The Continuing Saga of ObamaCare.

The following was written by Stilton Jarlsberg at Hope n’ Change nearly two weeks ago. So what if it's old? Nothing’s really changed and I consider it ‘current events.’ Here’s a recap from 25 October 2013. I consider it my duty to keep this on the minds and in the hearts of my fellow patriots. No need for thanks. It’s my PLEASURE!

It’s been quite a week for president Soetoro. He’s washed his hands of the Healthcare.gov website debacle by claiming that he didn’t know anything about anything at any time -- which is, sadly, an entirely believable assertion. ...

This week, Barry’s policies and persona were also instrumental in Saudi Arabia’s discontinuation of diplomatic relations with the United States, owing to their belief that Barry has made  a complete and explosive mess of the Middle East (with Syria not even getting spanked for using chemical weapons on civilians, and Iran happily assembling nukes on Henry Ford-style assembly lines while John Kerry takes Balinese dance lessons). And the president’s foreign policy failures weren’t limited to the Middle East; soon-to-be-former allies France and Germany are now honked off after discovering that Barry had the NSA spy on their phonecalls, perhaps under the suspicion that those nations might be harboring members of the Tea Party.

Domestically, this week the president could also take credit for over 90 million Americans being out of the workforce, and 49% of Americans receiving government benefits and entitlements. In fact, in the roughly 5 years since King Barry started conscripting serfs and buying their votes, the government has spent 3.7 trillion taxpayer dollars on welfare and poverty programs which make not working seem like an increasingly smart career choice.

All of which would make for a satisfying week’s accomplishments for an ordinary America-hating socialist. But Barry isn’t one to rest on his haunches (or Reggie Love’s) when there’s still damage to be done. Which is why on Thursday, he told Congress that he wants a final immigration overhaul by the end of the year, in order to make American citizenship completely meaningless once and for all.

Okay, he didn’t say that last part out loud, but trust us - it’s what he’s thinking. At least when he’s not thinking of golf.

There’s really only one thing which keeps this week from being absolutely perfect for B. Hussein - and that’s the fact that more and more people are starting to see him for the duplicitous little crapweasel that he truly is. 

...

Unfortunately, it’s the United States and her citizenry which will be paying the cost of Barry’s rapidly failing credibility and moral failures for the next 3 years as it becomes nearly impossible for legislators or allies to repair any of the damage he’s done to our country and the world at large.

If you find all of this depressing, don’t lose hope: Obamacare now requires everyone to have insurance coverage which covers mental health. So primal scream therapy and prozac will be available and affordable for all!

Assuming, of course, that you hire a first-rate hacker to help you create an account at Healthcare.gov.

Read the full story, links and all, here. 



This just in! 
Hilarious Gift That Made Sebelius Scowl.

A Republican State Senator of Tennessee gave Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius a “gift” that made her scowl angrily, even though it may just help her out of her website woes.

The prize for single-handedly showing the abject incompetence of the Obama administration and demonstrating with historical clarity how big government screws up everything it touches?

A copy of “Web Sites for Dummes”! 

Read more at conservativebyte.com.  

Follow-up To "Ask Harry Reid About Chinese Solar Panels."

Ask Harry Reid About Chinese Solar Panels.

I’m going to take the day off from bashing Obimbo. Yeah, it’s a hard thing to do, but I’m going to let Todd Cefaratti of The Tea Party.Net bash the second best person that I take great pleasure in despising... Harry Reid. Actually, it’s a close tie between Reid and Pelosi, but Reid’s got it today.

OK, the uniforms the US Olympic Team will be wearing in the London Games were made in China. They were not paid for with tax dollars but instead by Ralph Lauren who designed them and had them produced in one of his factories. It would have been nice to have them made here but thanks to overreaching unions, America really does not have much of a garment industry left. 

In an obvious pandering play to the union powers, Harry Reid was “outraged” by such a travesty. “The USOC should be embarrassed, they should be humiliated. ... Our athletes should not wear clothes manufactured in China.” He went on to say, “they should be placed in a pile and burned”. 

Forget for a moment how you feel about the uniform issue itself and consider Reid’s record on foreign manufacturing.  

Fact 1. The government gave now bankrupt solar panel manufacturer, Solyndra, nearly half a billion dollars for nothing. 

Fact 2. When Harry Reid pushed through funding and sweetheart land deals for a huge solar power generating facility near his home town in Nevada, the solar panels were purchased from his good friend, and Chinese manufacturing billionaire, Wang Yusuo. You guessed it, the panels installed in Nevada were made in China! 

I am sure it is a mere coincidence that Harry Reid’s son, Rory Reid, is employed as a lobbyist for the solar venture!

No need to thank me, folks. My duty and I saw it. I KNEW the lamestream media wouldn’t touch a story like this.

Thanks... AGAIN... Obimbo!

Have you ever noticed that EVERYTHING you touch turns to instant SHIT?! 

You freaking MORON!

And, if memory serves me correctly, the Ford Edsel failed on its own -- without help from the government and the American taxpayer.

YOU FREAKING MORON!

Solyndra -- Or, How Green Grows Obimbo's Campaign Slush Fund.

Too big to fail?  Yeah, this is where I want MY money going to.  From  townhall.com.

Newly released communications regarding the loan approval for Solyndra, the now failed California solar energy company, show direct intervention by an Energy Department adviser and Obama campaign fundraiser, and raise new questions of possible involvement by Rahm Emanuel and the President.  As more is learned, it becomes increasingly clear that the Administration used the Stimulus, and specifically the green energy loan program, as a campaign slush fund to distribute billions of dollars like party favors to supporters and to grandstand for re-election to a perceived constituency.

By mid-2009, the White House was obsessing to make headlines with an announcement of a $535 million loan to Solyndra as the first of many green energy loans in the DOE's pipeline that would be funded by the recently passed Stimulus.  Initially the staff tried to schedule an announcement by Obama, and later as approval was delayed, they shifted to the Vice-President. 

"Ron said this morning that the POTUS definitely wants to do this (or Rahm definitely wants the POTUS to do this?)," a White House staffer told an Obama scheduler on August 17, 2009 according to The Washington Post.  This was a reference to Ron Klain, Chief of Staff at that time for the Vice-President. "Rahm" refers to Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff to the President. 

The Solyndra loan was finally approved in September 2009 over a plethora of warnings and objections from within the Department of Energy, the Office of Management and Budget, and numerous private and solar industry experts.  

Following the company's collapse, questions have haunted the White House of possible political corruption and cronyism as investigations revealed that executives and investors in Solyndra were also significant donors to the Obama campaign with repeated access to top White House officials.  In addition, critics charge that the administration disregarded objective financial analysis, and blindly threw billions of taxpayer dollars at green energy companies like Solyndra with little chance of success. 

Oblivious to the warnings from his own White House advisers that the company was in serious trouble and would run out of cash in September, 2010 (and it did), Obama visited the Solyndra headquarters in May 2010 and hailed it as "leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future."  

The Washington Post  is also reporting that Steve Spinner, a major Obama 2008 campaign fundraiser, later appointed by the White House to "advise" the Department of Energy regarding the green energy loan program, applied heavy pressure on DOE officials for approval of the $535 million loan guarantee for Solyndra. 

"How (expletive) hard is this?  What is he waiting for?" Spinner wrote to a DOE official by email on Aug. 28, 2009 questioning why the Solyndra application was not already approved.  "I have the OVP (Office of the Vice-President) and the WH (White House) breathing down my neck on this.  They are getting itchy to get involved." 

Later the same day, Spinner asked the same DOE official to "walk over there and force him to give you the answer." 

In another exchange just minutes after getting an email from Solyndra, Spinner fired off a message to the DOE officials asking if the White House budget office (OMB) had completed their review.  "Any word on OMB?  Solyndra's getting nervous," he wrote.  

The loan was pushed through, and on September 4, 2009 Joe Biden announced by video link the deal as the "unprecedented investment this Administration is making in renewable energy and exactly what the Recovery Act (Stimulus) is all about." 

Spinner's involvement is in direct contradiction of previous representations by the DOE.  Spinner had specifically recused himself from the Solyndra application because his wife's law firm, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, represented the company on the DOE loan and pocketed $2.4 million in legal fees for their efforts.  

The AP reports that an administration official, speaking on condition that he not be identified because of ongoing investigations in the evolving scandal, said that Spinner "clearly was actively involved in facilitating between DOE and OMB." 

Joe Biden was partially correct -- unfortunately.  Solyndra is typical of what the billions of Stimulus dollars tossed around by the Obama Administration was "all about" -- about waste, cronyism, and corruption.  The taxpayer is on the hook for $535 million, but before this is done some once big shots in Washington will deservedly be cut down to size.

As Dizzy Dean (and probably the greatest linguist of all times) used to say, "Who woulda thunk it?"