Faced with the choice of dealing with some negative press on the national stage or upending their business plan, the four insurers that have been dinged by HHS have all chosen to stick with the business plan.

This was exactly Obama’s plan to talk up something worthless in order to sell his backroom deal with the insurance companies – this is a feature not a bug, just Obama thought he’d be able to sell ACA better than he actually did.

The Democrats want to define the left wing as loyal partisans who cheer wildly for the nationalization of Romneycare and who jump for joy for Obama embracing-and-extending what were formerly considered extreme right wing Bush terror policies. It’s not wonder this election could be a toss-up because the Democrats aren’t exactly putting much daylight between themselves and Romney/Republicans…the differences seem to be on style rather than actual substance – the Democrats will say they feel your pain and then covertly sell you out in some backroom full of lobbyists, while the Republicans will say they don’t care about you and will despite you openly.

Nancy Pelosi – like Obama – loves to do the false equivallencies:

Pelosi said she’s reserving judgment until she sees the package, but indicated that she wouldn’t like cuts to health and retirement benefits without tax increases.

“It’s not fair to say to a senior, ‘You’re going to pay more for Social Security and we’re not going to touch a hair on the head of the wealthiest people in our country,’ ” she said Thursday. “It’s not fair to say to that senior, ‘By the way, that increased premium that you’re paying is now going to be considered revenue.’”

She added: “Let’s just see a package. Let’s not again exclude anything.”

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/10/27/pelosi-signals-her-willingness-to-cut-medicare-and-social-security-benefits/

Pelosi, Obama, Buffett, etc love to use the shiny object of raising the taxes on the rich in some way as justification for cutting services to the poor and now that shiny object isn’t working, Pelosi is in lie mode. Raising taxes on the rich has no bearing on whether the poor could afford cuts to safety net services, but the Democrats want to act like the “shared sacrifice” is somehow equal, which is totally not true. All those Democrats love the euro-style austerity/privatization, just like cockroaches, they hate being caught out in the light.

Veterans job corps: One of the few parts of the American Jobs Act that passed was a veterans hiring tax credit, but this is an additional piece of legislation that creates a “Veterans Job Corps” to boost veterans hiring.

In other words the Blackwater Bailout Bill.

Yeah, but what does Congress have to do with this?

[Basil Fawlty] Don’t mention the war!

Merkel wants subservient Vichy French collaborators, not an indepedent France.

“Don’t forget how this farce came about. The Justice Department announced that the trial would take place in the Federal Courthouse in MANHATTAN. The political firestorm that started led to Congress refusing to fund any proceedings in the U.S., essentially forbidding any civilian court from trying the cases.”

Actually there was more to it than that as Obama administration immediately made it clear that it would be a kangeroo court – the Obama administration said whether KSM was found guilty or innocent that they’d keep him locked up either way. The trial was merely a false cover because the Obama administration stated they had no itention of honoring the trial results if the results didn’t go the way they wanted them to go…this tribunal just exposes Obama for who he really is, instead of letting him pretend that Mr Due Process actually believes in the Judiciary.

“Obviously her real problem was not working in management”

That all sounds good until you get your ID stolen. “Phone customer service” sounds like someone who for instance would handle credit card calls, which handling physical cash is irrelevant…actually someone handling credit card and bank account numbers could do far more economic damage than someone working at a cash register.

If she lied on her resume about something like that she should get fired, for the same reason the Yahoo CEO should be canned…and he didn’t even lie about being a criminal. Inventing fake college degrees on your resume or covering up criminal history is a good reason for someone to get fired irrespective of what rank they are.

But the Cowboy-In-Chief doesn’t need no stinking courts for Due Process and he can deliver “justice” at the point of a gun…which this Colonel is merely following the vigilantism of his CiC.

What’s Germany to do without the Vichy French collaborators?

To paraphrase Hilary Clinton: “It takes a Democrat to destroy the Social Safety Net.”

“Romney re-implements the republicans usual BAD economic policies”

Last time I checked Obama took ownership of the Bush Tax Cuts and he kept The Benbernak.

“Personally, I don’t find the term applies to the millions of potential voters that like myself will probably hold my nose and vote for Barry anyway. Why? Because Obama certainly fits the description of a candidate who has political B.O. Nevertheless, the thought of MITT the Shit as Pres. is too much even for me to bear, especially after enduring 8 yrs. of BV$H 2.”

Don’t you want to Democrats to at least pretend to object to extremism and Constitution-shredding instead of loudly cheering it on? Obama has gone even more extreme than Bush and the Democrats are there support it rather than opposing it like they used to under Bush. Democrats loudly opposed torture, but with the Democratic Assassinator-In-Chief, the Democrats are gung-ho for cowboy vigilante “justice” that they used to say of Bush. In comparison Obama makes Bill Clinton look like a moderate corporate sell-out and Bush a comparative moderate on shredding civil rights and fighting the WOT.

“Rather than use the crisis as an opportunity for change, Obama has done the opposite and doubled-down on the unsustainable status quo in order to generate short-term and superficial ‘progress,’”

Yes, Obama “never lets a crisis go to waste” by doublind down on the status quo – like with healthcare he far outdid Bush in corporate welfare to the healthcare industry and entrenched healthcare lobbyists in DC even more than they already were. Time and again Obama deals with a crisis by throwing flames on the fire. Bush merely had the problem of torturing some foreign nationals, but Obama outright assassinates US citizens – Obama in fact is a complete reckless cowboy calling assassinations without trial “justice.”

“At this time the only thing we know since no one has read the new rules relative to this issue is that the Administration is enforcing or strengthening the current rules.”

If you haven’t read the new rules how can you state for a fact that they are being strengthened?

“Sometimes I sense a certain dislike for this President, so I must ask in that instant and if what I sense is correct, am I to assume that you agree with the Republicans on their issues?”

Seeing how that the complaints here are that Obama is being too soft and cozy with the oil industry, do you the Republicans side is that Obama is just too oil industry friendly?

“Lobbyists representing oil industry trade associations and individual major producers like ExxonMobil, XTO Energy, Apache, Samson Resources and Anadarko Petroleum met with officials of the Office of Management and Budget, who reworked the rule to address industry concerns about overlapping state regulations and the cost of compliance.”

In other words Cass Sunstein did the dirty work. OMB=OIRA=Sunstein.

“why were none of the real potential candidates on the right willing to go up against Obama?”

Because there’s already someone from the right in the White House where Democrats eat out of their hand and cheer all the conservative policies. If A Republican was in the White House, it would be a lot harder to take things to the extreme that Obama has and the Democrats certainly wouldn’t be cheering it on and making excuses for it.

“has nothing to offer except warmed-over Bushism.”

Like Obama, except Obama can lie through his teeth with upmost skill and be very charming.