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[Thunder_Snus]

President Obama's Approval Ratings Drop To An ALL-TIME Low Amid Obamacare Debacle http://www.dailymail.co.uk/reader-co.../link/40897977

22%? If i had a 22% approval rating at work i would be what you call "unemployed"

[Burnsey]

22%? If i had a 22% approval rating at work i would be what you call "unemployed"

14% approval rating for Congress........all of the above should be unemployed, BUT they have the premium insurance that we pay for.....

[wa3zrm]

Obamacare Early Enrollment Numbers Very Small, Documents Show (Six on first day)

For 31 days now, the Obama administration has been telling us that Americans by the millions are visiting the new health insurance website, despite all its problems.
But no one in the administration has been willing to tell us how many policies have been purchased, and this may be the reason: CBS News has learned the number is very small.
Early enrollment figures are contained in notes from twice-a-day "war room" meetings convened within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services after the website failed on Oct. 1. They were turned over in response to a document request from the House Oversight Committee.
The website launched on a Tuesday. Publicly, the government said there were 4.7 million unique visits in the first 24 hours. But at a meeting Wednesday morning, the war room notes say "six enrollments have occurred so far."
They were with BlueCross BlueShield North Carolina and Kansas City, CareSource and Healthcare Service Corporation.
By Wednesday afternoon, enrollments were up to "approximately 100." By the end of Wednesday, the notes reflect "248 enrollments" nationwide.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...

[wa3zrm]

Why Obama lied about Obamacare

"We will keep this promise to the American people. If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what." — President Barack Obama, touting the Affordable Care Act in a June 15, 2009, speech.
This was not true, period.
I call that a lie.
And look. I admire the president. I support the Affordable Care Act insofar as it was clearly the most ambitious expansion of coverage that could possibly have eked through Congress.
And it's tempting for me to spin Obama's lies as omissions, oversimplifications or plain old political salesmanship and rhetorical inflation. Means that justified the ends.
The result is a greater threat to the future of heath care reform than a glitchy website or balky millennials ignoring the insurance mandate — a loss of trust. Period.

(Excerpt) Read more at my.chicagotribune.com ...

[Bigblue1]

I read the trib daily and Eric Zorn is an Obamanite to the highest level. This is a catastrophe for Obama if he's not pulling any punches. There's a good editorial from yesterdays trib as well. shown here. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/o...,1815563.story

[wa3zrm]

MERRY CHRISTMAS: OBAMA CAMPAIGN WANTS YOU TO GIVE 'HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOLIDAYS'

This holiday season, getting a lump of coal in your stocking might actually be preferable, considering the alternative gift from the folks at Organizing for Action is Obamacare. Their newest cult campaign is called "Health Care for the Holidays." How festive. "This holiday season, make sure to talk to your loved ones about getting covered," the group's newest ad campaign says. "These conversations don't have to be tough — OFA can help." Because your family holiday gathering should actually be an opportunity for you to register them for Obamacare, or something. OFA even provides you with these handy talking points to sell your loved ones on signing up. Follow these easy steps and you're sure to be the life of any holiday get-together:
Start by asking: "Have you thought about signing up for health insurance on the new marketplace?"
Offer to walk them through it: "Would you like to take some time with me to sign up right now?"
Ask them to make a plan, and commit to it:"When do you plan on signing up?"
Don't forget to follow up: "Have you signed up yet?"
"It might not always seem like it, but your family listens to you," OFA says. "So have the talk."
See their creepy cult video ad after the jump...

[Bigblue1]

Holy F#ck! What did I just watch?

[wa3zrm]

President was told healthcare website would work, official says

WASHINGTON -- President Obama was assured that the healthcare insurance website was ready to launch on Oct. 1, even as private contractors and some administration officials knew the site had failed in early testing, a senior White House advisor said Sunday.
Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer said the president repeatedly asked about the healthcare.gov website, a key piece of his 2010 healthcare overhaul legislation, and was told it would meet his expectations.
Along with the president, Pfeiffer hyped the website in the weeks before the troubled launch, promising it would “be a consumer experience unmatched by anything in government, but also in the private sector.”
“We did believe that,” Pfeiffer said on ABC's "This Week."
The "results do not match up to his expectations or the American people's expectations," he added. "It's inexcusable. There is no question about that.”

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...

[wa3zrm]

We were warned about Obama:

[trebli]

If you think Obamacare is a mess now just wait until the hackers and criminal gangs break into it. They will be stealing our personal information left and right …. name - address - Social Security Number - employers name - annual income and no doubt other info I haven't thought of. It's just a matter of time.

[wa3zrm]

49-State Analysis: Obamacare To Increase Individual-Market Premiums By Average Of 41%

One of the fundamental flaws of the Affordable Care Act is that, despite its name, it makes health insurance more expensive.
Today, the Manhattan Institute released the most comprehensive analysis yet conducted of premiums under Obamacare for people who shop for coverage on their own. Here’s what we learned.
In the average state, Obamacare will increase underlying premiums by 41 percent. As we have long expected, the steepest hikes will be imposed on the healthy, the young, and the male. And Obamacare’s taxpayer-funded subsidies will primarily benefit those nearing retirement—people who, unlike the young, have had their whole lives to save for their health-care needs.
Biggest winners: NY, CO, OH, MA; Biggest losers: NV, NM, AR, NC.
Elderly will receive massive subsidies, thanks to younger people.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...

[wa3zrm]

Obama denies ‘you can keep it’ videotaped promises

President Barack Obama told his enthusiastic supporters Monday night that he never promised what video recordings show him promising at least 29 times.
The videos show Obama promising 300 million Americans that “if you like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan, period.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...

[Bigblue1]

we are living in strange times. When the President of the once greatest nation in the world can spin what was a most declarative statement to this shit and people cheer. My god where are we headed...

[Burnsey]

we are living in strange times. When the President of the once greatest nation in the world can spin what was a most declarative statement to this shit and people cheer. My god where are we headed...

Right, CNN (?) played half a dozen taped segments of him saying just that this morning..........so how about " many declarative statements"........

[wa3zrm]

Miss. woman offered to sell her baby, authorities say

Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS – A Mississippi woman has been arrested for allegedly offering to sell her infant son to another woman she met through an online classified ad.
Bobbie Jo Stojic, 23, of Bay St. Louis was freed on $5,000 bond after her Oct. 29 arrest on a felony charge of offering to sell a child, authorities said.
Stojic allegedly offered to sell her 4-month-old son for $5,000 in a text message that she sent last month to a woman from Kenner, La., who had answered her Craigslist ad for baby clothes, according to a court filing.
"They kind of formed somewhat of a friendship, a loosely based friendship, over text messages," said Hancock County Sheriff's Office Detective Brandon Normand.
Normand said the women had been discussing the costs associated with legally adopting a child before Stojic allegedly offered to sell her son in an Oct. 9 text message.
"That kind of planted the seed for Stojic to either sell her child or attempt to scam the woman in Louisiana out of something," Normand said. "She basically told her if you want him, you can have him for $5,000."
Normand said Stojic denied the allegations. A phone number for her that is listed on a court document wasn't in service Tuesday. It wasn't immediately clear whether she has an attorney.
Stojic had mentioned in the text messages that she was having money problems and was in danger of being evicted from her home, according to Normand.
Normand said the Louisiana woman reported the allegations to the Mississippi Department of Human Services, which notified the sheriff's office and took custody of the child. A department spokeswoman declined to answer questions about the case, saying Tuesday that she could not comment on an open investigation.
A Mississippi law that took effect in July 2009 made it a crime to sell or buy a child or offer to buy or sell a child. A conviction is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.