What We Are Up Against

Know your enemy.  To that end, P.J. Comix of the DUmmie FUnnies, has long delved in the dark but shallow end of the intellectual pool at the Democrat[ic] Underground forum.  This week, a DU regular criticized the Obamacare rollout. 


Most of the responses are predictable.  A couple, you might find enlightening -- including P.J.'s bracketed response:

We all knew this is what would happen because it needed to happen. Healthy people will have to pay more to more equally share the burden. Single men would have to purchase pregnancy coverage to more equally share the burden. Young people would have to pay more to more equally share the burden. The ENTIRE plan was based on this logic.

[And this DUmmie says this like this is a good thing.]

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I'd rather people with sh*t plans pay 10x more for new policies...than give the Republicans a win.

[The people who will now be paying 10x more for their policies--come next November, THEY are the ones who will be giving the Republicans a win. Bank it. And THAT is the realization that is giving Mr. Pitt the angst. He knows that this ObamaCare "fix-up" will NOT redound to the glory of the Democrat Partyin 2014. Will the Shill is, and always will be, a loyal party hack, and if that means having to throw Team Obama under the bus, he will do it.]

There are some other good ones.  Follow the link and read the whole thing, if you haven't seen it. 

Another DU participant says put everyone should be forced onto Medicare, which will be bankrupt soon.  In fact, Obamacare is an attempt to take some of the pressure off Medicare and Medicaid.  It fails in that, too, as most of the people who have "enrolled" so far have been referred to Medicaid.

The posters at DU, like those at Free Republic on the Republican side, tend to be Political True Believers and party loyalists.  Some, as noted by the second quote, are focused only on The Enemy and his destruction -- this is the case at Free Republic as well.  They seem to think that if the other party could be eradicated, we would instantly enter a new golden age.

There is no hope in politics.

The first quote illustrates another problem.  Yes, all of us who can understand a balance sheet and have any inkling of the rules of economics or grade-school arithmetic did know what the ACA would eliminate lower cost policies that did not include unnecessary coverage.  That's true on both sides of the issue.  Those of us opposed to the law said this repeatedly, and those who supported it denied it repeatedly AT THE TIME.  In order to get the law passed, it's supporters -- to be blunt -- lied.  Over and over again.  They lied -- they would say -- for the greater good.

Of course, they will fail.  The penalty -- which John Roberts traitorously called a tax -- is what the young and healthy, the single male who does not need maternity coverage, will pay.  It's cheaper.  Other people will be forced to drop their suddenly more expensive coverage.  Emergency rooms and Medicaid will become more burdened.  The insurers will not be able to cover the additional costs of pre-existing conditions.  I wonder if maternity is now a pre-existing condition? 

"The pregnancy test is positive." 

"We should go buy insurance for the next year."