Go Red Sox!

Condescending? Not this White House!

Hit and Run: "The Obama Administration's response to insurance plan cancellations is misleading and condescending."  "What President Obama told the public over and over again wasn’t true. But now that people are finding out that it isn’t true, the administration’s response is to shift the blame to third parties, and to imply that the millions of people who are losing plans they like are too stupid to know what’s actually good for them. In short: If you like your plan, and lose it, it's not our fault. And besides, you didn't really like it anyway."  So pretty much same-ole, same-ole.

Nobody is more upset than me about my pickup truck crashing into that liquor store

Iowahawk has a series of Obamacare-inspired spin lines for every occasion.  It means never having to say you're sorry!

Perhaps I could have been more precise when I promised that my pickup would never again crash into the liquor store. But let's move forward.

Instead of yelling, the liquor-store owner could be working in a bipartisan manner to get my crushed pickup out of his walk-in cooler.

Equal distribution of poverty

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." - Winston Churchill

Wall Street Journal: "The Obamacare Awakening."  "None of this is an accident. It is the deliberate result of the liberal demand that everyone have essentially the same coverage and that government must dictate what that coverage is and how much it costs. Such political control is the central nervous system of the Affordable Care Act, and it is why so many people can't keep the insurance they like."

Twas the insurance company in the bedroom with a candlestick

Well, Harry Reid, Jay Carney and Rasputin are all on message: it wasn't Obamacare that forced all those Americans to lose their health insurance: it was the insurance companies...who had to comply with the dictates of Obamacare.

Now the ass-kissing Left would like us to forget that Obama lied repeatedly about "keeping your plan" and that all the warnings should be forgotten now because settled law and shut up, racist.

Question: if I throw Ezra Klein out of a window, it's the asphalt that really killed him, right?



Extra - From Doug Ross.

More - Legal Insurrection: "A lie is just the truth that wasn't precise enough."

Not much and when he saw it on TV

Dana Milbank: "What did Obama know and when did he know it?"  "For a smart man, President Obama professes to know very little about a great number of things going on in his administration."

For Obama, "Being There" is enough.  Roger Simon: "Obama should be impeached...for cluelessness."

Extra - From Twitchy: "Didn't know he didn't know what was going on."

More - Jen Rubin: "What didn't Obama know and for how long?" "You would think the president at some point would be embarrassed to be the least-informed man in Washington, D.C."

The deadliest movie review

Legal Insurrection: "60 Minutes confirms Benghazi is a real scandal and you've been lied to."  Well, it was important to get past the election first.

Extra - From Power Line who has tweets from 60 Minutes.  And here's the transcript from tonight's show.

That was a nice National Anthem

Waiting for the Red Sox-Cardinal game and Colbie Caillat did an absolutely fabulous rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner, accompanied by acoustic guitar.

Go Red Sox!  Beards over birds.

Well this is interesting

Business Week: "Obama's top economic adviser tells Democrats they'll have to swallow entitlement cuts."  Reading the article it's hard to tell if this is the Administration floating a trial balloon or if Gene Sperling is acknowledging the inevitable insolvency of entitlement programs from a personal standpoint.

If you like the health plan you have, you can keep it

Repeated over and over.  Reality: "Health insurance cancellation notices soar above Obamacare enrollment rates."

Don't date robots!

Japan is exploding its own demographic bomb as the birth rate approaches a record low.  It seems that the youngsters there have little interest in relationships and less in starting a family.  As for sex, well, there are options available.

Green Monstah

Let's go Red Sox!

Hands off

This is unsurprising.  CNN: "HHS chief: President didn't know of Obamacare website woes beforehand."  "President Barack Obama didn't know of problems with the Affordable Care Act's website -- despite insurance companies' complaints and the site's crashing during a test run -- until after its now well-documented abysmal launch, the nation's health chief told CNN on Tuesday."

In other words, he gave it the full attention he gave to Benghazi.  Now let's campaign!

Flashback - President Passerby learns about stuff on TV.

It's up to you New York, New York

Reason's Hit and Run links to a Heritage Foundation study: "Health insurance premiums projected to soar in 45 states under Obamacare."  The big winner among the Favored Five is the Empire State which shows rates will drop about 29% for individuals and 6% or so for families.

Wow, what a great deal!  Except for this.

In New York, one of only 16 states that has its own exchange, not one person had succeeded in using the site to enroll in a plan as of Friday.

Start spreadin' the news.

Out of time and out of money

Megan McArdle: "Fight over default is fight over new normal."  "We can’t just gently restrain the growth of a few programs and wait for rising GDP to bail us out. Many of the factors that are making us grow more slowly, like an aging population, are making government outlays grow more quickly than usual. Someone is going to have to pay -- or lose what they've been counting on getting."

Greatest speech evah

I re-subscribed to The Atlantic and they've started an informal poll on the back page called "The Big Question."  This month it's: "What was the greatest speech, historical or fictional, ever given?"  Among Churchill, Lincoln, Jesus, and various Shakespeare soliloquies, General Stanley McChrystal chose the rousing words of Brother Bluto of the Delta House: "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?  Hell no!"

Generational theft - the college tour

Oh man how much do I love this guy?  The Wall Street Journal has a weekend interview with former hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller: "How Washington Really Redistributes Income - The renowned money manager goes back to school to explain how entitlements are helping the Baby Boomers rip off future generations."

While many seniors believe they are simply drawing out the "savings" they were forced to deposit into Social Security and Medicare, they are actually drawing out much more, especially relative to later generations. That's because politicians have voted to award the seniors ever more generous benefits. As a result, while today's 65-year-olds will receive on average net lifetime benefits of $327,400, children born now will suffer net lifetime losses of $420,600 as they struggle to pay the bills of aging Americans.
One of the great ironies of the Obama presidency is that it has been a disaster for the young people who form the core of his political coalition. High unemployment is paired with exploding debt that they will have to finance whenever they eventually find jobs.

Druckenmiller is touring college campuses to make kids aware of the debt trap they're marching into.  If entitlements are not reformed, they'll be reformed for us as the trust funds run dry and higher interest rates drive up debt service.

You can pay now or you can pay later, but you're gonna pay.

I like this movie

"Moneyball" is on FX tonight.  Jonah Hill is good in an understated way.

That's all I got on my mind tonight.  Meh.

Facts overcome confirmation bias

Politico: "Eureka! Tea Partiers know science."  Shorter version: Yale professor is shocked to find that conservatives score higher on science literacy test than liberals.  You might say that this insulated, ivory tower egghead's stream of thought on this matter was laminar and then suddenly - bam! - his Reynolds number hit 2000 and everything was turbulent.

Whoops, I kinda veered into Tea Party-speak there.  For my liberal friends, it was like he thought one thing but then he was like, whoa, that's not what I thought.

Yeah, this is depressingly spot-on

Vodka Pundit: "Shutdown autopsy."  The Republicans stumbled into this crisis and had no "plan B" once they were in too deep.