Some Gloomy Thoughts About Our Current Fix

I have been doing a lot of reading about Obamacare. It's a hopeless mess but one that can be kept alive, of course, by constant, nay, endless infusions of cash and hokum. I have been impressed by the DNC/Obama effort--including a well-cooridnated one on comment boards throughout the blogosphere--being made to defend this disaster and to spin it and spin it and keep on spinning it until it becomes a blur, something like a propeller wherein one can no longer discern the individual blades. The hope, clearly, is that the American public, especially the low information base, the Boobus Americanus, on which the Obama misadministration relies, will not see the huge premiums, the enormous deductibles, the death panels--yes, my friends, death panels you can employ any euphemism you want but the fact is there are death panels--the inability of the government to set up a functioning website despite the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars over three years, and on and on.

It is also striking, a bit of a tangent, how the same administration that claims huge numbers of Americans are too stupid and just too, too poor to collect free voter id cards, is the one that has set up a hugely complicated heath care exchange system that requires those same people to have phones, computers, internet, and technical skills to sign on for health care. But, I digress . . .

As I wrote yesterday, we now have the President giving another of his patented performances--and that's the word, "performance"--of mock outrage, of how angry, "mad," he is over the "glitches" in the website. He of course demands that this be fixed, and is bringing in the "best and the brightest" to do it. Where those "best and brightest" were during the design of this execrable mess, is, of course, a question no journalist dares ask. Where Obama was is yet another of those questions. Once again we have this pathetic simulacrum of a president acting as though somebody else was in charge; we saw this same act during Benghazi, the Egypt disaster, Fast and Furious, the IRS scandals, etc. He, of course, is only now aware of the disaster and demands that it be fixed! No plan. No recognition of his own responsibility as head of the executive branch. Nobody held accountable. Just empty words at a hastily put together press conference, and off to the next event. Jimmy Carter was a miserable failure, but he at least tried. Obama barely votes "present."

Unless the Republicans can undo this disaster of Obamacare, and I despair of that, it is clear what will happen next. The government will spend millions more to "fix" it, and will fail. The Democrat Mau-Mau machine will go into high gear and blame the Republican Congress, the "Republican shut down" of the government, and, of course, the private sector. Schumer, Wasserman-Shultz, Rangel, Pelosi, Sharpton, Krugman, etc, will allege that Obamacare is being sabotaged by the insurance companies, and the problem is that it did not go far enough: time for the pretend to end, and the government to take over health care outright.