Holy rusted metal, Batman, this really is the undiscovered country, isn't it?:
President Barack Obama wasn't getting universal praise from Democrats Thursday for his call for millions of canceled healthcare policies be restored. Liberal lawmakers and activists criticized him for not holding firm on enforcing the [Una]ffordable Care[-Less] Act.
His decision to allow insurance companies essentially to ignore the law for a year and continue offering substandard coverage could end up costing him the support of the left, Politico reported.
The piece features comically doctrinaire rebukes from moveon.org (who blames ObamaCare's collapse on the Tea Party), Senator Bernie Sanders (USSR-VT) (who bashes his messiah for losing faith in his magic wand), Ed Shultz (who burst several dozen more capillaries), and the Daily Kos, which I think is my favorite rant of all:
"Some insurers are using confusion created by the new law to hoodwink their customers into enrolling in much more expensive plans," the petition reads. "The actions of some of these companies proves why we needed healthcare reform in the first place: insurance companies are greedy, and cannot be trusted.
"It is time to set the record straight," the petition continued. "Tell President Obama to stop apologizing for the despicable conduct of private insurance companies, and hold them accountable."
Even though the insurance companies were simply....complying with O's "settled" law. Given that O's illegal "fix" does shift the blame to the hapless insurance carriers, I'm at a loss as to what Kos is bitching about, other than that nobody in the length and breadth of the Nutroots can bear any posture or strategy other than a blithering "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" (Which is precisely why when I see the same mentality in so many Tea Partiers, it irritates me worse than sprinkling powdered glass in my shorts.)
The whole thing is like if Jesus had snuck out with Satan to grab a pulled-pork sandwich, and His disciples had found out about it and crucified Him themselves.
It does, though, go to show why Obamunists are growing so restlessly unsettled. As Charles Krauthammer points out today, it's slowly dawning on the Left that they've collided with their iceberg, and a lot more than just ObamaCare is taking on water:
The reaction to the incompetence, arrogance and deception has ranged from ridicule to anger. But more is in jeopardy than just panicked congressional Democrats. This is the signature legislative achievement of the Obama presidency, the embodiment of his new entitlement-state liberalism. If ObamaCare goes down, there will be little left of its underlying ideology....
The more likely scenario, however, is that ObamaCare does fail. It either fails politically, renounced by a wide consensus that includes a growing number of Democrats, or it succumbs to the financial complications (the insurance “death spiral”) of the very amendments desperately tacked on to save it.
If it does fail, the effect will be historic. ObamaCare will take down with it more than Mary Landrieu and Co. It will discredit Obama’s new liberalism for years to come.
As insanely, hatefully, bloodthirstily manic as these people got after failing to usurp President Bush's victory in 2000, I don't think I want to imagine their psychological reaction to losing everything, all the power and wealth and control to which they've raged, cheated, schemed, lied, and plotted since. Or at least, I don't want to imagine it unless they can't get at me personally. Then I'd want it put on pay per view.
I do think you'll see leftwing domestic terrorism arise, especially if there is ever any Republican administration that finishes the repeal and replace of ObamaCare AND Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. All that hate has to spill over into mass violence at some point.
Meanwhile, the House today passed Fred Upton's version of "If you liked your plan, you can have it back" by a vote of 261-157. Whether you think it's a good idea or a trap, it is interesting to note that thirty-nine Democrats broke ranks and voted for a bill that Barack Obama has vowed - for now, at least - to veto. Which is to say, the White House knows that Dirty Harry will kill it in the Senate in favor of the coercive Landrieu-Feinstein version, which O might veto as well since it infringes on his stolen Article I/Section I lawmaking prerogatives as well.
Has OCare bleeped up the Democrats or what? Should be one helluva conference committee negotiation.
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