Ad: How $87 billion Obamacare tax hurts small business

When Obamacare is fully implemented small businesses across America are doomed.

Mar 21, 2012 by StopTheHIT – March 23, 2012 marks the two-year anniversary of the signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which includes the HIT hidden within the pages of the law. The tax will take effect in 2014, costing small businesses nationwide $87 billion by the end of this decade.

To demonstrate the bottom line impact that the HIT will have on small businesses across the country, this video walks through the costs – using a bakery as an example of one of America’s most celebrated small businesses.

Video: Bill Whittle Firewall – One for the team

Bill gives a pep talk. We’re going to kick us some progressive ass come November.

Jul 2, 2012 by BillWhittleChannel – Yes, the Obamacare ruling was a heart-breaker. It was a disaster — no two ways around it. But if you need a pep talk, Bill is your man. Find out what we do NOW!

IRS employees donating to Obama over Romney by margin of 11 To 1

They know who butters their toast. The IRS hates every American but the politicians who keep them in business. Those who work for it no doubt take great glee in making your life miserable. If Romney does not win and Obamacare is not repealed, the thousands of new IRS agents Obama is hiring are going to turn Americans’ lives into a living hell, and there won’t be a damn thing anyone can do about it.

Via Weasel Zippers – Of course they are, thanks to Obamacare the IRS is planning to hire thousands of new agents to enforce the law.

Via NRO’s Jim Geraghty:

According to a search of FEC contributor data, employees of the Internal Revenue Service have a strong preference in this year’s election. Donors who list their employer as “Internal Revenue Service” or “IRS” have donated $26,538 to President Obama’s campaign, and just $2,340 to Mitt Romney’s campaign.

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Poll: Obamacare causing 83% of doctors to consider quitting

I seriously doubt that Obama’s jackbooted IRS thugs and the rest of his Totalitarian Liberal State would take kindly to doctors or anyone else ‘going Galt’ on them.

American Thinker – How many physicians will pack it in because smaller payments from Medicare and Medicaid won’t allow them to cover their expenses?

No one knows, but it’s a good bet that you and I are going to have long waits to see a doctor for anything except a dire emergency.

Daily Caller:

Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association.

The DPMA, a non-partisan association of doctors and patients, surveyed a random selection of 699 doctors nationwide. The survey found that the majority have thought about bailing out of their careers over the legislation, which was upheld last month by the Supreme Court.

Even if doctors do not quit their jobs over the ruling, America will face a shortage of at least 90,000 doctors by 2020. The new health care law increases demand for physicians by expanding insurance coverage. This change will exacerbate the current shortage as more Americans live past 65.

By 2025 the shortage will balloon to over 130,000, Len Marquez, the director of government relations at the American Association of Medical Colleges, told The Daily Caller.

“One of our primary concerns is that you’ve got an aging physician workforce and you have these new beneficiaries – these newly insured people – coming through the system,” he said. “There will be strains and there will be physician shortages.”

The DPMA found that many doctors do not believe the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will lead to better access to medical care for the majority of Americans, co-founder of the DPMA Kathryn Serkes told TheDC.

“Doctors clearly understand what Washington does not – that a piece of paper that says you are ‘covered’ by insurance or ‘enrolled’ in Medicare or Medicaid does not translate to actual medical care when doctors can’t afford to see patients at the lowball payments, and patients have to jump through government and insurance company bureaucratic hoops,” she said.

People are going to be in for a rude surprise when Obamacare is fully implemented in 2014.

13,000 pages of regulations for new ObamaTax Law already drafted, thousands more coming

Good grief.

If Americans don’t overthrow this totalitarian regime, every one of us are going to be at the whim of a cabal of brainless, heartless bureaucrats and their thousands of pages of laws and regulations. In other words, slaves to the State.

The Founding Fathers fought a bloody war of Independence over a few pennys of taxes on stamps and tea. Today, Americans submitting to $Trillions in taxes and unlimited, freedom-destroying red tape. That groaning sound you hear is the Founding Fathers rolling over in their graves.

 

FOX News via GWP

With the Supreme Court giving President Obama’s new health care law a green light, federal and state officials are turning to implementation of the law — a lengthy and massive undertaking still in its early stages, but already costing money and expanding the government.

The Health and Human Services Department “was given a billion dollars implementation money,” Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg of Montana said. “That money is gone already on additional bureaucrats and IT programs, computerization for the implementation.”

“Oh boy,” Stan Dorn of the Urban Institute said. “HHS has a huge amount of work to do and the states do, too. There will be new health insurance marketplaces in every state in the country, places you can go online, compare health plans.”

The IRS, Health and Human Services and many other agencies will now write thousands of pages of regulations — an effort well under way:

“There’s already 13,000 pages of regulations, and they’re not even done yet,” Rehberg said.

“It’s a delegation of extensive authority from Congress to the Department of Health and Human Services and a lot of boards and commissions and bureaus throughout the bureaucracy,” Matt Spalding of the Heritage Foundation said. “We counted about 180 or so.”

There has been much focus on the mandate that all Americans obtain health insurance, but analysts say that’s just a small part of the law — covering only a few pages out of the law’s 2700.

“The fact of the matter is the mandate is about two percent of the whole piece of the legislation,” Spalding said. “It’s a minor part.”

Much bigger than the mandate itself are the insurance exchanges that will administer $681 billion in subsidies over 10 years, which will require a lot of new federal workers at the IRS and health department.

“They are asking for several hundred new employees,” Dorn said. “You have rules you need to write and you need lawyers, so there are lots of things you need to do when you are standing up a new enterprise.”

For some, though, the bottom line is clear and troubling: The federal government is about to assume massive new powers.

Threats, deals got drug companies on board with Obama

It’s the Chicago way.

Washington Times – Top administration officials cut backroom deals with the nation’s top drug companies to win support for President Obama’s health care overhaul, threatening them with steeper taxes if they resisted and promising a better financial deal for the industry if they acquiesced, according to internal documents released Thursday by House Republicans.

In some of the key deals, Mr. Obama agreed to drop his long-standing support for letting Americans buy cheaper foreign prescription drugs — something the pharmaceutical industry vehemently opposed — and the drugmakers promised to mount a public campaign to sell the public on the health care legislation.

The drug industry financed the famous “Harry and Louise” commercials in the early 1990s that many credit with helping to turn public opinion against President Clinton’s massive health care bill. In 2009, the industry revived the fictional married couple — this time with words of praise for Mr. Obama’s bill.

The material released by House GOP members provides a rare insider look at the wheeling and dealing on Capitol Hill as Mr. Obama tried to shepherd his bill through Congress, in the face of near-unanimous GOP opposition.

The details emerged as House Republicans released emails it obtained during a yearlong investigation into the closed-door negotiations between the White House and lobbyists for drug companies. House Republicans said those negotiations violated the promises of transparency Mr. Obama made during his 2008 campaign.  (more >>>)

New Finding: Obamacare creates $17 trillion in unfunded liabilities

Good grief. We are absolutely finished if we don’t get rid of this monstrosity.

BudgetGOP (h/t Rightscoop)

WASHINGTON, March 29–On the Senate floor today, Ranking Member Sessions announced that a new Budget Committee analysis has found that the long-term, unfunded liabilities associated with President Obama’s health care law will reach $17 trillion. The Committee’s analysis is based on the Obama Administration’s own numbers as well as those from the Congressional Budget Office. It is a modest, conservative estimate and yet is still more than double that of Social Security.

At a “bipartisan fiscal responsibility summit” in 2009, President Obama’s then-OMB Director, Peter Orszag, stated: “To my fellow budget hawks in this room and in the rest of the country, let me be very clear: Health care reform is entitlement reform. The path to fiscal responsibility must run directly through health care.” But despite this emphatic statement, the nation’s unfunded liabilities–money we must spend but for which there is no source of funds set aside–increased from $65 trillion to $82 trillion since the health law was passed.

NOTE: To view this analysis as a 1-page PDF, please click here.

Video: 3 reasons to end Obamacare before it begins

Three out of a thousand reasons.

ReasonTV on Mar 25, 2012 As the legality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – a.k.a. Obamacare – goes before the highest court in the land, here are three reasons to chuck the whole program even before it gets underway.

1. It Represents the End of Limited Government. The Supreme Court will issue its verdict later this spring of course, but there’s no question that if the government can force you to do something simply because you exist and draw breath, then the American experiment in limited government is over and done with. Whether it’s the mandating of eating broccoli or buying insurance, a government that can make you do whatever it wants just ain’t in the American grain.

2. Its Price Tag is Already Ballooning. The latest government estimate of cost tells us what we already knew. Health-care reform is going to cost us a lot more than the arm and the leg it’s supposed to save us. The Congressional Budget Office is now saying that the first full decade of Obamacare is going to cost about $1.8 trillion , or double the original estimate used to sell the program.

3. Obamacare Won’t Make Us Healthier. Health insurance isn’t the same thing as health. Most of us might end up paying more for health care under the new law, but there’s precious little evidence that coverage itself leads to lower medical costs. A 1993 study by the RAND Corporation found that “for the average person, there were no substantial benefits from free care .” Not smoking, eating moderately, and not boozing it up provide greater health benefits than any low-deductible, low-co-pay insurance plan.

CBO: Obamacare to cost $1.76 trillion over 10 yrs, instead of $940 billion forecast

One hell of a rounding error! And you just know, it will end up much more than this new figure. Democrats lie, and the media covers for them every time. And this doesn’t take into account the damage to the economy, the higher taxes, and the loss of personal liberty.

If Republicans don’t win in 2012, and this monstrosity isn’t repealed, it’s over for America. Period.

Washington Examiner – President Obama’s national health care law will cost $1.76 trillion over a decade, according to a new projection released today by the Congressional Budget Office, rather than the $940 billion forecast when it was signed into law.

Democrats employed many accounting tricks when they were pushing through the national health care legislation, the most egregious of which was to delay full implementation of the law until 2014, so it would appear cheaper under the CBO’s standard ten-year budget window and, at least on paper, meet Obama’s pledge that the legislation would cost “around $900 billion over 10 years.” When the final CBO score came out before passage, critics noted that the true 10 year cost would be far higher than advertised once projections accounted for full implementation.

Today, the CBO released new projections from 2013 extending through 2022, and the results are as critics expected: the ten-year cost of the law’s core provisions to expand health insurance coverage has now ballooned to $1.76 trillion. That’s because we now have estimates for Obamacare’s first nine years of full implementation, rather than the mere six when it was signed into law. Only next year will we get a true ten-year cost estimate, if the law isn’t overturned by the Supreme Court or repealed by then. Given that in 2022, the last year available, the gross cost of the coverage expansions are $265 billion, we’re likely looking at about $2 trillion over the first decade, or more than double what Obama advertised.

UPDATE: I’ve done another post with additional details from the CBO report.

Obama regime ups war on religion, arrests Father Denis Wilde during peaceful protest

Just wait until the Obama regime need not worry about another election. It will come down on religion with a hammer (and sickle), except for Muslims, who will be elevated and given VIP treatment.

“Occupy Wall Street protesters have been occupying federal property for months, but when we kneel in prayer, the police are called in and we are arrested,” Father Wilde said.

Also as Pat Dollard reminds, ‘The arrest comes after #occupiers throw grenades at white house unmolested, and as #occupydc continues to illegally occupy park…’

(Priest for Live via Pat Dollard) – Father Denis Wilde, OSA, associate director of Priests for Life, was among six people arrested today during a peaceful protest outside the White House.

Father Wilde was representing Priests for Life at an organized protest of the HHS  contraception mandate that violates the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of religion. Priests for Life yesterday filed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration that seeks to permanently block the implementation of the mandate because it imposes clear violations of conscience upon any American citizens who morally object to abortion and contraception.

Father Wilde and the other protesters, including the Rev. Pat Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition, were cited for “Failure to obey a lawful order” as they knelt in prayer in front of the White House. They each paid a $100 fine and were released from custody.

“Occupy Wall Street protesters have been occupying federal property for months, but when we kneel in prayer, the police are called in and we are arrested,” Father Wilde said. “We knew that was the risk when we gathered today, and we will do it again regardless of the risk. What people of faith – of every faith – need to do now is stand with us.”

Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, said the New York-based organization remains committed to battling the HHS mandate because it forces Americans to become morally entangled in practices they find objectionable.

“As an organization of Catholic clergy, as a corporation that employs 60 people of various religious backgrounds, and as a ministry whose very purpose is to protect and promote the pro-life teaching about the specific practices at issue in the HHS mandate, we are particularly well-positioned to fight against this intrusion of conscience,” Father Pavone said.

To see the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, on Wednesday, click here: http://www.priestsforlife.org/hhsmandate/priests-for-life-v-sebelius.pdf

Priests for Life is the nation’s largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.

Rasmussen: Voters say Obamacare stinks 55-35%

More and more people are realizing that Obamacare will be the nail in America’s coffin if it isn’t repealed.

Rasmussen – Most voters still want to repeal the national health care law, even though they tend to believe the law won’t force them to change their own health insurance coverage.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 55% of Likely U.S. Voters at least somewhat favor repeal of the health care law passed by Congress in March 2010, while 35% at least somewhat oppose repeal. The intensity remains on the side of the law’s opponents since these findings include 42% who Strongly Favor repeal versus 26% who are Strongly Opposed. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Government: Come 2014 all Obamacare waivers will expire, everyone’s ass is ours

The Obama Administration has given out 1,433 waivers so far, but says that come 2014 all waivers will be void and no one will escape the wrath of Obamacare.

That so many companies have come begging for waivers shows what a disaster Obamacare will be on the economy. But in the end, everyone is going to go down, and all Americans will become slaves to the State, living or dying at the whim of Liberal bureaucrats.

The Hill (h/t Weasel Zippers) — The Obama administration announced Friday it is changing the way it approves waivers to part of the healthcare reform law.

Instead of approving a new batch of year-long waivers every month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that plans have until Sept. 22 to apply for a waiver that will carry through 2013. Starting in 2014, all plans will have to comply with the provisions of the law and the waivers will be moot.

CMS has been updating the waiver totals every month — and every month, critics of the healthcare law have seized the fresh opportunity to argue that the healthcare law is unworkable. That cycle of bad press could have repeated itself every month for the next three years without the changes announced Friday.

Steve Larsen, the director of the office overseeing implementation of the new law, said the new waiver process isn’t a response to the barrage of criticism the administration has faced.

“This was the course that we mapped out a year ago,” he said on a conference call with reporters.

The waivers are for a single provision of the healthcare reform law: its restrictions on annual benefit limits. Some plans, often called “mini-meds,” place tight caps on how much they’ll pay out in a year. The new law gradually increases those benefit caps each year until 2014, when it bans them altogether. But many employers are more likely to quit offering coverage than to comply immediately with the new requirements.

The administration to date has granted 1,433 waivers, covering 3.2 million people. It granted 62 new waivers in May.

Larsen said CMS began granting one-year waivers so that it could gather data on how to approach the policy in 2012 and 2013.

Employers that don’t have a waiver have until September to seek one. Those that have already received a waiver must ask for an extension through 2013. Larsen said requesting an extension will be “a very simple process; it’s not filling out a whole new application.”

This year, health plans can’t impose benefit caps lower than $750,000. The maximum allowable limit increases to $1.2 million in September, and then to $2 million in September 2012. The $750,000 standard was the hardest one for mini-med plans to meet, Larsen said.

“By the time we reach September, people that felt they needed a waiver would have had the opportunity to apply,” he said.

[...] In a typical statement last month when the latest batch of waivers was announced, Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee lambasted the administration.

“Despite the president’s promise,” the statement said, “the new reality seems to be this: If you like your plan, you need a waiver to keep it — and only until 2014, when the waivers disappear and the government takes over the market.”

Why Obamacare Was Ruled Unconstitutional

2/3 of doctors say Obamacare makes them sick

And the survey says…’It sucks’.

A new Thomson Reuters survey says that two-thirds of U.S. doctors surveyed say Obamacare will likely worsen care for patients and flood their offices patients and hurt their  income.

Relatedly, 200 economists sent a letter to congress outlining why Obamacare will wreck the economy.

So, doctors and economists agree that Obamacare is a disaster for the country. Will it matter?

Nah.

CNBC

Nearly two-thirds of U.S. doctors surveyed fear healthcare reform could worsen care for patients, by flooding their offices and hurting income, according to a Thomson Reuters survey released Tuesday.

The survey of more than 2,900 doctors found many predict the legislation will force them to work harder for less money.

“When asked about the quality of healthcare in the U.S. over the next five years, 65 percent of the doctors believed it would deteriorate with only 18 percent predicting it would improve,” Thomson Reuters, parent company of Reuters, said in a statement.  (More >>>)

200 economists assume Democrats in congress care what they think, send letter asking to repeal Obamacare

200 economists have naively assumed that Democrat in congress actually care what they think. They have signed a letter to the members of Congress asking them to save the country and repeal Obamacare.

CNS News

As the House prepares debate on the future of the $1 trillion health care overhaul enacted last year, 200 economists have asked members of Congress to repeal the act.

“To promote job growth and help to restore the federal government to fiscal balance, we, the undersigned, feel that it would be beneficial to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” the economists said in a letter to Congress.

“Too many Americans remain unemployed and the United States faces a daunting budgetary outlook. We believe the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a threat to U.S. businesses and will place a crushing debt burden on future generations of Americans,” they wrote.

The letter includes the signatures of Douglas Holtz-Eakin and June O’Neil, both former directors of the Congressional Budget Office; Arthur Laffer, the first chief economist for the Office of Management and Budget, Brian Wesbury, former chief economist of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress; and William Niskanan, former chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors and chairman emeritus of the libertarian CATO Institute.

Congressman Paul Ryan schools Libs on the fallaciousness and irresponsibility of Obamacare

Congressman Paul Ryan gives as good a summation as is humanly possible on the devastating cost of Obamacare. In just 3 minutes on the floor, he succinctly explains how and why Obamacare will absolutely “blow a hole through the deficit”.

Using simple language and two easy-to-follow posters, Ryan demonstrates how Obamacare will put the economy flat on its back for decades, if not forever. Check it out.

And 6 makes a majority

AP reports that 6 more states have joined the Florida lawsuit for the repeal of Obamacare. This brings the total number of states that want to overturn the America-crippling monstrosity to 26 (Heritage says 27.).

Will the fact that half the states in the union favor dumping Obamacare give credibility to their cause with the mainstream media? Does Nancy Pelosi sleep in a Rush Limbaugh T-shirt?

We can count on Republicans fearing the new Obama state-run media threat of ‘civility disobedience‘ to temper their objections to the heinous law. Democrats’ call for “civility”, after all, is nothing but an attempt to censure free speech and any and all criticism of the Obama Administration, and Democrats in general.

But at least one Republican congressman, Louis Gohmert, has dared to speak truth to power by citing the Obama Administration’s use of “wavers” as both a way around their criminality, and as a means for further institutionalizing crony capitalism in Washington.

WaPo (via Michelle Malkin)

Gohmert, who brought a copy of the health care law with him to the event, made some jabs, accusing the administration of  “crony capitalism” through the granting of health care waivers.

“If you’re a friend of the administration, you get a waiver, and it will cut your costs dramatically,” Gohmert said. “If you’re not a friend, you don’t get the waiver. You won’t compete with the friends of Obama. You’ll go out of business. Government shouldn’t have that kind of power. … Crony capitalism has got to stop.”

Poll: Americans overwhelmingly oppose raising the debt ceiling

In yet another example of Americans rejecting the Democrat and state-run media’s narrative, a Reuters/Ipsos poll, a whopping 71 percent of Americans oppose raising the debt ceiling. Only 18 percent support the increase.

Just like with Obamacare or the media narrative regarding the awful Loughner massacre in Tucson, Americans are unwilling to be conned by the Obama propaganda machine.

Although this is good news, the frustratingly fickle American public wants its cake and to eat it too. The poll also shows that most Americans are far from eager to impose many of the spending cuts necessary to bring down the budget. “Just 24 percent said the country should cut back on education spending, while 21 percent back cuts to law enforcement. A slim 51 percent majority of those polled backed cuts to military spending, and slightly less than half — 45 percent — wanted to see cuts in environmental enforcement.”

Terrific. This will translate into futile half-measure at best, most likely. It also shows that there is still a lot of work to be done to undo the false narratives that have blinded too many people – such as the disastrous and wasteful Department of Education being either good or necessary, to name one example.

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from The Hill

The administration’s warning of dire economic consequences for failing to increase the debt ceiling has not gained traction with the American public, as an overwhelming majority opposes the increase, according to a new poll.

Of those surveyed in a Reuters/Ipsos poll, 71 percent opposed increasing the borrowing authority. Only 18 percent support the increase.

The revelation could embolden some Republican critics of an increase to the $14.1 trillion debt ceiling, and adds another layer of complexity to what is already shaping up to be one of the first major political disputes in the new Congress.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warned lawmakers on Jan. 6 that if the debt ceiling is not raised by this spring, there will be “catastrophic economic consequences” both in America and across the globe. While some Republicans leaders have acknowledged that the ceiling must be raised to avoid a default on U.S. debt, the GOP is still looking to obtain promises of serious spending cuts in exchange for their support of the boost.

read the whole mountain of debt here >>>

Related: Over at Hotair.com > Weekly initial jobless claims bounce back to 2010 range

The Department of Labor reports today that the number of initial jobless claims jumped 35,000 last week to 445,000, ending a string of weekly reports that showed some decline from the levels experienced throughout 2010.

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Cup half full – States suing to stop Obamacare grows to 25

A full half of American states have suits in the hopper to stop the dreaded Obamacare, thanks to the State of Maine.

As The Heritage Foundation writes, “If it is allowed to be implemented, Obamacare will eventually do deep and irreparable harm to our nation’s budget deficit. But while Obamacare is more of a long-term threat to fiscal health at the federal level, it is a clear and present danger to the states. Of the 34 million Americans who gain health insurance through Obamacare, over half (18 million) will receive it through Medicaid.

The majority of Americans don’t want any of the socialist legislation that the Obama Administration has been cramming down their throats: not Obamacare, not amnesty, not cap and trade, not lifting the debt ceiling, not a ban on drilling, not his wife’s nutty food restrictions, and not new taxes. They said so emphatically in the last election, but Obama remains deaf and blind. Does our Healer-in-Chief care that his cup is half-filled with pissed-off voters? No, he’ll put a swizzle stick in it.

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The Foundry via Weasel Zippers

If it is allowed to be implemented,Obamacare will eventually do deep and irreparable harm to our nation’s budget deficit. But while Obamacare is more of a long-term threat to fiscal health at the federal level, it is a clear and present danger to the states. Of the 34 million Americans who gain health insurance through Obamacare, over half (18 million) will receive it through Medicaid.

…It is also why the newly elected governors of Ohio, Oklahoma, Maine, and Wisconsin have all decided to sue the Obama administration in hopes of stopping Obamacare. Specifically, Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma has announced that the Sooner State will pursue its own case against the law, while Govs. John Kasich (R) and Scott Walker (R) (of Ohio and Wisconsinrespectively) will add their states to Florida’s multi-state suit. And yesterday, newly sworn-in state Attorney General William Schneider announced Maine would also join the the Florida litigation. That brings the number of states on the Florida suit to 23 and the total number of states suing to stop Obamacare (which includes Virginia and Oklahoma) to 25.

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin says “Kill it” (Obamacare)

Lockstep Lib media freaks out over Republican’s threat to repeal Obamacare

Newsbusters put together a collage of Liberal state-run media faux journalists upset that Republicans are working to get rid of socialist Obamacare.

They are really indignant that the newly-elected Republicans – who won in a rout – actually plan to do what voters asked them to do.

Indignant, but mostly scared poopless that the Tea Party-fueled Republican congress is going to make their Democrat masters look like the miserable socialists-slash-Marxists that they truly are. It’s going to be a fun two years.

House votes to REPEAL Obamacare by a margin over 7 times that which passed the monstrosity

The new Republican controlled House voted to repeal Obamacare 236-181. Republicans even got 4 Democrats to go along.

What is most interesting about this is that when Obamacare was passed in the House, it did so by only a 7 point margin. It’s repeal was by a 55 point margin.

Meanwhile, The Congressional Budget Office just came out and contradicted the fantastic lies being spewed by Democrats that somehow Obamacare would lower the deficit. It never ceases to amaze how stupid they think we are. The CBC says that by killing Obamacare, it would reduce net spending by $540 billion.

chart via Gateway Pundit

The American Spectator

The Congressional Budget Office, in an email to Capitol Hill staffers obtained by the Spectator, has said that repealing the national health care law would reduce net spending by $540 billion in the ten year period from 2012 through 2021. That number represents the cost of the new provisions, minus Medicare cuts. Repealing the bill would also eliminate $770 billion in taxes. It’s the tax hikes in the health care law (along with the Medicare cuts) which accounts for the $230 billion in deficit reduction.

Rasmussen: 60% of Likely Voters want Obamacare to go away

In the new normal, the voice of the people is always mute. No matter how loud, how strong, how many, or how long people tell the government “No!”, the government hears yes, please, can I have some more?

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Rasmussen

For the second time this month, 60% of Likely Voters at least somewhat favor repeal of the national health care law, while the number who expect health care costs to increase is at its highest level since August.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 49% Strongly Favor repeal of the plan. Thirty-eight percent (38%) oppose the law’s repeal, including 29% who Strongly Oppose repeal. (To see survey question wording, click here.)