Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz isn’t usually to be found amongst scores of right-leaning political activists, but there she was at the the Cuba Democracy PAC event this past weekend, and in all seriousness, it was good to see her in attendance to bring attention to a worthy cause. Wasserman-Schultz is a not-so-rare reader and a big fan of the Shark Tank- for all of you non-believers out there, you can ask the Congresswoman herself! Unfortunately, her frequent excursions into shark-infested blogging currents do not seem to be having much of an impact on Wasserman-Schultz’s strident progressivism or her support for an Obama agenda that continues to cause a significant amount of damage to so many sectors of our economy.
It was Wasserman-Schultz who was at the forefront of the passage of the most ill-considered and destructive piece of legislation in U.S. History- ObamaCare, aka the deceptively named “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”. At last count, 222 companies, unions, and organziations have received a waiver from the law; the law has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal district judge, small businesses that aren’t exempted are crumbling under the law’s mandates, and the health insurance carriers that Wasserman-Schultz routinely castigates have no choice but to increase premiums and drop specific types of coverage they used to offer to their customers.
Not content to keep a low profile in the wake of the damage that’s been done, Wasserman-Schultz recently felt it necessary to take a shot at Governor-Elect Rick Scott and his promise to repeal ObamaCare here in Florida. Perhaps she senses the inevitable defeat headed her way, as the Florida Legislature is getting set to issue its own “salute” to this massive expansion of government control. Wasserman-Schultz clings to misguided notion that you can somehow lower health care costs simply by passing laws with price controls, to make a long story short- no matter that those costs are borne directly on the backs of healthcare providers. Debbie might want to read up again on that “law of unintended consequences” sometime soon.
“I don’t think he cares about lowering people’s health care costs. I think he’s interested in making sure that health care corporations make as much money as they can.” – Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, commenting on Rick Scott
Wasserman-Schultz is no dummy, and yet she clings to a thoroughly discredited law on every level- moral, constitutional, economic, and practical. It makes one wonder why so many within our present political class refuse to learn and expand their understanding about how health care economics works and how excessive government control mucks up those once free markets and increases prices to consumers.
One can also wonder if Wasserman-Schultz has seen the survey that shows 74% of doctors and specialists preparing to either leave the profession entirely, cut back their hours, or retire early in the wake of ObamaCare. Or if she’s aware of the fact that there is now a plurality of likely voters who believe that the law will be repealed, which is hardly an insignificant threshold to attain.
Since the days of Medicare, the federal government has relied on a widespread amount of ignorance and apathy that has allowed it to create and maintain a patchwork mess of healthcare laws and regulations that ultimately distort markets, and President Obama hoped that this same societal inertia would help give his law a plurality of public support at least until it was fully implemented. Unfortunately for Wasserman-Schultz and her political cronies, the information and understanding gap amongst those in the ‘great unwashed” closed much quicker than they anticipated, and they are now forced to defend this indefensible law against a clear majority of Americans.
We all have much to be thankful this Christmas season. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz can be thankful that she received the attention of the finest medical system the world has ever known that helped her beat breast cancer. Conservatives can be thankful that the Florida Legislature will pass the Health Care Freedom Act, and the movement to repeal ObamaCare continues to gain momentum, as does the movement to repeal unconstitutional federal laws that encroach on state sovereignty. Even as this lame duck session of the 111th Congress continues to erode our freedoms at a breathtaking pace, there is still much to be thankful for this Christmas season.
8 Responses to “Election Results, Market Economics Still Haven’t Dawned on Wasserman-Schultz”
One of Alinsky’s rule is to “beat them with their own rule book”. The idea is to cripple the target organization by making them live up to every one of their own rules, no matter how insignificant.
The Repub congress should pass a bill declaring all Obamacare waivers void under the Equal Protection Clause. Make them feel the very real pain sooner rather than later. This is the only way to get ultimate repeal of this monstrosity in its entirety.
As far as DWS, I hope with the additional seats FL picked up in the census and through re-districting that CD-20 becomes more competitive. This will at least force DWS to engage her opponent in debate and have to defend her warped worldview and voting record.
Debbie better watch out because i am coming after her in 2012. Official announcement Jan. 8th.
Debbie is a dream world with no comprehension of what is reality and what is not.
It is time to get rid of Debbie Wasserman Schultz in 2012 vote for reality, honesty and one of the common people , vote for Joe Goldner for congress in 2012.
If I am elected in 2012 I will do everything possible to repeal this unconstitional law called Obamacare! Also it is a big job killer and will hurt seniors most.
Vote for Joe Goldner in 2012!
Her comments are so dumb at times it hurts. There is NOTHING in Obamacare that will reduce costs, it is an insurance company takeover. The TRUE cost of that bill needs to be published. The doc fix needs to added, the addition costs to be put on the states for increased MEDICAID, the addition costs to our insurance policies. And the fee paid for not having insurance does not go to health care, it goes into general funds to be used to pay for some other give away program.
I do not really know anything about her background but I would bet that she is a lifetime politician and that if she ever had a real job it was in public sector.
These people live on another planet and have no idea about basic economics and running a business.
They do not understand that the success of this country has been generated by private sector business and that the biggest enemies of business today are people like her who are leeches on the backs of people who work hard and produce something of value.
She better look at the election just held and understand that the American people have had enough of her kind of crap.
Vote her out
As an unfortunate constituent of DWS, I take great exception to the statement: “Wasserman-Schultz is no dummy,”
Anyone who so strictly and blindly, even suicidally, adheres to the failed dogma of Socialism and Communism like Schultz should be considered a LOT more ignorant than a dummy. I believe that on that basis, she, along with Obambi, Pelousy, Reid, heck all of the farthest Left, hard-core Dims like them, have got to be the most ignorant, stupid, asinine human beings ever in the history of the Universe.
If Wasserman or Schultz or whatever her name is, is in fact no dummy, then with the policies and ideology she follows, she is pure evil, if she understands and knowingly follows the track she is so immersed in to destroy our culture, our country, and thereby, our world.
From firsthand knowledge of having had to live in her district under her representation for the last 12 years, I have narrowed it down to either A) she is so brain-dead that she doesn’t even have the brains of a rock, and merely is a lackey or an attack dog that takes order from her masters, Pelousy, Obambi, and Soros, or B) she is diabolically evil, just like her masters, Pelousy, Obambi, and Soros.
If you cannot already tell, I despise with a passion anything and everything about this woman, and am so disgusted and embarrassed to have to be represented by this ‘thing’ in Congress.
It would appear Rep Wasserman-Schultz like many Democrats still in office is in denial. Yet it would be easy to underestimate her or any Democrats that was re-elected. My “guess” is that they are looking at polling, demographics and trends they believe bode well for them in the coming elections. Those are the party internal polls that you and I seldom get to see. Remember based on the history of the past century odds are the Democrats will regain power in Congress, if not the next election probably in one of the following elections. The Progressive movement is patient and resourceful.
We cannot forget that during the 2006 election, to a lesser extent the 2008, Democrats won because many conservatives and independents stay home to punish Republicans, while at the same time the Democratic base activist groups were running amok, legally and illegally. Elections are all about getting out the vote.
Americans still do not fully understand legislative politics or how our government is suppose to work in the first place. All the legislation passed by Congress in the past two years will take a decade to fix assuming the Republicans hold overwhelming majorities in both Houses and the Presidency. In the past century even when Republicans were in the majority their majorities were slim enough in one or both Houses that nothing could be done without Democrats concurrence. During the last Republican congressional majority 1994-2006, at least half that time a Democrat sat in the White House.
History of the past century is one of the Left and Progressive slowly but surely implementing their policies and take over of government and in turn our personal lives and liberties.
So Ms. Wasserman-Schultz is convinced that the Democrats will be back in the near future and she is probably correct based on history and the fickle nature of the American electorate.
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ……Clueless Shark Bait, TEETH and ALL in 2012 ! Amazing that the Loser HypoCrat Zombies keep voting in step with the Living Dead! This little girl needs to go back to school and this time, Pay Attention to Facts about The Economy, if not Math 101!