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FOUNDER'S QUOTE DAILY "Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own." --James Madison, Essay on Property, 1792 Enroll America's Latest Scandal ObamaCare officials aren't just advising enrollees to cheat -- they're also plotting to release enrollees' private information for political profit. James O'Keefe's Project Veritas is out with another video exposing the corruption. They report: "Enter Enroll America, a Sebelius-linked group dedicated to signing people up for Obamacare and Chris Tarango, Texas Enroll America Communications Director who Project Veritas caught on tape agreeing to help obtain a private list of potential Obamacare enrollee data for election/political purposes. Tarango goes so far to say he'll 'Do whatever it f------ takes.'" Insurers Are 'Greedy'? Columnist Larry Elder: "Democrats flat-out despise insurance companies. They've been called 'immoral villains' (Pelosi), 'deceptive and dishonest' (President Barack Obama), 'fly-by-night' (former Gov. and DNC chair Howard Dean), 'rapacious' (Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.) and 'greedy' (Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.). Are health insurance companies any greedier than any other for-profit sector of the economy? In 2009, before Obamacare, profit margins for the network and communications equipment industry averaged 20.4 percent; Internet services and retailing was 19.4 percent; pharmaceuticals averaged 19.3 percent; railroads 12.6 percent; gas and electric utilities 8.7 percent; and food consumer products 6.7 percent. Health insurance and managed care companies? They averaged 2.2 percent." Feds Eye New Gun Regs Obama officials are gearing up for another attempt at implementing more gun control. The effort is being spearheaded by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The White House claims these proposals are intended to track stolen and missing weapons. "Police have a hard time tracking firearms that disappear from gun shops," reports The Hill, "which 'just feeds the sort of already large and existing secondary market on guns,' said Sam Hoover, a staff attorney with the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence." However, as The Hill notes, "It is unclear precisely what the draft regulations," and "The ATF would not comment on the draft rule ... but a description provided by the White House asserts that it would target cases where guns go missing 'in transit.'" This coming from the administration personally responsible for the botched Fast & Furious scandal... Low-Level IRS Anger Lois Lerner, the now-retired IRS official who blew the lid off the vast IRS political targeting scandal in May, quickly blamed "low-level" workers in the Cincinnati office for the transgressions. That, of course, didn't sit well with those agents. Shortly after Lerner's disclosure, Cindy Thomas, who worked in the Cincinnati office, fired off an email with the subject line, "Low-Level Workers thrown under the Bus." She went on to say, "Cincinnati wasn't 'publicly thrown under the bus,' [but] hit by a convoy of mack trucks. ... As you can imagine, employees and managers in [Exempt Organizations] Determinations are furious." The email was discovered as part of the House investigation into the matter, and we expect more infighting to be revealed. Obama-Speak Defies Logic Historian Victor Davis Hanson: "The Obama administration once gave us 'man-caused disasters' for acts of terrorism and 'workplace violence' for the Fort Hood shootings. Now it has trumped those past linguistic contortions by changing words to mask the Obamacare disaster. ... The newly canceled health plans are suddenly rebranded by the administration as 'subpar.' Only in autumn 2013 is the supposedly unaware public told that, years ago, 'bad apple' insurance companies sold them 'substandard' plans. ... From the very beginning, Obamacare defied the laws of common sense and basic logic. Providing more coverage for more people cannot result in radical reductions in costs, as promised -- unless a shopper normally can buy more and better groceries for cheaper prices. How logical was expecting indebted young people to voluntarily pay more for insurance they would rarely use in order to pay for others to use it a lot?" Post-Implementation 'Discoveries' Political commentator Charles Krauthammer: "It's remarkable how the president discovers stuff late into his presidency. Remember at the beginning he spends a ... near trillion dollars on the stimulus, and then discovers afterward that shovel-ready really doesn't exist. And then he told us just a few days ago he discovered how, you know, that purchasing health insurance is not easy. ... And now he tells us he's discovering that this issue of adverse selection in the absence of young people who will subsidize the older and the sicker is a real issue. It's been the problem at the heart of this all along. Why would a young person want to subsidize older people by having their premiums double, which is exactly what ObamaCare does." Get Used to This Headline! While we don't promote political polls because of what Mark Alexander calls Pollaganda -- political polling as propaganda -- we do note trends in reputable polling firms. Media polling tends to be the most jaded, but a recent poll from CBS has Obama's approval rating at 37% -- a nine point drop in one month. More reputable polls have his approval rating at about the same level, prompting variations on this headline weekly: "Obama Approval at New Low." Earth to Obamabots Obama had a few words of encouragement this week for some 200,000 Obamabots: "It is a long race, and we aren't near the tape yet, we have just got to keep on running… I hope you still have as much fight in you as I do. We aren't going to stop until we get this done… When you are on the right side of something it gives you energy, it gives you motivation." Obama has never been "on the right side" of anything, and his approval continues to drop among young voters, who have wised up. Just Fire Him! Former Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs had a few choice words on the failure of ObamaCare to date: "I think [the White House is] going to have to hold somebody accountable... I think if this were to happen in the private sector, somebody would have probably already lost their job, and I think the only way to restore ultimate confidence in going forward is to make sure that whoever was in charge of this isn't in charge of the long-term health care plan." Of course, the person "accountable," the person who "was in charge" and should have "already lost their job" would be Barack Obama. That buck stops with him, but not only is government incapable of managing anything as well as the private sector, you can't fire Obama as you could a private sector CEO! Wellmark BCBS Mocks O'Care Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield isn't too fond of ObamaCare, either. The insurer had some fun with the ACA debacle by producing three ads showing a patient having some, let's just say, "technical" issues at the doctor's office. "Things don't always work like they're supposed to," says a narrator. "Good thing the government exchange isn't the only place to buy health insurance. Just visit Wellmark.com/simple or call today." Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
Nate Jackson for The Patriot Post Editorial Team Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots in uniform -- Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen -- standing in harm's way in defense of Liberty, and for their families. |
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