Obama’s Train Wreck of a Presidency
by Pamela GellerThe hits keep on coming from a train wreck of a presidency.
I just got my healthcare renewal form. My rates are up over 30% across the board, and that’s with a $5,700 deductible. This is the fruit of Barack Obama’s health care “reform,” to make healthcare affordable and accessible for everyone.
Obama really makes me sick — oops, I can’t afford to get sick.
I want a waiver — oops, I don’t know any crooked Democrats (is there any other kind?) who can fix it for me.
Who is the recipient of these goodies from this crooked administration? Unions, of course, and FOO (Friends of Obama).
Historian and finance analyst Kenneth Schortgen, Jr., notes in The Examiner that while Obama has given waivers for his new healthcare scheme to 111 corporations and other entities, the form to apply for a waiver is hard to find and harder to wade through, and:
“to receive a waiver it appears you must have political capital with the administration to be accepted. For most small businesses, you will be incurring the new taxes, fees, and programs that will add thousands to your bottom line, and in more than a few cases, might cause a small business to close their doors.”
Schortgen points out that “in March, AT&T reported from an internal study that the new Healthcare program will cost their company over $1 Billion in new and additional costs,” and that on the list of groups already granted waivers,
“unions are one of the largest entities given a waiver, and speaks to the political gifts given by the Administration to them. The Obama Presidency has proven their partnership with unions since 2008 to the detriment of small business.”
Okay, but Obama’s other policies must be in better shape, right? Wrong.
This week Ahed Khalfan Ghailani became the first detainee who has been held at Guantanamo to be tried in civilian court, under Obama’s policy of treating acts of war as law enforcement issues. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani faces charges of conspiracy and murder in jihad bombings in Africa that killed 224 people, including twelve Americans.
Today the jury was deliberating and a verdict was expected, but one of the jurors sent the judge a note asking to be replaced, because other jury members were giving her a hard time for “her opinions.” If the jury is deadlocked, it is unlikely that prosecutors could again bring together the witnesses who testified in this trial. Bringing witnesses from Kenya and Tanzania to testify would be hard, and maybe impossible, to repeat.
How about Obama’s foreign policy? Any good news there?
Obama has vowed to defeat al-Qaeda, but this week British General Sir David Richards said that a defeat of al-Qaeda was “unnecessary and would never be achieved.”
I agree with General Sir David Richards that al-Qaeda can’t be beaten, but not for the same reasons. Clearly, if we are afraid to freely discuss the ideology and motives behind this global war on the West, then we cannot beat it. If we dare not speak its name, surely we cannot defeat it. If, instead, those who speak to the religious ideology that compels war against the “non-believers” are the ones demonized, surely it will defeat us.
Rules of engagement, political correctness, and foreign aid to our assassins make it impossible to defeat this enemy. Give me The Bush Doctrine — “you are either with us or against us” — as opposed to The Obama Doctrine, “we are against us.”
Meanwhile, the Afghan Council that is trying to end the war there has recommended that Taliban prisoners be freed from Gitmo to join peace talks back home.
The very idea that we would be releasing Taliban terrorists to join “peace” negotiations is really scary. Not for the obvious reason that upon their release they will join the Muslim army and kill our soldiers, but scary because of the fact that our “leadership” would even consider such suicidal insanity.
The idea of peace to the enemy is a “pax islamica,” a world living under the horror of Islamic law. Obama’s jihad against Israel, while effectively aiding and abetting the most violent and imperialistic Islamic supremacists, is a lethal cocktail for freedom-loving peoples.
Meanwhile, Obama is strangely silent on the case of Sayed Mossa, who is awaiting trial in Afghanistan for converting to Christianity. Apostasy (conversion out of Islam) is punishable by death in Islamic law. In a similar case back in 2006, Abdul Rahman was spared the penalty of death and granted asylum in Italy after the Bush administration intervened. President Bush and others had insisted Afghanistan protect personal beliefs.
American blood and treasure in Afghanistan…for what?
Where is President Obama? His silence is deafening and dangerous. Silence is complicity.
Tell me again why we are expending priceless blood and billions in treasure on this Sharia state. If we are not fighting this, we are wasting our time.
Domestically and internationally, Obama’s presidency has been a disaster of incalculable proportions.
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Hmmm. I think you need to blame someone other than Obama for your health care costs going up. The only changes that have gone into effect are the banning of pre-existing conditions and 26 year old adults can still get coverage under their parents plan. However, this coverage is not free. So try again. As far as a juror wanting to be removed, it happens all the time. That is why they have alternates. If he or she is excused, they simply call one of the alternates back and start the deliberations over again. As far as Afghanistan, so what is your solution? Nuke them until they glow? Now that will really win friends and influence people.
Thanks John McCain, Mark McKinnon, the RNC for not exposing this idiot Marxist in ’08. Thank you MSM for not doing your job. He’s really a good guy John, as you said, “you know Barry, he’s a good guy.” Thanks a pant load again John, we’re all really enjoying the collapse of the country. Of coarse you wouldn’t have been much better.
Smartest moron in Washington.
"Obama really makes me sick — oops, I can’t afford to get sick.
I want a waiver — oops, I don’t know any crooked Democrats (is there any other kind?) who can fix it for me.
Who is the recipient of these goodies from this crooked administration? Unions, of course, and FOO (Friends of Obama)."
LOL
Pam you're killing me here, can't stop laughing….
Sadly nothing is funny without truth in it…
The most frightening thing to see is ignorance in action.
Why don't you read your second sentence. To answer your first sentence.
"Obama’s Train Wreck of a Presidency"
Not to repeat what Gary_K has already stated…But that is grossly understated!
We are going to be discovering hidden gems of insanity for years to come after this administration is done wiping it's feet off on the American people. After all, we have to pass the bills to see what's in them, right?
It's hard to keep track of all the stupid/underhanded things this guy has done: demonizing doctors, openly fomenting class warfare, betraying Poland on the missile shield, bowing to foreign dignitaries (and one mayor), ostracizing Britain (remember the incident with the Churchill bust, or his gift to Gordon Brown?), attacking the supreme court, lying about illegal immigrants benefits under healthcare (Joe Wilson), conducting a sham chapter 11 for Chrysler and GM while denying secured creditors due process by inverting the bankruptcy priority ladder . . . I could go on, and on, and on, and on. Chuck the bum.
That would require critical thinking skills…Don't think it's gonna happen?!
Where is NoBama? Check the local golf courses….scratch that…better check all golf courses world wide.
Maybe he's out getting a burger.
I have an Obamacare waiver from Winchester, Smith and Wesson and a few others.
" Thanks a pant load again John, we’re all really enjoying the collapse of the country. Of coarse you wouldn’t have been much better. "
Just a different tailor is all…
Does noblama have a cameo in Denzel Washington's new train wreck movie……………….."Unstoppable"?
If so………they'll have to change the name to……….."Untenable"…………..or maybe "Unchangeable"
The white supremacy since America was discovered must finally be stopped. We have the numbers now. The influx over the Mexican border, the breeding in the country, the cloak of diversity and political correctness, the indoctrination of our children to the evils of our past, to the rise of Islam, to the bleeding of white wealth through Obamacare and the EPA. Obama has done his job, now it is our turn to carry it further to its finality, a new communist state where minorities finally conquer and rule over the white European Christian and Jew descendants.
Unsustainable !
Well genius, health insurers are raising their rates now to cover their loses as more rules kick in. Unless of course you able to get a waiver by bribing the proper government official.
Excellent article and describes what most of this country believes…
I think you meant to say POO….. Pals of Obama.
I got it, Moochelle found the stash and she wants to go shopping in Europe.
Thats where NoBama is Europe…on 20 million a day.
You are an idiot beyond compare. Go and live with the moronic muslims in the mid-east and see how long you last asshat. With Islam, you either assimilate or die. Until the world accepts this reality and know it as fact, this BS will continue unabated and there will either muslims and no one else or they will accept the new world reality and live and let live. The religon of Islam will need to be controlled at the point of a gun barrel as those barbaric bastards know nothing else. The silence of the "peaceful" muslims is deafening…..
I think there was alot more to McLame getting the nomination than we realize.
The good news is; America is now AWAKE.
He cant even think, at least not for himself.
Thank God we don't have to face the world with Bush at the helm. At least with Obama the world is now united behind the United States.
And thank God we don't have Bush running up the deficit to fund his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And thank God we don't have Bush pitting one racial group against another in cities and whole states.
And thank God we don't have Bush denying AIDS patients in Africa the medicine they need to survive and infect more people.
And thank God we don't have Bush totally screwing up the recovery efforts in Haiti, Indonesia, Nashville and other U.S. cities struck by calamities by denying help to white people, black people or guests of our country…
By the way, why are we thanking God for Obama again?
Do you really believe in the hatred you publish ?
"…………Why don't you read your second sentence. To answer your first sentence……"
one of the most brilliant observations in days here at BG.
to bad you had to waste it on Dumbo there kooz.
Pam, you got a multi-million dollar divorce settlement, which I'm sure anyone would have been relieved to pay. Shut up about not being able to afford stuff, okay, sweetie?
I think his handle is really Huskers hate Mo. You know, short for mohammed.
No I think he has the kobe beef flown into wherever he goes…mooochel has the lobster to complement the turf…
If you haven't had kobe beef it is oh so yummy but pricey…had some on Okinawa…even in the 80's the meal cost me $25 and believe me there wasn't all that much meat maybe 4-6oz…
Calling this guy's presidency a train wreck gives train wrecks a bad name.
…and you got a purple O'bama shirt that says " I'm with stupid "
Wasn't really that hard.
Zing! I like that… no need to mince words there.
Exactly… What a waist of the greatest of slams of the day…. maybe even the year.
We thank O'bama for `Low Flow ' toilets and the increase in Slurpee sales ….
I know what your thinking but that was Soupy Sales !
Dan, that’s no reason to quit being a lady!
My health insurance went up only about ten bucks. I work for a large retailer. I think that the big hikes happen for those not working for large companies. Am I correct?
I agree.
"Where is President Obama? His silence is deafening and dangerous. Silence is complicity."
"Domestically and internationally, Obama’s presidency has been a disaster of incalculable proportions"
Obama doesn't care about the presidency because he has been chosen to further an agenda by his puppet handlers. The man is a moron and is only a front man doing the bidding of powers that be. Soros is one of the money men but who are the real handlers?
The presidency was only a means to an end. His narcissm and arrogance was a tool they used. HIs skin color was a tool they used. My God, the sheeple thought he was the "messiah"…. the first black man who never even ran a candy store in his life. His claim to fame is knocking door to door and smoking pot and snorting cocaine. Even is supposed law degree was bought and paid for. Even his book was writtne by the terrorist Bill Ayers.
Pelosi vetted him. His records are sealed. The biggest phucking con job in this country's history. My brain is about ready to explode and no one listened when we blogged about this in Feb.2008.
Your being too modest… take the credit. That took as much brilliance as Huskers exerts being stupid. A++ from me.
Hey pinhead—Mexicans aren't indigenous to North America either. They are the descendants of evil Christian white people know as the Spanish along with their neighboring evil Christian white people the Portuguese.
Islam aint rising much either. It's the crescent moon of death–down into more dark ages tyranny for them.
True!
'Hmmm. I think you need to blame someone other than Obama for your health care costs going up. The only changes that have gone into effect are the banning of pre-existing conditions and 26 year old adults can still get coverage under their parents plan"
……………………………………………………………..!
What are you, ten?
The insurance rates are up…. as planned. They knew all along they would go up. They are now hoping the American people will call on government to solve this problem…..
Government will tell us in order to solve it we need single payer.
Welcome to Cuba…….
Husk do you ever bore yourself?
Huskers… You just got your clock cleaned by a kazoo. We are all laughing at your silly azz.
…But did your deductibles go up ( and/or ) do you have less coverage ?
That's what he uses his right hand is for when the left one gives out.
Well done Husker. Made your point, and did it with civility.
I guess this means you can't defend this disaster of an administration?
There you leftists go with your class warfare again. Pam earns everything she has. (This excellent article included.) try a little self-responsibility, Quayle. (And BTW if your name is supposed to be a jab at out former Vice President, you obviously only know one anecdote about him (potatoe), and if you saw the whole situation in context, you'd see he was not the fool you libs think he was.
Get a life.
OK. us, what are the rules that have just kicked in to increase the costs 30%. Please be specific.
FOO
If the Foo sh***, wear it.
Please tell me your "sarc" key got stuck on your computer. . . .
111 Obamacare exemptions. Even Husker Love boys have to take exception to that.
I got it.
Trainwreck, this is more like the Hindenburg disaster. Oh, the humanity!
The next 2 years are going to be like getting teeth pulled with whiskey shooters as anesthesia.
Why do unions need exemptions?
Pam, a humble "obama' bow in your direction.
Wonderful article.
Really.
I have no other comment.
Partially true. BHO and the foolish democrat alleged healthcare reform has not had much to do with the dramatic increases, but it has an influence as the insurance companies are feathering the nest in anticipation of the impending disaster. The simple reality that these waivers exist and the more than suspicious awarding of them makes something that smells bad really reek.
ROTFLMAO. Only children with pre-existing conditions are covered at this time. So for all you geniuses, this is a very small number and would not be responsible for a 30% increase or any increase even close to this amount. As far as the 26 year old coverage, their costs are passed down to their parents.
Amen on Soupy. May God rest his sole. I'm sure 7-11 Corporation is grateful to Mr. Obama.
The really scary part is that these are what we know about. What is it that is said about government and sausage?
Basically insurance companies have become instruments of socialism — they are redistributing the wealth by fiat from gov't. So, it would be fair to go after insurance companies. Funny, the morons who challenged us at anti-health care rallies kept saying insurance companies were funding us!
Aww….you sound a little jealous and perturbed. Guess that explains that KNOT on your noggin.
Do you know what the term exemption means? Guess you missed that part of her article. Figures. You've just showed everyone for the 4000th time your miserable reading comprehension. And speaking of 26 years old, I'm sure you'll be wearing your Obama diapers and proudly sucking on a pacifier. Never to grow up. How cute.
I pity the fools that voted for this fool.
No… never met him. But I would shake his hand way before I would yours and people like you on the "gay tolerant" left.
hehehehehehehe
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/b...
Oh, I know what an exemption is, you obviously do not because it has nothing to do with her increase in rates.
"Meanwhile, the Afghan Council that is trying to end the war there has recommended that Taliban prisoners be freed from Gitmo to join peace talks back home."
That's no problem. Drop their dead, headless carcasses off on the battlefields of Afghanistan to show our commitment to their "peace" efforts. Then let's negotiate the idea that we will not leave their worthless land to 10,000 years of uninhabitable territory from the nuclear fallout that they would gladly leave our lands to.
If they want to play with the big boys, then let's show them what the "big boys" can do.
For starters, the requirement to cover all pre-existing conditions and insuring losers/liberals that are still living with mommy until they are 26.
You need to go away on this one Huskers… you have lost this one. No matter what you say… you have egg on your face. You only dig a deeper fools grave with every posting. A bed sheet don't work that well jumping off the barn…. go eat some jello or something. Get over it…. you have both feet tightly embedded up your ignorant gullible azz.
But please… don't ever go away completely. We all really hope that you will learn something here someday.
Bwing it, peanut head, your epic arse-kicking will be televised!
*SNORT!*, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!, *GASP*, BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!
Being Civil doesn't make Husker any more right or correct. It just makes him an anomaly of the left.
Hey Hey Hey watch that mouth…. show a little respect to our contributors over here…if you don't like what you read here you can always slither on back to that Soros ghetto you nitwits call the media…
You know people it never fails, people with weak arguments, hidden agendas, and small minds always seem to resort to name calling and insults to try and make their point……
You know nothing of insurance do you. The costs are increasing due to the companies anticipated future expenditures that go beyond one, two, three or more years. They don't operate on a year to year budget but calculate peoples, age, sex, current health status, future health status, inflation, over a persons expected life time. This money is pooled and healthy people pay into it in anticipation of needing it at some point, but in the meantime, others are drawing from that fund to pay for their costs…or never mind. You've been sold a lie and there's no point of trying to convince you otherwise.
Duuuuh! Huskers. You don't say! Get a fricken clue. That is just the tip of the iceberg that the US Titanic just run into. Can you even here that ripping sound yet? The band will be playing "Nearer My God To Thee" very soon. You better be lookin for a life vest dumb azz… cause your about to get a little cold and wet. Go talk to a doctor and see what he is planning to do in the near future.
I half expected McCain to give 0bama a blow job during the campaign.
You have a grapefruit for a brain and it's turned to mush. The evidence and discussion about Obamacare on this blog has been exhausting, yet you still try to argue with the facts. And by declaring that Pamela Gellar has not received a 30% increase in her health coverage is the same as calling her a liar. You're such a pathetic sad sack POS loser that it's become almost hilarious. Every argument that you bring up turns out to a complete fraud and when the proof is provided you tuck tail and run off for a few days or avoid the conversation completely. Nut.
Well, let's see, the costs of my employees' health insurance more than doubled from 2004-09. So can I blame Obamacare too?
No, you can blame yourself for contracting with a shitty heath insurance provider. Just wait until Obamacare kicks in….or are you one of the exempt special class? But back to your question…there you go again trying to turn this discussion back to something you can blame the Republicans. Very predictable and comical.
Good Lord You're Stupid
No, I will tell you you know nothing about the law. The only projected increase for persons who have policies which meet the basic requirements of the law will be to cover pre-existing conditions and this increase is expected to be very small. However, there are significant limitations. Currently, only minor children are covered. When the law becomes effective, you will have to sign up for insurance within a certain time window. Once you are enrolled in a basic policy, you can transfer companies and still be covered. If you elect not to be covered, you may be excluded in the future. This prevents someone from not paying for insurance and then enrolling when they really need insurance coverage.
I would say that Larry Craig must be a member of the "gay tolerant" right.
Defense is not possible for this travesty. BHO can only plead the 5th once his mouth is stapled shut.
Hehehe. Do not believe everything you read. Under the new act, you will be given a window to enroll if you do not have coverage. Once that window expires, an insurance company can deny you coverage for pre-existing conditions. The pre-existing exclusion, only applies to persons who have insurance coverage which meets the basic requirements. So sorry.
Let us know when your employees' healthcare coverage becomes so unaffordable, you dump them onto a government plan (which really IS the plan) and pay the penalty instead.
That means the rest of us can expect another premium increase to make up the slack.
You betcha. EVERYTHING. In fact, this site is often checked by the RETRACT-O and I don't recall but a very few instances where something they've reported has been pulled or edited. Sorry, you can't say that about your favorite hangout HuffPo, DailyKos or Media Matters. Just the other day the clown who owns HuffPo had to fess up to her plagiarism. Swallow it, moron.
Hey the Marxists posting here. Hey you lost we won so STFU and sit in the back of the bus. In 2012 our victory will be complete. Go back in your basements load up the bong and enjoy. Obama has been neutered. Well if they could find his tiny balls. Now we need to get to work stopping the funding of Deathcare that will shut it down until it can be repealed.
I see. So should Ms. Gellar also blame her sh***y health care provider, too.
I see. So I get to pick up your health care tab when you are your family get sick. So much for strong, conservative principals.
Why are you asking me? She made a statement that her health insurance went up 30% and as is typical you attempt to claim she is lying. I was always taught that when a person calls someone a liar, it's usually proven the name caller is the actual liar. If the shoes fits…..
Bingo. But HuskersLoveBo is playing solitaire, so he won't follow you no matter what you say.
Really, redlion already typed the answer to your broken record question. And he typed it slowly. I'll copy and paste it even more slowly. Maybe if you take your fingers off autopilot, and pull your brain out of "park," you'll get it. But you don't deserve a whole new response when the first was sufficient:
"You know nothing of insurance do you. The costs are increasing due to the companies anticipated future expenditures that go beyond one, two, three or more years. They don't operate on a year to year budget but calculate peoples, age, sex, current health status, future health status, inflation, over a persons expected life time. This money is pooled and healthy people pay into it in anticipation of needing it at some point, but in the meantime, others are drawing from that fund to pay for their costs…or never mind. You've been sold a lie and there's no point of trying to convince you otherwise."
the news about Obamadinajad keeps getting more grim… oh why did the Indian gov't have to remove all the coconuts from the area around the arrogant non-leader??! One strategically placed coconut bounced off the presidential noggin might've actually knocked a little lofty intellectuality-ness into the flawed temporary occupant of the White House.
The Obama Doctrine: "We are against us."
Totally brilliant. 'Nuff said.
1 Million Arizona Repub voters are about to find out they voted for GOP states rights death panels. NAZI Lover Republican Russell Pearce of Arizona’s racist papers please racial profiling law is about to issue 1 million death panels in Arizona to include 18 thousand children.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZMWXd1UdkM&fe...
Odds are Texas will now go bankrupt before California.
( Texas' GOP leaders, their eyes on the Nov. 2 election, have played down the problem's size, even as the hole in the next two-year cycle has grown in recent weeks to as much as $24 billion to $25 billion. That's about 25 percent of current spending.
The gap is now proportionately larger than the deficit California recently closed with cuts and fee increases, its fourth dose of budget misery since September 2008.
Against the backdrop of the acrimonious campaign between Republican Gov. Rick Perry and Democratic challenger Bill White, Texas' top elected and budget officials have guarded even more tightly than usual against leaks of information. But bad numbers continue to dribble out in legislative testimony and agency reports.
The bottom line: Public schools, college students and government employees, not just poor and needy Texans, might very well lose money, grants, benefits and even livelihoods during and after next year's legislative session. )
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/la...
New Jersey is going down the craper at the speed of light under there new GOP Governor.
(New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Thursday declared a "fiscal emergency," allowing him to reserve or freeze state spending as part of his plan to tackle one of the largest 2011 deficits among U.S. states.)
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61A49V20100...
Repubs take over state legislators and will soon find out to meet their campaign promises they will have to hurt the very people who voted for them.
(Republicans who have taken over state capitols across the country are promising to respond to crippling budget deficits with an array of cuts, among them proposals to reduce public workers’ benefits in Wisconsin, scale back social services in Maine and sell off state liquor stores in Pennsylvania, endangering the jobs of thousands of state workers.
States face huge deficits, even after several grueling years of them, and just as billions of dollars in stimulus money from Washington is drying up. )
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/us/politics/08g...
Bonner (Boehner) better get hot on drafting up a new stimulus bill.
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