Too Stupid to Read Their Own Bill

Allahpundit at HotAir brings us this story from the failing The New York Times in which we learn that the Democrats who brought us the Obama Death Care Rationing Bill did not bother to read through every one of the several thousand pages to find out what was in it. I guess Pelosi was right when she said that we would have to pass the bill to find out. Well, the members of congress are finding out, somewhat late, that the bill has stripped their own coverage. The irony is, of course, just delightful.

The perfect ending to a day that saw support for repealing O-Care reach a new high in Rasmussen (58 percent) and support for The One reach a new weekly low in Gallup (47 percent). Turns out that fantastically long, mind-bogglingly complex bills which no one has actually read may create unintended consequences. Remember how they forgot to require insurers to cover kids with preexisting conditions? Oh, and they forgot initially to let young adults be covered by their parents’ insurance until Reid fixed it in reconciliation. Now this. Who knew that when Pelosi said they’d have to pass the bill so that people could find out what’s in it, “people” meant Congress?
I’d call it comedy gold if not for the obvious point raised by the Times: “If they did not know exactly what they were doing to themselves, did lawmakers who wrote and passed the bill fully grasp the details of how it would influence the lives of other Americans?”

President Weirdo

Roger Simon brings us this article in which he questions the mental stability of the Obama-Fuhrer. And he does indeed seem to be rather off. The Anointed one just seems a bit creepy for some reason that may have to do with his upbringing. The question is whether a person with Obama's obvious problems ought to be in charge of anything.

25 Percent Tax Hikes Killing New York

The New York Post reports that massive new tax hikes are killing small businesses in the Empire State. Of course, if you are a conservative, this does not come as a big surprise. I mean, if you voted for tax and spend fascists just what exactly did you think was going to happen? But some people are surprised it seems and most of them are liberal.

By one estimate, the effective tax rate on the 26 million small businesses across the country -- which in the past have accounted for more than half of the job growth in the US -- has jumped to 50 percent from 40 percent, sucking valuable cash from the businesses

These dollars could have been used to add to payrolls or make capital improvements -- but instead will be siphoned off by Uncle Sam, state and municipal governments.

"The impact of these higher taxes and reduced hiring will be a recovery cycle that will be much longer, be slower to take hold and be without much job growth," said Al Angrisani, founder and CEO of Angrisani Turnarounds and former US Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Reagan. A survey of 200 small businesses across the US by the economist found 51.5 percent of business owners in March were concerned about the viability of their businesses -- up from 49.5 percent in February.

Congressman Phil Hare Doesn't Care About the Constitution.

I think that many of us have come to the unavoidable conclusion that "intelligent Democrat" is a contradiction in terms. Here is a vid showing congressman Phil Hare trying to explain that Obama-Care is outlined in the Constitution or maybe the Declaration of Independence or perhaps in a Julia Child cookbook or something.

Will Guam Tip Over?

Apparently Democrat Hank Johnson thinks that Guam is going to capsize. Remember folks, these are the people who want to run your health care. The admiral's response was clearly to try not to laugh and I have to give him considerable credit for acting like an adult dealing with a small child who hasn't leaned much yet.

Is The Obama-Fuhrer an Incompetent Fraud?

Do we have to ask?

DirectorBlue blog brings us some info that seems to indicate that The Anointed One was not exactly the star pupil when he was at the U of C. Not really a big surprise if you've seen him without the teleprompter.

I spent some time with the highest tenured faculty member at Chicago Law a few months back, and he did not have many nice things to say about "Barry." Obama applied for a position as an adjunct and wasn't even considered. A few weeks later the law school got a phone call from the Board of Trustees telling them to find him an office, put him on the payroll, and give him a class to teach. The Board told him he didn't have to be a member of the faculty, but they needed to give him a temporary position. He was never a professor and was hardly an adjunct.

The other professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings, and it was clear that the position was nothing more than a political stepping stool. According to my professor friend, he had the lowest intellectual capacity in the building. He also doubted whether he was legitimately an editor on the Harvard Law Review, because if he was, he would be the first and only editor of an Ivy League law review to never be published while in school (publication is or was a requirement).

Obama-Fuhrer Hysterics

Over at Hot Air, Allahpundit dissects the most recent speech of The Anointed One who continues to try to sell the Death Care Rationing abomination to the American public. So far, they are not buying the propaganda. I heard the Obama-Fuhrer clip on the radio yesterday and it definitely gave off the aroma of hysteria. Not at all the kind of speech one would expect from a president who is confident of his position or his polls. It is a mystery why his staff is letting him loose to give these speeches when they are clearly a disaster. From a purely political perspective, he would be better off not even mentioning it and moving on to some other issue. But he is a child running with scissors in the White House and apparently has no self-awareness of how bad he looks.

Via the Right Scoop, this is as snarky as I’ve ever seen him; obviously, America’s cool reception to his world-beating boondoggle has hit a nerve. Forget the fact that if there’d been a huge spike in support, he and his lackeys would be on TV 15 times a day talking it up. That’s just politics. Instead, start with the fact that no less than Bill Clinton famously predicted that The One’s numbers would leap 10 points “the minute health care reform passed.” The actual result? The Democrats’ favorable rating is now at the lowest level recorded by Gallup since they started polling the question in 1992. At 41 percent, they’re actually a point lower than the GOP, whose brand has been in the toilet for a good five years now. No wonder vulnerable Democrats don’t want to talk about health care with their constituents during the recess.

Obama in Rude Denial

The American Spectator reports that the Obama-Fuhrer's Death Care Rationing bill is already having the expected negative effects that were pointed out by critics. Several major companies have indicated that the bill will cost them millions or billions of dollars that will affect the bottom line and cost jobs and will diminish the health care coverage that they are providing to their employees both current and retired.

"Most of these people [in the Administration] have never had a real job in their lives. They don't understand a thing about business, and that includes the President," says a senior lobbyist for one of the companies that announced the charge. "My CEO sat with the President over lunch with two other CEOs, and each of them tried to explain to the President what this bill would do to our companies and the economy in general. First the President didn't understand what they were talking about. Then he basically told my boss he was lying. Frankly my boss was embarrassed for him; he clearly had not been briefed and didn't know what was in the bill."

It isn't just the President who didn't understand his own proposal.  Late Friday, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and Rep. Bart Stupak, chairman of the Oversight and Investigations panel, announced that they would hold hearings in late April to investigate "claims by Caterpillar, Verizon, and Deere that provisions in the new health care reform law could adversely affect their company's ability to provide health insurance to their employees."

This is, of course, the problem. We have in this administration a cadre of hard left socialists who hate the country and want to destroy it. Needless to say, none of them really understands how it works or why. Nor do the seem inclined to learn the first thing about the principles and ideas on which it was founded. They have no idea what they are doing except insofar as they "know" that they have to "fundamentally transform" the country that the rest of us cherish.

Rainbows and Unicorns

Here is an amusing video that mocks the Obama-Fuhrer by pointing out his campaign promises and how they were both absurd and that they were eventually broken.