ObamaCare Primer: An underfunded ‘train wreck’ with Harry Reid driving the engine

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act otherwise known as ObamaCare has earned a new name from key Democrats—“train wreck.”

Photo: Deborah Cartagena/CDCSen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Obama’s captain in ramrodding the bill, and Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), commander of the reconciliation that stuck everyday Americans with one of the most poorly written, lobbyist-friendly bills in our history, both used the “train wreck” metaphor to describe a bill the Democrat Party promoted as though it was the second coming of Jesus or Pachamama, depending on your spiritual bent.

Thing is, that wrecked train had both Reid and Baucus at the wheel. And now in his customary deceptive manner, Reid is blaming Republicans.

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Potential gift to GOP and the public: Reid seeks exemptions for ObamaCare

Even the politicos who passed the ObamaCare Tax Bill, presented under the misleading, ridiculous title the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, apparently don’t want the bill messing up their own healthcare and wallets.

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Senate Democrats' budget: $5.2 trillion in additional debt

Republicans' House budget isn't perfect, but it is far more practical than the Democrats' Senate fantasy. (Graph: U.S. Government)Democrats in the U.S. Senate must have finally read their job descriptions, having passed their first budget since 2009. House Republicans have a different budget.

The Dem budget is nothing more than an exercise in futility, growing U.S. debt by more than $5 trillion.

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Mr. President, was it lonely on the administration side of the Fiscal Cliff bargaining table?

By Wendy N. Powell

President Barack Obama allegedly won the biggest financial challenge of his political career, or did he? The post mortem reveals troubling circumstances yet to come. The increases in taxes will affect all Americans and potentially trigger a new recession with all effects not yet known.

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Sandy relief bill an insult to victims of storm; House right to exercise caution

Followup to Pork goes wild in Sandy relief bill muddled by bureaucratic ineptitude

Coast Guard officers meet with representatives from an oil spill removal organization, to identify hazardous materials in Bayonne, N.J. left in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Nov. 10, 2012. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Tara Molle)Nothing brings out the inner Leftist like a good crisis. Fate certainly smiled on Obama when Hurricane Sandy rolled in, providing him a national forum he put to good use for his reelection.

Fate didn’t smile on the victims at all, and continues the same treatment when it comes to disaster relief.

House Speaker John Boehner is being assailed because the bill hasn’t been passed yet. But the bill described by one senator as the “vehicle” for disaster appropriations in 2013 is deliberately vague, downright puzzling and unnecessarily burdened with questionable spending.

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Fiscal Cliff ops: Special deals for cronies and sizable increases in ‘Nutrition Education’

An example of the obscure language used in the so-called Fiscal Cliff Deal, otherwise known as H.R. 8, the Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. (Screen snip: Scribd)Only lobbyists, cronies and Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) probably know the full truth about the fiscal cliff operation Washington just ran on the American people. Democrat leaders apparently prefer dealing with controversial matters in the wee hours or alternatively, the back rooms.

With control of the Senate and the White House in Democrats’ hands, it’s no surprise that some Dem-aligned states will benefit from the so-called ‘fiscal cliff deal.’ Hollywood benefits too, one reason many celebrities shill for Democrats.

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Twitter brushfire as Reid blocks proposal for Senate to vote on Obama’s fiscal cliff plan

Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) refused to let the Senate vote on Obama's fiscal cliff "plan."A brushfire started on Twitter on Wednesday after Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) proposed a vote on the same plan President Barack Obama’s Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner presented to Republicans in the House. That plan has to do with the “fiscal cliff.”

Most Americans probably have no idea what the “fiscal cliff” is because media coverage has focused on the dustup rather than differences in Republican and Democrat plans.

The major impact on most Americans would come if the “Bush tax cuts” expire because everyone’s taxes will go up.

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