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Clueless Joe

Big Frick — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:45:02 +0000

Well, that makes it pretty simple.

Pundits are debating a litany of causes for the deep angst and anger being displayed in the current voter polling data. Voters are mad as hell and while even the most liberal minded of the so called experts accept the anger, they differ on their opinions of the root-cause for it.

The list of possibilities is pretty long. From ObamaCare to the economy. From jobs (or the lack thereof) to the mishandling of the gushing oil well in the Gulf. From casualties in Afghanistan to gays in the military. From outrageous and unsustainable government spending to pending cap and trade legislation. And on and on and on.

Suffice it to say that voters are livid and there are plenty of possible reasons for it.

But Barack Obama’s right hand man, the man who’s breath has the ever-present scent of shoe polish, has it all figured out. The reason Americans are furious, according VP Joe “Foot-In-Mouth” Biden, is that we just don’t understand. Plain and simple, America you just don’t get it.

Biden is just coming off his latest round of contemptibly attempted damage control where he not only stated emphatically that the trillion dollar non-stimulating stimulus spending has created several million jobs (or was it ten million, or was it a gazillion), but he did it with a straight face. Like most Americans after hearing his prevarication regarding the number of jobs supposedly created by this mistake to the trillionth power, in an economy that is shedding jobs faster than Nancy Pelosi molting in the spring, I kept waiting for the punch line. But when he was done it dawned on all of us that, Holy Crap!!! He seriously believes we are going to buy this.

And that dear readers, is going to be the focus of the upcoming election season. If the facts don’t match the hype, ignore the facts and switch the blame.

It’s not that the Democrats have lost all sense of reason and responsibility. It’s not that the tried and true standards by which the economy is rated are indicating complete and total failure on a plan that never had a chance in hell of working. It’s not that the Democrat leadership in the House, the Senate and the White House have no clue as to what they are doing. No. That’s not the problem. The problem is that all of us left holding the unpayable bills racked up by this inept community organizer and his band of economic neophytes just don’t understand how truly smart these guys really are.

"These are gigantic packages to deal with a gigantic problem we inherited," Biden said "I don’t think they (the American people) know the detail of what’s going on…"

They presented the country with a 647 page supposed stimulus bill that spent $1 trillion. With the accompanying legislation, pork barrel amendments and earmarks the bill was over 2000 pages. They presented the country with the ObamaCare package. Another $1 trillion in spending buried amongst the 1990 pages of lost healthcare choices, tax increases and union giveaways. While the taxes for this debacle start now the supposed coverage starts to kick in sometime in 2014.

But you’re wrong Joe. Even with the 4000 plus pages you have created to misdirect us, Americans understand what you’ve done. We may not understand how the healthcare bill that couldn’t pass on its own merits became law anyway through the reprehensible use of cloture, but we do understand the damage you’ve done. And we also understand how to put a stop to it.

November is trundling down the road. As November 2^nd, the day of the midterm election, draws near we will hear more and more of how clueless the voters are. It’s up to us to prove Big Joe wrong or to prove him right.

For me, the prospect of Change has never inspired more Hope.

ObamaCare and Old Pat

Big Frick — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:46:33 +0000

I have indeed known some real doozies in my life.

Like a fellow I knew named Pat that worked on a road building crew. He would go out every weekend and simply abuse himself to the point of a comatose like blackout. He always claimed he had a great weekend but he could never tell you where he was or what he did. What made it even stranger was that every Monday he would visit the job site Port-A-Potty and deliver what could only be described as the very brimstone of hell. It became almost a pay per view event because not only was the little gift package he left behind absolutely inhuman, it was, well….Technicolor.

Bright canary yellow, fluorescent green, deep purple, sky blue, shocking pink…. It was like a very gay interior decorator with a flair for the absurd had invaded his alimentary system. There were actually grown men who would intentionally follow this poor sot into the fiberglass commode to gaze in awe at the remarkable load of crap that he created. It was hideously offensive and completely disgusting, but believe it or not old Pat couldn’t have been prouder of it. He acted as if he was some sort of artist with a very unusual palette.

As I watch the Democrats celebrate their passage of the ObamaCare trillion dollar debacle I can’t help but be reminded of Pat.

Much like Pat this mess was truly something that Democrats were desperate to pass. And while they may all be standing around shaking each other’s hand at the historic nature of this unconstitutional boondoggle it is, none the less, a complete load of crap.

To her credit Nancy Pelosi was able to focus her minions on the remarkable palette of this load rather than the substance of it. Every political trick in the book was used to ensure passage because on its own the bill stunk to high heaven. But now that it’s passed Democrats are exiting the Halls of Congress with the same misguided pride my old pal Pat displayed and the same wry sense of accomplishment in saying “Hey look what I did”.

This bill will do nothing to improve healthcare, in fact the exact opposite will be true. It adds 35 million to the role of insured but does nothing to increase the number of healthcare professionals that will treat them. It will likely cause many in the healthcare business to reevaluate their business model, forcing some out of business entirely and forcing others to completely change the way they do business.

Seniors and those who will soon be seniors will likely be the first to see the change as more and more doctors will be financially unable to accept new Medicare patients and some will be unable to treat the ones they have. To foolishly claim $500 billion can be taken out of Medicare without reducing the level of healthcare provided is like saying you can buy a Filet Mignon for the same as a McDonald’s hamburger and not lose anything in the quality. The bill is so convoluted that even Barack Obama himself doesn’t understand it. He said this past week that “A year from now millions of adults who are currently uninsured will have insurance”. The fact is that the bills coverage for adults doesn’t start for another 4 years. The only thing that starts next year is the tax increase to pay for this pile of promissory poocaa.

As for my old pal Pat, well the years of unregenerate abuse finally caught up with him and he passed away. After years of unregenerate abuse heaped on the American public in the past and for the years of financial disaster this bill all but guarantees in the future I can only hope the political careers of those Democrats that voted for this disaster to our healthcare system will do the same.

Barack Obama got ObamaCare passed.

But still wouldn’t want to step in it.

Finding Hope

Big Frick — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:38:43 +0000

There is a lot to be said for Hope.

I think it’s pretty obvious that I never bought into the whole Hope and Change thing pushed by Barack Obama and his Chicago political team. Some would say that I’m too cynical; I prefer to think I am too realistic.

For me things need to make sense. The numbers need to add up. I enjoy a good magic trick, but I never wonder if the magician is truly blessed with some secret mystic power that allows him to make things disappear and reappear. I appreciate the show for what it is and wonder how long it took him to work out the logistics and the mechanics of the trick. Because I know it’s a trick and it will never be anything but a trick. A great magician is a master of misdirection and timing. It is entertaining to watch but I don’t leave the show a changed man, filled with hope, because I’ve just witnessed feats that defy explanation and inspire a sense of awe.

I feel pretty much the same way when I watch what is currently transpiring in Washington DC with the eminent passage of the ObamaCare healthcare debacle. The Democrats currently leading both Houses of Congress are certainly masters of misdirection and timing. They read the polls being reported that show a wide majority of Americans oppose this disaster to medical care and personal choice and know that if they don’t get a bill passed quickly they will lose the fragile voting bloc they have cobbled together with hundreds of millions of dollars in cash payments and corrupt earmark agreements.

The plan is clear. Democrats hope to get this misguided, budget busting nationalization of health care pushed through the Senate and back to the House. House members will bitch and moan just enough to get some additional graft payments for themselves before they finally roll over and accept this two trillion dollar mistake, allowing Barack Obama to close the year deceiving the American public by claiming he has been successful at fulfilling his promise of healthcare reform. In fact, nothing could be farther from the truth. This legislation does not provide coverage for all the uninsured in the country but rather mandates that everyone get coverage, which they will be forced to pay for or risk getting hit with a $750 fine. It does not include any public option nor does it extend Medicare coverage to those 55 years old like the House bill. In order to get the AMA on board it does not include the 20% cut in Medicare benefits to doctors nor does it tax put a tax on cosmetic surgery for the wealthy but instead puts a tax on tanning salons. The intentional misdirection of this piece of legislation being touted by the president is so profound that it actually inspires hope. At least in me.

You see the only selling point left in this bill is the Congressional Budget Office’s audit which shows this package will actually reduce the national deficit in the first ten years. The CBO is a nonpartisan accounting office that is mandated to produce budgetary conclusions based on the information it is given. Guess who gave the CBO the data to be extrapolated. Why the Democrats, of course. It also only has the ability to extend that information for a ten year window of review. Because the tax portion of this bill will start in 2010 and the benefits portion doesn’t kick in until 2014 the overall outlook for the first ten years can be assumed to be positive. But if you take the numbers and work them for the years that the benefits exist it is a far different story. Dollars in versus dollars out shows a whopping $2 trillion deficit over ten years. Plus the CBO data was required to show no increase in Medicare expenses over the ten year period it reviewed. Of course that is not possible but the CBO cannot draw its own conclusions but can only use the data it is provided.

Why would something like this inspire hope in an old conservative heart like mine? Because no matter how the Dem’s try to spin this, the news media is already beginning to lose faith. The real numbers are beginning to surface and by the time we get to the 2010 midterm elections the voting public will be armed with all the information they need to make some serious changes in who controls the nation’s checkbook.

Once this plan is fully instituted it will be like AOL software and corrupt the system to the point of meltdown. But as most of the 176 new commissions and none of the insurance or healthcare practices will be in place by the 2010 election, voters will have a chance to end this nightmare and rescind Barack Obama’s blank check legislation.

I am hopeful that ObamaCare is this community activist president’s Waterloo. I am hopeful that ObamaCare will strip the gavel from Nancy Pelosi’s hand. I am hopeful that ObamaCare will remove Harry “Mr. Peepers” Reed from the Senate leader position and may even remove him from the Senate entirely. This ObamaCare package is so corrupt and so unworkable that its passage may turn out to be the Christmas gift conservatives have been waiting for.

2010 is coming and I do have Hope for a Change.