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FOUNDER'S QUOTE DAILY "[W]here is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths...?" --George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796 Progressive Disaster Columnist Charles Krauthammer observes, "As the only socially transformational legislation in modern American history to be enacted on a straight party-line vote, Obamacare is wholly owned by the Democrats. Its unraveling would catastrophically undermine their underlying ideology of ever-expansive central government providing cradle-to-grave care for an ever-grateful citizenry. For four years, this debate has been theoretical. Now it's real. And for Democrats, it's a disaster." Hence Obama's decision to once again unilaterally altar the law by extending insurance policies that don't meet minimum requirements for another year. The move even has Howard Dean pondering its legality: "I wonder if he has the legal authority to do this, since this was a congressional bill that set this up." (For the record: ObamaCare was unconstitutionally launched in the Senate instead of the House, where revenue bills should begin.) 'I Don't Think I'm Stupid' Obama's egotistic nature was on full display Thursday during a discussion with reporters on the issues surrounding Healthcare.gov: "I was not informed directly that the website would not be working the way it was supposed to," he claimed. "I'm accused of a lot of things. I don't think I'm stupid enough to go around saying this is going to be like shopping on Amazon or Travelocity a week before the website opens if I thought that it wasn't going to work. Clearly we, and I, did not have enough awareness about the problems with the website." This coming from the man who is stupid enough to believe government bureaucracy can successfully manage 18% of the U.S. economy. Demo Leadership Unapologetic Scrambling to fix his disastrous signature legislative achievement, Obama was forced to offer an insincere "apology" for his BIG lie, "If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period." However, other Democratic leaders aren't even willing to go that far. Nancy Pelosi: "There's nothing in the Affordable Care Act that says that your insurance company should cancel you. That's not what the Affordable Care Act is about. It simply didn't happen." House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer: "You understand that if you had a policy on the day that this bill was adopted, you got to keep it. Now, you didn't get to keep it if the insurance companies didn't want to offer it to you." Rep. James Clyburn: "When [consumers] become aware of what they did not have, I don't think there's anything to apologize for." Voters Disapprove Fox News reports, "55% of registered voters disapprove of Obama's job performance. That's a record high disapproval rate for the Fox poll. But that's the least of Obama's problems. Like recent polls from Quinnipiac and Gallup, 55% of voters told Fox pollsters that they believe Obama has tried to deceive them about Obamacare. Half say he 'knowingly lied' when he repeatedly promised that individuals could keep their current health insurance policies. Only 40% gave him the benefit of the doubt." Additionally, "only 38% said they felt Obama's apology was sincere." End of Liberalism? Columnist Peggy Noonan: "People are wondering if we are seeing the end of liberalism. We are not. Liberalism, a great and storied American political tradition, will survive this. But progressivism -- liberalism without blood -- has been badly, deeply damaged. We are seeing the end of its first major emanation, ObamaCare." Who's Mirroring Jim Crow? Louisiana's school voucher program is being pursued by Eric Holder's Justice Department on grounds that it "frustrates and impedes the desegregation process." The Wall Street Journal's Jason L. Riley responds: "Around 90 percent of the recipients are black, and 86 percent of them otherwise would be assigned to public schools that received a D or F grade from the state. In its lawsuit, the Obama administration argued that allowing children to leave these awful schools could make the public school system less white in composition and thus hamper school desegregation efforts. In other words, the Justice Department's position is that the racial balance of a school is more important than whether anyone is learning. Forcing poor blacks to attend the state's worst schools strikes me as something out of the Jim Crow South." TVA Shutters Coal Plants The war on coal continues. The latest attack comes courtesy of TVA who announced the closing of eight more coal-fired power plants -- 6 in Alabama and 2 in Kentucky. "The decision was prompted by a combination of environmental requirements, the age of the plants, competition from natural gas and declining electricity consumption in the TVA's service area," according to The Washington Post. The real blame falls on the Obama administration who has effectively strangled the industry with burdensome regulations intended to close America's remaining coal plants. Recall earlier this year when White House adviser Daniel Schrag said "a war on coal is exactly what's needed." The real war will be fought in states with a high proportion of coal workers as they try to figure out how to make do with much less -- all thanks to the pseudo-religion of global climate change. The Tiger's Back Historian Victor Davis Hanson: "The president seems determined that America should become unexceptional, and his five-year-long efforts are now bearing fruit. The result is that no one knows where global violence will break out next, much less who will stop it. ... Obama has misled over Benghazi, flipped and flopped over Syria and Egypt, and deceived the American people on the Affordable Care Act. When the American secretary of state has to assure the world that its proposed military action 'will be unbelievably small' while the president is forced to explain that our military doesn't 'do pinpricks,' we appear hardly credible or formidable. ... Riding the tiger's back was always risky, but not as much as jumping off and allowing it to run wild. The world now wants someone to get back on -- but is unsure about who, when, how and at what cost." Redefining the Constitution FRC's Ken Klukowski: "President Obama understands that so much of what he wants to accomplish runs afoul of the historical understanding of the limits on federal power and the proper meaning of the Bill of Rights that he can only achieve that agenda if a critical mass of federal judges agree with his idea that the words of the Constitution can be completely redefined to grant such sweeping and transformational power to the federal government." Twitter Responds to BO Presser Obama's very long press conference last week invoked some amusing comments on Twitter. Jim Geraghty: "He really, really, really shouldn't insist that a lot of parts of the law are working fine and people just aren't noticing enough." Luke Russert: "Obama just gave the #GOP a soundbite present: decrying red tape and regulation...while pushing a massive govt program." Dana Loesch: "Please let one of the reporter questions be "Have you tried turning it off and then on again?" Glenn Thrush: "Obama's 'That's on me' is the new Buck Stops Here. (Except for the part where he blamed underlings for withholding info on the site)" Comedy Central: "Watching that press conference was actually harder than trying to sign onto healthcare.gov." Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
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