Friday, January 3, 2014
ObamaCare Sticker Sticks In
Yesterday in Newsmax, Drew MacKenzie was reporting hangovers from New Year’s Eve have gone and now millions of Americans are waking up to headaches from ObamaCare sticker shock.
Middle-class families are finding out the exact cost of the Affordable Care Act to their weekly budget, and they are realizing they have to make cutbacks in their lifestyles to afford higher healthcare insurance premiums.
Calling ObamaCare “another sucker punch to the middle class,” the report warns that “when the family budget gets hit in the solar plexus, guess what happens to consumer spending and the economy?”
All over the country, there are endless moving stories of how everyday lives are being affected by the higher costs of healthcare insurance plans under ObamaCare.
Hurley the Historian says on this date in 1521 Martin Luther was excommunicated, and these days Hurley keeps wondering how you’d go about excommunicating all those members of Congress who keep failing to do their jobs.
Maybe that’s why our Quote for Today Committee chose Ronald Reagan’s “I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.”
Now Let’s Meet Today’s Guest Editor:
It’s Real Republican Congressman “Bronze Star Brad” Wenstrup, who says, “Before being elected as your representative to Washington, I worked as a physician for over 25 years in Ohio and as an Army combat surgeon. Day in and day out, I cared for patients and dealt with insurance companies. I know full well the health care challenges that are before us, and I know that the Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare, fails to solve these challenges.”
That’s why The Blower, which takes pride in supporting savvy economically-minded members of the medical profession, is pleased to permit a Political Podiatrist like Doctor Brad to be our first 2014 guest editor and choose three items plus a Quickie for today’s E-dition from our Current Cadre of Conservative Columnists and Contributors.
- “OBAMA HEALTH CARE PROMISE NAMED ‘LIE OF THE YEAR’” by Whistleblower Faux Facebook Friend Ted Stevenot, whom The Blower previously reported saying he’s running against Ohio Governor Kasich-Taylor in only 123 more days.
Fact-checking organization Politifact has named their “Lie of the Year,” and it’s bad news for the White House and the Affordable Care Act.
President Barack Obama’s often-repeated assertion that “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it,” won the ignominious honor for 2013, the group announced.
In a blog post, Politifact– which is affiliated with the Tampa Bay Times – said Obama’s promise was “impossible to keep” and has resulted in a “real hit to his credibility.”
“So this fall, as cancellation letters were going out to approximately four million Americans, the public realized Obama’s breezy assurances were wrong,” editor Angie Drobnic Holan wrote. “Boiling down the complicated health care law to a soundbite proved treacherous, even for its promoter-in-chief. Obama and his team made matters worse, suggesting they had been misunderstood all along.”
She added that readers in an online poll “overwhelmingly” agreed.
- “NO SURPRISE HERE” by Kevin “Give ‘Em Hell” Sell, whom The Blower previously reported saying he’s running against Campbell County, Kentucky Judge Executive Steve Spendry in only 139 more days.
World War II started with the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the Surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945.
That’s 3 ½ years.
During that time the U.S. produced 22 aircraft carriers, 8 battleships, 48 cruisers, 349 destroyers, 420 destroyer escorts, 203 submarines, 34 million tons of merchant ships, 100,000 fighter aircraft, 98,000 bombers, 24,000 transport aircraft, 58,000 training aircraft, 93,000 tanks, 257,000 artillery pieces, 105,000 mortars, 3,000,000 machine guns, and 2,500,000 military trucks.
We put 16.1 million men and women in uniform in various armed services, invaded Africa, invaded Sicily and Italy, won the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb and ultimately conquered Japan and Germany.
It’s worth noting that during the almost exact amount of time, the entire Obama administration couldn’t build a functioning web site.
- “THE AMERICANS WITH NO ABILITIES ACT” by Defeated-and-Disgraced Anderson Trustee Kevin P. O’Brien, whom The Blower previously reported saying he’s running against his long-time nemesis Anderson Trustee President-for-Life “In Russ We Trust” Jackson in only two more years.
President Barack Obama and the DemocRAT Senate are considering sweeping legislation that will provide new benefits for many Americans. The Americans With No Abilities Act is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or ambition.
“Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society,” said California Sen. Barbara Boxer. “We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability (POI) to be ridiculed and passed over. With this legislation, employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they have some idea of what they are doing.”
In a Capitol Hill press conference, Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pointed to the success of the U.S. Postal Service, which has a long-standing policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance. At the state government level, the Department of Motor Vehicles also has an excellent record of hiring people with no abilities (63 percent).
Under the Americans With No Abilities Act, more than 25 million mid-level positions will be created, with important-sounding titles but little real responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance.
Mandatory non-performance-based raises and promotions will be given to guarantee upward mobility for even the most unremarkable employees. The legislation provides substantial tax breaks to corporations that promote a significant number of Persons of Inability (POI) into middle-management positions, and gives a tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses that agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires. Finally, the Americans With No Abilities Act contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the non-abled, banning, for example, discriminatory interview questions such as, “Do you have any skills or experience that relate to this job?”
“As a non-abled person, I can’t be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them,” said Mary Lou Gertz, who lost her position as a lug-nut twister at the GM plant in Flint, Mich., due to her inability to remember righty tighty, lefty loosey. “This new law should be real good for people like me. I’ll finally have job security.” With the passage of this bill, Gertz and millions of other untalented citizens will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. Said Sen. Dick Durbin: “As a senator with no abilities, I believe the same privileges that elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every American with no abilities. It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her inadequacy, with some sort of space to take up in this great nation and a good salary for doing so.”
- AND A QUICKIE By Our Good Friend Bobby Leach
I asked my wife, “Where do you want to go for our anniversary?” It warmed my heart to see her face melt in sweet appreciation.
“Somewhere I haven’t been in a long time!”she said. So I suggested, “How about the kitchen?”
And that’s how the fight started….
These items are perfect to forward to all of your Internet Buddies and Facebook Friends with too much time on their hands.
Some of The Blower’s Weasel Zippers Headlines So Far This Week
MORE OBAMACARE FAILURES: Iowa Asks Every Person Who Applied For ObamaCare To Reapply Because of Website Glitches…Obama Regime Quietly Announces Net Loss of At Least 3 Million Insurance Plans…7M ObamaCare Enrollment Target A Tall Order Despite Recent Surge… White House Acknowledges First Day of ObamaCare Will Be A Train Wreck As People Find Out They Are Not Enrolled Because of System Malfunctions… Report: Only Half of New ObamaCare “Enrollees” In 17 States Have Fully Enrolled By Paying First Month’s Premiums…ObamaCare Supporter Unable To Enroll In ObamaCare After Two Days of Trying…- OBAMA SCANDAL UPDATE: NY Times Says Benghazi Attack “Fueled In Large Part By Anger At An American-Made Video Denigrating Islam”… Pol Blasts NY Times Report That Al Qaeda Not Behind Benghazi Attack, Blames Video… Dem Rep. Joaquin Castro Calls Benghazi A “Fairy Tale”… Sources On Ground In Benghazi Say NYT Report Blaming Attack On YouTube Video “Completely False”… House Dem Eleanor Holmes Norton: “Objective” NYT Benghazi Report “Vindicates” White House, Susan Rice… NY Times Now Claims They “Had A Reporter On The Scene Talking To The Attackers During The Attack” In Benghazi… BREAKING: Another Gun From “Fast And Furious” Turns Up At Deadly Crime Scene In Mexico… State Dept Criminal Investigator/Whistleblower’s Email Hacked, Emails On Investigation Of State Dept Officials Deleted… Trey Gowdy Blasts NYT Report On Benghazi As Effort To Clear Way For Hillary 2016…
- GLOBAL WARMING: Global Warming Fanatics Trapped In Antarctica Summer Sea Ice Release Statement Saying “Sea Ice Is Disappearing Due To Climate Change”… Global Warming Fanatics Trapped In Antarctic Sea Ice Will Need To Be Evacuated By Helicopter After Ice Breaking Ship Can’t Break Through… Rescue Ship Trying To Save Global Warming Fanatics Stuck In Antarctica May Be Stuck In Ice As Well…HuffPo Fear Mongers: “Climate Change Worse Than We Thought, Likely To Be Catastrophic Rather Than Simply Dangerous”… Winds, Rain Halt Antarctic Ship Rescue…Climate Change Loons Move The Goal Posts: No Significant Global Warming Until 2100…Economist Blames Global Warming For Ice Trapping Climate Change Fanatics In Antarctica…HuffPo: Global Warming To Make Earth “Unlivable” By 2050…Climate Change Scientist Says Global Warming Will Bring Back Dinosaurs, Or Something…The Saga Continues: Helicopter Rescue of Global Warming Fanatics Trapped In Antarctica Called Off After Second Ship Trapped In Ice…
See a more complete list of this week’s Weasel Zippers Headlines in Sunday’s E-dition.
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Stories We’re Working On
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White House Website Still Pushing “Lie of The Year” . . . “You Can Keep Your Own Insurance”… - ObamaCare 2014 Taxes and Fees Kick In
- Fore! Obama Back On The Links For Round #158…
- Dems Can’t Count On Economy To Save Them In Midterms
- Libs Wish Death On Barbara Bush After She’s Rushed To Hospital…
- Cincinnati Homicides And Shootings Were Way Up In 2013
- The Bungals Bogus TV Blackout
Whistleblower Web Poll
This week, here’s who the first 17,648 Whistleblower Web Poll respondents said the Bungals should’ve gotten to buy all those unsold tickets so Sunday’s big NFL Playoff game won’t be blacked out:
(A) P&G (Always Number One On Every Suckers List): 2%
(B) Former Bungals Player Chad Johnson (Oh, The Irony): 1%
(C) “Millionaire Mike” Brown (Over-Taxed Payers Have Already Made Him A Billionaire): 3%
(D) The Haile Foundation (They’ve Already Proved They Can Piss Away Millions on that Stupid Streetcar): 94%
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Weekly Whistleblower Limerick Contest
One More 2013 Year-End Review
This week, everybody who thought all those year-end-review columns were just a big waste of time, e-mailed an entry to the Whistleblower Limerick Contest.
The winner is Larry Listmaker, who says the biggest problem with The Blower is that it can make the truth sound like a lie and something they just made up sound like the truth, and you’re never quite sure which is which. Larry wins a “We Don’t Need No Stinking Facts Checked” T-shirt, tickets to the Proofreaders Hall of Fame, and a date with the news bimbo of his choice to the Copy Editors Ball. His winning limerick is:
The biggest story we found last year
Will have you crying in your beer
‘Cause between you and me
What you get from DC
Is just a kick in the rear.
And from the Anderson Laureate we have another Obama-basher:
The biggest story we found last year
Was not that Rob Portman’s son was a queer
But with Obama’s screw-ups and scandals
Which the press always mishandles
We’re hoping his impeachment is near.
The first line of next week’s limerick is:
“So what should Conservatives do now?”
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