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SHOCK

Published by Mockarena on September 2, 2010 in Really?. 4 Comments Tags: , , .

I hope you guys are sitting down, because Reuters came out with a story today that will BLOW YOUR MIND.

Apparently, employees across the country are seeing their healthcare costs go up, while at the same time getting less Actual Health Care.

CAN YOU EVEN BELIEVE IT?

Three thousand employers were surveyed earlier this year and a third of them have either reduced their benefits/raised deductibles, increased the employees’ cost towards healthcare premiums, or raised premiums, or a combination of those.

Cue the entire Obama administration looking like they’re completely puzzled and bewildered, and those of us with Actual Brains looking like WE TOLD YOU SO.

Attention Townspeople: This Is What Desperation Looks Like.

Published by Mockarena on August 22, 2010 in General Political Mockery. 8 Comments Tags: .

According to this, FamiliesUSA, one of the key organizations who pushed for healthcare reform, came out with a fancy shmancy powerpoint slideshow delivered to conference call participants by the Herndon Alliance, whose “partners” include these health care legislation supporters: AARP, AFL-CIO, SEIU, Health Care for America Now, MoveOn and La Raza. It’s a Who’s Who list of wackjobs, really.

Anyway, what’s hilarious about the presentation, which you can see in full right here is that it’s basically a guidebook for Democrats on how to position the healthcare law so that it sounds less awful than it actually is. They’ve moved from “We’ve got to pass the law so you can see what’s in it” to “We know the law sucks but we can fix it, you guys! Because rich people are going to pay more taxes to cover everyone!” Don’t believe me? See slides #13 and #14. And for extra giggles, check out slide #24, which clearly says that when selling the law, proponents should avoid saying the law will reduce costs or the deficit.

The Ground Zero Mosque has been dominating the news lately, and with good reason. But we need to remember, heading into November, that healthcare was our main focus late last year and early this year, and it’s still a HUGE PROBLEM, no matter how much the Democratic machine might try and spin it and re-message and re-package it to make it look like it’s NOT the pile of crap that it is.

Don’t let your representatives off the hook on healthcare! We need to make sure they remember that WE remember. And we’ll remember all the way into November.

MY MAN MITCH Talks Health Care Constitutionality

Published by Mockarena on July 19, 2010 in Chicks For Mitch and You Know What I Love?. 27 Comments Tags: , , , .

You guys, no fewer than 3 of you now have sent me emails to let me know that both Dana Perino AND Karl Rove mentioned Mitch as a contender for the 2012 presidential election on Fox today. I am DYING DYING DYING to find video of that, but in the meantime, here he is talking about the constitutionality (or lack thereof) of the healthcare legislation.

I love him so much. And you know what else I love? That people like Karl Rove and Dana Perino are talking about him. Because the more they talk, the more the word gets out, and the more other people will start to say, “Hmm – who’s this Mitch Daniels cat? I need to find out more about him” and then they’ll find out more and then they’ll realize that he is the best thing that could happen to the office of the presidency since Reagan and then he’ll be elected and I will pass out from sheer joy.

That’s what else I love. :)

Obama Wants You To Know That The Health Insurance Mandate Isn’t A Tax, Unless It Helps Him Get A Lawsuit Dismissed. Then Of COURSE It’s A Tax.

Published by Mockarena on June 19, 2010 in Really?. 9 Comments Tags: , , , .

You know what I find fascinating? I find it fascinating that Obama can aggressively insist, the way he does in the video above, that the health insurance mandate isn’t a tax, and then a couple months later argue that the mandate IS a tax in order to ward off lawsuits against his stupid healthcare law.

According to the source link, Obama’s Dept of Justice filed a motion to dismiss the Florida-based lawsuit against Obamacare, using the Anti-Injunction Act as its argument. The Anti-Injunction Act prevents courts from getting in the way of government COLLECTING TAXES. In fact, the DOJ got even clearer about it. Their memo said that it doesn’t matter if you call it a penalty or tax or fine or whatever, it’s still being collected by the IRS in the same manner as any other tax.

Meaning, you know, IT’S A FREAKING TAX.

What kills me about this is that I can practically guarantee you that the people who watched this video from a few months ago and who backed up Obama’s stupid car insurance analogy and believed him about this not being a tax, are precisely the same people who will vigorously nod their heads in agreement about this angle they’re using to try and get the lawsuits dismissed. That is how snowed liberals are.

GAWD.

Common Sense….Oh How We Miss You.

Published by Daisy on June 14, 2010 in Choppy McBotox (Nancy Pelosi) and General Political Mockery. 7 Comments Tags: , , , , .

The Governor of Alabama is seen here, with his charming southern accent and no-nonsense disposition, talking about how the Obama administration has done a piss-poor job responding to the oil crisis. Basically, they’re trying to do cleanup with a committee, and as we all know, government committees are about as efficient as Nancy Pelosi is sane. What we’ve got now is a huge “cloosterfooken,” if you will, and decisions aren’t being made and things aren’t getting done as a result. Go figure.

This is your government at work, folks. And we just let them have our healthcare, by the way. I know it’s a little early to hit the bottle this morning, but let’s ponder for a second, shall we?

I must say, I’m a little surprised that CNN is allowing this criticism of the Almighty to be aired on their joke of a news channel. It’s as if the world as we know is going batty. Oh wait – that already happened a little over a year ago…

Canadian Universal Healthcare Isn’t Working? Noooooo. Seriously?

Published by Daisy on June 1, 2010 in General Political Mockery. 8 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , .

You know what irks the crap out of me? The fact that COMMON SENSE IS DYING.

I think the headline of this article sort of says it all:

SOARING COSTS FORCE CANADA TO REASSESS HEALTH MODEL

“There’s got to be some change to the status quo whether it happens in three years or 10 years,” said Derek Burleton, senior economist at Toronto-Dominion Bank.

“We can’t continually see health spending growing above and beyond the growth rate in the economy because, at some point, it means crowding out of all the other government services.

“At some stage we’re going to hit a breaking point.”

Gee, Canada. You think?

The article goes on to draw a correlation between Canada and the United States, as, well, this is precisely where we’re headed, folks.

Canada is finding itself in a position of having to curtail their healthcare, looking for “new sources of funding,” because – holy mother of crap – they just don’t have enough money to sustain the current system as is.

Wait…..isn’t healthcare a RIGHT? And therefore, shouldn’t it just instantaneously happen without worrying about HOW it’s going to happen? I mean, healthcare should just magically appear out of our assular areas. Along with housing and flat-screen TVs. At least that’s what I’ve heard from the liberal talking heads.

“Ontario says healthcare could eat up 70 percent of its budget in 12 years, if all these costs are left unchecked.”

And you know who loses in all of this? Well, the consumer, for one. And then pharmaceutical companies are next in line. Who, by the way, are responsible for advancing medicine and the life expectancy of human beings, but who gives a rat’s ass about them, right? I mean – we don’t need no stinkin’ advances. And while we’re at it – let’s just screw the old people, too. They’re just getting annoying at this point, what with their gray hair and stories about when the country wasn’t socialist and all.

My favorite part of the article is this statement, though:

…one cost-saving idea may be to make patients aware of how much it costs each time they visit a healthcare professional. “(The public) will use the services more wisely if they know how much it’s costing.”

I laughed out loud at that. Brilliant, isn’t it? When you give a person a free ride and they develop a sense of entitlement to that free ride, they’re DEFINITELY going to be concerned and conscientious about what they’re actually costing other people. Riiiiiight.

Everyone hear that sound? That’s the sound of COMMON SENSE MOANING AND GASPING FOR AIR UNDER THE WEIGHT OF SHEER STUPIDITY AND IGNORANCE.

And, just to remind everyone….this is coming to a country near you.

Welcome to the new America, AY?

63% Of Americans Want To Repeal Healthcare

Published by Daisy on May 26, 2010 in General Political Mockery. 2 Comments Tags: , , , .

According to Rasmussen, 63% of us think that the healthcare bill needs to die a quick death.

Some other stats for this fine Wednesday morning:

Currently, just 32% oppose repeal.

The new findings include 46% who Strongly Favor repeal of the health care bill and 25% who Strongly Oppose it.

Thirty-three percent (33%) of voters now believe the health care plan will be good for the country, down six points from a week ago and the lowest level of confidence in the plan to date. Fifty-five percent (55%) say it will be bad for the nation. Only three percent (3%) think it will have no impact.

Sixty-three percent (63%) of all voters expect the health care plan to increase the federal deficit. Just 12% expect the bill to push the deficit down, while 13% say it will have no impact.

Fifty-five percent (55%) say the plan will make the quality of health care in the country worse. Twenty percent (20%) expect it to improve the quality of health care, and 18% think quality will stay about the same.

But yeah…just keep on ignoring the masses, libs…

This Is Really Going To Piss You Off. Oh, And I May Have Just Saved Mock’s Life.

Published by Daisy on May 25, 2010 in General Political Mockery. 17 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , .

So, I’m working away diligently at job number one today when I get pinged from Mock. Her note had a link to this article with a short and sweet sentiment consisting of these exact words:

I’m too mad to even write about it. I’m literally shaking. These are the clowns that RUN OUR COUNTRY.

It’s funny, because I’m usually the one who has to go to her to say, “You know, Mock….I’m about to be a raging beeyotch. Can you filter this paragraph for me?” So this role reversal of possible head explosion was a change of pace, to say the least.

I will say, though….if this DOESN’T make you want to just raise your middle finger to your inept and corrupt government, then you’ve obviously ingested some really strong Kool-Aid.

Here’s the first paragraph:
Twenty one employees of the Federal Protective Service spent more than $100,000 in government funds for clothing and flat-screen TVs, gym memberships and tuition payments, according to a General Services Administration inspector general report, but none has faced disciplinary action.

Wait. It gets better. Believe me.

It took the government FIVE years to “investigate” this, because, you know how speedy and efficient our government is. And after that FIVE year investigation, “three employees resigned, four retired and five employees faced possible reprimand. No action was taken against nine others.”

Because why BOTHER, right? I mean, it’s just stealing. Who cares if government employees are stealing from us. They’re ENTITLED to steal, aren’t they? I mean, this is the USA, folks. Everyone should get free healthcare AND free flat screen TVs! (Why yes, as a matter of fact, that was dripping in obvious and seething sarcasm.)

The “agencies were unable to locate 458 of the 1,058 expensed items the GAO had selected for testing, totaling over $1.8 million in missing goods like “computer servers, laptop computers, iPods, and digital cameras.”

And the government is “turning a blind eye” to this crap.

So, you know what we should do, you guys? We should give these yahoos control of the healthcare system! Yeah! That’s it! That’d be a FABULOUS IDEA, wouldn’t it? They say they can find “savings”….so this whole stealing-from-taxpayers thing? Um, wouldn’t that be a pretty easy place to start?

Unfreakinbelievable.

I got your back, Mock. Now if someone would please pass me the Cosco-sized bottle of vodka. STAT…

Shocker: Healthcare Monstrosity Will Pack Emergency Rooms Way Beyond Capacity

Published by Daisy on May 16, 2010 in General Political Mockery. 5 Comments Tags: , , .

You know what I thought when I read this article?

Um, DUH.

If this is new news to you, then you’ve had your head up your assular area. Or you’re a Democrat. But once again, I repeat myself.

The article states the following (already-known-but-not-heeded-while-shoving-this-bill-down-America’s-throats fact):

The new healthcare law will pack 32 million newly insured people into emergency rooms already crammed beyond capacity, according to experts on healthcare facilities.

A chief aim of the new healthcare law was to take the pressure off emergency rooms by mandating that people either have insurance coverage. The idea was that if people have insurance, they will go to a doctor rather than putting off care until they faced an emergency.

People who build hospitals, however, say newly insured people will still go to emergency rooms for primary care because they don’t have a doctor.

“Everybody expected that one of the initial impacts of reform would be less pressure on emergency departments; it’s going to be exactly the opposite over the next four to eight years,” said Rich Dallam, a healthcare partner at the architectural firm NBBJ, which designs healthcare facilities.

But don’t take this article’s word for it. Ask your local ER doctor or nurse what they think. I happen to know several of both, and they’re bracing themselves for crapsville. My sister, a pediatric ER nurse, already sees tons of people who are neither American citizens or insurance holders – and does she and her colleagues turn them away and throw them out on the street? That would be a big Hell to the No, folks. They get treated. And they get better. And, guess what? You’re already flipping the bill for them. And under the new healthcare monstrosity, you’ll be flipping even more of a bill.

Hope and change. Ain’t it grand?

Never Saw This One Coming…

Published by Mockarena on May 11, 2010 in Really?. 9 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Oh wait.  Yes I did.

According to this, Obamacare is going to cost more than originally thought.  SURPRISE!!!

I find that entire article positively hilarious.  The CBO said today that the healthcare legislation passed a couple months ago could add $115 billion more to healthcare spending over the next 10 years than they previously reported.  That includes $10-20 billion in administrative costs to government agencies to actually carry out the law, as well as $34 billion for some health centers and $39 billion for “Indian care.”  Say whaaa?

Republicans said all along that these costs should have been included in the original budget estimate, but see, that would have made Democrats look like their plan wasn’t going to save any money, so they didn’t include them.  You know what the CBO said was the reason their earlier estimates didn’t include this $115 billion in spending?  Because “they simply had not had enough time to run the numbers.”  Ya think?  Could that maybe have had something to do with the fact that this whole disaster was rushed through like it was a total emergency, even as the GOP was PLEADING for common sense and for Democrats to just slow the freak down so people had time to do stuff like, you know, READ THE BILL.

And guess what?  Costs are expected to go up even more, because there are all sorts of programs bundled into the law which are just thrown in there without setting funding levels for them.

You may recall that Democrats made sure the original estimates from the CBO made it look like this plan would reduce the deficit by $143 billion over 10 years.  But if Congress goes ahead and approves all of the extra spending outlined in the bill, which they of course will, the savings they claimed they’d achieve are going to be basically thrown out the window.

The most laughable part of the article was when a White House spokesman said that Obama would “demand that added spending be offset with cuts in other domestic programs.”  Riiiiiiiiight. Because Obama is famous for reducing spending and cutting stuff.

To the folks out there who have been holding out hope and remaining on the fence about this issue, I hate to say we told you so, but we’ve been telling and have told and did tell you so.  Over and over again.  So if there’s anyone left out there who Actually Believes Democrats when they spout off all the nonsense about cost savings and deficit reductions tied to this healthcare plan, just remember this post.  And then remember the other posts we’ve written which warned you about long waits and reductions of services and shortages of doctors and premium increases and all the horrific things that go along with a single payer system. Because unless we do some significant damage to this monstrosity of a law by way of some serious liberal turnover in Congress this fall, that’s precisely where we’re headed.

And The Grotesque Growth Of Government Continues

Published by Mockarena on May 7, 2010 in You Know What I Hate?. 3 Comments Tags: , , , .

It just keeps getting more and more ridiculous, you guys.

Now, if you’re Obama, and you’re sitting around wondering how ELSE you can grow government other than the multitude of ways you’ve done so already, I’m guessing you might think, “Hey, I know! I will include, in my healthcare law, a change in tax regulation that will require employers to issue 1099 tax forms not only to regular contract workers, but to any person or company from which they buy in excess of $600 in goods or services in a tax year. That will mean I’ll have to grow regulatory agencies and hire thousands more IRS agents just to keep track of all the paperwork my new regulations will require. I rock.”

Yep. That’s what he did.

Tucked away in Section 9006 of Obamacare, is a new mandate which does just that. Beginning in 2012, companies are going to have to 1099 basically EVERYONE – their building management, their copier services, their supply companies, their equipment/computer suppliers, even their utility companies – EVERYONE they pay more than $600 in a calendar year to (outside payroll). We are talking MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of new tax forms every year.

The 1099 is, at least right now, the form that companies use for contract workers to document their income. That’s it. It’s pretty simple. They have never been issued to corporations. Until now.

According to the source link, the reason that this tax code revision wound up in the healthcare bill? To “generate more government revenue and help offset the cost of the health bill.” The IRS is worried, you see, that there are too many unreported transactions that they’re missing out on tax revenue from.

You know what this will most certainly generate? Lots and lots and lots of new government jobs.

Obama’s love affair with private industry continues. /end sarcasm.

ATTENTION TOWNSPEOPLE: If You Suspected This Administration Miiiiight Not Really Know How Much Obamacare Will Actually Cost…

Published by Mockarena on April 22, 2010 in Really?. 20 Comments Tags: , .

…then I’m both pleased and TOTALLY EMBARRASSED for Kathleen Sebelius to be able to confirm your suspicions.

Obama – you really know how to pick ‘em.

Can Anyone Tell Me What In The Holy Hell McSmug Is Talking About?

Published by Daisy on April 15, 2010 in Bobby McSmug (Robert Gibbs) and General Political Mockery. 9 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

When asked what he means about “Some Republicans Have Gotten to Church But Not The Altar,” he does what he does best: dances around and mutters “uhhh….uh…..uhhhh…” a lot.

Feel free to enlighten me, please. Because the only thing I get from this video is the solidified notion that Bobby McSmug has absolutely no freakin’ idea what he’s doing, and my youngest Great Dane could do his job. Without thumbs, no less.

Now That Healthcare Has Passed, Where’s My Free Lunch?

Published by Daisy on April 13, 2010 in General Political Mockery. 12 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Actual People (that vote, no less) think that their free lunch has arrived in the wake of the passage of the healthcare bill. According to this article (and several others), callers have flooded the phone lines of insurance companies – namely ehealthinsurance – to ask where in the heck their free health insurance is.

The company says they’ve received hundreds of thousands of calls from consumers, 80,000 of which came in in March. Most of the help-seekers are asking questions about when the bill takes effect and what changes they’re going to see, but many are under the impression that they’re going to get coverage for free, says Carrie McLean, a consumer specialist for the company.

We actually started to get calls right when President Obama was elected from people thinking that things were going to change instantly. Once the bill passed, we started to get calls into our call center from people wanting to know if they were going to have ‘free Obama care.’ People are confused about what the bill means, and what’s in it.

I guess I can see where people would be confused about what’s actually in the bill. Hell, CONGRESS doesn’t even know what’s in the bill. But I digress.

You know what this sickening display of entitlement reminded me of? This awesome clip:

Bend over to receive your hope and change, everyone.

Bart Stupansyak Is “Retiring”

Published by Mockarena on April 9, 2010 in Really?. 9 Comments Tags: , , , .

What a putz.

Bart Stupak, who made a big fuss over federally-funded abortions being in the healthcare bill, and then fell for Obama’s “executive order”  before ultimately voting for the healthcare bill, is retiring.

That’s the new Democratic way of saying, “Quit before getting his assular area fired.”

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