Op-ed:
ObamaCare vs. the debt ceiling...and the oceans might get to stay open

By: Diane Sori

Obama's one and only mission at this time...with the aid of the media of course...is to divert and deflect attention away from at least some of his many PR faux pas...faux pas like his ObamaCare fiasco...his dishonoring of our WWII vets by barricading the entrance to their memorial...his shutting down of American D-Day cemeteries and beaches at Normandy...his shutting down the oceans to fishing (NOT kidding with this one)...his closing of our open-air national parks and monuments...his locking down of privately funded museums and parks...his forcing people out of their privately owned homes built on federal land (YES, he's actually kicking people out of homes they own outright), his having the DOJ shut down the amber alert system website, and of course his making sure that the upcoming debt ceiling debates will turn into one big free-for-all partisan face off.

But let's NOT forget that Camp David is being kept open during the shutdown for the personal use of the 'anointed one' as are military golf courses in the DC and surrounding areas because poor stressed-out Obama needs golf to relax (gagging), while at the same time the Pentagon is cutting off sports coverage to hundreds of thousands of troops around the world as the Armed Forces Network has announced that "due to the government shutdown, the Defense Department can only provide limited overseas television, radio, print and web services."  

And yet amidst all this chaos VP Joe 'Bite Me' Biden has time to declare with much fanfare a proclamation for National Chess Week.

And if all that's NOT enough now add in for good measure a bit of Obama's famous narcissistic bravado...and the sure to follow photo ops and television bloviations we know are coming...as the in-his-pocket media floods the airways with the oh so 'conveniently timed' breaking news that after 15 long years our Special Forces...on Obama's orders...have suddenly and miraculously 'snatched' off the streets of Tripoli, Libya, Abu Anas al-Liby, the man indicted in 2000 for his role in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

On Obama's orders to 'GO'...yet he gave NO orders to 'GO' when our Benghazi compound was being attacked and where he sat back and callously watched four Americans die...as coming to the rescue in Benghazi would have been betraying those whose loyalties he really is aligned with...just saying.

And all this goes on while we still have NO budget.

Sickening isn't it...and such is life under Obama's wanted government shutdown.  YES...Obama indeed wants this government shutdown NO matter his words to the contrary...and YES he's using the shutdown to try to do everything possible to break the spirit of 'We the People' for it's 'We the People' who are bearing the burden of Obama's traitorous ineptitude and miserably failed presidency, while he blames Republicans and especially the Tea Party in the process.

But rest assured that while some might bend we will NOT break...especially we who are Tea Party members...sadly I can't say as much for most of our Republican politicians in DC.

And as Obama initiates one ludicrous closing after another to test our fortitude, I can't help but say at least a little something about one of the most outright in-your-face ludicrous closings of all as this 'empty suit' president is now having National Park Service Rangers prevent anyone from fishing in Florida Bay until all federal employees come off furlough and go back to work. That means that Rangers who are NOT really accustomed to patrolling anything but dry land must now patrol more than 1,100 square miles of water from the southern tip of Florida's mainland to the Keys until further notice...and Obama is spending our 'taxpayer dollars on this complete and total foolishness when we are seriously running out of money to pay our bills.

But foolish things is what fools do...and sadly our country has a fool for a president who was elected by fools who only cared about getting their 'free stuff.'

And yet there still remains one glimmer of hope...one way out of this mess...but it can only happen if ALL Republicans stand strong and united...as in RINOS shut the hell up...for the key to NOT only totally humiliating Barack HUSSEIN Obama, Prince Harry Reid, and Wicked Witch of La-Lafornia Nancy Pelosi, while at the same time killing the health care monster that bears his name...or at least sending it into NO funding oblivion...is the simple fact that NO budget for the upcoming 2014 fiscal year has yet been approved.  

And with Obama wanting...demanding actually...that the debt ceiling be raised so he can borrow even more money from and be even more beholden to foreign governments...then the Republican trade-off for that MUST emphatically be to have ObamaCare pulled out of the general budget and made into a 'stand alone' bill* for a 'stand alone' bill is the key to defunding, delaying, and even doing away with this monstrosity of a health care bill that the majority of the American people do NOT want now or ever.

And while raising the debt ceiling has obvious pitfalls of its own...like giving Obama the opportunity to spend even more money thus adding fuel to the fire of our already out of control national debt...what most do NOT realize is that we actually reached the debt ceiling limit back in May. However, the Treasury Department then tapped into exchange-rate funds and by doing so was able to garner $303 billion in extra funds allowing us to NOT actually run out of money to pay our bills until the end of October.

(By the way there's NO mention of debt ceilings in the Constitution, and many 'democratic' nations including  Britain, Canada, Germany, Japan, Australia, and France have NO debt ceiling at all and function quite successfully.)

 

Yet Obama knows that if the debt ceiling is NOT raised that checks will soon start to bounce or payments to bondholders will be missed possibly causing global financial markets...markets that believed US Treasuries to be the safest asset in the world....to falter with some even collapsing.  And NOT paying our loans on time to major bondholders...say to China...would make for some very unhappy bondholders.  So to avoid this Obama will have to make some sort of deal with Republicans to assure that bondholders are indeed paid on time...and the only way to do that is to raise the debt ceiling.

What better trade off for that is there than the ultimate bargaining chip...ObamaCare.

Now if only Republicans would wake up and realize that this and this alone is the key to NOT only making ObamaCare go away, but is also the key to ending the government shutdown and for stopping the ridiculous closing of things that had NO business being closed in the first place.

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*http://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/2013/10/op-ed-obamacare.html

Op-ed:

A political stalemate Republicans can win  

By: Diane Sori

In a word...LIARS!  

Barack HUSSEIN Obama, 'Prince' Harry Reid, and 'Wicked Witch of La-Lafornia' Nancy Pelosi are NOTHING but LIARS as they NOT the Republicans are the ones stonewalling ALL efforts to reach a compromise NOT only on ObamaCare, but on the government shut-down and on the debt ceiling as well.  Everything the Republicans propose...every attempt at compromise the Republicans make...is met with a resounding NO from the Democratic controlled Senate...including the Republicans proposal to keep all things related to our veterans and military up, running, and funded...as these three miscreants continue to blame the Republicans for all the country's woes.

 

Partisan politics and its worst and to say shame on the Democrats is putting it mildly.

And while Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner has said, “This isn’t some damn game... The American people don’t want their government shut down and neither do I,” there is a bright side to the shutdown as much to their dismay, the free-spending Democrats cannot spend our taxpayer dollars while the government is shutdown.

Score one for the good guys.

And at least now Speaker Boehner has shown some backbone for at the recent press conference after his unsuccessful meeting with Obama, Reid, and Pelosi earlier this week, he stated in NO uncertain terms that he and his fellow Republicans in the House have NO intention of “rolling over” to the Democrats demands...demands that he is wise enough to see through as the Democrats bloviations that they will be willing to have “meaningful negotiations” on ObamaCare AFTER...I repeat AFTER...Republicans agree to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling is pure unadulterated nonsense that only the most gullible would fall for.

Thankfully, Boehner is NOT stupid enough to believe all that nonsense because once the general budget is finalized and the debt ceiling is raised the Democrats have absolutely NO reason to negotiate on anything dealing with ObamaCare...let alone on anything else for that matter.

And if House Republicans dared to accept what Obama calls a “clean” debt limit increase free of any policy conditions it would be over...over NOT only for the Republican party itself but over for 'We the People' as well for Obama and his Democratic cohorts would have free reign to tax, spend, and drive our country further into debt...a debt that would take generations to pay off...that is if it could ever be paid off at all.

“If we’re going to raise the amount of money we can borrow, we ought to do something about our spending problem and the lack of economic growth in our country,” Boehner also said at the same recent press conference.

And how right he is even as some Republicans...RINOS all...are considering acquiescing to raising the debt ceiling, Obama continues to bloviate for anyone who will listen that acquiescing is indeed the Republicans “only way out” of this mess...while in reality it's a mess of his own doing...and that Boehner must let the bipartisan House majority vote on a bill to reopen the government...but that it must be a bill that wouldn’t affect his precious ObamaCare.

But that is a NO go and must remain so for ObamaCare can actually be used as leverage...a bargaining chip...in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. And this is something of note when considering raising the debt ceiling...the debt ceiling doesn't stop us from borrowing more to pay for new spending, it just stops us from borrowing more to pay for old spending.  

And using ObamaCare as leverage consists of taking it completely out of the general budget and having it as a 'stand alone' bill where the House Republican majority would be in control of its funding, defunding, or delaying of it...hopefully indefinitely.

So Obama can whine, whimper, and stamp his feet until he turns purple that 'there will be no negotiations over ObamaCare', but the reality is that if Obama allows our country to default on its loans under his watch, he would be finished politically as America has NEVER before under any president defaulted on obligations to pay its debt. Obama knows this and knows that defaulting would result in our economy slowing down...slowing down even more than it already has under his watch...interest rates would rise and NOT just by a few tenths of a point, already shaky consumer confidence would falter even more, the stock markets would take a major hit, and we might head back into a recession as our borrowing costs would rise to never before seen levels, as our standard of living plummets.

And that would be his legacy...and rightly so.

And if default happened, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center, 32% of the government's entire spending would have to be cut immediately, because we would only be able to spend the cash on hand (around $30 billion or so) forcing the government to "prioritize" payments...meaning using the money it does have to pay for the things it deems really important and letting the bills for less-important things go unpaid for the time being.  And with Obama what he considers priority spending is vastly different from what 'We the People' consider priority spending...like we consider Medicare payments for the elderly and paying our troops a priority while Obama considers funding for his loyal freebie and handout recipients more important than anything else.

And imagine the battle over priorities that would ensue over who got what little money there was at hand.

So knowing this Obama will indeed negotiate with Republicans at the 12th hour for the simple reason that he will have NO choice but to do so or else he will be forever known as the president who sent America into default...and his narcissistic self will NEVER allow that to happen.