Crony Congress
The president sings the praises of the middle class but hasn’t changed his tune on the individual mandate to buy Obamacare. Meanwhile he has taken care of big business and the political class by delaying the employer mandate for a year and relieving congress and staff of their obligation to pay for ObamaCare. The WSJ says the law is a “mere suggestion” to this White House. It’s enough to make Greta Van Susteren throw up.
Update:
Michael F. Cannon weighs in with Congress’s ObamaCare Waiver in NRO:
Obamacare includes a provision that should cost each member of Congress and each staffer $5,000 to $11,000 per year. Needless to say, the ruling class was not pleased.
Congress wasn’t about to try to exempt itself from this provision explicitly, though. If John Q. Congressman voted to give himself an Obamacare waiver that his constituents don’t get, he wouldn’t be John Q. Congressman much longer. What’s an aristocrat to do?
On July 30, I predicted that, even though he had no authority to do so, President Obama would waive that provision at taxpayers’ expense. On August 1, he ignobly obliged the aristocracy by decreeing we peasants give each member and staffer $5,000 or $11,000, depending on whether they want self-only or family coverage. It’s good to be king.
Asylum with The Most Interesting Man in the World
Ed Snowden spilled the beans on NSA spying on American citizens (a now politically incorrect term since 12 million of us are not legal citizens).
Snowden has been provided asylum by former KBG man, and entertainer to the world, Vladimir Putin. Here are some whacky Vlady highlights including his latest fishing expedition.
All fun and games until somebody gets poisoned by dioxin and reporters start getting killed.
It’s the Economy Stupid
Says Dr. Krauthammer:
I find it astonishing that he goes around making speeches in which he deplores the state of the economy, the growing income inequality, chronic unemployment, staggering middle class income, and it’s as if he has been a bystander, as if he’s been out of the country for the last five years. It’s his economy; he’s the president.
Weiner Poll
It hasn’t been a good week for the Weiner the world awaited. The NY mayoral candidate’s campaign chairman quit and his chief mouthpiece launched into a profane tirade against an intern. Weiner slumped from first to fourth place with 16% in the polls. My question is: who are the 16% who want this guy to be mayor of NYC?
Update: Well, now we know. Jimmy “The Rent’s Too Damn High” McMillan let it all hang out and endorsed Weiner. I liked him in the 2012 primary. Maybe he sees something I don’t.
Path to Citizenship
As President Obama pivots to the economy some immigrants are pivoting back to Mexico.
