Ah - sweet sweet schadenfreude!!

[Logan Darklighter]

As I remember it, the Democrats on Capitol Hill got the bill they
wanted. They were heady, back in the majority, with a new and popular
president, and they didn’t much care about GOP support. They wanted the
credit: It was their bill. They wrote it in a way no Republican could
support. And they got no Republican support. When Paul Ryan, who had
emerged as the Republican point man, attempted to come forward with
ideas, he was rebuffed.

The new president—and this was a key historic moment—decided not to
act on the accumulated presidential wisdom of the ages, which is: Get
the other party in on all big things. Give them a stake in it, use them
for cover, show you have bipartisan juice, that you are truly national
and not only the leader of one party, show you can wield your mighty
power across the aisles. Get them bragging they passed it, with your
leadership. Make them co-own it so that when certain parts don’t work,
and certain parts won’t, they have deep motives to help you fix it.

Instead, a perfect storm of misjudgment, immaturity and lack of
historical perspective, and a perfect storm of shortsighted selfishness
(it’s all ours, it’s not even a little bit yours) brought forth a perfect storm of a health-care disaster.

As for Landrieu’s bill, if Republicans can’t successfully argue that
Congress has no constitutional power to compel commerce (the basic point
of the successful — in that vein — challenge to Obamacare under the
Commerce Clause), if they can’t argue that Congress has no power to
compel anyone to sell an insurance plan, or, by extension, to compel a
doctor to see a patient, etc., then we’re in sad shape.

Obamacare made millions of people’s plans illegal. By passing the
Upton bill, House Republicans would be striving to make them legal again
for the next year. If insurers nevertheless choose to stop offering
those plans, it will still be Obamacare that set that trend in motion.
What’s more, the GOP would then be free to criticize those insurers and
remind voters that, over the next decade, Obamacare would funnel a
stunning $1 trillion from American taxpayers, via Washington, to
insurers (according to the Congressional Budget Office). Meanwhile,
Landrieu’s bill is more of the heavy-handed, coercive model of
government that gave us Obamacare to begin with, and Republicans should
say so.

Finally, Landrieu’s bill would undermine the Obamacare exchanges at
least as much as Upton’s bill would. So the Democrats certainly don’t
love it, and it’s highly unlikely they would ever pass it. But if they
did, and if the House and Senate ended up reconciling Upton and Landrieu
in conference, the clear loser would be Obamacare — whose exchange population would just have gotten older, sicker, and costlier.

And then around October 2014, all of those notices about losing your
health plan because of Obamacare would start being mailed out again,
just in time to help voters make an informed choice on November 4.

Outraged yet? If not, may I ask just what in the fuck is wrong with you, anyhow?

Now, I realize that contempt of Congress is and should be the natural order of things. “The best Congress that money can buy.” “The only native American criminal class.” “No man’s life, liberty or property is safe while Congress is in session.” And that’s just Mark Twain and Will Rogers; the rest of us no doubt have even more pungent observations regarding the collective entity known as Congresscritters.

But the notion that “lawmakers” (stop, enough already!) are worried about “careers” at the public trough ought to be contemptible to every taxpayer. And, if Congressthings had any sense of shame, to the Honorables Themselves. But, of course, they don’t. Only someone with a soul as dead as Little Nell, a hide as thick as Joe Biden‘s noggin, and the moral conscience of Bill Clinton has the effrontery to run for Congress these days, and every attempt to “reform” the system — from the disastrous 17th amendment to term limits to McCain-Feingold (nothing like a “reform” to “get money out of politics” written by the “most reprehensible” of the Keating Five) — has resulted in complete failure.

It’s true that not a single Republican voted for Obamacare upon its forced passage. But neither has the appetite for repeal been very strong since. The House can pass all the repeal bills it wants, secure in the knowledge that the Senate will never go along with them, and that the president would veto any such legislation. Moral preening is, after all, one of the attractions of the racket, and “safe” votes are strictly for domestic consumption. Speaker John Boehner’s sandbagging of Senator Ted Cruz said all that needs be said on that subject.

So I say it’s spinach and I say the hell with it. If you think Obamacare is bad now — and it’s very, very bad, a direct assault on the most fundamental freedom Americans used to enjoy, which was the freedom to be left alone by the federal government — wait until the “employer mandate” kicks in. Already illegally “postponed” by Obama, it will destroy, by design, the insurance market in the U.S., send the economy into an even worse tailspin than it’s in now, and disrupt the lives and budgets of untold millions of Americans.

For John Roberts was right: in the law’s practical effect, it is a tax, only a tax, and nothing but a tax — and if you think it’s going to fund “health care” for the lame, the halt and the blind, you’re out of your mind. The gullible, naive and the mendacious may not be able to discriminate between “health care” and “insurance,” but that was exactly what Obama was counting on when he sold — barely — his apparatchiks in Congress on the notion that Barrycare would only add to the sum total of human happiness by taking care of the neediest and blah blah blah your doctor, period. That doesn’t make Roberts’ cowardly decision good — he had a chance to put a stake through the PPACA’s heart once and for all, and he choked. It’s a decision that will live in Supreme Court infamy until the day the act is repealed.

In other words, the entire flimflam was a bright, shining lie all along, made possible by the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party and its GOP wing’s continuing complicity in perpetuating the fraud. Remember, “universal health care” has been dream of the Regressives since Bismarck and Woodrow Wilson were pups, and now they have it. Make them own it, and destroy them with it.

We used to think that changing Congress meant changing which party controlled it. Now we know better. Real change can’t begin until the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party is gone.

And with that, it’s now time to enjoy some of the schadenfreude mentioned in my title. Yes, it could be considered ungenerous, inconsiderate, or indecorous to do the gleeful spiking of the ball. But I don’t care; it’s due, and past due.

SO! Who's game for setting up one of those precious, pissy little “we’re sorry, world” websites directed at Tea Partiers now? Because if ever you liberals owed an apology to anybody, you owe a most abject one to the foresighted Americans you derided as insane, stupid, seditious, un-American, and extremist. Because THEY WERE RIGHT ABOUT ALL THIS, and YOU WERE WRONG. Completely wrong. Dead wrong. Wrong as…well, as only dullards clinging to a hundred-year-old ideology that's been an abject failure every time it's ever been tried can be.

Scratch a liberal, find a fascist; hit a liberal in the pocketbook, and find a sudden conservative. All you whiny little shits who were all for turning over one-sixth of the national economy to a jug-eared socialist and his lying henchmen, not one of whom had ever started or run a business in their miserable parasitic lives, are now screeching about how “I didn’t think I was going to have to pay for it!” You special little snowflakes were all stupid enough to buy the ludicrous and self-evidently false idea that if only government took over, coverage could be expanded, treatment would get better, more people could have access to health care, research and development would continue on as before even with a punitive new tax on it…and none of this would cost anybody anything, except maybe that handful of Evil Rich you want to blame for everything under the sun.

And once again, reality has slapped you right in your silly, smarmy faces. Do you have any idea how much those of us who warned you all along of exactly what is happening to you now are enjoying this? No, at bottom we don’t like it; we never wanted any of this to happen, and we do sincerely regret that all of us are now going to be forced to suffer the consequences of your foolishness - but there’s no denying the satisfaction inherent in seeing arrogant "low-information voters" like yourselves getting the comeuppance you deserve.

In fact, not only did you refuse to listen to plain common sense, you attacked and insulted its unwelcome messengers in the most obnoxious terms for daring to tell you a truth you didn’t want to hear. You were suckered by a two-bit Chicago con artist, asserting your superior wisdom the whole time, and now you’re shocked - SHOCKED - that things have worked out so very very disastrously. Well, you can’t say you weren’t warned. You were. Endlessly, and in no uncertain terms. The usual response? “RACIST!”

The truly and beautifully sublime thing about all of this? Not one single
Conservative voted for this. Heck, not even one single REPUBLICAN voted
for this. There was ZERO compromise by Barry and the Democrats. They were so confident in their power that they thought they didn't need the cover that any bi-partisan compromise with the Republicans would bring. (Even if they did have to use some borderline legal parliamentary tricks to pass the thing late at night when no one was watching.)
So our hands are completely clean. This Brobdingnagian failure
is all YOURS to own! Now tuck in for that shit
sandwich you ordered - Bon appetit!
Go ahead and try to find yourselves a second or third job amidst the smoking rubble of Barry’s "Economic Miracle" to pay the exorbitant premiums and spiraling taxes for that “affordable,” non-subpar, comprehensive “insurance” you’ll now be forced by your Caring Government to buy. And continued good luck with all that. The rest of us will be over to the side laughing ourselves sick at you, as you drag us all down into the flames.

If we can’t have our freedom back, well, at least we’ll always have your suffering as some small consolation.
And just remember - WE TOLD YOU SO.