In an article about the GOP chairman in one of Philly’s suburban counties that is a national political bellwether being accused of sexual assault, the story ends with this:
The discord among Montgomery County Republicans has been blamed for lackluster turnouts and results at the polls in recent years.
Sez who? Because it couldn’t possibly be that they’ve just too crazy for voters, right? Montgomery County is still full of what they used to call “moderate Republicans,” and for congressional and national elections, they now seem to be what we call “Democratic voters.”
It must be the fighting among their leaders. Yeah, that’s it.
Plus I love that the alleged assault took place the night after a dinner celebrating a convicted felon, Robert Asher, coming back to lead the fund raising operation.
Speaking of “too crazy for voters,” the right wing of the Democratic Party—the Clintonites—-will force Obama at 11:35 am today to cave-in on the sale of “junk health insurance policies.” How thoughtful and profit-centric of them. The Democratic right (Bill Clinton) has demanded that those who’ve purchased inferior (junk) health inurance policies “be allowed to keep them.” These plutocrats also want the government to give up its role in regulating the health care industry in favor of (capitalist) free markets. What the Clintonites want is an unregulated health insurance industry able to sell crappy health insurance policies to unsuspecting rubes. Now that’s change you can believe in, but only if you go back to the future.
It’s really more straight forward than that. The Big Dog caved on health insurance. Obama is close to making it a signature. What better way to vandalize a national risk pool than by giving healthy individuals a cheap opt out even as the risk pool website is paralyzed by gridlock? The desperate uninsured will hang in there until they succeed in enrolling, loading the pool with much higher costs than projected. If Obamacare subscribes at levels way below the rate setting assumptions of the insurers, come 2015 enrollment all of the big 2014 carriers will sit on the sidelines and the few new entrants will jack prices up beyond the orbit of political tolerance.