Yeah right Rush, Obama's such a radical leftist he made the Bush tax cuts permanent and made the Heritage Foundation's individual mandate the centerpiece of Obamacare

You are a ding dong.

Obamacare bankrupts the state of New York less than 10 years after Democrats shoved it down America's throat

Obama has to sell Obamacare this Christmas because none of the Democrat candidates for president believe in it anymore

Poor fella.

Link.

Elise Stefanik is on the side of The Body Snatchers' Donald Trump, not the one we voted for

The Trump we voted for promised a 10-point America First Plan which was ALL ABOUT IMMIGRATION, not climate, not tax cuts, not Obamacare, etc., especially ending DACA immediately by executive order and building NEW actual wall, not replacing existing with bollard fencing.

Democrats rammed Obamacare down our throats on a party line vote, and now ABC News has the effrontery to report it's crushing the middle class

Democrat solution? Crush everyone, with Medicare for All.

Trade wars started in 2018 instead of 2017 by default, the same reason immigration wars started after he lost the House

Trump never had a strategy for getting what he ran on, but the GOP had a strategy for getting what it wanted.

Trump should have leveraged this situation to his advantage. You give me my immigration checklist, my trade checklist, I'll give you corporate tax reform and defense spending. Instead, the phony Art of the Deal author caved and gave them everything without getting anything.

Trump wasted the first entire year on repealing and replacing Obamacare, the latter being the fool's errand Trump in his hubris added after securing the nomination. Did he not pay attention to the clash between Democrats in 2009 over the House healthcare plan vs. the Senate plan? It took a Herculean effort to get a compromise, all without Republican input. Like he could get Republicans united for something similar, after ripping them all to shreds in 2016.

Total doofus, surrounded by doofi.

The only thing he's getting right is that he doesn't need anybody to conduct the trade war. Doesn't really matter when he conducts it, but Republicans would have been begging him to end it much earlier if he had started it much earlier. And that is the definition of the art of the deal.

Too bad he didn't think of it.

y/y change US imports of goods from China: Sum Ting Wong long before this

Elizabeth Warren's ridiculous health care calculator has no box to check for 24 million Americans who privately buy their own health insurance off-Obamacare Marketplace and not through an employer

Kim Lardassian gets hers, but illegal immigration just gets worse, health care premiums soar under Obamacare, GDP grows at a crawl, and barely 50% of us have full time jobs

There was zero quid pro quo in the Trump-Ukraine call, but plenty of it in the Biden video at CFR

Biden 2020 is irreparably damaged goods. People are asking if that wasn't Nancy Pelosi's goal all along, in order to get Biden out of the way for Elizabeth Warren.

Remember, Pelosi threw the US House public option plan under the bus in 2009 in order to get a win for Obama with the Senate's Obamacare in 2010. She's throwing the House's reputation under again for the higher good: A better candidate than creepy Uncle Joe.

Atlantic article totally soft-peddles how Obamacare's architects made millions vulnerable to estate recovery under Medicaid

The only reason Obamacare can be called successful reasonably is that it threw millions onto Medicaid, except that what is spent on you in life for your healthcare under Medicaid ends up coming out of what's left of what you owned after you die, if anything, including from the sale of your house, and even from the sale of granny's hand-me-down quilts.

America's first black president, Bill Clinton, signed estate recovery into law, and the second one then sold that bill of goods to millions of America's uninsured poor. He just bought himself a $15 million mansion to celebrate. 

Medicaid’s Dark Secret:

For many participants, the program that provides health care to millions of low-income Americans isn’t free. It’s a loan. And the government expects to be repaid. ...

One lawyer in Tennessee recalled a case in which a woman went to her late mother’s Medicaid auction to buy back quilts that had been passed down for generations. ...

One of the few times estate recovery has made headlines was earlier this decade, during the rollout of the Obama administration’s Medicaid expansion. As more Americans considered Medicaid as a health-insurance option, more came across the fine print. At least three states passed legislation to scale back their recovery policies after public outcry.

Feminism is a mental disorder: Democrat Congressman's wife upset Obamacare covers her husband's pregnancy but not their marriage counseling

Which they're going to need a lot more of.

Unaffordable No Health Care Act: Health insurance premium increases pre-Obamacare 10%, post-Obamacare 60%

Yes, It Was The 'Affordable' Care Act That Increased Premiums:

It turns out that across the board, for all ages and family sizes, for HMO, PPO, and POS plans, premium increases averaged about 60 percent from 2013, the last year before ACA reforms took effect, to 2017. In same length of time preceding that, all groups experienced premium increases of less than 10 percent, and most age groups actually experienced premium decreases, on average.

How soon they forget, even Ann Coulter: Trump squandered his victory momentum in the first six months on repealing and replacing Obamacare, and got BUPKIS, then took the Republicans' corporate tax cuts for his own because he needed a victory

It took Trump until the end of June 2017 to realize clean repeal should have been his gambit instead of repeal and replace, and by the end of July it was all over. The Senate went on summer vacay and came back to give Trump their own tax bill, not his (but did he ever have one?). Republicans hung Russia-conspiracy-embattled Trump out to dry, and played his hubris like a fiddle.

Having lost the House, Trump unwisely turned again, this time to trade war, which if he were going to fight one he should have saved for his second term. There are always casualties in war, as we're seeing with farmers and small businesses tied to the China supply chain. It's stupid to kill your voters.

Ann Coulter has repeatedly said solving immigration solves every other problem, including jobs, which is what Trump should have made his first term focus. But as we've come to see, Trump can't focus.

Infrastructure spending is a side show compared with all the money saved by fixing immigration. It seems Ann Coulter's forgotten this, too.

Rush Limbaugh gets more out of touch with every passing day: "People like their health care from their employer"

Talk about delusional.

In my household we haven't had employer provided health insurance since 2008, but recently a new employer offered us some. My jaw hit the floor when I saw the price: $2,033 per month for family coverage.

Currently I pay $532 a month for family coverage, because I have a plan grandfathered in from pre-2010, which I get to keep as long as I don't make any changes to it. The new employer's plan is almost FOUR TIMES more expensive than what I'm paying now.

Compared to what I'm being offered by an employer right now my current plan looks mahvelous, right?

Well guess what it cost just eight years ago?

$227 a month.

That's right. Despite the fact I'm not hostage to Obamacare or employer provided insurance, my premiums have still risen 134% in eight years. And it would be even worse had I not raised the deductible. Needless to say, my coverage is nearly useless for office visits and routine tests; that's all 100% out of pocket, too.

But look at the scale of what's happened. The coverage I had in 2011 now costs me about two and half times as much as it did then, but this new employer plan costs NINE TIMES as much as privately purchased coverage cost me eight years ago.

That is insane.

OBAMACARE IS A CURSE AND A BLIGHT ON THE NATION, WHETHER YOU HAVE IT OR NOT, and Rush Limbaugh is as out of his mind as the Democrat hucksters trying to sell us Medicare for All or some other bottle of government elixir when he says people like their health care from their employer. They do not. The LA Times in May:

Health insurance deductibles soar, leaving Americans with unaffordable bills:

The 2010 healthcare law — often called Obamacare — provided landmark protections to Americans once shut out of health coverage. But as Democrats and Republicans fought over the law, Altman said, neither focused on the rapid run-up in costs for people covered through work. ... Over the same time, insurance premiums also increased, rising at more than double the rate of inflation and outpacing wage gains.

This is about 5x the price the coverage would cost him now had Obamacare never passed

Too bad Americans didn't give Republicans control of both chambers of Congress and the White House in 2016 to fix this and gave all that to Democrats instead. 

10 years after Santelli's rant against Obama's proposed bailout of your neighbor's mortgage, National Review pretends it was about deficit spending

You will search in vain in this article for the word "mortgage".

If the Tea Party had been about any one thing, it was about the moral hazard of bailouts. A sizeable minority of the American people perceived that bailouts made them chumps, dutifully following the rules and accepting their obligations while bankrupt businesses and bankrupt homeowners did neither. 

By Brian Riedl, long-time research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, the article illustrates better than anything how the interests of establishment conservatism co-opted the Tea Party movement in 2011, just as establishment Republicanism co-opted Trumpism in 2017.

"Let's steal this energy and make it about something else".

Every. Damn. Time. 

New Budget Deal Puts Final Nail in the Tea-Party Coffin:

Horrified by Washington spenders, CNBC’s Rick Santelli stood on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on February 19, 2009, and called for a “tea party” to end the bailouts, stimulus payments, and red ink. Grassroots tea-party groups formed — further enraged by the later enactment of an expensive new Obamacare entitlement — and helped Republicans capture the House in 2010 with a stunning 63-seat pickup and also pick up seven Senate seats.

Just a reminder that Obamacare is doing what it intended: Squeeze the middle class

Making healthcare more expensive for the middle class is intended to eliminate the middle class, eventually. Obamacare in its gradualism is an example of Fabian socialism. 

But it's classic Marxism nonetheless, wherein the middle class is seen to be the greatest enemy, not the rich. The middle class stands in the proletariat's way in its contest against the rich. The middle class must be reduced and absorbed by the proletariat in order to end the possibility of the middle class getting wealthier and rising up the economic ladder.

Instead the middle class must be forced down the economic ladder.

We are living it, but the masses hardly notice as they are anesthetized by libertarian phantoms in fake news, entertainments, drugs and assorted excesses of appetite. The effect of it all is an equality! How could that be bad!?

The enemy proceeds with utter seriousness, corrupting the body politic, while seriousness can hardly be found in anyone else.   

Obamacare sucks for working stiffs: 66% making under $40,000 a year struggle to pay for healthcare

Rising health insurance deductibles fuel middle-class anger and resentment:

As recently as 2006, the average deductible for individual coverage in job-based plan was just $379, adjusted for inflation, according to KFF. ... The average deductible has more than tripled, to $1,350. More than a quarter of workers have plans with a deductible of at least $2,500.

Incredible footage of Joe Biden in Iowa repeating the same lie Obama repeated: If you like your plan you can keep it

Video.

Millions of Americans lost their private plans because of Obamacare and were forced to choose more expensive plans, in effect forcibly subsidizing the poor through their higher premiums. They were mostly self-employed, entrepreneurial and small business people, singled out for punishment.

To this day they have no voice in Washington, not in Congress, not in the Judiciary, and not in the White House.

And not in the Democrat Party.

 

 

See how this works, folks? Biden creeps left, Biden crawls left, he's the epitome of moderation!

In 2009 the public option was toxic leftism. In 2019 it's the epitome of moderation compared to the other radicals running for president. Every. Damn. Election.