and the answer is....

Yesterday, the question was, "If Obamacare is so great, why are so many seeking, and granted, waivers?"

And the answer is:



“Two of the central promises of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law are unlikely to be fulfilled, Medicare’s independent economic expert told Congress on Wednesday. The landmark legislation probably won’t hold costs down, and it won’t let everybody keep their current health insurance if they like it, Chief Actuary Richard Foster told the House Budget Committee. His office is responsible for independent long-range cost estimates.”

H/T Don Surber

waiver mania

If Obamacare is so great, why are so many seeking, and granted, waivers?

The nation’s capital is freaking out over a winter snowstorm.
But everyone else should be up in arms over the real snow job in Washington this week.

While the Democrats continued to extol Obamacare and the president defended the behemoth law during the Date of the Union, HHS was quietly presiding over a massive Obamacare Waiver-mania explosion.

When last we examined the growing list, privileged escapees topped 222.
Now: The list now at 729 — plus 4 states (Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, and Tennessee).

Big hat tip to John Sexton in the Hot Air Green Room, who reports the rather curious delays in HHS’s posting of the new updates:

Last year, the HHS website was very efficient posting a list of ObamaCare waivers that had been granted. Ususally by the 3rd of the month the list was updated to included waivers that had been approved in the previous month. But something happened in January. Two weeks into the month no new waivers had been posted.

I was curious what caused the delay so I made some calls. Last Tuesday I spoke by phone with a media relations employees of HHS. She was not allowed to speak on the record, but after checking with folks at OCIIO who handle the ObamaCare waivers, she was able to inform me in a “not for attribution” way that the latest batch of waivers had in fact been processed. There was no specific hold-up that she could identify, they were simply running behind in getting the information on the website.

Well today, the day after the President’s State of the Union, the new waivers are up. You may recall that there were 222 such waivers approved in November. That number has now jumped to 729 through the end of December. The total number of people covered by the waivers has gone from 1.5M to just under 2.2M. The list includes the usual assortment of union locals and businesses.

I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to suggest that OCIIO was asked to hold this development until after the SOTU. Indeed the latest waiver approved in the list is from December 30th. There is an addendum at the bottom of the page noting that four states–Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, and Tennessee–have applied for waivers covering another 93,000 people. The addendum is dated 1/21/11, but I can assure you it was not there on 1/21 or even Monday…

H/T Michelle Malkin and American Glob for the art.

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spreading hate.... updated

Spreading hate is what Democrats are accusing Republicans of doing, but is exactly what they are doing themselves.

Before the suspect in the shooting in Arizona had been identified, many on the Left began pointing fingers and accusing Conservatives, Tea Partiers and Republicans of murder. (Although, after the Fort Hood shooting, those same people urged the public to not jump to conclusions.)
However, after the shooting of someone who happens to be a Democrat, Sarah Palin and Conservatives are blamed for mass murder commited by a lone shooter - a shooter that no one knew anything about.

If that's not inciting and spreading hate, I don't know what is.

Why blame Sarah Palin? Apparently, the answer is, why not?

Those on the Left, apparently, feel that this map, one I blogged about last March, is responsible for the deaths of six innocent victims.

Read these stories if you haven't seen them yet. Unbelievable.

Giffords shot, Palin blamed by Treacher

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' blood is on Sarah Palin's hands after putting cross hair over district

The shame — and hypocrisy — of CNN from Hot Air

The shame and hypocrisy of the New York Times from Hot Air

No one bothered to mention that Democrats ran almost identical political maps to Palin's, the latter from the DCCC in 2009. Interesting...I wonder why?

Markos Moulitsas from the Daily Kos actually had the GALL to tweet “Mission Accomplished, Sarah Palin” after the incident because of her Target map.

So, when did Markos decide to scrub this target list from his web site? Before or after he tweeted, accusing Sarah Palin of causing mass murder?

And how about this article from Daily Kos? It was scrubbed, too.

H/T Hillbuzz for images

Or how about these political ads:





Liberals don't have a problem with these ads by Democrats? No one bothered to wonder if these contributed to the hostile, violent atmosphere in politics?

I guess Democrats don't seem to find the rhetoric used by Obama inciteful?

Apparently rhetoric is only *hateful* when it comes from the Right. Apparently only Right wingers are capable of violence - despite all the evidence to the contrary. How many events have we seen lately that have occured, that have been blamed on the *violent rhetoric of the Right* only to find out it was committed by someone on the Left?

Bill Sparkman
Amy Bishop
Nidal Malik Hasan
Joe Stack
Michael Enright
J. Patrick Bedell....

This rush by Olbermann, Shultz, MSNBC, the sheriff in Arizona, CNN, Krugman, NBC, and many, many others was irresponsible, inflammatory and hateful. Plain and simple. No one thinks this puts a target on Palin, and other conservatives?

All of this hateful finger pointing is especially rich when there is nothing, NOTHING, to support their claims that this attack was caused by the political rhetoric of the Right, or that the shooter was a *right winger*.

Loughner's classmates said he was a left winger, at least in 2007. Loughner seems to have been obsessed with Gabby Griffords, keeping a letter she sent him in 2007, thanking him for attending her event. He was showing increasing signs of instability, worrying and scaring classmates and professors. "He wasn't especially political, Mr. Marriotti said, though he expressed frustration with the Bush Administration."

He believed the U.S. government was behind 9/11, and worried that governments were maneuvering to create a unified monetary system (“a New World Order currency” one friend said) so that social elites and bureaucrats could control the rest of the world.
On his YouTube page, he listed among his favorite books “Animal Farm” and “Brave New World” — two novels about how authorities control the masses. Other books in the wide-ranging list included “Mein Kampf,” ”The Communist Manifesto,” ”Peter Pan” and Aesop’s Fables.

Loughner registered to vote on Sept. 29, 2006, identifying himself as an independent.

Seriously, just WHO the HELL are *they* to self righteously point fingers and accuse the *right* of murder, much less of spewing hate?

Did they forget about ALL of this, from the last decade:

The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010 
by Michelle Malkin
The progressive climate of hate: A comprehensive illustrated primer in 8 parts:

I. PALIN HATE
II. BUSH HATE
III. MISC. TEA PARTY/GOP/ANTI-TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE HATE
IV. ANTI-CONSERVATIVE FEMALE HATE
V. LEFT-WING MOB HATE — campus, anti-war radicals, ACORN, eco-extremists, & unions
VI. OPEN-BORDERS HATE
VII. ANTI-MILITARY HATE
VIII. HATE: CRIMES — the ever-growing Unhinged Mugshot Collection
Click here for an excellent compilation.

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I hate it when I wake up and Sarah Palin is still alive

H/T The Blaze

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Instead of mourning the loss of those who died in the shooting, the Left chose to attack and accuse people on the right of murder. Without a shred of evidence, or proof. They need to think about that one, for a good long while. Who exactly are the ones spreading and spewing hateful bile?

Liberals don't want Rap music, video games or violent movies restricted or censored, blamed for encouraging or inciting violence, or to be held accountable or linked to violent crimes or behavior (even songs that glorify cop killing, misogyny, rape, murder). Yet somehow, Sarah Palin is responsible for mass murder because of a political map used by Democrats and Republicans alike?
Un-frickin-believable.

I would have SO much more to add to this if I were at home, on my own computer. This is just beyond the pale.

My thoughts go out to the families of all those involved. Especially the little girl, Christina-Taylor Green, who was born on 9/11/01.

H/T Hillbuzz, HotAir, Michelle Malkin and Mediaite and Treacher from Daily Caller