How many Democrats voted for ObamaCare hoping that the Supreme Court would kill it?

(My new American Thinker post)

Has there ever been a more complicated federal program to implement than Obama Care?

I can't think of one.

Worse than that, it appears that the Obama administration knew that it'd be difficult to implement. 

They've also known for months that the program wouldn't be ready as promised.

This is from The National Journal:

"Last week, it scaled back several required provisions. They aren't the first. And probably won't be the last."

Just curious.  What would happen to a private company that was so deceitful and incompetent in their introduction of a new service or product?

Can you imagine a car company selling a car without a radiator?  And knowing all along that customers were buying a car without a radiator?

What would happen to such a company?

The company leadership would be sent to jail!  They would also be dragged in front of Congress and hear self righteous statements from Democrats about protecting the little guy from companies who promise and don't deliver!

ObamaCare is no longer a liberal program.  This is an incompetent program crafted by people who did not take the time to study it beyond "hope and change" speeches.

Why didn't they pick one state and do a trial run for a few years?  Let real people use it and then make the necessary adjustments.

At the end of the day, ObamaCare raises two serious questions:

1) Was this a health care program or just "a power grab" to get into our pockets and medical records?

2) Did any of the 60 Democrats who voted for this take the time to to study what they voted for?

It leads me to one and only conclusion.  Most of the Democrats who voted for this mess wanted to have it both ways:

1) They voted "yes" to keep away a left wing primary challenger; and,

2) They bet that Justice Roberts would kill it in the Supreme Court.

Does any one have a better explanation?  How can 60 people vote for something this bad or allow such an incompetent group of federal officials to implement it?

Again, the answer is that they never thought that they'd be defending it in the 2014 elections. 

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Mexican Shortsightedness as 'Fast & Furious' Doesn't Go Away

(My new MexiData post)

By any historical measurement, "Fast & Furious" is the single greatest violation of Mexican sovereignty in years.  However, few in the Mexican political class today seem to care much about it.

I recall watching a TV presidential debate last year and the subject did not even come up.  Furthermore, while some Mexican Members of Congress in the past sexennial expressed criticism and concern, I am not familiar with any current Mexican Congress resolution condemning the US government.

Last week, we learned that another Mexican official was killed by one of these guns:

"Another weapon lost in the Obama administration's failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation has purportedly been traced to two more killings, including the fatal shooting of a police chief in Mexico.

"The officer, Luis Lucio Rosales Astorga, was killed Jan. 29 in the city of Hostotipaquillo, which is in central-western Mexico, when gunmen intercepted his patrol car and opened fire, according to Justice Department records obtained by the Los Angeles Times. The chief’s bodyguard was also killed, a second bodyguard and the chief’s wife were wounded."

You would expect outrage and marches in front of the US embassy.  Where is President Peña Nieto saying that Mexico's borders must be respected by the Obama administration?
 

Back in the 1980's, I worked in Mexico for a US company.  My office was across from the US Embassy, I had a balcony view of every demonstration on Reforma Boulevard and the US Embassy.  My favorite moment was watching a young man screaming in front of the embassy wearing a Roger Staubach #12 jersey!
 

I saw massive anti-Reagan demonstrations over far less consequential topics.  There were marches about "nuclear freeze," Grenada, the Cuban embargo, the "contras" and lots of other issues.  (We remind you that no Mexican was killed because of President Reagan putting missiles in Europe or having a tough approach toward Nicaragua.)
 

We hear little today about Fast & Furious south of the border.  Let me say this:  we hear nothing from the political class because a lot of Mexicans are very upset at a personal level.  After all, they are the ones caught up in the frequent firefights.
 

I am not familiar of a single demonstration calling on President Obama to explain how these weapons crossed the border.  The Mexican left loves to say that guns go south but has chosen to say nothing about a program that specifically put 2,000 high powered weapons in the hands of deadly cartels!

Again, "no me importa" is the attitude in Mexico about Fast & Furious, a bad program that has killed hundreds of Mexicans.

Why so much Mexican official indifference?

My first guess is that the Mexican government has decided to focus all of its energy in making sure that immigration reform happens in this Congress.  They do not want to embarrass the Obama administration and put border security on the front pages!

My second guess is that "Fast & Furious" is also a reminder of how little control Mexico has over its northern border.  In other words, it's the cartels who well may control large segments of the border!

Either way, it is shameful that the Mexican government has not made a bigger deal of a US program that killed the aforementioned police chief and lots of others, and keeps on killing!


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My first and last post about Zimmerman-Martin

To tell the truth, I stopped watching the Zimmerman-Martin trial reports two weeks ago.  I just watched summaries and tuned out whenever they were broadcasting directly from the trial.

The "not guilty" verdict is correct. 

Zimmerman acted in self defense and that's what 6 women in the jury decided.  They listened to the witnesses, opening and closing arguments and decided that Zimmerman was not guilty.

Of course, the tragedy here is that there is a dead 17 year old young man.  Yes, that's a tragedy!

My hope is that this verdict breaks the back of "the race hustlers" or the people who see race in everything.  It was irresponsible people like Rev Jackson, Rev Sharpton and even President Obama who put pressure on Florida to have this trial.  Shame on them!

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