   ObamaCare Bites The Big One! Hooray, I think? By Ernest Stewart "I note that in 2008, then-Senator Obama supported a health care reform proposal that did not include an individual mandate because he was at that time strongly opposed to the idea, stating that 'if a mandate was the solution, we can try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody to buy a house.'" ~~~ Federal Judge Roger Vinson "Yes, at first I was happy to be learning how to read. It seemed exciting and magical, but then I read this: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I read every last word of this garbage, and because of this piece of sh*t, I am never reading again." ~~~ Officer Barbrady "I worship a Jew! I have a lot of Jewish friends, and they're kind of, like, 'You evangelicals love Israel more than we do.' I'm, like, 'Do you not get it? If there weren't a Jewish faith, there wouldn't be a Christian faith!'" ~~~ Mike Huckabee "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." ~~~ Ben jamin' Franklin
Don't get me wrong: there are aspects of ObamaCare that I like and support--sort of. There was a simple alternative to all this ado, and it wouldn't have taken 2,000 pages of political gobbledygook. In fact, all it would have taken is one sentence-- ten words! "Medicare for everyone who wants it from birth to death!" Simple, huh? It would save billions in red tape; no one forced to buy anything. If you want to buy private insurance, and take the chances of some corpo-rat death panel refusing your coverage, then you are far too stupid to live to begin with and we could quickly and efficiently thin out the herd of teabagger morons! Of course, most of those teabaggers already have Medicare, so it wouldn't affect them, but at least the younger ones wouldn't have been left around to breed and mess up the gene pool! Obama being the corpo-rat tool that he is never even considered any other option than selling us all lock, stock and barrel to the insurance goons, so I won't be shedding any tears for ObamaCare. Yes, those few pluses that the bill contained may be lost, but they can be resurrected, the bits about lowering taxes on small businesses, lowering prescription prices for seniors and keeping insurance companies from denying sick children and people with a preexisting condition medical care. Of course, all of those and all the rest would be covered by Medicare and since Medicare doesn't have the costs of buying the CEO and Board of Directors new yachts and summer homes in San Tropez every year, your cost would be much less. Throw in a few provisions that keep hospitals from charging you $100 for a band-aid and $250 for a sandwich and a box of milk and it would go a long ways to drastically lowering health care costs! As would buying drugs at a good discount from their manufacturers, where we could save billions; or if they refused, we would buy them from someone else who would give us righteous discounts! Those who didn't and then lost 90% of their business might see the light and go along with the program! This reversal was brought about by a lawsuit brought in Florida by Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. More than half the states--both red and blue! Federal judge Rodger Vinson ruled for the states saying that if the government can require people to buy health insurance, it could also regulate food the same way.
Of course Eric Holder was up in arms, and, through Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler, said Monday the department strongly disagrees with Vinson's ruling and intends to appeal.
The final step will almost certainly be the U.S. Extreme Court, as two other federal judges have already upheld the law, and a federal judge in Virginia ruled the insurance mandate unconstitutional, but stopped short of voiding the entire thing. I wonder how the "Gang of Five"™ on the Extreme Court will rule on this, don't you? Me neither--it's a foregone conclusion. Had Obama been a president for the people, instead of one for the corpo-rats, we would have finally had a health care system that we could have been proud of, but for many this will mean trips to the emergency room when it is often too late to do something about it, instead of seeing a doctor when there was still time! Either way, there will be winners and losers, no matter how the "Extremes" finally rule. As is often the case in America these daze, we're damned if we do and damned if we don't! Well, as a kid I once watched Jim Bunning, who was a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, stop a line drive off the bat of Micky Mantle with his forehead. So, in Jim's case, his insanity at least comes honestly. However, it doesn't explain why Kentuckians would vote for that brain dead in the last stages of Alzheimer's disease. It being so obvious, how could they? Then there's Mitch McConnell who always has a look in his eyes as if he's just escaped from the loony bin and whose legislative acts also resemble the acts of a mad man. Even if he is, as some have said, a raving queen whose lover, South Carolina's Lindsey Graham, is also not too lucid when it comes to reality, it doesn't explain why anyone would vote for this corpo-rat stooge? Why would any one, anywhere, vote for someone whose whole purpose is to enslave them for his corpo-rat masters? Sorry, Kentucky; I just don't get it! Now while this pair of fascists are truly evil, they're not worthy to carry the luggage of Kentucky's latest brain aneurysm: Rand Paul. Rand got his name from his daddy: everyone's favorite fascist moron, viz., Ron Paul. Ron named Rand after his favorite writer, Ayn Rand, who was not only a famous whore for her many, twisted, sexual perversions, but holds the honor, or more appropriately, dishonor, of having written the worst book ever published in the English language, and I'm not talking about "Decision Points," which comes in a distant 5th, but "Atlas Shrugged." "Atlas Shrugged" is so awful that I've never been able to finish it, try as I may. The first attempt I quit after 500 pages and the book went into the trash. On the second attempt, I quit after 600 pages, throwing the book into the fireplace. The third attempt, I either had to quit reading or get myself blinded, so after 800 pages I put the book into the bathroom to be used as toilet paper! Something I think that we should consider doing with Ron's boy Rand. I think any of the above three would work nicely, don't you? Rand hasn't been in office for a month and one of his first bright ideas is to get rid of the few remaining union jobs by passing what he calls the "National Right to Work Act" but what should be rightly called, if there were any truth in it, the "National Right to Work For Slave Wages Act." This turkey is nothing more than part of the plan to destroy what's left of the middle class. Something that the right has been out to do ever since a middle class arose in America, despite their best effects to quash it. Rand doesn't give a rat's ass about the workers; what Rand and most of the rest from both parties are out to do is to return us to those glorious daze of yesteryear when southern gentlemen gathered to tally up their profits on selling cotton, while drinking mint juleps and bull whipping and raping a few of their slaves for amusement. Again, why anyone in their right mind would vote Rethuglican is way beyond me and why folks that seem to be normal would vote those three traitors into office is beyond me! Are the people of Kentucky that way because of what drove the people of California to elect and reelect the Groppen Fuhrer, i.e., the polluted air they try to breathe and the polluted water that they're forced to drink? Or have all the people in Kentucky been replaced by pods? Pod people--that would explain a lot, wouldn't it, America? "Pods for Paul!" Huckabee, the well known Israeli "5th columnist" spoke in favor as he has on many occasions of Israel taking over the rest of Palestine and "settling" all Palestinian lands with Jews almost as we did with the various Indian tribes. Except, of course, all those Israeli aboriginal people will have to move somewhere else, or face the "Final Solution" that Israel has been working on for the last 64 years. Mike said: Huckabee then dismissed the notion that Jewish settlements on land the Palestinians want for a future state are obstacles to peace. Instead, he backed the "settlers'" view that they have the right to build anywhere in "the place that God gave them." Do you think that Mike might be one of those one world types? He must be if he thinks the United Nations is god, as they were the ones that caused this 64-year long disaster to happen, not some mythical creature! You can see why Obamahood isn't worried about reelection with brain deads like Mike running for his job! The Palestinians claim east Jerusalem, as their capital of a Palestinian state, but Huckabee referred to the area as part of Israel's "eternal capital." He also met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of Israel's parliament during a "bund rally." Huckabee and Voight were "hosted" by, and the guests of, the "Jerusalem Reclamation Project," a group that promotes stealing Arab lands for Jewish settlements. Huckabee visited the Shepherd Hotel site, the former residence of the Mufti of Jerusalem that was destroyed in early January to make way for Jewish apartment blocks. Huckabee was thumbing his nose at U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who has admonished Israel for knocking down the hotel, a position Huckabee brushed off. "I think we ought to be more concerned about Iran building bombs than Israelis building bedrooms." I'm about 6 weeks away from having to pay a $650 bill, then more bills come due in June, July and September. Even though this is a non-profit organization, it doesn't mean we have no bills to pay, and while we need about 2% of what other online political magazines need to operate, it's a substantial amount if you don't have it. So what's up, America? 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