Still Dancing….
And so we enter Day #4 of the federal shutdown with the media still gnashing it’s horrible teeth determined to frame the horrid Republican Anarchists, Terrorists, jihadists. But the electorate continue to defy the media demands.
CBS Polling shows when the government shut down back in November 1995, 51 percent of Americans blamed the Republicans in Congress, while 28 blamed President Bill Clinton.
And what are those numbers today? 44% blame GOP, 35% blame Obama, and 17% blame both. Imagine what the polling would be if the media reporting was neutral.
But the media was able to find an OFA organizer who signed up for Obamacare. Only there was one little issue they didn’t share. His premium TRIPLED.
American media outlets were finally able to track down a mythical creature — a person who actually signed up for the Obamacare exchanges online.
But that person, Chad Henderson, admitted to the Washington Post that the premium for the plan he enrolled in was $175. Ouch! Wasn’t Obamacare supposed to lower premiums?
Henderson’s going to pay a $175 premium and he won’t even receive vision or dental insurance. He has contacts, so not having vision insurance is kind of a bum deal.
Henderson, as far as we know a healthy, 21-year-old college student at Chattanooga State Community College who lives in Flintstone, Ga., and works part-time at a day-care center, did not qualify for tax credits to purchase insurance, according to the Post.
Without Obamacare, Henderson could have received health insurance for as little as $44.72 on eHealthInsurance.com, according to Michael F. Cannon of the Cato Institute.
“I can’t yet say whether Chad’s $175 premium is the lowest-cost plan available to him through the Obamacare Exchange,” Cannon said. “[I’m in the process of researching that, and it’ll probably take a few hours.] But it’s probably close.” (link)
But that ridiculous media swarm was just one example. CNN continued their banner carrying when they gleefully aired a “hot mic incident” between Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul.
Hurricane Karen is heading their way per NOAA predictions. It will be just a TS by Tuesday when it hits the DC region so the government would have been shutdown anyway. I expect the storm to take some of the media’s attention away from the projection spewing from Harry Reid and the White House. Of course the Tea Party and global warming will have made it rain really hard for a day or so in DC. And nobody cares.
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I have a family member who is a liberal, the only kind of liberals I associate with, the kind I have to. Anyway she 99.9% of the time supports anything proposed or done by a democrat. Last night she called and blamed Obama and Reid as being childish for refusing to even negotiate.
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Sometimes we have to get at ’em one at a time. 🙂
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I don’t think we’ll ever get this one, she likes free stuff.lol
I have to be nice though to keep peace.
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Yeah but does she ever put the shoe on the other foot & even try to keep the peace?
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Happened with someone close to me as well – lifetime lib, from Chicago (yeah, an Obama purist, I know), two nights ago, like the Grace of God slapped her upside the head. Just got it. Amazing.
It’s happening, the tables are turning. I’m trying to dissuade those hung up on this dental lady, because I got sucked in yesterday. Here is a little motivation and one of the best wake up songs ever!!!!! Ever!!!!! Headphones = 10x better
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I tend to be a bit of a purist about the Star Spangled Banner and I don’t care much for this type of music. But, this had chills running up and down my body. I really really like it.
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Awesome production! I’m inclined to “softer” presentations, but will pass this one on to the many who will appreciate the effort that went into this work. Thanks many times over.
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The very first time I ever heard ‘Star Spangled Banner’ I comprehended the spirit and the character of this nation. When I heard the young Whitney Houston rendition, it broke my heart with its magnificence. It became my go-to version in my mind.
Then you were so kind to post this one – Oh my Lord! This is now and forever my favorite. It steeled my heart, and it restored my faith in the potential of America (sometimes that is all it takes). I am READY TO SINGLEHANDEDLY DRAG THIS USURPER OUT OF THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE!
There HAS TO BE A WAY to get him out now! His HATE for this country and this nation have no equal. And his delusions, more grandiose with each passing hour, are now threatening the very survival of the Republic. HE HAS TO GO!!!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving me a new Fighting Song. (BTW, I only managed to pull the ear buds out and stop the streaming after 30 min of non-stop play, and only to write this post).
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I think we would be better positioned if our demand was no more deficit spending. Simply no more borrowing, but fund the government with tax receipts. From there we could then negotiate and say, ok, we agree to some borrowing but you have to delay Obama care.
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“Wasn’t Obamacare supposed to lower premiums?”
Remember when he announced that he wanted everybody’s electric bill to skyrocket?
The young Obama cheerleaders won’t be signing up so there will be an inadequate subsidy to cover the costs for sick folks with preexisting conditions and the whole thing will tank. Obama will then step in with a plan to put all aspects of healthcare under full socialist government control.
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I sure hope he is “outta here” by then IUKWIM.
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The Hill has the story on why the fight over the clean CR. It is required that taxpayers purchase the Gold Plan for members of Congress, their staff, reps from the U.S. territories, etc.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/326409-obamacare-requires-congress-staff-to-buy-gold-level-insurance-plan
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PLEASE READ: I am posting this here as facebook won’t allow me to post it to anyone, anymore from my personal fb page. And some of their CAPTCHA’s (sp?) were as bad as the phone number the government has assigned to HELP Oh?Care customers. I have even CAPTCHA’d some of them for sharing later….
MY QUESTION: IF the OPM puts out a document that tells it’s furloughed employees to listen and watch for CR’s re-funding their individual departments, why are the Democrats fighting these same exact CR’s as if they were poison?………………. http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/furlough-guidance/guidance-for-shutdown-furloughs.pdf
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OK, I am hoping you will be able to see this. When I made an attempt today to post the same above link on facebook what I got was a facebook CAPTCHA (sp?) “warDtU or “War Death To You”? And this was not the only message they sent me before shutting me down…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oi0d4ylc33p8vql/4%20Oct%202013%20fab%20Security%20Check%20%40%20Conservative%20Lady.pdf
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Obama made a huge tactical error by saying that he would not compromise with anything related to Obama-care and spending. Harry Reid hasn’t helped their cause either because he speaks before he thinks.
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Most of these polls are heavily stacked with more democrats answering than conservatives. I don’t think this one is going to work out like Obama planned. Love that the one who signed up wasn’t really a success at all but more of a reality about just how badly Obamacare is working.
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My fear is that Obama doesn’t care what happens to Obamacare. He just wants everything to collapse.
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Bingo!
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That is exactly what he wants. The beauty of it all is this: IF we can gain back the Senate in 2014 and then get a conservative elected POTUS in 2016 we can begin to reverse the damage that has been done. The problems are going to multiply and grow like a snowball rolling downhill if we fail to reach those objectives, though. I shudder to think what might happen if we lose the house and don’t gain the Senate in 2016. That’s the stuff of nightmares.
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And that is exactly why the liberal media continues to flog conservatism, and blame our nation’s current ills on the patriots who are defending our republic.
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I remember when I thought George Orwell’s book, 1984, was fiction. 🙄
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Me, too – when I read it in High School. It was required reading then and it seemed so far fetched. Wow!
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Have you ever read “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley? It seemed ever more far fetched and seems to be where we’re now headed. A world state, population control, children born in “hatcheries” and raised by the government, etc. Scary, scary stuff. When it was written in the 1930’s and when I read it in the late 1970’s it was very unrealistic. Not so much now.
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But remember, this goes beyond party lines. It addresses who and how we want our government run: as part of a New World Order or as a Constitutional Republic founded on our Bill of RIghts. Don’t be fooled by party lines; that’s just a tool for getting elected then acting like King Obama. Many others have preceded him. We just have not been sufficiently diligent to cut out the cancer before it started invading every organ. Watching C-SPAN reminds me of how two-faced most of our politicians can be.
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We have arrived at a constitutional crisis but no one is paying attention. Obama’s leaderships skills means the out come will be messy or worst very serious. remembering his comment ‘..if congress wont act, I will.’
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Article directly related-and Mark Levin’s show last night…predicting Obama will us 14th Amendment to raise debt ceilng WITHOUT Congress. If he’s right- we’re done.
http://markamerica.com/2013/10/04/the-end-of-the-united-states-of-america/
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& the longer the house stays strong the more people will realize Obamas & senate agenda.
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It has never been about healthcare. It’s about control, access to your assets, the power to determine who lives, who dies. You will either be a subject of the government and do what you are told when you are told or you will be denied healthcare. When you are no longer ‘productive’ because of age or delibitating illness you will be considered expendable. I suspect that we are going to see a degree of evil from these people the likes of which have never even been imagined.
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Bingo! Your fear is well-founded, auscitizenmom. Collapse is the whole point. Your wording reminded me of what we saw in 2005, *before* BHO. We came across this display in our small, Austin-like Republic of Charlottesville (also know as Berkeley East). This is what college towns generate:
http://gatesofvienna.net/2005/09/visualize-industrial-collapse/
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Total Insanity.
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Don’t know if this has been linked but the seriousness of this issue is being understated according to this guy.
http://jenkuznicki.com/2013/10/mark-levin-obama-is-preparing-to-destroy-the-role-of-congress-by-unilaterally-ignoring-debt-ceiling/
I happened to actually catch the show first and then read this which for me made it a lot easier to grasp. Scroll to the bottom of the article and there is a listen link.
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I look at these poles on where public assigns blame in this manner: the numbers for Dems and numbers for Obama should be added and counted as “one”…% of blame ascribed to republicans vs (% of blaming for Obie + % of blame for Dems). Ahem…”new” math- if the progs can legitimize new math, then so can I
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Sorry for grammatical errors….”new grammar”
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Ok, I have to clean my computer screen. (“new grammar” –> “new math” –> “new new”)
Remember, most of the groups who create the polls are media-based; i.e. left-leaning. Therefore, the Pool of People for their Polls (what we used to call the PPPs) are going to skew the results about 20 – 30% to the left. Add that “published” figure to those who always want to be on the side of the “winners” and polling really does affect the way people vote or act. Sad, but true. People lie about their true feelings just to be part of what they envision as the “acceptable” group.
(Still cleaning my screen…)
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McConnell, McCain, these more aged GOPs who don’t listen to their constituents don’t care because they are ready to retire. They’ve led a fat life off politics, got a wealthy pension coming, they don’t care any more. They are a special subset of the sage group, in that they are not, but only grifters where politics comes first.
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Retire? Are you crazy? These guys only leave one of two ways. Either, feet first or they get booted out. 👿
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How this guy doesn’t qualify for an Obama subsidy is puzzling, if he doesn’t I don’t know who will. He has a part time job at a day care center. He is the plans demographic. Something is off with this guys story IMO.
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While the US burns Obama gets his portrait taken.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/04/President-Obama-Spent-Shutdown-Day-Three-Sitting-for-Portrait
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Was that portrait in the embrace of a male?
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Paints quite a patriot indeed, Unchallenged One.
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@Sundance:
To what extent do you think the nation-wide ‘glitches’ when people attempt to sign up is a deliberate SNAFU designed to…umm, what? I live in a family of computer geeks and they have often been tasked with rolling out new programs before they’re quite ready, due to pressure to have *something* up and running. But this level of beta boo-boos makes it a kind of meta-beta.
Any thoughts on this? Is the unavailability supposed to make BHOCare more attractive – i.e., the candy just out of reach? Personally, I am lying low until they come for the deed to the house.
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Perhaps there was an O-care Stuxnet worm?
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Angry Park Ranger Admits They Were Told To “Make Life As Difficult For People As We Can”
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/10/04/park-ranger-angry-admits-they-were-told-to-make-life-as-difficult-for-people-as-we-can/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/3/pruden-the-cheap-tricks-of-the-game/
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http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/10/03/v-fullstory/3668028/shutdown-day-3-food-distributor.html
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It will create a nice opening for all the smugglers to run in while these toads are manning the gates with rent-a-cops. Unbelievable. 👿
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They need to take the bay back then. Raise the Jolly Roger, damn the torpedos, full speed ahead!
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The Conch Republic rises from the ashes!! Huzzah!
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Turns out the kid who managed to sign up for Obamacare is a ringer. See:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/10/poster_boy_for_obamacare_website_launch_is_a_ringer.html
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Civil Disobedience Greets ‘Illegal’ Closure of the Claude Moore Colonial Farm
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/04/civil-disobedience-greets-illegal-closure-of-the-claude-moore-colonial-farm/
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It appears people are beginning to fight back based on one of the comments on that article. Here it is:
We are planning a gathering this weekend in Lexington and Concord at the national park that the administration has shut to score political points. Please help us to get the word out.
Where: Minute Man National Historic Park
When: Sunday October 6th at noon
Why: they have closed this heritage site to the public because of the government shutdown…..we will see about that!
Please get the word out!
Sincerely,
Paul Revere
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‘ Love it
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I was sitting out on my deck listening to the waterfall and the crickets and I realized I had no one to talk to about the things that made my anger boil. I am exhausted and depressed after a week of driving special needs students on a school bus and driving to therapy and doctors for my husband. I had to see my rheumatologist because the antibiotic Protocol I was trying to do was not working due to stress and eating like crap because I am running on empty, and I have to go on medicine that was designed for cancer. My steroid level is increased from 5 mg to 20 mg and it makes me feel I am on a caffeine high combined with the munchies of pot. Anyone else on that? Although my husband agrees with me on most things, he does not want to talk about it now. This site is a God Send to me and I just want to say thank you to all of you. Even though I don’t have “conversations” with you all, I feel I am in a community with like minded people and it helps a lot.
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Kim, I wish there was something I could do for you, so I’ll just say a prayer, and tell you that we are glad you are here and glad that we can do some little bit to ease the stress!
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Stella, it is absolutely enough. Like I said, this site is enough for me just to know I am not alone. I think there are probably a lot of me’s out there lurking. You are such a source of comfort for those of us that do not “fit” in with family and friends. LOL I just realized that maybe that is not a description you appreciate! But this is a “community” in every definition. Thank you all.
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It is a description I appreciate very much. It is humbling to know that this blog – started by a bunch of friendly misfits – is important in the lives of others. Thank you.
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Listening to Cricket’s and a waterfall sounds wonderful. You are rode hard and put up wet. Relax, take a deep breath, and be glad you are where you are. Then keep clawin away on Monday.
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Such a cowboy metaphor! I do really appreciate what we have. The waterfall may impress some people, but it is really just a fall of water from the sheep field into a lower field. Not impressive at all but it sounds nice. One foot in front of another, Doodahdaze, it is just the size of the the step that is in question.
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Kim, thank you for sharing.
Consider….. the real risk to you, and everyone else, is giving up, conceding, or that feeling of being overwhelmed. Evil needs *fear*.
Don’t give them that.
EVER.
In order for their entire ruse to succeed, at the very core, the guise needs ownership of one thing – YOUR BELIEF !
So long as you hold true to your values, ethics and sense of self, they lose.
They only win when you give them that.
If you retain it – They Lose.
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