully disclosed private tax records to third party groups, and misled Congress about his involvement in the investigation of a journalist.”

Congressman Olson further noted that, “Last year, the House voted to hold Mr. Holder in contempt of Congress, making him the first sitting cabinet member to ever hold this dubious distinction. Still, he continued mislead and thwart congressional efforts to bring the truth to the American people. Mr. Holder has failed to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed and continues to act in a manner unbefitting of a cabinet official. I urge my colleagues to join me in beginning this process by cosponsoring this measure now. The American people deserve answers and accountability.”

Nineteen Members of the House joined Representative Olson as original co-sponsor the resolution; they are Representatives Larry Bucshon (IN-8), Blake Farenthold (TX-27), Phil Roe (TN-1), Lynn Westmoreland (GA-3), Roger Williams (TX-25), Randy Weber (TX-14),Ted Yoho (FL-3), Louie Gohmert (TX-1), Michele Bachmann (MN-6), Bill Flores (TX-17), Mark Amodei (NV-2), Jim Bridenstine (OK-1), Scott DesJarlais (TN-4), Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Duncan Hunter (SC-3), Sam Johnson (TX-3), Steve Stockman (TX-36), Mike Conaway (TX-11), and Thomas Massie (KY-4) as original cosponsors. 

The articles of impeachment lay out four charges against Mr. Holder: 

1. Refusal to comply with a subpoena issued by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on October 12, 2011, seeking information and documents regarding Operation Fast and Furious. This is a violation of 2 U.S.C. 192.

2. Failure to enforce multiple laws, including the Defense of Marriage Act, the Controlled Substances Act, and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. This is a violation of the oath Mr. Holder swore to "well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office" of Attorney General.

3. Refusal to prosecute the IRS officials involved in the targeting and disclosure of tax records belonging to political donors. This is a violation of the oath Mr. Holder swore to "well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office" of Attorney General.

4. False testimony under oath before Congress on May 15, 2013, about the Justice Department investigation of journalist James Rosen. This is a violation of 18 U.S.C. 1621.

We agree with Pete Olson and his nineteen co-sponsors: Holder's behavior clearly falls under "high crimes and misdemeanors," offenses that the US Constitution explicitly defines as grounds for removal of a Senate-confirmed cabinet official through impeachment. The time is now for the House of Representatives to act with the authority vested in it by the Constitution to remove Attorney General Holder from office.

The Capitol Switchboard is 1-866-220-0044, we urge you to contact your Congressman today and tell him or her to support Pete Olson and to sign onto the impeachment resolution he is circulating.

Please SIGN AND SHARE OUR PETITION to IMPEACH ERIC HOLDER.


Larwyn's Linx: The Other Problem With Fred Upton’s Legislation

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Nation

The Other Problem With Fred Upton’s Legislation: Erick Erickson
Figures: Obama in the dark on healthcare.gov: Jonah Goldberg
Dem insurance commissioners sabotage Obama’s ACA fix: David Freddoso

The Constitutionality of the ObamaCare “Fix”: Eugene Kontorovich
Insurance Industry: Obama's "Fix" Is Entirely Unworkable: Ace
'Fairy Tale': Obama Proposes Extralegal Obamacare Fix: Daniel Halper

Obama Threatens To Veto House ‘Keep Your Health Plan Act’: Nice Deb
Riddle Me This, Republicans: Erick Erickson
Painful presser due to poll numbers: David Freddoso

Economy

Obamacare, meet Hayek: James Pethokoukis
Within Hours, Wheels Fall off Obama's Quick-Fix: Kevin Whiteman
What's happening with charging smokers extra under Obamacare?: Althouse

President's “Administrative Fix” Will Make the Problem Worse: Leon H. Wolf
Obamacare: 106,185: Karl Denninger
Union rejection sends Boeing in search of new 777X site: Alwyn Scott, Reuters

Scandal Central

At least one group of Americans loves ObamaCare: Peter Schweizer
Feds Confiscate 5000 Book-Buying Customer Names, Share Info With 30 Fed Agencies: MagNote
Obamacare increases minimum premiums in Virginia by more than 350%!: Alexa

Media

No Real Mea Culpa in Obama’s Litany of Dodges and Excuses: David Limbaugh
Beyond Spin? Networks Unload on ObamaCare: An 'Embarrassing,' 'Botched' 'Resounding Thud': Scott Whitlock
Politico: Obama Told Staff To “Cut Down On The Amount of Decisions I Have To Make”: WZ

CBS Reporter Hammers Away at President With Tough Obamacare Questions: Blaze
All Hail Hanna-Barbera Care!: Ed Driscoll
If you like your American Pie you can keep your American Pie...: MOTUS

How Precious: iOTW
It Begins: Oregon Billboard Bashes Democrats on Obamacare: GWP
Dan Rather: CBS ‘Trying To Airbrush Me Out Of Their History’: Gail Shister, MediaBistro

Mitt Romney earns Nostradamus reputation: BPR
Senile Old Coot John McCain To Ted Cruz: “You’re Wrong! You’re Crazy!”: IM41
Howard Dean: I Wonder If Obama Has the 'Legal Authority to Do This': Daniel Halper

World

Immigration Reform: One Tiny Step at a Time: RS
Muslims Attack Cab Driver, Pull Him Out Of His Car And Behead Him: Shoebat
Video: Islamic ritual in streets of New York City: Creeping

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News

With Moto G phone, Google's mobile revolution now plausible: Stephen Shankland
Google defeats authors in U.S. book-scanning lawsuit: Jonathan Stempel, Reuters
Astronomers Discover Largest Structure In the Universe: Slashdot

Cornucopia

It's Time To Put A Face On Obamacare...: 90 Miles
Hope Fiction: The Looking Spoon
Remember This Lady?: SCKennedy

President Obama Captive in Mime Bubble: Cube
Jean-Claude Van Damme splits between moving Volvo semis, awesomely: Justin Hyde
A secret room behind a bookshelf is cool until a stranger lives inside: Casey Chan

Image: Liberal Logic 101
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: It's time - Convention of States

QOTD: "Making sure consumers have secure, affordable coverage is health plans’ top priority. The only reason consumers are getting notices about their current coverage changing is because the ACA requires all policies to cover a broad range of benefits that go beyond what many people choose to purchase today.

“Changing the rules after health plans have already met the requirements of the law could destabilize the market and result in higher premiums for consumers. Premiums have already been set for next year based on an assumption of when consumers will be transitioning to the new marketplace. If due to these changes fewer younger and healthier people choose to purchase coverage in the exchange, premiums will increase in the marketplace and there will be fewer choices for consumers. Additional steps must be taken to stabilize the marketplace and mitigate the adverse impact on consumers." --America’s Health Insurance Plans’ (AHIP) President and CEO Karen Ignagni

Thursday, November 14, 2013

BLOODSPORT: The Health Insurance Industry Is Now Locked In A Death Struggle With The Democrat Party...

Guest post by The Hayride

...and only one of the two will survive.

Understand this: the health insurance industry is very much to blame for Obamacare. The health insurance industry happily got naked and jumped into the sack with Obama on his health insurance scheme. They did so thinking that he would leave them a fat, sweaty wad of cash on the night table in the form of forcing everybody in the country to buy their products, and in the process he would make them something akin to a public utility with a pre-ordained profit margin.

Except something happened on the way to conjugal bliss; namely, the president and his minions proved to be a bit flaccid when it came to providing the means by which they would release a torrent of customers to the insurers. The Healthcare.gov website is notoriously impotent, and the health insurance industry finds itself unsated.

Further, Obama is in no position to leave any money by the bedside. In fact, he’s sneaking out of the house before sunrise. And what’s more, he and his friends are about to blame the whole failed escapade on the health insurance business, after warning them to keep their trap shut about his wilting lily.

Obama – and the rest of the Democrat Party – is now embracing the idea of resurrecting the insurance policies his law killed, since so far the effect of Obamacare has been to turn 5 million Americans into uninsured while signing up 100,000 for his new exchanges. But those policies can’t be resurrected; it’s a logistical and economic nightmare to do so. Three years ago it would have been possible to provide for current insurance plans to survive, but on October 1 they died. The bodies, in most cases, have already been buried.

And Obama and the Democrats know this. The Landrieu plan? Obama’s “administrative fix” he announced today? Pure window dressing. They’re not quite as stupid as they sound in thinking that resuscitating a business model they killed can happen within a matter of weeks. Landrieu’s plan is even more ridiculous – not only does she think she can resuscitate that business model, she wants to command that it happen. Maybe she’s that stupid, maybe she’s not – but all of her fellow Democrats now signing on to that idea aren’t that moronic.

COMPARE & CONTRAST: Today's Barack Obama versus the 2006 Brand

Even for a man who has golfed 150 (150!) times during his presidency, these before and after photos illustrate just how much stress the mastermind in the White House has endured.


Of course, trying to orchestrate and plan the individual health care decisions for 300 million Americans wouldn't have helped his beauty sleep.


CONFIRMED: Democrat Utopia of Chicago On Road To Detroit-Style Financial Collapse

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Fiscal Disaster: A major credit rating agency has just given Chicago, with more general obligation debt per capita than Detroit, its second triple-notch downgrade in six months. Its bonds are perilously close to junk status.

Citing skyrocketing pension costs and a lack of meaningful solutions, Fitch Ratings lowered Chicago's debt to A- from AA- last week, making it the second serious downgrade since July.

The move by Fitch follows a triple downgrade of Chicago's bond rating by Moody's Investors in mid-July.

Moody's cited the city's "very large and growing" pension liabilities and "significant" debt service payments, among other factors.

The steady financial decline of the nation's third-largest city prompted us in early August to say Chicago was well on its way to becoming the next Detroit, a bankrupt monument to the perils of Democratic governance, a one-party Democratic town in arguably the bluest of blue states. And Chicago's mayor, former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, learned financial discipline at the feet of the master — President Obama.

Like the president, Emanuel could claim he inherited the city's financial mess from his predecessor, but that would require blaming another Democratic mayor, Richard J. Daley.

Interestingly, Democratic governance is a common thread running through America's urban problems.

As the Chicago Tribune noted in its recent report on the problem, "Broken Bonds," Chicago's outstanding debt on general obligation bonds has quadrupled during the past 18 years, reaching $7.2 billion last year.

With interest, that amount nearly doubles. The city has more general obligation debt per capita than any of the 10 largest U.S. cities except New York.

The Tribune noted that Chicago leaders have routinely used bond proceeds to make interest payments on the bonds themselves, borrowing more than $450 million since 2000 just to pay interest. Some 63% of all property taxes went to debt payments last year.

A large part of Chicago's problem — the game of maintaining standing armies of campaign workers by overpromising and underfunding pensions — is now over.

PAUL KRUGMAN BEKLOWNS HIMSELF #6,336: Obamacare Edition

Economedian Paul Krugman has a unique, Nostradumbass-like talent for making the worst possible predictions at the worst possible times. Case in point (via American Digest's Ka-Ching Tumblr):


New York Times resident dumbass, Paul Krugman, from his article titled: Obamacare Is the Right’s Worst Nightmare in July, 2013. (via talkstraight and via stuff-that-irks-me)

As an aside, has anyone seen Krugman since Niall Fergusson pimp-slapped the troll-sized Times mascot into Westchester County?


President announces fix for Obamacare: HHS to build time machine, set date back to 9/30 and uncancel policies

Citing widespread concern with the rollout of his signature health care plan, President Obama today announced a project by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to "uncancel as many as 5 million insurance policies".

"Today I directed HHS Prime Minister Kathleen Sebelius to create a time machine," Obama stated during a hurriedly arranged press conference.

"While we understand that insurance companies won't necessarily be able to offer the insurance plans they did prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the HHS time machine should take care of that problem. By reversing the flow of time and setting the date back to September 30, 2013, we will prevent the rollout of Obamacare."


Artist's depiction of President Obama using TimeBoy™ 2000 device

An initial demonstration of a prototype HHS time machine, built by many of the same engineers who created the ill-fated Healthcare.gov website, was an embarrassing failure this afternoon.

In a packed press room at the Capitol Hyatt, Press Secretary Jay Carney was transformed into a half-fly, half-unicorn-like creature. Capitol Police escorted the Carney-corn to the D.C. Zoo for observation.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi stated that the demonstration was successful and that Americans would enjoy their new hybrid bodies when the "final solution for health care was fully deployed."


Larwyn's Linx: If You Vote For These People, You're Voting for Obamacare

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Nation

If You Vote For These People, You're Voting for Obamacare: Sara Noble
Obama Threatens Veto of “If You Like It, You Can Keep It” Bill: RWN
Yes, It's a Trap: Erick Erickson

HHS: We Can't Tally A Sequence Of Positive Integers: Ace
ObamaCare Cancellation to Enrollee Ratio: 50 to 1: John Nolte
If Rule of Law is dead...: III Percent

Sebelius Announces Healthcare.gov's Numbers: Less Than 27,000: Ace
Where is Kay Hagan’s Apology For Lying to North Carolina?: Erik Soderstrom
House Dem Frustration With Obamacare Reaches Fever Pitch: Emma Dumain

Reid doesn’t have the votes he needs to use the “nuclear option”: Poor Richard
As 1MM Californias lose coverage, Feinstein bails: John Hayward
A reversal of fortune for Democrats after Obamacare: Dana Milbank

Economy

What Is the Real Unemployment Rate?: Tom Blumer
Will The Supreme Court End Union Organizing By Extortion?: RS
HHS: 106,185 Obamacare enrollments in October: UnitedLiberty

Scandal Central

I'll Need an ID for Cold Medicine, But Not for the Morning-After Pill: Ricochet
Reminder: Obama Admin Promised Obamacare Glitches Would Be Fixed Within “Hours”: WZ
Details emerge about Americans badly injured in Benghazi attack: Catherine Herridge

Climate & Energy

Surprise: Ethonal Creates Environmental Problems: Cove
50,000 Poles Protest Against UN “Climate Change” Conference: Cove
Marxists at The Nation Declare Typhoon Haiyan Caused By “Climate Change”: Cove

Media

Scholastic Publishing Eliminates Israel From Map In Children's Book: TruthRevolt
How to Speak New York Times: Caleb Howe
Kristen Powers: My Policy Wasn't Canceled Becasue It Was "Substandard": Ace

White House Officials Spin Politico Reporter, Pushing Two Contradictory Claims: Ace
“Introversion isn’t Obama’s problem, his inability to tell the truth is”: Protein Wisdom
Sen. Mary Landrieu LAUGHS when Wolf Blitzer asks if she wants to apologize: Scoop

Twitter Spam Detection Thinks Conservative Sites Are Spam, Not So Much For Liberal Ones: WZ
CNN's Tapper: Dems Won't Come on To Talk Bad Obamacare Numbers: TruthRevolt
A Critical Few Weeks for Democrats? It Could Get Worse: Stuart Rothenberg

Ezekiel "Dr. Death" Emanuel, Architect of ObamaCare, Blames Fox News for His Failures: FNI
Former Federal Prosecutor: Obama is guilty of SERIAL FRAUD: Scoop
Trey Gowdy on Obama: ‘This is what happens when you base a campaign on a fundamental lie’: JWF

World

Socialism and Communism Always End This Way As Covert Looting Becomes Overt In Venezuela: HyScience
Mossad: 'Stuxnet is our baby; Obama disclosed it for his reelection campaign': Matzav
At Senate hearing, Google warns of 'splinternet' but NSA does not budge: John Ribeiro

MEMRI: Obama uses nonexistent fatwa as basis for Iran talks: Hayom
The Myth of Islamic Extremism: Daniel Greenfield
Report: 2009 John Kerry Letter Backed Anti-Israel Gaza Terror Flotilla: Algemeiner

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Facebook Patented Making NSA Data Handoffs Easier: Slashdot
Microsoft Abandons Employee-ranking System: Loek Essers, CIO
Next-gen HTTP 2.0 protocol will require HTTPS encryption (most of the time): Brad Chacos

Cornucopia

Notes on the Pussification of America: Fred Reed
“Got Insurance?”...“Used to got, but now, not.”: MOTUS
Famous Photos Reimagined as Selfies in Newspaper's Wonderful Print Ads: AdWeek

Image: Satellite pics from day of Syria strike show advanced Russian arms
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Obamacare, One Month In

QOTD:

"It seems like only yesterday that the corrupt Democrat Party was loudly insisting that the people who lost their insurance policies under ObamaCare were a bunch of “red herrings” and “Chicken Littles,” to quote two phrases they employed during congressional hearings. They claimed the problem of insurance cancellations under ObamaCare was wildly inflated. When that didn’t work any more, they reverted to the cold default argument of socialism, and claimed the “losers” of ObamaCare – the people who believed Barack Obama’s Big Lie about being able to keep their insurance plans – were mere collateral damage, acceptable losses during the Great Health Care Leap Forward. They made loud, false claims that the plans lost to the Affordable Care Act were junk policies that consumers were foolish to have bought in the first place.

They even tried rewriting history and claiming Obama had always said… or meant… or silently believed in his heart… this would always happen. The Democrats even tried arguing that it was our fault for accepting the plain meaning of Obama’s words, when we should have read the bill none of them read before voting on it and understood that he was, shall we say, de-emphasizing certain unattractive truths. We should have known better, even though the massed ranks of the media closed in around Obama like a Praetorian guard of propaganda. We should have ignored the billion-dollar “news” racket and read the Affordable Care Act ourselves, cover to cover, discovering with our own eyes that millions of people were going to lose their coverage, no matter what Barack Obama said. We should have known his Health and Human Services Department would later issue regulations that made his promises of “grandfathering” existing new policies into the system functionally meaningless. The hot new lefty talking point became “Obama mis-spoke,” but what they really meant was, “You mis-heard him.”

All of these dodges, evasions, excuses, and lies piled atop lies flickered past in the space of just a few weeks. You can tell it didn’t work because top Democrats are swan-diving off the high rails of the Titanic, abandoning those old talking points like so much rubbish left behind in their staterooms. Yesterday it was Bill Clinton bailing on Obama and calling for legislation that would force Obama to live up to the Big Lie, by allowing people to keep their existing insurance plans. Now it’s Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) – another one of the power-mad Democrats who was proud to vote on ObamaCare without reading it, and now wants to throw her weight behind the bill introduced by terrified Democrat Mary Landrieu of Louisiana to protect existing insurance policies." --John Hayward

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Climate Crooks Exploit Deadly Typhoon to Push Global Warming Grift (Or Is It "Climate Change" Now?)

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Climate Fraud: The United Nations climate chief blames the Philippines devastation on climate change, ignoring the historical record that 33 of the 35 most devastating storms occurred with CO2 below current levels.

One can appreciate the genuine grief felt by an emotional Naderev "Yeb" Sano as the delegate from a Philippines devastated by Typhoon Haiyan spoke at the start of two-week talks in Warsaw where more than 190 countries will try to lay the groundwork for a new pact to fight global warming.

"We can fix this. We can stop this madness. Right now, right here," Sano told delegates in Warsaw as he pleaded for action on climate change.

He echoed words from Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

"The recent very painful events of cyclone Haiyan ... have reminded the countries gathered here ... of the urgency of coming to a resolution of how all countries are going to collaborate with each other to address climate change in a timely manner," she told the conference.

Both, however, are wrong to claim that Typhoon Haiyan was caused by climate change. And their attempts to "do something" about devastating storms that have occurred throughout human history and predate the Industrial Revolution will only produce a recipe for global poverty and be as successful as King Canute who, so the legend goes, stood on the seashore and commanded the tides to recede.

Canute at least knew he had no such power and was trying to demonstrate to his courtiers the limits of a king's control over the elements. Warm-mongers like Al Gore and the U.N. climate-change scammers recognize no such limits and misdiagnose the cause of such storms and overestimate man's power to affect them.

Marc Morano at Climate Depot has reported on an analysis by climate blogger Steve Goddard of the historical record, which found that the worst cyclones or typhoons occurred before any significant addition to CO2 levels by industrialization.

Obama, Translated

Tyler Durden observes, "Sadly, only in our new normal world is this funny"



Hat tips: BB and @DCMFutures.

Dichotomy, Illustrated

The first word of that headline is bound to confuse Democrats.

Can you think of another, equally valid headline for this De-motivator?


How about "Obamanomics vs. Reaganomics"?


Via: @1NYconservative.

Irony-o-meter Kerplodes in Kalifornia

Via MM:


Calif. Insurance Commissioner: More Than 1M Californians Have Insurance Cancelled Due To Obamacare


I try never to take pleasure in the misery of others, but in this case I'll make an exception.

EXCLUSIVE: Introducing Obamacare Dental

Courtesy of Uncle Ben


By the way, along with other conservative blogs, Twitter is now censoring this blog's automated twitter feed and all of the BadBlue news channels (they've been marked as spam). All of the progressive, radical Left, Communist and Marxist blogs have been -- surprisingly -- unaffected by this outage. Coincidentally.



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Larwyn's Linx: Congressional Democrats Give WH 72 Hours to Fix Obamacare Disaster

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Nation

Congressional Democrats Give WH 72 Hours to Fix Obamacare Disaster: GWP
Lies Corrupt Democracy: Angelo M. Codevilla
Over 1 Million Californians Lose Their Health Care: Poor Richard

The Biggest Glitch Of All: Progressive Government: Shifra
WH memo: 'limitless threats' of Obamacare website security flaws: Poor Richard
Hosurance-Brosurance Disaster In Colorado: HayRide

ObamaCare Navigators Trying To Turn Lone Star State Blue?: RS
Joe Biden gets a Detroit woman killed.: Moe Lane
Senate Dem Incumbent Lead Vanishes After Obamacare Rollout: Bryan Preston

NRSC, Dayspring Threaten Blogger With Private Emails, Black-listing: Dan Riehl
Bros and Hos: Obamacare’s Bread and Circuses: Michelle Malkin
The Curse of the Out-of-Touch Strategists: Jen Kuznicki

Economy

Labor Participation Rate Is Collapsing: Moonbattery
Obamacare Is a Mess, Let’s Do Preschool!: Sara Noble
Venezuela’s Hyperinflation: Army Storms Caracas Electronics Stores: Mish

Scandal Central

O’Keefe Takes On Obamacare In Texas: HayRide
ObamaCare: 5M Health Insurance Cancellations: WH Misses Goal by 80% from Lowball Estimate: MagNote
Chicago Television Pitch Man Headed To Jail For Lying To America About Healthcare: Glob

The President's New Lie: Betsy McCaughey
Saving Hillary Clinton: Ben Shaprio
For every Nevada Obamacare enrollee, 50 Nevadans received cancellation notices: Twitchy

Climate & Energy

EPA Stealthily Propels Toward ‘Massive Power Grab of Private Property Across the U.S.’: Bridget Johnson
Obama and U.S. Economic Suicide: Dennis Avery
EPA Proposes Stricter Control of U.S. Tributaries, Lakes: Farm Futures

Media

Millennials Now Rate Republican Congressmen as Better Able to Handle Policy Than Obama?: Ace
Poll: Majority of Americans Now Say Obama Is Not “Trustworthy,” Up 11-Points Since Last Month: WZ
Jay Carney asked if people who lost plans will outnumber O-care enrollees; Dodging ensues: Doug Powers

Brit Hume on Democrats breaking ranks with Obama: “As bad a political disaster as I’ve ever seen”: Scoop
Sarah Palin: Bill Clinton Was Right, Obama Was ‘Not Qualified’: GWP
Palin On Chris Christie Winning Over Conservatives: Breitbart

Latest ObamaCare Ads Sexist and Demeaning #DemocratWarOnWomen: Nice Deb
Scandal? What Scandal?: American Digest
Quinnipiac Is Now the Latest Poll to Confirm President Subeffective's Low Approval Rating: Ace

George Will: Young People Are Running Away From ObamaCare In Rational Terror: Nice Deb
HHS Sending Messages To Obamacare Website Users Begging Them To Try Again: WZ
WATCH: More “I’m Obamacare” ads from the RNC: Scoop

World

America’s best weapon against Iran is France: Rachel Marsden
Update on Iran's Parchin Site: ISIS
DHS and FEMA: Preparation for a Massive Power Grid Drill November 13-14: Angle

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News

Official Who Wrote "Limitless Risk" Memo Also Refused to Certify Site as Secure, Fired by WH: Ace
Tech firms furious after denied full view of government reply to FISA court: John Ribeiro, PC World
Puzzled Scientists Say Strange Things Are Happening On the Sun: Slashdot

Cornucopia

The Name In the Stone: American Digest
October’s Official Numb-ers: Caution, there will be math!: MOTUS
ToDaZeD visual: Sondrakistan

Image: The Hilarious Hosurance-Brosurance Disaster In Colorado
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: It's time - Convention of States

QOTD: "Headed by a former field director of Obama for America, Battleground Texas’ sole aim is to turn Texas from a so-called “red state” to another California–that is, almost singularly controlled by liberal Democrats...

Now, however, a video released by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas over the last few days has revealed that Battleground Texas may actually be gathering data on ObamaCare enrollees from one of the groups enlisted to enroll ObamaCare enrollees.

According to O’Keefe’s video, Enroll America, a “501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to maximize the number of uninsured Americans who enroll in health coverage made available by the Affordable Care Act” is sharing data with Battleground Texas.

Clarence Landry, an organizer with Enroll America, Texas, is seen on the video talking about working with, and cross-pollinating the same data with Battleground Texas... ...If Battleground Texas is a Democratic political action committee as is stated in the video, why is Enroll America sharing data with them?" --LaborUnionReport

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

EXPERTS: Obscure Obamacare provision "gives people the green light to commit fraud"

Guest post by Tori Richards

Tucked inside nearly 11,000 pages of the Affordable Care Act is a little-known provision that doles out three months of free health care to individuals who choose to default on their premiums.

People who receive the federal subsidy to be part of Obamacare will be allowed to incur a three-month “grace period” if they can’t pay their premiums and then simply cancel their policies, stiffing the doctors and hospitals.

Their only repercussion is that they have to wait until the following year’s open enrollment if they want coverage on the exchange.

“It will help break the system,” said Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, one of a core group of Republicans who oppose Obamacare. “This is a huge piece of evidence to show this can’t work, you will break the system and bankrupt people involved.

“The hospitals, doctors and insurance companies will be left holding the bag. There will be disagreements over who will pay for what. Lawyers will get involved because we are talking about a lot of money,” he said.

Under Section 156.270 of the Affordable Care Act, the insured needs to pay a premium for just one month before qualifying for the three-month grace period. The insurance company must pay the claims during the first month of the grace period; during the second and third month doctors and hospitals are left to collect unpaid bills.

This loophole wasn’t lost on some unnamed individuals who queried the Department of Health and Human Services during an open comment period for the new law in 2011.

While officials at HHS did not respond to requests for comment on this story, they did offer a glimpse into their thinking in a March 27, 2012, report contained in the Federal Register.

“HHS will continue to explore options for incentivizing appropriate use of the grace period,” the register said. “HHS will monitor this issue moving forward and will continue to work on the development of policies to prevent misuse of the grace period.”

Experts say the federal government has given people the green light to commit fraud.

Pentagon Report: Obama Administration Paid More than $150 Million to Fund Terrorist Attacks Against Americans

Guest post by Greg Campbell

As Americans struggle to make ends meet, as the current economic climate is anything but healthy, the Obama Regime is pumping millions of dollars into foreign companies that finance attacks on Americans.

Surely, there is a better use for our money than financing terrorism against our own people.

The national debt is just over $17.1 trillion dollars. Specifically, it is $17,162,395,935,482.18- or, at least it was when this article was written. In the time it took to type the numbers, the U.S. borrowed another $195,976. By this time tomorrow, the national debt will have increased by roughly $2,690,000,000.

We our hemorrhaging money at an astonishing rate and saddling Americans with unconscionable debt. A million here, a million there-money we don’t have is tossed around and thrown away like dropped pennies in a parking lot while our “leaders” not only refuse to make any meaningful changes to our unsustainable economic model, but make future plans for how to enlarge government and spend even more money.

And while that may seem like a betrayal of Americans, it cannot compare to the fact that America has given $150 million to groups that fund terrorists actions against Americans.

In our nation’s Quixotic quest to make the world love us, the U.S. has been funding terrorism against Americans. In a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, the Pentagon has admitted that we are subsidizing at least 43 companies that are linked to Taliban leaders who have targeted and arranged attacks on Americans.

THE GENIUS OF DEMOCRAT GOVERNANCE: Chicago's Detroitification Continues Apace

Guest post by Ted Dabrowski

Triple-notch credit downgrades for government entities are supposed to be rare.

They normally happen only in response to major financial events, such as a sudden fiscal emergency.

But Chicago just received its second triple-notch downgrade in just six months. And that spells trouble for Chicago taxpayers.

Citing skyrocketing pension costs and a lack of meaningful solutions, Fitch Ratings lowered the city of Chicago’s debt to A- from AA- last week. That’s just four notches away from junk-bond status.

Fitch’s downgrade comes on the heels of Moody’s Investors Service’s triple-notch downgrade of Chicago in July, prompted by the agency’s new methodology that nearly doubles the city’s official pension shortfall to $36 billion.

But Fitch didn’t just take Chicago’s credit rating down one notch — they hit Chicago with a triple-notch downgrade. Why?

Fitch Analyst Arlene Bohner said Chicago is approaching an “inflection point where inaction on pension reform will negatively impact the city’s finances and threaten to crowd out spending on city services.”

The city has already shuttered nearly 50 schools in the Chicago Public Schools system. And rather than hiring more police to battle crime, the city is resorting to paying overtime for existing officers. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has warned that property taxes will double if no real pension solution is found.

Fitch agrees. It says that if the city were to properly fund its pension system, city property taxes would “rise a dramatic 136%.”

So far, the Illinois General Assembly’s only response to the pension crisis was to pass a pension “fix” for the Chicago Park District. That fix calls for a tax hike on city residents, forces workers to keep paying into a broken system and does nothing to change the way the city runs retirements for its city workers.

Make no mistake: this bill is bad for city workers and taxpayers and will only perpetuate the problem.

There’s only one real way to change the rating agencies’ outlook on Chicago. And that’s to end defined benefit pensions and move to a system in which workers control their own retirements.


Read more at Illinois Policy Institute

As Obama Slashes U.S. Military, China Deploys Strategic Bombers Equipped With Nuclear Cruise Missiles

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Military Superiority: As China does its own Pacific pivot, a new report reveals that Beijing's strategic bomber is equipped with a land-attack nuclear missile and an armed drone nearly identical to one of ours developed through cyberespionage.

To the casual observer, the Chinese Hongzha-6 (H-6) bomber is not that impressive. The two-engine medium-range jet is a variant of the old Soviet Tu-16 Badger. That plane first flew in 1959 and versions have been deployed by the Chinese Air Force since 1968.

A prototype H-6 was used to airdrop China's first three-stage thermonuclear device at the Lop Nor Nuclear Weapon Test Base in Malan, Xinjiang, on June 17, 1967.

To military observers, however, its latest incarnation, the Chinese H-6K, is a significant advance in China's military capability and is continuing evidence of China's determination to dominate the Western Pacific and challenge U.S. dominance in the region.

As noted in the Oct. 8 draft of the forthcoming report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission to Congress, the People's Liberation Army in June accepted the first of 15 new H-6K bombers, each with an important new difference:

They'll be able to carry four nuclear-capable Changjian-10 (long sword) cruise missiles on four underwing pylons plus two more in its weapons bay. This effectively extends the bomber's combat range to Okinawa, Guam and even Hawaii from China's mainland.

Larwyn's Linx: Study: IRS suppression of Tea Party swung 2012 election

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Study: IRS suppression of Tea Party swung 2012 election: Sean Higgins
The Truth about Navigators: John Fund
You May Already Be an ObamaCare Enrollee: Daniel Greenfield

The Progressive Degradation of Freedom: By Daren Jonescu
Bye-Bye, Privacy: The other problem with HealthCare.gov: WS
RWN Interview With RNC Chairman Reince Priebus: John Hawkins

Veteran’s Day: Remembering Why We Fight: MOTUS
Cover Oregon Still Doesn't Cover Anyone: Kristina Ribali
Packaging a Prez: Christie Models Clinton, Bush, Obama: Ron Fournier

Economy

According to Plan: Feds Redistribute $2 Trillion+ in 2012: Marfdrat
We Are the Gold: Ann Barnhardt
The Brain Drain From Finance: P&F

The Working Wage: John Hayward
Emanuel’s Chicago hit with triple credit rating cut by Fitch, Moody’s: Scoop
Moody’s warns of bankruptcy in Scranton; it faces $20 million budget gap: Fox

Scandal Central

Obamacare IT chief really, really doesn't want to testify: Byron York
Obamacare exchange: Hackers welcome, no experience necessary: BPR
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ObamaCare Navigators Caught on Tape Telling People To Lie On Applications, Defraud Government: Nice Deb
Rep. Todd Young on Obamacare: ‘This is What Betrayal Looks Like’: John Hawkins
Obama using food-stamp cash to fund Michelle’s ‘Let’s Move’: Andrea Peyser

Climate & Energy

A Scathing Indictment of Federally-Funded Nutrition Research: Steve McIntyre
Happy Winter: Western Rifles
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Media

Nary a word about why the mad Mullahs are a threat: David Gerstman
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See? You invite him to a “conservative leadership conference” for NRO…: Protein Wisdom
Hard sell: inevitability is here again, and it’s being rolled our way like a giant human flab boulder: Protein Wisdom
NY Times: The ACA Losers Will Be Happy They’re Paying More When They Lose Their Jobs: STACLU

Present-Tense Barry: Ed Driscoll
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The Most Damaging President 'To America and the World' ... Ever!: HySci
Obama: al Qaeda “On The Path To Defeat” Even Though They Have “Grown More Active Recently”: Nice Deb
Al-Qaeda teaches on Twitter how to cut off human head: Atlas

Kerry Insists Powers Are ‘United’ Over Iran As Iranian Official Tweets His Disagreement: Patrick Goodenough
Chuck Hagel Defied: 6 States Refuse To Submit National Guard To Federal Pansex Regime: Outcast
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Stuxnet infected Russian nuke power plant - Kaspersky: Register
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Cornucopia

Some Thoughts on Veteran's Day: Western Rifles
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So when people get down on the party, I kind of think, well, what don’t you like about a permanent ground game? You know, a $40 million improvement on digital and data and getting our debates and primary system under control? I mean, that’s really where the party is at. That’s what we do at the RNC." --Reince Preibus

Monday, November 11, 2013

WAPO: Administration So Desperate It's Now Reduced to Lying About How to Count Obamacare Enrollees

WonkBlog, of all places, spotlights yet another complete fabrication on the part of the geniuses behind Obamacare.

The fight over how to define the new health law’s success is coming down to one question: Who counts as an Obamacare enrollee?

Health insurance plans only count subscribers as enrolled in a health plan once they’ve submited a payment. That is when the carrier sends out a member card and begins paying doctor bills.


When the Obama administration releases health law enrollment figures later this week, though, it will use a more expansive definition. It will count people who have purchased a plan as well as those who have a plan sitting in their online shopping cart but have not yet paid.

“In the data that will be released this week, ‘enrollment’ will measure people who have filled out an application and selected a qualified health plan in the marketplace,” said an administration official, who requested anonymity to frankly describe the methodology.

The disparity in the numbers is likely to further inflame the political fight over the Affordable Care Act. Each side could choose a number to make the case that the health law is making progress or failing miserably.

On Monday, the Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous sources, said insurance companies have received about 50,000 private health plan enrollments through HealthCare.gov. Even combined with state tallies, the figure falls far short of the 500,000 sign-ups the administration initially predicted for both private sign-ups and those opting for the expansion of Medicaid.

This is simply more fraud.

If Amazon attempted to tell its shareholders that sales included items left un-purchased in visitors' shopping baskets, they'd probably be subject to criminal and civil penalties.

But big government seems to be above the law.