There is an unintentionally funny article today by
Dana Milbank which complains about “Government by Anecdote.” His specifics have to do with letters from
complaining constituents that Republicans read during the Obamacare Congressional
hearings. Democrats have been governing
by anecdote since the New Deal 1930's, with great political success for their
programs. Now that the Republicans are
using government by anecdote to bash Democrats, Mr. Milbank wants Republicans
to stop doing it. If Republicans have
learned anything from Obama, it's to fight as dirty as possible and use the
entire Democrat playbook against them.
Since Obamacare was built on lies and anecdotes, it really seems like
poetic justice to attack it with truth and anecdotes. Sow the wind, reap the
whirlwind.
Brietbart.com quotes
Harry Reid’s comments on the Senate Obamacare hearings. “My Republican colleagues, why don’t they
just – let’s number their 1 through 50 criticisms and giving all these
speeches, just give us a number, and we would all – because we’ve heard these things
so many times – we would immediately laugh because they’re jokes, too. With this comment, Harry Reid seems to have admitted that there
are at least 50 complaints that can be made against Obamacare. However, since
Mr. Reid usually underestimates the cost of government programs, it's likely he
underestimated the number of possible complaints as well. It seems to this
ignorant red neck in fly over country that Mr. Reid is himself the biggest joke
of all. Further, I am really enjoying the consequences, for Mr. Reid and his
party, of the Obamacare” joke” he perpetrated on all of us. It seems to have backfired.
Some Obamacare critics say our Dear
Leader and friends messed up on an easy web site. I don’t think this project was easy, even
though The Smartest President Ever seems to have thought so. I've been a professional programmer for over
40 years and this is a very difficult, complicated application. In order to
verify eligibility, the web site has to retrieve information from a lot of
different databases, each with its own format and access methods. The sources
of information include 36 states and several federal departments. Worse, the
web site has to do all of this while the customer is waiting. Each piece of
information retrieved introduces another chance of delay or failure. As hard as
all of this is, HHS made it even harder by hiring 55 contractor firms to do
various pieces of the project with no general contractor to manage integration
and end-to-end testing. With HHS serving as its own general contractor, a Pearl
Harbor style disaster was locked in. I don't see any way this thing is going to
be ready by November 1, 2014, let alone the end of November this year.
Some Liberal
commenters say that the number of insured will justify Obamacare by 2020. What happened to the fierce urgency of
now? This argument reminds me of the
famous economist John M. Keynes’ saying, “In the long run, we’re all dead.” With any luck, Obamacare won't make it to
2020. Given my comments above, it's not
clear that the Obamacare web site will be up by November 1, 2014. As a result, Obamacare will be lucky to
survive until the end of 2017. To the
commenter’s point, it's not entirely clear that the net increase in people
covered will exceed the number of people dropped from the existing plans that
they liked better. While other
administration scandals can be covered up, many, many people will have first-hand
experience with the effects of Obamacare.
No amount of spin from the Pravda Press is going to convince people that
they are better off now than they were before Obamacare.
A liberal author’s article comments
got erased earlier today. In response to
suspicious Conservative commenters,the author promises the technical glitch
will be fixed. And I believe his promise
is just as likely to happen as our Dear Leader's promise of better healthcare.
Liberal promises always boil down to, "Trust us to do the right
thing for all of you." What this really means is "Trust us and
we'll do the right thing for us to expand our power." Helping the
downtrodden is such a Liberal desire, they want to create more downtrodden.
Obamacare has succeeded in taking relatively self-sufficient people and
making them dependent on and subservient to the Liberals. If we don't
vote Liberal, there will be consequences to our healthcare. That's
the Chicago way.
