Democrat's Solution: Amnesty Will Fix ObamaCare!

by JASmius

Otherwise known as the "What the hell?" gambit:

A crucial fix for the ailing Obama healthcare law could come in the form of legalizing immigrants so they could receive coverage and participate in the program's exchanges, one Colorado lawmaker says.

Representative Jared Polis on Friday called upon Congress to grant illegal immigrants citizenship rights that would allow them access to the federally mandate health coverage, the Washington Times reported.

Immigrants are currently not required to participate in the program's individual mandate and don’t receive subsidies or the ability to participate in Medicaid programs, Polis noted. Too often they are shifted to emergency rooms for routine healthcare, some not paying their bills, which in turn are absorbed by paying consumers, said Polis, a Democrat who represents Colorado's 2nd District.

"American citizens are essentially being forced to pay for the health care costs of people who are here illegally every day, until we pass comprehensive immigration reform," Polis told the Times. "We’re wondering why rates are going up. … It’s no surprise. When somebody doesn’t have insurance, their costs are shifted onto other people that do."

[Long period of stunned silence, punctuated by repeated openings and closings of my mouth]

I'm trying to think of an adequate analogy to describe Representative Polis' proposal.  And I'm having a great deal of difficulty doing so.  I've spent a long period of time in stunned silence, repeatedly opening my mouth only to find nothing coming out, and then closing it again.  I think the best I can do is the following scenario:

Suppose that you're working on an outdoor household project - building a fence, say.  That involves hammering nails into wood, yes?  Good.  So you're out in the yard, and you're hammering nails into a piece of wood - a board or a slat or a beam or something.  The details don't matter for our purposes here - you're just hammering the damn nail into the damn wood, okay?  And in the process of the hammering, you accidentally bring the hammer down slightly off target, and you smash your thumb instead.  But you don't have much time before dinner, so you keep on hammering, and in your haste to finish putting all the nails into the wood (because they guy at Home Depot told you that more nails = better quality of construction) you smash your other thumb and all eight fingers.  In fact, you smash upwards of fifteen million fingers.  You destroyed hordes of fingers you never knew you had.  Both your arms, mightily muscled from lifting hands with millions of fingers on a daily basis, are bruised and mangled beyond recognition.  Worst part is, you can't hold a fork, so short of a tube down your throat, dinner is kaput; and, of course, now you fence will never get completed.

That's when your neighbor - whose leaves and garbage are most of the reason you were attempting to build a fence, and who somehow managed to not notice the yowls of agony from all your self-inflicted digital abuse - ambles over, notices the remains of your dexterity, and suggests making splints for all of your fingers from the wood you were planning to use to build the fence.

Okay, maybe I need more stunned silence.  In the mean time, may I say that legalizing all - what is it now, twelve million?  Fifteen million?  Twenty million? - illegals wouldn't take up any O-Care slack because they would bury Medicaid even deeper underwater than it is already, not overpay for government-dictated individual private policies.  The very fact that illegals are disproportionately dependent is precisely why Democrats want to amnestize them as a core constituency.

Which is much of why I'm sitting here, impersonating a gaffed fish.  I don't know whether to marvel at Representative Polis' stupendous stupidity or his monumental audacity.  ObamaCare - corruptly and tyrannically rammed down the throat of a populace that never wanted it and still doesn't on a strict party line vote - is simultaneously decimating the healthcare system, the economy, and the Democrat Party, and his idea of a solution is to corruptly and tyrannically ram through another vastly unpopular idea that'll further decimate the economy, explode the debt....but offset the damage done to the Democrat Party by ObamaCare.

Hence, the audacity.  Democrats can't do anything else worth crap, but they do know how to game the system and steal elections.

At any rate, it ain't happening:

Solis called on his fellow lawmakers to pass House Resolution 15, a Democrat-sponsored bill that would open a pathway to citizenship for most illegals, even as House Speaker John Boehner said debate on any immigration law would not come this year, telling reporters on Wednesday: "We have no intention of ever going to conference on the Senate bill," NBC News reported.

I guess if the killer asteroid is coming and can't be stopped, why not take a little target practice to pass the time you've got left?

Speaking of extinction-level events, here are the first pebbles of the avalanche to come.