It seems that every time something unfortunate happens Obama finds out at the same time that the public does. He didn't know anything about Benghazi, he didn't know about the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups, he didn't know that the Attorney General was running Fast and Furious. I just want to know when Obama finds out that he's President!

Now he claims that he didn't know that when he said numerous times, that you can keep your doctor and your current health insurance under my plan --even when this has been contradicted from the beginning by the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," --Obama's plan. ObamaCare is rightfully named. Obama constantly referred to it as "his plan."

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Camera Cluster

The government has the ability, through the NSA, to gather, catalog, compile and analyze data on just about every individual in the entire country and most of the world.

But, when it comes to a website to provide health insurance services to the American people; well, it's hard to find programmers that can get the job done!?

The people in charge of providing and analyzing health care data are clowns. Does anyone really trust these people to make the right decisions for you, or even provide accurate data?

"The website is unacceptable, and we are improving it," one senior administration official told CNN. "But the underlying insurance product is good, and across the country, people are getting access to affordable care on January 1."

The administration is still not releasing the numbers on how many people have taken the next step of enrolling: choosing a specific health care plan. The administration has said it will do that only on a monthly basis, so the first tally of enrollment numbers will come in November.

Obamacare rolled out on October 1st NOT January 1st. We missed our own deadline, nothing works correctly, but it's good, we promise.

The signup numbers are abysmal because even when the website does actually work; the prices are ridiculously high.

Remember, Obamacare is not supposed to actually fix anything. Obamacare is designed to cause a breakdown in the health care system, making it look like it's the fault of private industry. Obamacare's primary design is to cause a collapse in the private insurance market, leaving the government as the sole insurer. A "Single Payer" system, or Socialized Medicine as it's properly known. But Hey, Obama won the election, right?

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Money Printing Press

There was a debt ceiling deal signed into law today. The text of the bill was released to the press only minutes before the vote went down. I wonder why that was? So, this new debt ceiling increase does a bit more than you might expect.

“This amendment is a significant development for future debt ceiling negotiations as it will forever remove the uncertainties associated with prolonged and disruptive negotiations on this issue,” Millan L. Mulraine of TD Securities said in a note to clients. “By design, the amendment makes future debt limit increases automatic, removing the specter that this issue could again be used by a minority as a bargaining chip in the future.”

Well, actually no, both Republican and Democratic Senate officials said.

This procedural maneuver in question is called the “McConnell rule,” as it is the brainchild of Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader.

Indeed, if Congress put the McConnell rule into effect permanently, it would make it impossible for a small group of lawmakers to push the country into default. But the law puts it into effect only temporarily. Starting now, the Treasury Department is allowed to issue as much debt as needed through Feb. 7. There is no specific number for debt limit.

At that point, however, everything reverts to the previous rule, which requires Congress to raise the debt limit in some way for Treasury to increase the total amount of official borrowing. Mr. Obama would lose the ability to issue debt as needed. Treasury can still employ “extraordinary measures” to keep paying its bills. Eventually, unless Congress acts, another cash squeeze would set in.

The deal explicitly includes an option for Congress to object to the president’s increasing the country’s debt. And Mr. McConnell intends to introduce such a motion, an aide said. But because it would need to pass through Congress and then override a presidential veto, it is just a symbolic gesture. (Democrats, who control the Senate, would never go along with it.)

It's easy to see where this goes. The Treasury Department can just add more debt. The debt could be increased by enough to negate the issue for years to come. While that's not unheard of; congress will not be involved in determining what that amount should be.

Basically the Republicans did much worse than just give away their bargaining ability --they gave debt control entirely to their political opponents. This was done in a not so up front way. I bet that will do the Republicans a lot of good come primary season.

I predict that the debt will be increased by a modest amount right now. Then in when February comes around the Treasury Department will increase the amount of debt drastically to avoid another debate.

This is why I agree with the idea that there is a political class --ruling, not governing. This is why the Republicans attacked Ted Cruz, he is not ruling, he's representing. There must be a movement to vote out the "ruling" Republicans from office in the primary season.

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Mount Tabor Reservoir

Forget politics for the moment. This story is amazing. Some dude decides to take a tinkle in a reservoir and they shut the whole water plant down!

Portland officials say a 21-year-old man admitted urinating in a Mt. Tabor reservoir early Wednesday, forcing the city to take a key water supply off line.

It gets even better though. Not only are they really worried about the urine they plan to dump all of the water!

David Shaff, administrator for the Water Bureau, said about 7.8 million gallons of drinking water will be discarded because of the incident. He originally said that will cost the bureau about $600,000 in lost revenue but later clarified that his math was very wrong, and that the water would have sold for a retail price of almost $28,500, and disposal fees are expected at about $7,600.

Shaff said the Water Bureau regularly finds dead animals in the same drinking supply but doesn't dump the water. "This is different," he said.

"Do you want to drink pee?" he asked bluntly.

When questioned about scientific data and the small amount of urine in such a large reservoir, he interjected: "Answer the question. It has nothing to do with scientifically.

"Most people," he added, "are gonna be pretty damn squeamish about that."

Wow!

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Hairy Reed

Harry Reid said something the other day which perfectly illustrates what's wrong with government.

Here is a transcript of Reid's remarks.

Bash: You all talked about children with cancer unable to go to clinical trials. The House is presumably going to pass a bill that funds the NIH. Will you, at least, pass that? And if not, aren't you playing the same political games that republicans are?

REID: Listen, Senator Durbin explained that very well. And he's, did it here, did it on the floor earlier, as did Senator Schumer, and it's this: What right do they have to pick and choose what part of government's going to be funded? It's obvious what's going home here. You talk about reckless and irresponsible. Wow. What this is all about is Obamacare. They are obsessed. I don't know what other word I can use. I don't what other word I can use. They are obsessed with this Obamacare thing.

As has been pointed out on the floor in the past few days, they did the same thing on Social Security, they did the same thing on Medicare, now they're doing it on this. It's working now and it'll continue to work and people will love it even more than they do now by far. So they have no right to pick and choose.

DANA: But if you can help one child, why won't you do it?

REID: I, listen...

SCHUMER: Why pit one against the other?

REID: Why, why, why would we want to do that? I have, I have 1100 people at Nellis Air Force Base that are sitting home. They have, they have a few problems of their own. This is, to have someone of your intelligence suggest such a thing maybe means you're as irresponsible and reckless.

OK Harry, I'll play your game! Why is Obamacare more important than the 1100 people sitting at home instead of working at Nellis Air Force Base and more important than the kid with cancer?

The majority of the American people don't want Obamacare. As more people realize what Obamacare really is; more don't want it. Why legislate against the will of the American people Harry? Where is your compassion?

Also let it be known that those who are currently furloughed will receive back-pay once the shutdown ends. In reality the government workers who are furloughed because of the shutdown are essentially getting a paid vacation. Look at it this way, they will get back the money that they lost in the sequester!

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