Obama to America: ‘Bleep You’
Let's be clear about the
intentions behind recent administration action
PJMedia.com
It has become increasingly clear since President
Barack Obama’s reelection that he and his
administration intend to govern as they wish,
pushing as far and as fast as they can against
constitutional and other legal limits which have
constrained previous administrations. It has also
become more than obvious that it is willing to hurt
those who might get in their way, and to exploit
others whose help they can co-opt to accomplish
their agenda. In essence, Obama and his
administration are telling America’s institutions,
its states, its legal framework, and Americans in
general: “Bleep you.”
What follows is but a small sample of “Bleep You”
actions from this president and his administration,
all of them garnering notice in just the past few
weeks.
1. Headliagne from California
Healthline (HT Doug
Ross):
“Budget Cuts To Hamper HHS OIG’s Ability To Curb
Health Care Fraud”
The story: Just as Obamacare enrollment is set to
kick into high gear, “HHS Office of Inspector
General officials say the agency will be
significantly restricted in its ability to monitor
and address Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse
within the nation’s health care system in the coming
years.” Among the tasks the IGs will not undertake:
“An audit of computer systems security for the ACA
insurance exchanges.”
Better headline: “Obama, HHS, and Kathleen Sebelius
to Americans Interested in Protecting Their Privacy
and Identities: Bleep You.”
2. Headline from Wall
Street Journal editorial:
“Obama’s New York Model; How the State Destroyed Its
(Individual) Insurance Market Using Obamacare
Rules.”
The story: Obamacare’s model for individual private
insurance to be applied to the entire nation will
only be a bit less extreme than the version which
was implemented in New York two decades ago. Its key
to failure is limiting premium differentials for
demonstrated underwriting risks. In New York, that
approach shrank the pool of those purchasing
individual policies from 1.2 million in 1992 to
128,000 in 2001 as premiums skyrocketed beyond
reason.
Better headline: ”Obama, HHS, and Sebelius to Those
Seeking Affordable Individual Health Insurance
Coverage: Bleep You.”
3. Headline from NPR on
July 18: “Part-Time Workers Say Schedules Are
Getting More Erratic.”
The story:
For many workers, hours are not only short, but
increasingly erratic as managers scramble to cover
shifts without the steadying influence of
experienced full-time employees.
…
The change reflects business owners’ reluctance to
hire full-time workers while they still have so many
worries about the strength of the recovery and the
cost of the Affordable Care Act …
Despite repeated denials by administration officials
and economists who should and in many cases do know
better, the looming Obamacare train wreck has caused
many employers who would have returned to hiring
full-timers in a decently recovering economy not to
do so.
Better headline: ”Obama, HHS, and Sebelius to
Part-Time Workers Looking for Predictable Schedules
and Hours: Bleep You.”
4. Headline from Forbes: ”Sorry,
Mom and Dad: The Kids Aren’t Moving Out Yet.”
The story: “The latest population data show that
young adults are still living with their parents —
even if they have jobs.” Why? Somehow, the economist
who did this write-up missed something obvious which
Obama has bragged about, namely that “kids” as
old as 26 “may
be able to be added as a dependent under their
parent’s policy” under Obamacare — as long as they
stay at home. Meanwhile, because of the historically
pathetic post-recession “recovery” seen in this phony
economy,
those who have jobs are increasingly finding them to
be lower-paying, part-time, or both.
Better headline: ”Obama Administration to
Twenty-somethings Who Need to Get Their Careers
Going and Start Achieving Financial Independence
(and Their Long-suffering Parents): Bleep you.”
5. Headline from Gateway
Pundit: ”$700
Million to Promote Obamacare — (But Only) In Swing
States.”
The story: Based on identified ad-buying decisions,
it has become clear that the administration is less
interested in attaining Obamacare sign-ups than it
is in placing the equivalent of campaign ads “in
battleground states with U.S. Senate races where the
Democratic incumbent voted for Obamacare and is
defending their vote.” Large markets with huge
numbers of the uninsured like New York and Los
Angeles are on track to be neglected.
Better headline: ”Obama, HHS, and Sebelius to the
Uninsured in Non-Swing States: Bleep You.”
6. Headline from
Concord, California (HT the
Corner):
“Half of Affordable Care Act Call Center Jobs Will
Be Part-time.”
The story: At a call center being set up to answer
consumer questions about Obamacare, “about half the
jobs are part-time, with no health benefits.” This
has completely blindsided local leaders who expected
otherwise, while “the new ‘intermittent’ employees
feel like they’ve been used as a political tool.”
Better headline: ”Obama, HHS, and Sebelius to
Obamacare Call Center Workers and Their Community:
Bleep You.”
7. Headline from the Atlantic
Wire: ”The
NSA Admits It Analyzes More People’s Data Than
Previously Revealed.”
The story: ”[A] National Security Agency
representative rather casually indicated that the
government looks at data from a universe of far, far
more people than previously indicated.”
Better headline: “Obama’s NSA to Americans Who
Believe They Have a Presumptive Right of Privacy:
Bleep You.”
8. Headline at
Fox News: ”States
Attorneys Now Opposing Feds’ Opposition to Criminal
Background Checks for New Hires.”
The story: The Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission, following up on a position it
articulated last year that criminal
background checks “can discriminate against
African-Americans because they being are arrested at
a disproportionate rate compared to the rest of the
U.S. population,” has “filed lawsuits against
discount retailer Dollar General and a BMW facility
in South Carolina” for running such checks.
Better headline: “Obama Administration EEOC to
Employers Trying to Protect Themselves and Their
Owners From Financial and Other Harm: Bleep You.”
9. Headline from the
Associated Press –
“Southern States Gird for New Fight on Vote Laws.”
The story: Even though the Supreme Court has
struck down the
Voting Rights Act’s pre-clearance requirement
applied to most southern states and certain other
localities with past histories of overt race-based
voting rights discrimination — almost all of which
occurred 45 or more years ago — Eric Holder’s
Department of Justice, in what can only be seen as
sheer vindictiveness, intends “to drag some of these
mostly Southern states with histories of minority
discrimination into rematches.”
Better headline: “Eric Holder to the Supreme Court
and the South: Bleep You.”
10. Headline from the Politico: ”President
Obama’s No-Congress Strategy”
The story:
President Barack Obama is planning to bypass
congressional Republicans with a surge of executive
actions and orders on issues like voting rights,
health care, job creation, the economy, climate
change and immigration.
And this time, he really, really, really means it.
Really.
Better headline: ”Obama to Congress and the People
They Represent: Bleep You.”
Readers who follow the news closely surely know that
the above examples barely scratch the surface. Those
who oppose the president’s “bleep you” agenda still
don’t appreciate its magnitude.
Instead, we have a Republican House speaker who
believes his role is to be a “facilitator”
who offers no political opinions, and a two-faced
Senate minority leader who will talk a good game
about repealing Obamacare but appears to be chickening
out on
the most logical way to stop it — defunding it.
Going on offense is the only
thing that will work against the “Bleep You”
bullies. It’s high time Obama’s Washington and
nationwide opposition recognize that.