Logan Penza’s Suspicion about the Reason for the Obama Administration’s Delay in Implementing ObamaCare Appears to Be Justified — Our Presidential Narcissist Reveals His Soulless Cynicism Yet Again

© 2013 Peter Free

 

14 August 2013

 

 

Every time I feel badly about criticizing the President’s motivations, he does something cynically grand to justify the critique

 

Logan Penza nailed the latest one, I think:

 

 

This week, another ad hoc postponement in in implementation of health care reform. This time, the Obama Administration has delayed a provision that would have put caps on out-of-pocket costs and banned lifetime limits in health insurance policies.

 

The Administration asserts that the reason for the delay is computer problems, but the pattern of postponements indicates that the Administration is delaying nearly every provision of the health care reform act widely known as “ObamaCare” because it is becoming obvious that all the President’s promises about reduced health care costs and broader individual choices were just false.

 

As the economic realities of forcing employers and health insurance companies to offer much wider and deeper coverage become clear, the Administration has been forced into damage control, trying to delay actual implementation the bill until after the next election.

 

Now reality bites. Hard. And the President and his allies are scrambling to keep it hidden long enough to avoid accountability.

 

© 2013 Logan Penza, Wheels Coming Off Health Care Reform, The Moderate Voice (13 August 2013) (paragraph split)

 

 

Then there’s the monarchical aspect

 

Just why is the President being allowed to circumvent the deadlines imposed by his own law?

 

Have we become quiescent subjects to a king?

 

 

Idiot Republicans

 

Rather than fruitlessly trying to repeal ObamaCare (40 times at last count), Republicans should be more effectively challenging the President’s perennial traipsing into the Land of Autocratic Fiat.

 

 

The moral? — The United States is so dysfunctional at present, were there a DSM-5 for societal psychosis, we would be in it

 

Our bag of justified brag is rapidly depleting.

 

Pertinent here is Jack Germond’s opinion of American politics — remembered in an Associated Press article about his passing today:

 

 

In "Fat Man Fed Up," he wrote that "after 50 years of exposure to thousands of politicians, I am convinced that we get about what we deserve at all levels of government, up to and including the White House."

 

© 2013 Associated Press, Jack Germond, longtime political columnist and pundit, dead at 85, CBS News (14 August 2013)